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Leader of Wandsworth Council, Labour councillor for Falconbrook ward. Ambitious for everyone. email shogg@wandsworth.gov.uk
Mar 21, 2021 13 tweets 5 min read
Happy #CensusDay

Please fill in your form - good data is crucial for good decision making.

Here’s 10 tweets that tell the story of Wandsworth in data.

We’re a healthy, wealthy, well-educated & young borough - with sharp inequalities Wandsworth’s history is the key to understanding how it is today.

Mostly farmland in 1850, its population went up 10 times over the next 50 years.

Our population of 306,995 (at the last census) is still 100,000 below the 1931 peak!
Mar 4, 2018 12 tweets 3 min read
The developers of Battersea Power Station have sent out this glossy mailing to people across Wandsworth. There’s a few problems with it... It’s not “the first 386 affordable homes” at Battersea Power Station. It’s the first *and only* affordable homes. Independent adviser BNP Paribas says it is “very unlikely” any more will be built