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A new arts centre coming to West Ealing in March
Almost 10 years since WEN helped set up OPEN Ealing arts centre in the then empty A2Dominion offices on the Uxbridge Road, we are delighted to hear that a new arts centre with low cost studios to rent is about to open in West Ealing. SET Ealing will be taking over the old Catalyst Housing…
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London Mayor green lights ‘monstrosity’ office block on Uxbridge Road
Plans for an 11 and 13 storey office block dubbed the ‘monstrosity’ by some local residents has been approved by the Mayor of London. The new buildings will replace CP House on the Uxbridge Road. CP House has been a Covid-19 vaccination centre for the much of the pandemic. Photo copyright Ealing Council More about…
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Would like Northfields to become a new Conservation Area? Give your views to the council
Some local residents have put forward a proposal for Northfields to become a new Conservation Area. The reasoning behind the proposal is that: Northfields is historically important. It embodies the evolution of Ealing – from its early rural past to its rapid transition in the later 19th/early 20th centuries into a thriving London suburb. Northfields has…
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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…