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Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) consultation for Fielding school area

Parking problems are almost guaranteed to arouse passions amongst residents. Now those of us living south of the Uxbridge Road and west of Northfield Ave have our chance to get steamed up.  The Council has received a number of requests for a CPZ in the Fielding Primary School area. Following these requests and a parking survey, the Council has issued a consultation about a CPZ. The consultation covers a wider area to take in to account the perennial problem of parking displacement whereby areas surrounding a new CPZ get more cars parking on their streets.

I always feel a bit ambivalent about CPZs. Living very close to the West Ealing shopping centre in an as yet non-CPZ zone I can understand the frustration of not being able to park anywhere near your house. Yet, and it is a big yet, I worry about the impact on local businesses and their staff who may have to drive to work as public transport doesn’t work for them. A light touch CPZ, say with one hour in the morning and one in the afternoon, should not have that big an effect on shoppers who can usually adjust their shopping times.  But it’s far more difficult for people who come to work in West Ealing as they will usually have set working hours. How do they deal with the impact of a CPZ?

The consultation ends on 18th April.  In the meantime, there is an exhibition about the consultation plans on Sunday 30th March 11am – 4pm at Northfield Community Centre in  Northcroft Road.

 

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150 days of community in West Ealing: Week 6

Today is the start of Week 6 of our 150 days of community project. Don’t know what we’re talking about? Then click here. Here are some of the things that we’ve been up to in West Ealing in the past week:

We at Christ the Saviour C of E Primary School had our sponsored bunny hop this week! All the infants wore their bunny ears and hopped away, then the PTA provided the children with a well earned biscuit and drink! It was lovely seeing the older year 5 children from the juniors site helping the really little ones.

-Diane

Think I should also mention Neo hairdressers again, they always manage to find me last minute appointments and free fringe trims for regular customers. They’re also offering a discount, 25% for new customers if you mention this facebook group.

-Katherine

I love Beauty by Jas. The shop is near the british heart foundation and downstairs it is clothes which jas’ s husband looks after and then upstairs is where you can get threading, waxing, massages by Jas and her girls. They are lovely, I recommend.

-Amy-Jo

For me it has to be Bunty’s wool shop buried in the back of Daniels. It has been there over 40yrs and stocks a great range of yarn including Sublime and Debbie Bliss alongside workhorses like Patons, Wendy etc. A lovely selection of buttons and also general haberdashery such as bias binding etc. Mr Hafiz, the owner is knowledgable, friendly and ever so slightly encouraging… I have a hard time leaving with just the stuff I went in for.

-Lynda

Definitely the fruit and veg shop on st John’s parade – such friendly service from a lovely family. Although also a vote for buntys and an honourable mention for the forester pub which has just gone from strength to strength in the last year or so.

-Sally

Just put my availability down for Ealing Foodbank. It looks like the warehouse in Hanwell is potentially going to be opening longer hours so for those of you who can only help after work this would be an ideal opportunity to get involved.

Contact: info@ealingfoodbank.org.uk

-Diane

We have another great list of seven ‘acts of community’ for this week – see how many you do – maybe you already do them!

  • Walk or bike to support a cause and meet others
  • Employers: encourage volunteer/community groups to hold meetings on your site
  • Volunteer in your child’s classroom or chaperone a field trip
  • Join or start a babysitting circle
  • Attend school plays
  • Answer surveys when asked
  • Businesses: invite local government officials to speak at your workplace

We’d love to hear from you if you do any of these things, or anything else that makes people smile in West Ealing. We have loads more suggestions of things you can do, if you want to jump ahead!

Ways to send us your contributions:

Send us an email – 150daysofcommunity@gmail.com
Write on our Facebook wall – https://www.facebook.com/groups/124290860921562/ 
Tweet at us – @WENeighbours
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The Grosvenor pub in West Ealing to re-open at end of April

Food and Fuel, the new owners of The Grosvenor pub, met up with locals in one of their ‘Maggie’s’ outlets on New Broadway W5 last night (Tuesday 18th March). The Grosvenor name will be retained as will the stained glass and beautiful, original wooden bar and panelling. Five real ales are promised as well as English/Mediterranean/Gastro Pub food. No talk of juke boxes, pool tables or Sky Sports! Opening at 11am seven days a week with proper coffee and family friendliness this all sounds like a winner.

The refurb/rebuild has proved somewhat costly and upstairs apart from a live-in manager’s flat the function room has not yet been restored. Hopefully it will be later in the year.

Eric Leach

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West Ealing businesses vote yes to spending £1m to improve West Ealing

West Ealing businesses have voted ‘yes’ to setting up a Business Improvement District in West Ealing. A BID has been operating in Ealing Broadway for some years and their BID team worked long and hard to persuade West Ealing’s traders to follow their lead.  The idea behind a BID is for businesses in the area to contribute about a 1% levy on their rateable value to the BID which then uses that money on projects to improve and promote the area  – safety, marketing and promotion, special events and so on.  Over the West Ealing BID’s initial five years the amount raised by this levy will be £1 million.  Sarah Evans of Waitrose is currently the chair elect of the West Ealing BID and other businesses will be represented on its board of directors.

I’ve said this before but it feels increasingly to me that West Ealing is changing, partly driven by Crossrail, and we wish the West Ealing BID every success in playing its part in improving West Ealing.

There’s more about this story of the Ealing Today website 

( On the same theme I’m trying to find out what was said about plans for The Grosvenor pub at last night’s meeting with the owners. The essence of the plan is to turn this once run -down pub in to a gastro pub)

 

 

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150 days of community in West Ealing: Week 5

Today is the start of Week 5 of our 150 days of community project. Don’t know what we’re talking about? Then click here.

Here are some examples of ‘acts of community’ people have sent us over the last week:

Tea pop upEight or so neighbours (almost) spontaneously turned up at the pop-up vintage tea-room on Sat March 8th and drank tea, ate cake and chatted. It’s strange that it’s extraordinary but above all, it’s just brilliant. Thank you ’150 events’ for making such simple things possible.

-Gill, 10 March

Here’s our next list of seven things we reckon are good for making things better in West Ealing:

We’d love to hear from you if you do any of these things, or anything else that makes people smile in West Ealing. We have loads more suggestions of things you can do, if you want to jump ahead!

Ways to send us your contributions:

Send us an email – 150daysofcommunity@gmail.com
Write on our Facebook wall – https://www.facebook.com/groups/124290860921562/ 
Tweet at us – @WENeighbours
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150 days of community in West Ealing: Week 4

Today is the start of Week 4 of our 150 days of community project. Don’t know what we’re talking about? Then click here.

Here are some examples of ‘acts of community’ people have sent us over the last week:

Our first suggestion was about supporting local shops –

Our suggestion about joining local sports team garnered some interest as well –

https://twitter.com/EalingFlaneur/status/440065221076733952

All great stuff, and we hope to see even more in the coming days and weeks.

Here’s our next list of seven things we reckon are good for making things better in West Ealing:

We’d love to hear from you if you do any of these things, or anything else that makes people smile in West Ealing. We have loads more suggestions of things you can do, if you want to jump ahead!

Ways to send us your contributions:

Send us an email – 150daysofcommunity@gmail.com
Write on our Facebook wall – https://www.facebook.com/groups/124290860921562/ 
Tweet at us – @WENeighbours
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Time for Tea in West Ealing – vintage tea room comes to Pop Up Shop from 3rd March

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From 3 March -15 March 2014, Tea Darling will transform #EalingPopUpShop into a vintage tearoom, where you can enjoy homemade cake while sipping a nice cuppa amongst a nostalgic British setting. At the same time you will be able to buy handmade cushions, throws, crochet items, candles and baby clothes.

The #EalingPopUpShop has been supported by the Riot Recovery Fund to help generate business in West Ealing. Opened by Ealing Council, the shop is located at 99 Broadway W13 9BP and is open from 10am-6pm, Monday to Saturday.

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150 days of community in West Ealing: Week 3

Today is the start of Week 3 of our 150 days of community project. Don’t know what we’re talking about? Then click here.

Here are some lovely examples of ‘acts of community’ people have sent us over the last week:

Bus flowersHappy spring time everyone!

Just sharing a picture of the lovely crocuses on Ealing Green … snapped from the top of Bus 65 yesterday afternoon 🙂

-James

Grosvenor Pub news.
There is a thread on our forum started by the new owners at http://www.westealingneighbours.org.uk/WEN-blog/wen-forum/wen-forum-group1/general-discussion-forum2/the-grosvenor-pub-thread57.0 and we are invited individually to contact the owner on peterm@foodandfuel.co.uk if we would like to attend a meeting to get to know them and express our views

-Valeria

Ealing hospital.

Just some unsolicited opinion[n] for you all.

Unfortunately we’ve had to bring our little one into Ealing hospital for a little bit of treatment, and having heard and read bits and pieces of negative comments and being aware of the bigger issue of it being closed/ services being removed, we were a little concerned about how we’d find it. We have been given the best care I’ve ever experienced. Efficient professional staff who can’t do enough to let you know what’s going on and why. I really couldn’t ask for more.

– Jayne‎

Here’s our next list of seven things we reckon are good for making things better in West Ealing:

  • Support local shops
  • Have a bake sale for a charity
  • Help jump start someone’s car
  • Organise or join a team sport
  • Join a gardening club
  • Attend house parties when invited

We’d love to hear from you if you do any of these things, or anything else that makes people smile in West Ealing. We have loads more suggestions of things you can do, if you want to jump ahead!

Ways to send us your contributions:

Send us an email – 150daysofcommunity@gmail.com
Write on our Facebook wall – https://www.facebook.com/groups/124290860921562/ 
Tweet at us – @WENeighbours
Add a comment to this blog post (below)