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The artist Pamela Colman Smith was living in Battersea when she created the illustrations for the Rider Waite Tarot, which has sold millions of copies worldwide.
Jane Roberts, Liberia’s very first First Lady, lived in Battersea towards the end of her long life. Find out more about her remarkable life
Here are some photos of the community planting morning we held on 20 October 2026 together with Enable Parks, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Battersea's unique little World War II memorial shelter in Christchurch Gardens.
Four heatwaves and a prolonged period of drought have made the summer of 2026 a difficult time for Battersea's trees, both old and young.
The London base of horticultural therapy charity Thrive is right here in Battersea Park; in July I went there to interview Regional Centre Manager Cathy Graham about its work.
We have written to our MP, Marsha de Cordova, to seek her support in resisting some changes to the arrangements relating to the Licensing Act.
Earlier this year the Government gave the Mayor of London the right to call in decisions made by Councils regarding the grant of Licenses under the Licensing Act 2003. This right would be restricted to applications that were “potentially strategic” with the definition of what is classed as potentially strategic to be defined later by the Government. The Government did reassure Parliament that this was a support a “carefully constrained strategic role” for the Mayor.
The London Plan sets policies for the kinds of development that will take place across London for the next ten years. A key focus for the Plan is to set targets for the amount of new housing to be built in each borough to meet the needs of London’s population. But the policies also cover such issues as the scale, density and height of new developments, transport developments, the supply of land for commercial and industrial developments, protecting London’s heritage and the natural environment, and making London greener, healthier and more resilient. The Draft Plan was published in July, and the Society has submitted the response below.
The Battersea Society objects to this application to extend for a further period of two years the temporary permission granted in August 2024 (2024/1994). Our objection is on three main grounds, which were set out in the officers’ report that recommended refusal of the 2017 application, in our objection to the application for a new kiosk submitted in 2023, and in our objection to the application for a temporary extension in2024. Those grounds still stand.