Transition Town Tooting

Tag: Constitutional Club

  • Tooting Green Drinks! Roll up! Roll Up!

    Lovely Green Drinks in Tooting last night at The Selkirk, thanks for hosting! 
    We got to know the London National Park City initiative better and asked how we would raise London’s green cover from 48% (current) to 51%???? Our answer is…, Parklets! Green up the base of trees, hand over 1 car parking space to green infrastructure! Guerrilla Garden where you can! Turn the small spaces green, lobby the council to use http://www.frontyardcompany.co.uk/products/plantlock.html…
    So… where would YOU create a Parklet?
    We launched Green Book Club! Whoop! Want to join in? We have 2 articles to read which will be part of the discussion at the next Tooting Green Drinks: 
    • Is talk about it the most important thing we can do about climate change?

    https://thinkprogress.org/end-climate-silence-cbe439a31a8e…

    And…
    • After plastic bag tax what should we tax next?

    https://www.theguardian.com/…/six-billion-plastic-bags-cant…

    So… How could Green Book Club work best for you?? Online discussion? Articles? Youtube vids and TEDtalks? Books?
    AND… we talked about a programme of short, informal talks in the new year – watch this space for announcements on that.
    So… who would you like to come to Tooting Green Drinks to give short talks? What themes could we cover?
    AND!!!! We talked up Dipa’s secret, tasty idea… but you really will have to wait to hear more about that one… yum!
    Green Drinks is an International idea to create informal spaces for discussion and getting to know like minded people in your area. www.greendrinks.org
    We host a Tooting Green Drinks on the third Wednesday of every month at The Selkirk Pub, 60 Selkirk Street, SW17 0ES between 7.30pm and 9.30pm

  • Tooting Constitutional Club Development

    Last year we were all coming together to save the Wheatsheaf with some success.  Now the latest community space that could soon be turned from public space into private flats and shops is the former Tooting Constitutional Club, just down from Sainsburys at Tooting Broadway.  On Wednesday evening there was a chance to peruse some proposed plans at the site.

    This thread at Tooting Online has some details and debate as does this one on Streetlife. 

    TTC as it is now

    On first impresssion, the proposed development does seem monstrously large in comparison to the current buildings and those adjacent, and while it does include a small unspecified “community space”, it is not clear at this stage what that might be.

    You can have your say on the plans, but be quick, you need to email comments by the end of Monday 20th Oct to stefanie.mizen@eu.jll.com

    What the streetscape might look like with a huge development of flats

    Tooting History Group say the building apparently dates from the 18th Century, and though the site evidently needs work, wouldn’t it be better if it was developed sensitively with the community and history foremost in mind?  Wouldn’t it be great if a site like this could be retained wholly or in part for use by a variety of Tooting’s myriad community groups?   TTT would certainly be interested in using, running or helping to develop such a space.   There’s also a bowling green at the back which will largely disappear under concrete if these plans go ahead. What could we imagine that being: a new community garden?  A revived bowling green?  A pocket park?

    Developers will naturally always want to maximise returns from property investments, so it’s up to us as residents to speak up, put pressure on them and the Council to ensure that development is right for the community and the site. Why not send Stefanie some thoughts? stefanie.mizen@eu.jll.com