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Wandsworth: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

London Borough of Wandsworth: London borough (unitary), England, London; part of the GLA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E09000032.

Council website · Publication scheme · Disclosure log

Do it online

The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

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Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by Wandsworth for 2026–27: £517.70 of a £1,028.21 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

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Environment

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Education

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Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

No school here is currently recorded as proposed to open or close.

In the last twelve months: 2 opened (2 academy converter), 3 closed (2 academy converter, 1 closure)

Bradstow School — closed; reason recorded: closure, 31 December 2025
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Roehampton (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 August 2026
Swaffield School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 August 2026
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Roehampton (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 September 2026
Swaffield School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 September 2026

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

The budget for each service, as Wandsworth reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Wandsworth: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£257.3 million
Highways and transport services	−£9.1 million
Children's social care	£72.8 million
Adult social care	£146.2 million
Public health	£42.1 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£44.0 million
Cultural and related services	£9.9 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£24.1 million
Planning and development services	£4.9 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£20.7 million
Other services	none budgeted
Total service expenditure	£612.9 million

Net current expenditure: net of sales, fees and charges; spending funded by the NHS, such as through the Better Care Fund, is excluded.A minus figure means the service’s income is budgeted to be more than its spending. “None budgeted” usually means another body runs that service here. Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Revenue Account Budget 2026 to 2027, individual local authority data (part 1), updated 11 June 2026 (Open Government Licence).

Wandsworth in numbers

Official statistics for the whole council area. Each figure is the latest published, with the period it covers.

Total population: 337,655 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 33 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £49,715 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £916 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 23.8% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsPercentage of children aged under 16 living in relative low income families After Housing Costs (AHC)
Claimant Count: 4.1% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £686,076 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 11.6 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 63.8 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for females born in the given year
Male healthy life expectancy: 63.8 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for males born in the given year
Greenhouse gas emissions: 2.3 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 90.3% 1 January 2026 · OfcomPercentage of premises that have coverage from a gigabit-capable service (download speeds of 1,000 Mbps or more)
Public electric vehicle chargers: 531.6 per 100,000 population 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublicly available electric vehicle chargers at all speeds per 100,000 people
Active businesses: 16,875 number of enterprises 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with turnover or employment in current year

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

58 seats in 2026. Run by: Conservatives, as a minority administration. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Conservative and Unionist 29, Labour Party 28, Independent / Other 1.

Next scheduled council election: 2 May 2030.

All 58 councillors, by ward

Jo Rigby (Labour Party) — Balham
Jonathan Iliff (Conservative and Unionist) — Balham
Lynsey Hedges (Conservative and Unionist) — Balham
Claire Davies (Conservative and Unionist) — Battersea Park
Tony Belton (Labour Party) — Battersea Park
Victoria Asante (Labour Party) — Battersea Park
George Crivelli (Conservative and Unionist) — East Putney
Jasmin Glynne (Labour Party) — East Putney
Ravi Govindia (Conservative and Unionist) — East Putney
Kate Stock (Labour Party) — Falconbrook
Simon Hogg (Labour Party) — Falconbrook
Judi Gasser (Labour Party) — Furzedown
Leonie Cooper (Labour Party) — Furzedown
Samantha Lewis (Labour Party) — Furzedown
Daniel Hamilton (Conservative and Unionist) — Lavender
Tom Pridham (Conservative and Unionist) — Lavender
Matthew Corner (Conservative and Unionist) — Nine Elms
Will Sweet (Conservative and Unionist) — Nine Elms
Aled Richards-Jones (Conservative and Unionist) — Northcote
James Craig (Conservative and Unionist) — Northcote
Graeme Henderson (Labour Party) — Roehampton
Jenny Yates (Labour Party) — Roehampton
Matthew Tiller (Labour Party) — Roehampton
Aydin Dikerdem (Labour Party) — Shaftesbury & Queenstown
Sara Apps (Labour Party) — Shaftesbury & Queenstown
Stephen Worrall (Labour Party) — Shaftesbury & Queenstown
Elizabeth Simos (Labour Party) — South Balham
Toby Hopkins (Labour Party) — South Balham
Emmeline Owens (Conservative and Unionist) — Southfields
Guy Humphries (Conservative and Unionist) — Southfields
Caroline De La Soujeole (Conservative and Unionist) — St Mary's
Charlie Fisher (Conservative and Unionist) — St Mary's
Zarah Wiles (Conservative and Unionist) — St Mary's
Ethan Brooks (Conservative and Unionist) — Thamesfield
Robert Morritt (Conservative and Unionist) — Thamesfield
Salvatore Murtas (Conservative and Unionist) — Thamesfield
Annamarie Critchard (Labour Party) — Tooting Bec
Paul White (Labour Party) — Tooting Bec
Sheila Boswell (Labour Party) — Tooting Bec
Kemi Akinola (Labour Party) — Tooting Broadway
Rex Osborn (Labour Party) — Tooting Broadway
Sean Lawless (Labour Party) — Tooting Broadway
Kirsten Botting (Conservative and Unionist) — Trinity
Lizzy Dobres (Labour Party) — Trinity
Chris Baron (Conservative and Unionist) — Wandle
Denise Paul (Labour Party) — Wandle
Angela Graham (Conservative and Unionist) — Wandsworth Common
Peter Graham (Conservative and Unionist) — Wandsworth Common
Tom Mytton (Conservative and Unionist) — Wandsworth Common
Michelle Cook (Labour Party) — Wandsworth Town
Noel Dube (Conservative and Unionist) — Wandsworth Town
Sarah Davies (Labour Party) — Wandsworth Town
Angela Ireland (Labour Party) — West Hill
Daniel Ghossain (Conservative and Unionist) — West Hill
Malcolm Grimston (Independent / Other) — West Hill
Melanie Hampton (Conservative and Unionist) — West Putney
Nick Austin (Conservative and Unionist) — West Putney
Shakeel Ahmad (Conservative and Unionist) — West Putney

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

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