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| July, 2010 Newsletter
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How many more new homes can we fit in?Plans for the Green Man Lane development show a doubling of the residents from some 800 to nearly 2,000. The population of the Sherwood Close Estate may almost double when it too is redeveloped (see later story). These follow on from the hundreds of new homes in the developments at Sinclair House next to the Drayton Court Hotel; in Luminoscity and the old Groveglade market site; on the redeveloped Daniels site and at Lido House, the one-time cinema. Add to these the proposal for 13 flats to replace the undertaker's on the corner of Shirley Gardens and the Uxbridge Road, the new flats above the Cudi Supermarket, the 8 flats due to be built next to the Grosvenor House Surgery, the 17 apartments going above the old McDonald's, the 7-storey block of flats on the edge of Drayton Green and, well, the list is seemingly endless.
We know we need more homes, but there are knock-on effects in terms of pressure on our infrastructure and pressure on our community.
The Council is currently working on the 15-year plan for Ealing (the Local Development Framework 2011-2026) which will set targets for new homes across the borough. Can we please have a sensible, open and honest discussion about how many new homes we can fit in to each part of the borough and not just be led by externally imposed targets such as those in the London Plan?
David Highton
Other topics covered by this newsletter include:
- All we need is a white line! Bus lane pain at Northfields/Uxbrige Road junction.
- Worth a second look: Arnolds sports shop
- Sherwood Close Estate Update
- Award Winning Abundance
- Open Ealing is an exciting new arts project soon to be launched by the newly-formed West Ealing Arts organisation.
- 51, Drayton Green: St Helena's Home - Hopes For the Building's Survival
- West Ealing and World War Two, a local history.
- Log Cabin 30th Anniversary Party on Saturday 17th July
- WEN Book club, Tuesday 27th July, ‘If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things' by Jon McGregor.
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| MAY, 2010 NEWSLETTER
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Time to work together
May's Council elections swept Labour back in to power. We wait with interest to hear more about the Labour council's priorities over the coming months. There are some vital decisions on the horizon for West Ealing. Plans for the Green Man Lane Estate are scheduled to go before the Council's planning committee in July. Proposals for the Lido Junction are due this summer.
We hope WEN will be able to engage in constructive discussion with the Council over these and other key local issues. WEN remains firmly committed to the belief that working in partnership with the Council can achieve far more than in opposition. We hope the new Council will take the same view and seek to work in partnership with all of the borough's many active residents groups.
David Highton
Other topics covered in this newsletter: - Launch of first WEN Book Swap at West Ealing Station
- Green Man Summer Arts Project
- Hanwell Carnival,Saturday 19th June
- Bicycle Maintenance Lessons in Ealing
- Abundance is growing
- Green Man Lane design needs changing
- Lido Junction plans due soon
- Using West Ealing's empty shop windows
- Thanks to Eric Leach for all previous newletters
- Pitshanger Pictures fills Ealing's missing cinema void
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| March, 2010 Newsletter
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Please Vote on 6th May‘Every four years you get the chance to vote for three Councillors in your Electoral Ward. In May 2006 you all elected 14 Conservative Councillors and one Labour Councillor in Ealing Broadway, Cleveland, Elthorne, Northfield and Walpole Wards. On Thursday 6th May 2010 you get the chance to elect new Councillors. ‘Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike'.
Plato, ‘The Republic' 558
Eric Leach, Newsletter Editor
Other topics covered in this newsletter: Green Man Lane Estate (GMLE) Council Wants to Sell Off 100s of Acres of Public Land Ealing's Draft Local Development Framework (LDF) Core Strategy Abundance Reading Group Annual General Meeting Exhibition to Celebrate 175 Years of Brunel's Great Western Railway SEC's ‘Ealing Centre in Crisis? Meeting Southall Biofuels Public Inquiry Starts Tuesday 10th March New Film Club in Ealing 16 Ealing Officers on Over £100,000/year Dates For Your Diary
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| Transcript of WEN’s Objections’ Presentation at GMLE Planning Committee’
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Green Man Lane Estate Planning Applications.Ealing Council Planning Committee 1st September, 20103 Minute Objection Speech by West Ealing Neighbours
‘Total opposition to transfer council homes to private companies and private housing management'
Labour Councillors - this was a key promise in your 2010 Ealing Labour Party Manifesto. Vote for these plans and you will break this pledge to the people who voted for you.
Council homes will be destroyed and replaced by social rented homes owned by a private company and managed by a private company. 11.5 acres of public land will be sold to a private company. A private company will decide who can enter the site and how they must behave.
WEN objects to this sale of public land.
391 Council homes will be replaced by fewer social rented homes - just 338 in fact. So the stock of social rented homes will be reduced. All the other homes to be built on the site will be sold.
No compelling evidence has been presented to convince us of the need to demolish this estate. The estate has been poorly maintained and managed for decades. Effective maintenance and management could make the current estate viable for decades to come.
These plans add nothing to the quality of life of local residents. An additional 1,200 new residents will compete to use existing social and community services in an already densely populated area, with no planned improvements in local education, healthcare or law and order facilities.
There is inadequate play and leisure provision and Section 106 money can't do any more for Dean Gardens. The £20,000 allocated for improvements to the footbridge over the railway called Jacob's Ladder will make no difference to mothers, older people and the disabled wanting to get to Drayton Green.
The opportunity to expand St John's Primary School has been missed. The demolition of the multi-storey car park will massively reduce the car parking potential adversely affecting the 1,000s who worship in the expanding West London Mosque and crippling attempts to bring more people into West Ealing centre.
The road rage and congestion in Felix Road and Endsleigh Road on the northern edge of the estate is currently unbearable. The new plans will make this situation significantly worse as for the first time since 1970 two roads will allow vehicles to drive from the Uxbridge Road, through the estate and onto Felix and Endsleigh Roads.
For an estate to be made up of eight separate residential blocks of flats, the provision of just one caretaker and concierge facility is totally inadequate.
There is no public green space in this new estate. The eastern and western ‘Community Courtyards' are gated. The green area in ‘Central Park' will be privately owned and access and behaviour in the area will be decided by a private company.
Eric Leach
Vice-Chair
West Ealing Nieghbours
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| Minutes of WEN committee meeting 10th July
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Minutes of West Ealing Neighbours committee meeting on Saturday 10th July at the Drayton Court Hotel |
| Last Updated ( Tuesday, 13 July 2010 ) |
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| Minutes of WEN Committee meeting 12th June 2010
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Minutes of the West Ealing Neighbours committee meeting on Saturday 12th June 2010 held at the Drayton Court Hotel |
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| Minutes of WEN Committee meeting 15th May
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Minutes of West Ealing Neighbours committee meeting on Saturday 15th May 2010 |
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| Minutes of WEN Committee meeting April 17th
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Minutes of West Ealing Neighbours committee meeting on Saturday 17th April at the Drayton Court Hotel. |
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| Notes from public meeting re Green Man Lane Estate plans
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Notes from the WEN public meeting on Wednesday 24th March about the redevelopment of the Green Man Lane Estate. |
| Last Updated ( Thursday, 25 March 2010 ) |
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| Notes from Annual General Meeting 23rd Feb 2010
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Notes from the Annual General Meeting of West Ealing Neighbours held on 23rd February 2010 |
| Last Updated ( Sunday, 28 February 2010 ) |
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