Wandsworth Borough Council, alarmed at traffic conditions in some parts of the borough which one member said "could not be worse," shelved political differences to make a united appeal to the LCC to reconsider its decision to defer — for at least twelve years — the only two major road schemes planned for the borough.
A car containing a radioactive dangerous-to-handle isotope, stolen during the weekend, was found on Wandsworth Common with the isotope intact in its container.
At the request of local residents, the Wandsworth Central Liberal Association protested to the Minister of Transport (Mr Marples) and to the chairman of the Wandsworth Highways Committee about the erection of a petrol filling station in Trinity Road, near Trinity Church. Permission had recently been granted by Wandsworth Borough Council. The residents and the Association believed the station would add to the congestion and danger in this very narrow part of Trinity Road and impede the flow of traffic. The LCC had stated that it would like to keep the area as a residential zone.
The chairman of the LCC's Town Planning Committee, Mr Richard Edmonds, paid a special visit to Tooting on Tuesday evening to meet a deputation of residents protesting about the Trinity Road petrol station. He was introduced by Dr David Kerr, LCC member for Wandsworth. Members of the Parochial Church Council of Holy Trinity Church and local traders asked for the withdrawal of planning permission even at this late stage.
More criticism of the LCC decision to grant planning permission for a petrol station at Trinity Road, opposite Glenburnie Road, was heard when the Balham and Tooting Chamber of Commerce met on Tuesday. "Anybody who passed these plans wants his brains tested," said Mr George Hurley. The Chamber of Commerce had been the first local body to protest, fifteen months earlier. "But the horse had already gone from the stable," said Mr L. Irish.