High Street

The is split into 20 wards, or neighbourhoods, and your ward is Marylebone High Street. To see the area that your ward covers, visit www.westminster.gov.uk/wardboundaries Westminster City Council wants to see strong communities supported by excellent council services in your neighbourhood.

To help achieve this, in April 2008 we introduced ward budgets for your councillors to spend an additional £100,000 in your ward to tackle local issues. Since then, we have held Area Forums where residents can meet with councillors and council officers to help decide how their £100,000 is spent.

How your £100,000 has been spent

Ward wide greening project for £100,000

Project Highlights

Hanging Baskets

Marylebone High Street ward members have opted for a ward-wide ‘greening project’ in order to benefit as many residents as possible. The scheme will install 430 hanging baskets around the ward.

Before installing the baskets, the lamp columns on which they are hung need to be tested for safety so the project is time and labour intensive but will mean that residents will enjoy two seasonal plantings in the baskets over a full year.

Continued overleaf Project Highlights

Bird boxes at Paddington Street space for graves was needed and Gardens the parish bought the piece of land on the north side of the street There is another from Mr. Henry Portman. In 1885 the gardens became a recreational £100,000 allocation for ground, officially opened by HRH your ward in 2009/10. Princess Louise on 6 July 1886.

Most of the tombstones have been removed but the mausoleum in You can let your councillors the south garden was left because know your ideas for spending of its exceptionally fine design. It the money by: was erected by the Hon Richard Fitzpatrick to the memory of his wife Susanna who died in 1759 aged • Attending your next 30. His daughter Anne, Baroness Marylebone Forum, which will de Robeck, was also buried here take place on in 1829. There are many species of 14 May 2009 from 6.30 - 8.30pm, trees evident in the garden including Council House, 97-113 cherries, laburnum and hawthorns. , NW1 5PT The principal species of tree here is the Plane, a tree widely • Emailing your ward councillor at: planted in Victorian London as it marylebonehighstreet thrived in a polluted atmosphere. @westminster.gov.uk Bird boxes will be installed around or calling: 020 7641 4300 Paddington Street Gardens in order to encourage wildlife in the area. The bird boxes will be specifically Your ward councillors are: chosen to attract a variety of birds, Cllr Harvey Marshall including house sparrows, wagtails, Cllr Mark Page robins, blue tits and great tits as well Cllr Ian Rowley as wrens, tawny owls and black redstarts. For more information on Area Forums, please visit: History www.westminster.gov.uk/ neighbourhoods/ Paddington Street Gardens, where Paddington Street Gardens marylebone.cfm the boxes will be placed, is a key area in neighbourhood history. The gardens were formed during the Plans for the Future 18th century as an additional burial This is your chance to ground for the old St Marylebone influence change in your Parish Church. Ward councillors have allocated their full budget for last year on the local area. Paddington Street itself dates from greening scheme and will be looking the 1760s and the land on the south into further greening with this year’s side of it was granted to the parish budget. Councillors would like to by Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford, in hear from you on other suggestions 1730 and consecrated as a burial for spending in the ward. ground in 1733. By 1771 further