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Petition launched to save Gurnell Leisure Centre
West Ealing Neighbours received this email from the Save Gurnell group with details of a petition it has launched to save Gurnell Leisure Centre. This follows the Council’s failed attempt to redevelop this site. See here for the background story. The Gurnell Leisure Centre has now been closed since March 2020 – that’s nearly two…
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Too little too late? Council puts forward its views on tall buildings
The increasing number of tall buildings across the borough is proving highly controversial. Do tall buildings maximise the use of a very limited resource – land? Or are they repeating the planning failures of the 1960s and letting future generations pick up the bill to put right today’s mistakes? As part of draawing up its…
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Manor Road tall tower – did the Council withhold crucial information?
West Ealing Neighbours fully supported the efforts of the Stop The Towers campaign to halt the proposed Manor Road tall tower next to West Ealing station. In October 2020 the Council’s planning committee rejected the proposal but the developer took it to appeal and in October 2021 it won. Most of the area of the…
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North Acton – beyond all recognition
One Portal Way, North Acton I worked at Gypsy Corner in North Acton for over 20 years from 1975. Now, I barely recognise any part of it. WEN received this email from the Old Oak Neighbourhood Forum about yet another planned major development for this already highly developed area close to North Acton tube station.…
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It’s all about the cucumbers! LAGER Can – helping clean West Ealing’s streets
I only joined the volunteer litter picking group LAGER Can last year so am new to this. Even so I was with a group in December cleaning up Witham Road and we did get given a box of cucumbers. So it does have some rewards! In 2021 LAGER Can filled 24,561 sacks full of rubbish…
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Overdevelopment threat to Hanwell Arts & Crafts house
We featured the earlier campaign in Hanwell to save the Arts & Crafts house in Church Road. This campaign was successful. There is now a threat to overdevelop the property’s rear garden with considerable loss of green space and the danger of setting a precedent in a conservation area. This is the information we have…
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Let’s get West Ealing library back at the centre of our community
West Ealing library is back open again for three days a week. It’s looking for volunteers to help extend its opening hours and for ways to once again be a hub for the local community. It’s already running a range of classes and activities and are looking for ideas to expand these. The library’s development…
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Complete this survey and say what you think about living in Ealing
A number of local residents’ groups, including Ealing Matters, Save Ealing’s Centre, Stop the Towers, Draytons Community Association and Save Gurnell, have got together and designed an online survey to find out about residents’ experience of living in Ealing. They are reaching out to every part of the borough to obtain as full a picture…
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Developer wins appeal to build 20-storey tower next to West Ealing station
Sadly, the decision by The Planning Inspectorate to give the go-ahead for this tower is no great surprise. The documentation with this decision is long and detailed. These are some of the key points about the Inspector’s decison: ‘The Council’s acceptance that it cannot demonstrate a five-year supply of deliverable housing sites.’ The Council appears…
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Halloween on Northfields Allotments Sat 30th October 3-7pm
Back again, this is a really great couple of hours for the family. Follow the pumpkin trail, stop off for a glass of beer or mulled wine and food or tea and cake. Entry is free and the main entrance is half way up Northfield Ave.