Roehampton regeneration reversal
The plans concern the top end of Danebury Avenue. The Council now wants to build on the open green space here and along Roehampton Lane; to double the height of the buildings along Danebury Avenue; to demolish the homes of hundreds of residents; and to massively worsen traffic congestion locally by building a huge supermarket here. I've got very real concerns about these plans. Put simply they can't work practically and don't meet the objectives we should be most concerned with: improving the environment and quality of life of the residents of Roehampton. The Council is rushing through what they call "consultation" on these plans but an exhibition lasting three weeks in the run-up to Summer is far from satisfactory. I'll be making sure residents get a proper chance to have their say in the next few weeks. Our NHS at 60
Putney has done well recently from the NHS. Since 1997 Queen Mary's Hospital Roehampton has been rebuilt after the last Conservative Government axed its A&E. There may, at last, be some movement on rebuilding Putney Hospital, which has been stalled by legal problems over access from the Common. NHS waiting times have been slashed. Local health centres like the Tudor Lodge Clinic in Victoria Drive are pioneering more convenient opening hours. And public confidence in local NHS services is climbing. The NHS remains Labour's greatest-ever achievement and I'm proud that it now gets the investment it deserves. The NHS has set up a special website to mark its 60th birthday, which you can visit here.
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The Conservative Council has torn-up regeneration plans for Roehampton they spent almost two years consulting the community upon and now want to impose the very ideas that met with most opposition locally. 
On 5th July 1948 Labour Health Secretary Aneurin Bevan launched the National Health Service. Today it is perhaps a little hard to appreciate how radical an idea free health coverage for all, regardless of means was sixty years ago. 
