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New Chairman for Tooting Partnership
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Mr Patel, who owns the Tooting Pharmacy Practice at 175 Upper Tooting Road, has been a member of the Tooting Town Centre Partnership for over a decade. He was previously chairman of Tooting's regeneration programme Young People – Agents for Change, and is currently the chairman of the Tooting Business Network. The Tooting Town Centre Partnership is made up of local businesses, voluntary and community groups, the council and others. It helps co-ordinate, develop and improve the commercial, residential and environmental aspects of Tooting in a sustainable way. Indrajit Patel welcomed the opportunity to lead the Partnership at what is an exciting time for Tooting. The council has published a detailed 22-point Action Plan for the town aimed at making it cleaner and safer. The Partnership's new business plan is strongly supportive of many of the proposals in the action plan. "We are fully behind the current proposals for more robust enforcement action against those who obstruct the footways and create mess in our town centre," said Mr Patel. "We are looking forward to working in close partnership with the council, and continuing our efforts to make Tooting a better place for all its residents, businesses and visitors". The Tooting Town Centre Partnership has been active in Tooting for over 15 years, and its members include local ward councillors, the Metropolitan Police Safer Neighbourhood Teams, Threshold Housing, Tooting Rotary Club, Wandsworth Youth Enterprise Centre, London Underground, St George's Hospital Trust, and a number of Tooting businesses including Budgens, the Castle pub, McDonalds and Celebrations. |
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The Tooting Town Centre Partnership: Current Members (3rd March 2009) The Castle Pub, Tooting High Street Celebrations, Upper Tooting Road Garden Centre London Underground McDonalds, Mitcham Road Metropolitan Police Rotary Club of Tooting South Thames College St George's Hospital Trust Threshold Housing Tooting Business Network Wandsworth Chamber of Commerce Wandsworth Council Wandsworth Council Wandsworth Council Wandsworth Youth Enterprise Centre |
Local businessman Indrajit Patel has been elected as the new chairman of the Tooting Town Centre Partnership.
Hugh Lockhart-Ball Rotary Club |
Hugh set up his architectural practice in Tooting in 1981 specialising in low energy
design. He joined the Rotary Club of Tooting in 1982 and sits on the Partnership Board
as their representative. He served as chairman of the Board between 1997 and 2008. |
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Kalpesh Patel Manager McDonalds |
My name is Kalpesh Patel and I am the franchisee owner of the McDonald's on Mitcham Road which I acquired in May'08. I own in total 7 restaurants in the Wandsworth and Lambeth area and I have been associated with McDonald's since the age of 17 when I started of a part time staff member in the Clapham Junction branch (which I ended up buying 17 years later!)I have been a member of the Partnership since July of this year.I joined with a view of being part of the local community and to contribute in shaping its future.I see Tooting as a thriving mix of diverse communities coming together and as such is quite unique to Wandsworth. | ||
Michelle-Ann Morrison Trident Business Centre |
My current role at Trident Business Centre is that of Project Manager. This entails working closely with the Trident staff team and assist the Operations Director in the overall management of Trident Business Centre, being the focal point for office space enquiries, showing prospective tenants available workspace units, and implementing necessary paperwork and structures in the lead up to security of lease. I initially joined Trident Business Centre as a marketing officer. My background is in law; having just completed my law degree, aswell as management within the hospitality industry. Trident & WYEC provide services and facilities that foster enterprising attitudes and culture within Tooting and across Wandsworth. We help to break down identified barriers that people face in starting up and sustaining a business.We want to create an enterprising Tooting, a place where young and older people feel proud to set up and a run an enterprise. |
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Patrick Lethaby |
Patrick is a former President of the Esher Chamber of Commerce.Patrick has worked in retail since leaving school and arrived in London in January 1957.He joined the ironmongers Martin Fayers Ltd. eventually becoming managing director with shops in Haringey, Esher and Kew, and the company then traded as Lethaby-Ironmongers.Patrick has been a lecturer at the College for Distributive Traders in ironmongery/business studies. Patrick served on the LVSV Executive Committee and he was on the management committee of the then Wandsworth Volunteer Bureau, these are just two of the many local groups Patrick is associated with.He is voluntary company secretary for Wandsworth Oasis Trading Co Ltd & its care & share shops; and is Vice Chairman of the Tooting Town Centre Partnership Board. |
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Carol Hayton
London and Quadrant Housing Trust |
I have worked in our Garratt Lane office since 2003in our Neighbourhood Investment Team.Our role is to improve the quality of life for those living in our many homes across London and the South East indentifying projects that will provide improved services and opportunities fro our residents and their families. I have 8 years experience in total of working with social housing communities prior to this I worked for 16 years inbanking. I believe that my membership of the Town centre partnership has offered an excellent opportunity to develop the partnerships with agencies and contacts in the local community that enable us through joint working to improve the quality of life , not only for our residents but for residents of Tooting as a whole. Tooting has always had great significance for our organisation. Threshold started out in Tooting many years ago and although it has developed greatly since those early days with a few homes,the community very much representsa good example of a mixed community with some of the positive aspects that we would hope we could encourage in other areas.Our tenantsseem on the whole to be happy living here. |
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Insp. Ian Burton 
Safer Neighbourhood Team |
I am the Tooting Sector Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) Inspector for Wandsworth Borough. I have spent much of my service as a front line Response officer working in Sussex, Camden, Bromley, and Wandsworth. I arrived in Tooting 18 months ago from the Security, Protection & Counter Terrorism Bureau at New Scotland Yard. I am grateful to be able to work with Tooting Town Centre Partnership as together we are able to identify local problems and finding lasting solutions to them. I and my officers are dedicated to working in Tooting, we are additional to other police units and are on-hand to work solely upon the issues identified by the local community. We are committed to making Tooting a safe place to live, work, and visit. |
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Liz Woods Sarah Hart 
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The Hospital is represented on the Partnership Board by Liz Woods and Sarah Hart, who also represent the St George's Hospital Charity. St George's resides at the heart of Tooting, providing all the usual care you'd expect from an NHS hospital - such as accident and emergency, maternity services and care for older people and children. It is also a leading national centre for more specialist care including neurology, cardiac care and cancer. St George's Hospital Charity supports the Hospital by giving grants - large and small - for projects that the NHS cannot fund and by fundraising. Tooting is the centre of our local community. We value our role on the Partnership Board as a way of working together in the best interests of Tooting. | ||
Anoma Abeyewardene Station Supervisor, Tooting Broadway |
I live in Streatham and have worked in Tooting since the early Nineties. My first encounter with the Tooting Town Board, was when Wandsworth Council very effectively put together a team of two Police forces and a number of social service bodies to resolve a problem London Underground Limited was having with juvenile delinquents. Very impressed at the time, my regard for this group has only increased through the years. When "local government" is often taken as synonymous with bureaucracy and inertia, it is so heartening to be involved with a body which is just the opposite. The Tooting Town Board is a workshop, not just a talkshop and I'm proud to play however small a part in this small but effective band of public spirited members of the council and community, in its efforts to improve Tooting. |
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| Cllr Mrs Susan John-Richards |
For Tooting Ward |
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Cllr M Heaster |
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Cllr Dr Billi Randall  |
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Audrey Helps Tooting Town Centre Manager - Assisting the Partnership |
Audrey Helps finds one of the most satisfying aspects of her job is building relationships of trust and confidence with Tooting's business people. "As well as the many positive comments I hear about Tooting, I encourage them to be vocal in their concerns, and this helps me to build a clear picture of current and future priorities. I am also very fortunate to serve such a dedicated Partnership Board whose members are so knowledgeable and passionate about Tooting; and whose enthusiasm and determination drive so many projects forward. By all continuing to work together, I believe that the business, the Board and myself can succeed in achieving real changes for the benefit of all users of Tooting Town Centre" Audrey is also a resident of Tooting. | ||
| Mike Todd South Thames College |
Mike Todd, Head of School, Finance and Professional Studies |
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| Jaspal Daffu Garden Centre |
Garden Centre, Mitcham Road Jaspal Daffu, owner
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