The website may be past its prime, but the Residents’ Association flourishes like never before.
We have moved over completely to Facebook and the Tonsley Residents Facebook group is now our permenant home.
Please visit us there to request to join. However, we are still contactable at info@tonsleyresidents.org.uk
Planning Committee councillors have unanimously rejected the latest submission for the redevelopment of the Homebase site on Swandon Way.
Citing concerns that the developers had entirely failed to address the scale and height of the Station Building in the new plans, almost all Councillors expressed their disappointment with the proposal and suggested that the applicants re-examine the whole scheme. The Schoolyard site across Trinity Way was held up as an example of how development could be done right if the developers put their mind to it.
Our Councillor Stuart Thom spoke with some passion on behalf of local residents and urged the committee to protect the Tonsleys.
We shall await the new submission with interest and hope that once the elections are over, Councillors remember commitments made before June 8th.
The Old York Road street party returns this year on Sunday 4th June. As always it offers great live music, food, unusual gifts and the chance to get together with the neighbours.
All the details available on OYR street party website.
Hope to see you there.
The updated plans for the Homebase site on Swandon way have been re-submitted. The proposed buildings are very marginally less overpowering than the ones rejected by the Planning Committee in the summer. We believe, however, they are still grossly out of proportion compared to not just the Tonsleys but even the other surrounding new developments.
We have put together an emergency newsletter that you can read or download here, outlining our views and discussing the reasons we can object.
You can view the plans and proposals on the council’s website here.
The deadline for comments is 26th January
The popular ‘Old York Road Unplugged’ community street party returns on the afternoon of Sunday 5th June to celebrate live acoustic music, provide a family funday for local residents and visitors alike and showcase Old York Road’s impressive and diverse selection of independent businesses.
This years Tonsley Times has now been posted through every door in the Tonsleys.
If you’d like another copy we have a few spare – please email us.
You can also download it here
The Council is opposing the creation of a third runway at Heathrow with the extra flights that this will inevitably generate. They have produced quite a document which can be viewed on their website. However, in our opinion, it is too divisive a subject for the TRA to take a universal stance one way or another so if you have strong views please let us have them.
Whilst the Tonsleys aren’t particularly a burglary hotspot, there have unfortunately been 3 incidents over the last month – 2 of theft and one of attempted theft.
In the last 2 weeks, 2 properties – one at the bottom of Fullerton Road and one on Tonsley Place – have been broken into. The burglaries took place at night whilst the owners were away.
The attempted robbery however took place in the evening across the road from us a few weeks ago on Tonsley Hill.
It’s a ‘nice’ technique to gain access to a property and make off with whatever is to hand. The scammer looks out for properties with the front curtains open and starts to measure up the property frontage – staying on the street – using a tape measure. The house occupants naturally wonder what the hell is going on and open the front door and come out to question the person. If it’s a man, the response is ‘Just surveying the street’. If it’s a woman, the thief runs into the now empty house pushing the woman to the ground, grabs whatever is to hand, and makes off.
If you see anyone, by themselves, at a strange time, measuring your hedge, fence or wall, DO NOT open the open the front door. Take a pic with your phone from the window and call the police.
We hope this isn’t the start of a rise in crime as the Tonsley are seen to be ever more affluent.
Details about how you can protect yourself are here on the Operation Bumblebee website: PDF .
An alarm system, outside security lights and as few dark corners as possible can all help considerably.
Please let us know about any other attempts, successful or otherwise.
We now have a group on Facebook – Tonsley Residents.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TonsleyResidents/
This is an open group for all residents in the Tonsleys to post news, information, tips about trade people and suppliers, schools etc. We will update this TRA website more with info about the Association – meetings, campaigns and news.
To join, search Facebook for Tonsley Residents
Developer Minerva has submitted plans that show the vast residential tower on the site growing even further to 36 storeys.
The Wandsworth Society has issued a call to action and we’d been keen to hear you views too. We have until 18th March to air our concerns.
Details below:
