Author: David

Ealing Council’s cabinet meeting last night (Tuesday) approved Affinity Sutton as the preferred developer for West Ealing’s Sherwood Close (Dean Gardens) Estate.

For a bit of background to this development here is an extract from a news item on our website from March 2010:

‘As with the Green Man Lane Estate, residents have identified anti-social behaviour, drug dealing, too many one-bedroom homes and too few four bedroom homes as major concerns.  Work is already underway with residents to put together a brief for developers.  Built in the early 1980s on one half of the Northfield allotment site, Sherwood Close has 209 homes and, unlike the Green Man Lane Estate, was not system built.  Nevertheless, the decison has been made to demolish it and rebuild it – almost certainly with a greater number of homes.’

With 57,000 homes, Affinity Sutton is one of the country’s largest providers of social housing. It published its first ever corporate responsibility review in 2011/12  

West Ealing Neighbours welcomes Affinity Sutton to West Ealing and we welcome the prospect of high quality new homes for the residents of the Sherwood Close Estate. We look forward to seeing its detailed plans. This is a major development in the heart of West Ealing and we very much hope Affinity Sutton will see this as an opportunity to invest not just in the new estate and its residents but also play its full part  in the wider West Ealing community at a crucial time in its regeneration.

I was just about to turn into Melbourne Ave on Tuesday afternoon when my way was blocked by a young girl in a bright yellow hi-vis jacket.  Peering up the road I could see an ambulance so first thought there had been an accident. Then I thought, no, that’s not right and looked more carefully and saw filming going on.  I didn’t have time to stop and find out more but bumped in to Tony Luckhurst (who owns Luckhurst’s butchers) and he told me all about it. Apparently the film is called  Dregs and is about the world being saved by heroin addicts ie the ‘dregs’.  Here’s the blurb off the website (http://la-fin.com/dregs/):

DREGS

If the beginning of the world started with a bang then it ended with a very different sound. A sound so powerful that it made everyone tear their ears off in agony and roll their eyes back into their heads as the last traces of humanity were forced from their bodies. Now they stand frozen to the spot; ‘Statics’, controlled by the last sound they ever heard. Unless anyone or anything around them makes a sound, whereupon they turn en mass to destroy it, tearing at it with their bare hands until nothing remains, before reverting to their static state. This happened to everyone, everywhere, in that same final moment – everyone except the heroin addicts; the ‘Dregs’.

Watch the film to get sight of Billy Luckhurst ( above photo) and local hairdresser Nico Neo playing….Statics.

Like many others I’m wondering why the top end of Melbourne Ave is taped off as a crime scene this morning. I’ve asked the police but no comment as yet I’m afraid.

I’ll update this as soon as I find out anything.

Update on Thursday

Police received a report of rape shortly after 03.15hrs today, 25 July, following an alleged attack in the vicinity of Deans Gardens, W13, at around 02.00hrs.

Local road closures were put in place and detectives from Sapphire continue to investigate.

There has been no arrest at this stage.