WEN COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES 16th AUGUST 2008
The Drayton Court
Present: Gill Adams Emma Hunter (part) David Highton Eric Leach
Apologies : Nick Greenhalgh Andrew Cazalet Frank Proud
1.WEN Public Meeting
Meeting to be dedicated to discussing why Ealing is the worst place in England for healthcare and what is and can be done to improve this. Dean Hall on Thursday 25th September are the target venue and date. DH to check. CEO of Ealing Hospital, head of local Mental Health trust, Marie Pemeberton of Ealing PCT and Greg Stafford, Ealing Council Cabinet healthcare portfolio holder all to be invited to speak. Action: DH
Meeting to be publicised at Farmers Market (13th and 20th September) and outside Sainsburys. Action: ALL 2.Council Public Meeting in West Ealing
A list of questions and issues has been compiled by WEN. DH and EL plan to meet with Marianne Downie to discuss meeting date, structure and content. WEN will suggest meeting in October. DH to pursue. Action: DH
3. Green Man Lane Estate
WEN web site now has dedicated Green Man page. Three members have made offers of help with WEN's involvement in the Green Man Lane Re-development project. DH to invite them all to attend start or end of the next WEN Committee Meeting to discuss the project. Action: DH
4.Abundance Project
WEN has a stall at Brentford Festival in Boston Manor Park on 7th September. Fruit Cookathon is on 20/21 September, 2:00 - 5:00 pm at St James Church. WEN will fund basic materials and set this against chutney/jam sales to participants and at the November St James Arts and Craft Fair. Glass jars and lids have now been sourced. Five sites for picking have been identified. We all also need to be organising ourselves for picking and freezing fruit eg blackberries. Elizabeth Highton's advice to be sought re preparations. GA to organise 5th and 20/21 events, and will need help at both. (Sadly EL cannot help on any of the dates). Fruit Picking Action: ALL
Co-ordination Action: GA
5.September Newsletter
Content identified and draft text due 22nd August Action: EL
6.SEC
Dickens Yard Planning Committee Meeting expected end September/early October. EH and CABE have published unfavourable reviews. Generally unfavourable response by SEC to Glenkerrin's Arcadia/Leaf2 exhibition in July. Much good work has been invested in an SEC Constitution and in a positive SEC Vision for the development of the centre of Ealing. EL to continue to represent WEN at SEC. Action: EL
We also need a better understanding of all aspects of Section 106 money,
We need to learn from SEC as to how to approach helping to save West Ealing. WEN's input to the embryonic Local Development Framework (LDF) needs to be timely and appropriate. Dick John's is key to the LDF. Gill, an ex-colleague of Dick's, to contact him with a view of an informal drink with WEN in September. Action: GA
7.SEAL The Cast Iron Company has been appointed by Southern Electric Contracting (SEC) to sandblast, extend, update the posts; fashion and attach new swan necks and connect new lanterns - for all the 450 -550 cast-iron posts to be re-used in the Heritage Quarter (HQ). SEC will remove all cast-iron posts and re-insert the updated ones in the HQ. The trial of different lanterns will take place in Green Avenue and Conningsby Road in October. The updated posts will be painted in situ in the old Victorian livery of dark green bases and the rest in cream. The ninth meeting between SEAL, Ealing Civic Society and Ealing Council takes place on 8th September.
Hanwell residents persuaded the Labourl Shadow Council to ‘call in' the Cabinet's 22nd July decision to proceed with the £1.26 million HQ and Conservation Areas' lighting projects. Hanwell has been very unhappy of late that their cast-iron posts are being removed for use in the HQ and replica Heritage posts are replacing them in Hanwell. At an Ealing Council Overview and Scrutiny Meeting on 14th August there were heated arguments as to what happened vis a vis Hanwell street lighting and the run-up to the 2005 Street Lighting PFI. It was eventually decided by 8 votes to 6 to uphold the 22nd July Cabinet decision.
8. Accounts
FP will meet with AC to review the accounts.
Action: FP/AC
9. Ealing and Brentford Consolidated Charities
Grants may be available. DH to send AC details of the E&BCC web site for AC to investigate Action: DH/AC
10. Membership
286.
11. Website
No NG at meeting.
12. Vacant Site in Green Man Passage
DH has written to the church which bought the land to ask when they expect to start building and clearing the site.. DH to pursue.
Action: DH
13. Police Apology
The recent drugs raid in Chignell Place which unnecessarily implicated two hairdressing salons on West Ealing Broadway left the salon owners furious with the Police. The current Gazette reports that the Police have now apologised to the salon owners. DH to put up a news story on the WEN web site. Action: DH
14. Ward Forums Ealing Broadway, Elthorne and Cleveland have yet to commit to Forum dates. DH to meet Allison Franklin with a view to her attending Ealing Broadway Ward Forums.
15. WEN Social Evening
Thursday 2nd October
16. Next Meeting
Wednesday 17th September
Eric Leach 18th August, 2008
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