The Open Spaces Committee in collaboration with The Clapham Junction Business Improvement District (BID) recently tried a new initiative—planting up a Clapham Junction 'grot spot.'

I've already written up the impact of Storm Eunice on Battersea's trees for Battersea Matters, due out in April, but thought I'd share here a few more of my own photos of the damage, together with some extra facts and figures which arrived too late to be included in my article.

At the end of a 2021 overshadowed by Covid gloom and doom, and with the prospect of more of that to come in 2022, our local open spaces feel like a more important resource than ever.