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Category Archives: Future Merton

Huge rollout of electric vehicle charge points planned in Merton as council wins £750k funding

21 March 2022by MertonJP

At least 250 new charging points for electric vehicles (EVs) will be installed across Merton this year, after the council was successful in bidding for funding worth £750,000 from the […]

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Environment, Future Merton, Parking, Traffic and Highways, Transport

Merton agrees five-year housing strategy

24 January 2022by Merton Web Team

Residents and interested  organisations were invited to join six weeks of consultation on the strategy, which was set out in July 2021

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Consultations, Future Merton, Housing

Residents’ ambitions put at centre of plans for Merton’s future

24 November 2021by Merton Web Team

The council ran Your Merton in spring – its biggest conversation with people who live, work or study in the borough

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Clean streets, COVID-19, Environment, Future Merton, Health and social care, Keep It Clean Love Merton, Leader of the council, Merton Together

Mitcham Bridge reopens to drivers

20 October 2021by Merton Web Team

Two years of works followed a partial collapse of the structure during heavy rainfall in June 2019

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Future Merton, Regeneration, Traffic and Highways, Transport

Pop along to Pollards Hill

13 August 2021by mertonzb

A Pollards Hill bus shelter block which had been empty and unloved for years will play host to a series of cultural activities and workshops over the next three weeks, […]

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Environment, Future Merton, Regeneration, Young people

Merton Council’s £1 million Neighbourhood Fund now open for bids

29 July 2021by mertonzb

Merton Council has opened up its Neighbourhood Fund, worth approximately £1 million, for bids that seek to enhance community spaces and improve social capital across the borough.  The fund is a great […]

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Education and schools, Environment, Future Merton, My Merton magazine, Parks and green spaces, Planning, Regeneration, Volunteers

New development for local planning policy

23 June 2021by mertonzb

Tackling climate change, economic recovery from the pandemic, new housing and healthy streets are the top priorities in the council’s new local plan.   The local plan is a set of guidelines, which are used […]

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Consultations, COVID-19, Environment, Future Merton, My Merton magazine, Planning, Regeneration, Traffic and Highways

Council calls on Clarion to take urgent action on housing repairs

17 June 2021by mertonzb

Merton Council has called on Clarion Housing to ‘restore confidence” with residents after a number of many worrying images on housing on the Eastfields Estate which were broadcast on ITV […]

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Future Merton, Housing, Regeneration

Building the new Mitcham Bridge

10 June 2021by mertonzb

Beams for the new bridge over the River Wandle at Bishopsford Road, have been lowered into place. The council’s contractor, Land & Water, used a large crane to lift the […]

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Future Merton, My Merton magazine, Regeneration, Traffic and Highways

Merton calls on residents to help shape the borough’s future in biggest-ever council engagement programme

12 May 2021by mertonzb

Merton calls on residents to help shape the borough’s future in biggest-ever council engagement programme Merton Council is asking residents, students, commuters and businesses for their views on the future […]

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COVID-19, Future Merton, My Merton magazine
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