Goodbye Putney...hello Battersea

At the next general election, boundary changes will come into effect that will see just over 1,000 Putney voters transfer to the Battersea parliamentary constituency in the area closest to Wandsworth town.The roads affected are:

• Chesterton Close
• Cromford Road
• Ericcson Close
• Mexfield Road
• Oakhill Place
• Oakhill Road from No.37 upwards on the odds side and No.42 upwards on the evens
• Putney Bridge Road between Wandsworth High Street and the railway line, including Bush Cottages
• Santos Road
• West Hill, between Mexfield Road and Putney Bridge Road

Labour supporters in these streets will get the chance to vote for Martin Linton, Battersea's excellent Labour MP for the past ten years rather than me.

Parliamentary boundary changes take place every decade or so mainly to even-out population growths and declines around the country. In our case, however, the change is because council ward boundaries have been redrawn since the last parliamentary review, as part of which these streets were moved from East Putney into Fairfield ward. Parliamentary and Council ward boundaries have to align and Fairfield is a Battersea constituency ward, hence the transfer.

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