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O ROYAL B ROUGH B J U B I L E E E D I T I O N b 1952 2012 Diamond Jubilee edition www.thediamondjubilee.org Salute the troops Over 200 soldiers from the Territorial Army and a detachment of Chelsea Pensioners will be taking part in the Royal Borough’s DIAMOND JUBILEE MARCH PAST along Kensington High Street at 11am on Saturday 9 June 2012 Come along to give them a cheer as they pass! The route is along Kensington High Street, from Holland Park to Kensington Church Street. All the TA regiments and the Royal Hospital have the Freedom of the Royal Borough. The regiments have had personnel on deployment in the current conflict in Afghanistan. Around the Is my tail the 2012 Games borough’s waggiest? round-up parks SEE PAGE 7 SEE PAGES 14 AND 15 SEE PAGES 9 TO 11 Royalwww.rbkc.gov.ukBoroughSUMMER2012 No. 173 Portobello Station because as well as carrying local Lend your support by writing to: The new Crossrail station the people east and west to new job Council is determined to see and leisure opportunities, the new Boris Johnson built on the old Kensal Crossrail station would also deliver Mayor of London visitors to North Kensington and, in Greater London Authority Gasworks site should be particular, Portobello Road. City Hall called Portobello, the Royal The Queen’s Walk Borough has proposed. With the Midlands just 45 minutes London SE1 2AA away via HS2 and the eastern and western reaches of the city made Email: [email protected] The Council’s long-running campaign more accessible by Crossrail, it for a ‘Portobello’ Crossrail station hopes for a whole new class of The Rt Hon Justine Greening MP R The architect’s impression of the south-east viewpoint of has won much local support from day-trippers to Portobello and Secretary of State for Transport the academy, leisure centre and public realm. residents and businesses and also Golborne that will keep the markets Department for Transport has the backing of a number of in business for generations to come. Great Minster House high profile MPs and Members of 33 Horseferry Road ACADEMY AND the London Assembly. Portobello would also meet the London critical need to create an attractive SW1P 4DR Cllr Sir Merrick Cockell, Leader and familiar brand that will make LEISURE of the Council, floated the idea of the thousands of new homes and Email: the Portobello name on his blog, business units that might be built greeningj@par sparking much debate and on the Kensal site that bit more liament.uk provoking a number of alternative appealing. PLAN suggestions. Join our list of In the end the final decision on supporters by emailing Over the past two years the Although most people were station names rests with the [email protected] Royal Borough and the Aldridge broadly in favour of the name, Crossrail sponsors but, as it has Exciting Foundation have consulted other suggestions included Grand agreed to underwrite the station Like our Facebook page at plans for a widely on the proposals through Union station and Sainsbury construction costs, the Council www.facebook.com/KensalCro new leisure a series of drop-in events, Junction. The most popular expects to have some influence. ssrail centre and workshops and exhibitions. alternative to date has been North academy in North Local people have also been Kensington, with some support for For further information, please see Join the station naming debate at Kensington have been kept informed through the compromise solution of www.rbkc.gov.uk/crossrail www.rbkc.gov.uk/leader submitted to the Council by newsletters, a residents’ forum, Portobello North. architects Studio E. the leisure centre’s user group and websites. The Council is sticking with The academy proposals will and Kensington High Street, Portobello because it believes it provide much-needed school If the plans are approved with coverage to expand over has the best chance of catching LEADING places to tackle the fact that in September, a phased the coming years across the the public imagination and winning more than 30 per cent of local construction programme will wider support, as well as being borough and Westminster. students currently travel outside begin in the autumn of justified in both historical and THE WAY the Royal Borough for their 2012, with the Kensington The system does not require a geographical terms. secondary education. Aldridge Academy opening in password or username, it does The first stage of a rollout that will September 2014. The leisure not impact on the user’s In the eighteenth century, Kensal see London become Europe’s The planning application also centre is expected to open at sat on the northern tip of largest free wireless internet mobile’s data allowance and it includes a state-of-the-art the same time. Portobello Farm, and Portobello access zone has been launched works for everyone, not just leisure centre to replace the Road itself is just a short stroll in time for the Olympics. O2 customers. current facility, an improved For more information, see away from where the station would Lancaster Green, better access www.rbkc.gov.uk/kalc or visit O2 Wifi has launched in the To find out what areas are be built. to the area and new homes the Planning Information Office, Royal Borough, with access available and when, see that will be sold to help fund Ground Floor, Town Hall, The Council also thinks the name available on Exhibition Road www.o2wifi.co.uk/my/hotspots the scheme. Hornton Street, W8 7NX. is justified in transport terms 2 RoyalBorough | SUMMER 2012 Contacting the Council Contents Here to help – your Councillors Tri-borough success CONTACT Kensington and Chelsea is served by 54 elected Councillors, three for each of the page 3 Royal Borough’s 18 wards. They are available by telephone, email and letter. Survey results YOUR COUNCIL Personal appointments can be arranged and in some parts of the borough you page 4 can visit a ward surgery. Mayor’s Awards Enquiryline 020 7361 3000 You can find out which Councillors represent you, and how to contact them, by visiting www.rbkc.gov.uk/councillors or calling Librariesline on 020 7361 3010. page 5 Email [email protected] Leader’s Leader Streetline 020 7361 3001 page 6 Email [email protected] Surgeries Pedal power page 7 Environmental Healthline 020 7361 3002 Colville ward People and places Email [email protected] Cllrs Carol Caruana and Tim Jones: 2pm to 3pm, last Saturday of every month page 8 Arts and Leisureline 020 7361 3003 except August – Portobello Court Clubhouse, Portobello Road, W11. Celebrating Holland Park Email [email protected] Cllr Dez O’Neill: 1pm to 2pm, first Saturday of every month – Tabernacle, page 9 to 11 Powis Square, W11. Help us save water Parkingline 020 7361 3004 page 12 Email [email protected] Cremorne ward Environmental round-up Council Taxline 020 7361 3005 Cllrs Maighread Condon-Simmonds, Matthew Neal and Gerard Hargreaves: page 13 Email [email protected] 9.30am to 11am, 9 June, 1 July and 5 August – Chelsea Theatre, World’s End Olympics special Place, King’s Road, London SW10. page 14 and 15 Benefitsline 020 7361 3006 Sports and leisure Email [email protected] Earl’s Court ward page 16 Paymentsline 020 7361 3007 Cllr Linda Wade: 10.30am to 12.30pm, 8 and 23 June, 7 and 21 July and 4 and Healthy living Pay online at 18 August – Brompton Library, 210 Old Brompton Road, SW5. page 17 www.rbkc.gov.uk/onlinepayments/general Events diary Golborne ward Housingline 020 7361 3008 page 18 and 19 On a rota basis, Cllrs Bridget Hoier, Emma Dent Coad and Pat Mason: Email [email protected] Pageant competition 7pm to 8pm, Mondays (except Bank Holidays and August) – Venture Centre, 103 Wornington Road, W10. page 20 Educationline 020 7361 3009 Email [email protected] Notting Barns ward Librariesline 020 7361 3010 RoyalBorough Two out of Cllrs Robert Atkinson, Judith Blakeman and Todd Foreman: 10am to Email [email protected] 12 noon, second and fourth Saturdays of every month (excluding Carnival Royal Borough is produced for weekend) – EMB Community Hall, opposite the playground beside Grenfell Tower residents by the Royal Borough Recruitmentline 020 7361 3011 of Kensington and Chelsea. on Lancaster West Estate, just off Station Walk, south of Latimer Road station. Email recruitment rbkc.gov.uk It is delivered to 87,000 homes and @ businesses in the Royal Borough Norland ward and is also available from community Planningline 020 7361 3012 venues. The newspaper is Email [email protected] Cllrs Catherine Faulks and David Lindsay: 10am to 11am, 7 July and 8 September produced by the Council’s Media and Communications Office, – Henry Dickens Court Club Room, St Ann’s Road, W11. designed by Go4 Marketing and Social Servicesline 020 7361 3013 Public Relations Ltd and printed Email [email protected] by Harmsworth. Pembridge ward We welcome comments about Cllrs Barbara Campbell, David Campion and Doreen Weatherhead: Royal Borough as well as letters 10am to noon, 23 June, Bangladesh Centre, 24 Pembridge submitted for publication. Write to Royal Borough Editor, Media and Local Democracy Information Gardens, W2. Communications Office, Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8 7NX June to August 2012 or email [email protected] Redcliffe and Earl’s Court wards Mark your letter ‘for publication’ if you wish it to be considered for Public Realm Council Cllrs Marie-Therese Rossi, Frances Taylor, Charles Williams, Terence publication (the Editor’s decision in 2 July 27 June Buxton and Jonathon Read will hold joint ward surgeries: 6pm to such cases is final).