Demonstration held at Toland Square against council plans
Wandsworth Council has been urged not to “wreck” an estate by building flats on green space at its centre. Furious residents of Toland Square, in Roehampton, staged a protest this Saturday (8 July) against the proposals.
Local housing and climate campaigners organised the demonstration and demanded the council “save” the estate’s green space. Martin Hartigan, one of the Toland Square residents who attended the protest, said the estate would become overcrowded if the plans went ahead.
He said, “It’s a good place. When trouble comes it gets dealt with. Rather than seek a genuinely decent and caring solution to the needs of the homeless in our community, the council’s solution is to foist overcrowding onto vulnerable and powerless tenants and residents of housing estates throughout London, including our own at Toland Square.”
Mr Hartigan said, “pretending that cycle storage and new walkways compensate for the loss of space and nature, particularly, with our post-pandemic knowledge, won’t work” as “residents are much smarter than that”. He added, “Toland Square is a quiet place, a good place to live and bring up the next generation. Don’t wreck it.”