A fabulous event with so many good bands to see. Full details about the event – http://www.hanwellhootie.co.uk/ Over to you to choose:
Book your stall for the Northfields Jumble Trail in June
This was a great success last year and reached up as far as Regina Road. The organisers write about thier plans for this year:
‘We have our first few stalls for the Northfields Jumble Trail 2015! It is on Saturday 6th June, it is FREE to have a stall, you keep all the money you make (or give it to a charity of your choice), and it’s a great community event where you can sell all that stuff you’ve been meaning to get rid of of from right outside your own house. Toys, clothes, books, music, cakes, crafts, furniture, whatever you like. Last year’s sale made almost £2,000!
All you have to do is sign up, put your pin on the map, help spread the word and on Sat 6th June we’ll have a big Northfields-wide jumble sale. Click the link below to join in. ‘
Help clean up Fitzherbert Walk in Hanwell this Saturday 10am-2pm
Big Spring Clean at Fitzherbert Walk, Hanwell
You are invited to come and help the park rangers with a Big Spring Clean at Fitzherbert Walk, Hanwell – the footpath leading to Hanwell Bridge from the Grand Union Canal at Green Lane, W7.
The first day of spring is Saturday 21 March and to celebrate summer being around the corner, communities around the country are organising Clear Up Days on Saturday 21 March. These are a ‘national spring clean’, backed by the Government, that aims to spruce up the country’s high streets, residential and business areas, villages and parks.
Our plans for the day at Fitzherbert Walk are to hold a series of volunteer tasks including:
• Cutting back excessive vegetation
• Clearing pile of dead wood into ‘habitat piles’ (homes for wildlife such as fungi, beetles and nesting birds)
• Filling in potholes in the path to provide a better surface for bikes and walkers
• Putting up bird and bat boxes ready for use
• Removing unsightly rubbish and litter
Come along on the day and make a difference in your area! Whether you can do a little or a lot, everyone is welcome.
We’ll be working from 10.00am to 2.00pm. Drinks and refreshments will be provided at lunchtime. Please wear suitable outdoor clothes and footwear.
Directions:
To get there travel to the end of Green Lane near the Fox Pub W7 2PJ. Turn right onto the canal towpath and walk 100 metres crossing the footbridge and passing the canal lock (no. 97) on your left. Then follow the footpath leading off to the right.
A poster advertising the event is attached. Please feel free to pass onto others you think would like to come and join in.
If you have any questions about the day please drop me a line.
Kind regards
James
James Morton
Park Ranger – Norwood Green and Dormers Wells Wards
Leisure and Parks, Ealing Council
Telephone 07956 932065 / 020 8813 9232
Northfields Spring Night Market on Saturday 21st March 6.30-9pm
We all had a fabulous time at the recent Northfields Christmas Night Market and it’s now time to start planning for our Northfields Spring Night Market!
Once again we will be bringing amazing local businesses together; providing gift inspiration, hand-crafted pressies, wonderful food and the great Northfields community atmosphere. Live music from JSMG Band and Love2Sing Choir (yep entry is free)!
We are very lucky that the wonderful Kingsdown Methodist Church has an all weather hall & arena, so not even rain can stop us.
Date: Saturday 21 March
Time: 6.30 – 9.0pm
Address: Kingsdown Methodist Church Hall, Kingsdown Ave, W13 9PR
Fab participating businesses:
The Fields Café, Tropic Skincare, Mind Body & Story (Barefoot Books), The Giggle Company, Miss B, Ealing Privilege Card, Cheeky Chutneys, Blue Feather Book Designs, Vanilla Frost Cakes, Boho City, Bell Eames W13 Jessica Rose Fine Art, Denalis Jewellery, Desi Baker Artisan bread, ElSilver (silver Jewellery), Knitted items Popcorn Box, Lazarow Wood Turning, RosyRosie, Spice Magic, Emy and Julie, Sargasso Shoes, Fabulous Fudge Natural Fragrance Company Ltd, Smallprint Jewellery, Forever Living, Spinning Tops, Nella Catering, Garden Shed Designs, Make it Mimi, Mano Creations (Jewellery), EE’s Cosmetics, Powerfoods (Northfields Pharmacy). Pampered Chef, Gala Bebe, Kristina Uffe Photography, Fairly Amy, Mother and Child Homeopath, Truali, Imagethirst Photography, Coopers Beans & Leaves, Mobytek
Time to review traffic plans for West Ealing
If you live in the roads near the Sherwood Close Estate (shown on the map) then you may well have had a green coloured leaflet through your letterbox yesterday. It’s about the traffic access arrangements for the redevelopment of the Sherwood Close Estate. It’s worth taking a few minutes to read it and think about the issues it raises and whether these concern you.
Access to the new development was always going to be tricky as most of the nearby roads such as Seaford Rd and Westfield are narrow and heavily parked up on both sides. It’s already difficult for delivery lorries to get round these roads. Our worry is that the access plans for the new estate do little to improve this. With an increase in homes of some 100 or so, which means about 200-250 new residents on the redeveloped estate, logic says there will be more deliveries. Yet, access to the estate from the north or south will still have to be via the existing narrow streets or, to be precise given the current road system, via Westfield Road and then along Glenfield Terrace, Bonchurch Road or Milford Road. Access from the east and west should be better as there will be a new road off Tawny Close.
We feel there is a good case for a careful review of the traffic routes and traffic flows in this whole sector of West Ealing – from Leighton Road in the south to the Uxbridge Road in the north and from Seaford Road in the east to Grosvenor Road/ Seward Road in the west. We think it’s important not to make a decision about access to the Sherwood Close Estate in isolation from already residents’ concerns about traffic problems that already worry people living in these streets. We say, let’s step back and take a good look at this whole area and avoid piecemeal decisions.
The leaflet gives details of who to contact if you have concerns about this. These include the three Walpole Ward councillors who cover the area concerned. You can find them here.
West Ealing post office likely to move
I just thought it would be useful to flag this up for information. The post office in Leeland Road is looking to move round the corner to the Uxbridge Road to where the wet fish shop/shoe repairer/ Caribbean food shop used to be. The planned move is part of a national modernisation programme. The new branch will be of modern open plan design with longer opening hours, same products and services with addition of car tax. It will also be open all day Saturday whereas it now shuts at 12.30pm on Saturdays. There is a 6-week consultation which ends on 16th April. Comments can be made online at postofficeviews.co.uk and you need to quote their branch number 125006. If it all goes through the new branch will open June/July. The form has full details of opening hours etc.
Salvation Army shop in West Ealing needs volunteers
The Salvation Army needs volunteers to help in their West Ealing shop:
‘Do you have a day/few hours a week spare? Available on a Monday or Saturday?
Want to do some volunteering in a charity shop (the Salvation Army charity shop, Leeland Road, West Ealing, W13 9HH) We are a friendly happy bunch, but are short staffed and really need some reliable volunteers. Please Email :- Nicola.joyce@salvationarmy.org.uk ‘
Weekly street food market coming to Ealing Broadway from Friday 2th Feb
I read about this on Ealing Today and it sound brilliant and, even better, it’s organised by an Ealing resident – Kate McKenzie. She’s organising a street food market every Friday in the Ealing Broadway shopping centre. Kate is clearly very passionate about street food markets and it sounds a great idea and well worth a visit. It starts on Friday 27th February and runs weekly until Friday 17th April and this is just the start. She’s already thinking about a monthly weekend market.
1 to 1 business advice and more at Ealing Town Hall Weds 25th February
Ealing Means Business
Ealing town hall, 9-5pm, 25 February 2015
Come and say hi at the ‘Ealing Means Business’ event. Ealing Blueprint will have a stall at this year’s ‘Ealing Means Business’ event at Ealing town hall from 9am-5pm on Wednesday 25 February 2015.
This free business event will have 1 to 1 advice sessions, exhibitions, seminars and networking, so why not come down and see what it has to offer.
To register your free place, visit: www.ealingmeansbusiness.co.uk
Don’t forget to pop down to Chat&Meet @Ealing Blueprint, 13 Drayton Green Road, West Ealing. We are open Tuesday – Saturday, 8.30am – 5.30pm for hot desking, meetings, seminars and coffee!
Many thanks,
The Ealing Blueprint Community
32-storey tower block proposed for North Acton
I saw this story of the Ealing Today website and it almost took my breath away. This development is planned on the ‘island site’ at Gypsy Corner on the Western Avenue at North Acton. The full plan is for eight tower blocks, one of 32-storeys, giving 764 flats and some 4,800 sq m of commercial space. I worked on a part of this site for some 20 years when a lot of it was various BBC buildings including scenic stores, visual effects and rehearsal rooms. Indeed, the BBC Rehearsal Rooms opposite the station was, at some eight storeys or so, by far the tallest building on the site. Most were one or two storey old style office blocks or warehouses. I happened to go back there last week to look at some furniture in The Perfume Factory in Wales Farm Road, which used to be the Elizabeth Arden factory, and I was amazed then by how much this whole site has changed. But this plan with its 32-storey tower is, well, just remarkable. I can see some of the commercial logic as it’s right by North Acton tube station and a 10-minute walk from the planned Crossrail station at Acton Main Line. I guess it’s an extreme example of how much of Ealing is changing with the huge pressure for more housing. Whether all these new flats will actually alter the nature of this area much will be interesting to see. There were very few shops in the area as it’s right on the edge of the Park Royal Estate but maybe that will change with so many people moving in. I’d be interested to know how the Coumcil will ensure there is sufficient healthcare and educational provision for all these new residents.