'The High Street remains dominated by three types of business: fast food restaurants, vape shops and nail bars. It’s an image in such contrast with Putney’s demographics that the Panorama TV programme is considering making us a test case for what’s gone wrong with Britain’s High Streets.' (Putney News August 14th 2026) The possibility of Putney High Street featuring in such a TV programme cannot come as a surprise to many residents in Putney. Might this though make Wandsworth Council do something about the amount of rubbish, perennially filthy pavements, disgraceful litter bins, dead foliage in redundant planters and what appears to the ghost of the much vaunted Oxygen Tree - the latter two issues having as yet to cause Councillor Brooks to provide a coherent explanation after my various attempts via email. Can an alternative view of these matters be posited I wonder?
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