Wandsworth's village people

From: Evening Standard - London | Date: October 3, 2007| Author: David Spittles | Copyright information

How do you turn a fragmented, traffic-choked area into a thriving neighbourhood? Look what's happening in Wandsworth. David Spittles reports

EXCITING times loom for Wandsworth town centre, where several major building projects are poised to transform the area into something it has never been before a "neighbourhood".

Disconnected from the riverfront and blighted by a traffic- choked one-way system, the town centre has been somewhere to pass through rather than a place to live.

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