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Notes from West Ealing Neighbours meeting on Thursday 24th October 2024
1.Chair’s report David Highton, chair, gave a brief report on the past year. He started by saying that when WEN started in 2006 there was very little time spent on considering major developments. In the first years, WEN got involved in activities such as preserving the heritage lampposts, improving pedestrian safety at the Lido Junction…
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Public meeting on Thursday 24th October 7.30-9pm at St John’s Church in Mattock Lane
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Cars parked illegally in West Ealing centre
30th July 2024 Uxbridge Road near junction with Northfield Avenue West Ealing Neighbours (WEN) recently asked Ealing Council to prosecute vehicle owners who park illegally on Broadway and Uxbridge Road in central West Ealing. For months, and probably years, cars have been parked illegally on Broadway – sometimes for many hours. On 3 June 2024…
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Responding to Ealing Council’s local plan
Ealing Council, like all other councils, has to produce a local plan. The plan lays out how the Council would like to see the borough developing over the next 15 years. This plan is now at the very last stage before it goes for approval, or not, by a government inspector. West Ealing Neighbours, along…
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Information and suggestions on responding to Live West Ealing’s consultation
Draft response from West Ealing Neighbours to Live West Ealing proposals. The deadline for comments is 31st March 2024 and the survey can be found here General points: There are no reasons given in the proposals as to why £8.6 million is to be spent on these ‘designs’. There are no explicit references to problems…
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Notes from West Ealing Neighbours’ public meeting on 15th February at the Drayton Court Hotel
Background to Ealing’s housing needs Cllr Shital Manro, Cabinet Member for Good Growth and New Homes, outlined Ealing’s situation. The borough has a major shortage of housing. It is not meeting its housing target of 2175 homes a year in the London Plan. There are: 1.Major developments in West Ealing Arden Road – a legal…
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West Ealing – a mess? Public meeting on Thursday Feb 15th 7.30pm at the Drayton Court Hotel
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Builder of local Council homes goes bust
Henry Construction which won £40m contract from Ealing Council to build over 130 homes has gone in to liquidation. Henry were building the new homes on the Dean Gardens car park site and the 20-storey tower by West Ealing station amongst other local developments. The constructionenquirer.com website says ‘Insolvency experts took control of the London-based…
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19-storey tower proposed for Waitrose site

Following on from their initial consultation last summer, John Lewis have now put forward their more developed plans for redeveloping the Waitrose site in West Ealing in a new round of consultation. Yesterday afternoon was athe first of two open sessions for the public to view these more detailed plans. The second session is on…
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Leeland Terrace – transforming a neglected green space

For a long time, the Seaford-Leeland Terrace corner was just a neglected spot with brambles and always far-to-reach blackberries. All that changed when I saw a notice at the West Ealing Neighbours notice board near Sainsbury’s in Melbourne Avenue (a good source of info) asking for neighbours willing to help spruce up a few forgotten…