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July 2009 News
flash News flash News flash We have just heard that West Putney Tavern will be closing at short notice next week. We are now working hard to find an alternative venue for the 50th Anniversary Dinner and will publish an update as soon as we have firm news. We will also be contacting all those of you who have already booked as soon as we have more information. News flash News flash News flash In this issue: A 'snap shot' of the current Bulletin Putney Hospital Site: The failure to secure financial approval for the primary care centre scheme has led to much disappointment - dis- may too, and some anger. But the scheme's great weak- ness was always its reliance on property sales to recoup the cost of building the new centre. You would have to have spent the last two years a long way from Putney to be unaware of the troubles in the housing market, and the risk this might create for the scheme. The same applies to public finances generally, with our national government spending colossal sums to rescue the nation and its banks from excessive borrowing and lending over the last decade and more. So the latest setback, bitter though it is, should not come as a complete surprise. Some ten years have passed since Putney Hospital closed. Elsewhere in this issue, the Community Panel sets out the local primary care trust's recent efforts to get the scheme under way. And you will find the Open Spaces Panel recommending that the site should be left permanently unbuilt and returned to the Common. Tileman House Design Brief: As agreed by the Society's Executive Committee, the Panel has produced a Design Brief, proposing how this critical site in Putney town centre ought to be redeveloped. The Brief has reflected members' views sent to the Panel, the discus- sion at a meeting of representatives of the Society with lead- ing members of the borough council on this issue last year, and the detailed objection letter sent by the Society to the council on the 2008 planning application proposing the redevelopment of Tileman House See current issues for more detail
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