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Norwood Green Issue 3 April 2009 What matters to you in your ward
You are invited to: Your next ward forum 7-9pm Friday, 17 April 2009 St Mary’s Church Main Hall Norwood Green Road Southall UB2 4LA
For further details visit: www.ealing.gov.uk/ The Three Bridges over Grand Union Canal wardforum
More than 45 residents have attended the Bollards will be installed on Wimborne Avenue preventing Norwood Green ward forums making their vehicles parking on the footpath. Double yellow lines will be painted on Wimborne Avenue to prevent the road being views known on how they would like to narrowed by parked vehicles. improve their area. Windmill Park estate What you asked Fencing is proposed to be erected by the boundary wall of Open and informative discussions took place during the past the park adjacent to the Grand Union Canal path next to two ward forums, held in the main hall of St Mary’s Church, Windmill Park estate. This fencing will be a barrier to regarding issues residents felt were affecting Norwood minimise anti-social behaviour occuring in this area. Green and how they could be resolved. A memorial area is proposed be created in Windmill Park Your local councillors Mohammad Aslam, Rajinder Mann estate to commerate Yasin Abdirahman, a local university and Virendra Sharma received more than 35 proposals on student killed in 2007. how the £40,000 budget available to the ward forum could be spent. The councillors carefully considered all proposals Welcome to Norwood Green taking into account what the forum could support and the benefits they would provide. Two Welcome To Norwood Green signboards will be commissioned for Heston Road and Windmill Lane near the The councillors in the 7 January ward forum publicly Iron Bridge and a new park bin will be purchased for The confirmed the following successful proposals: Meadow park. Road and traffic improvements Ward forum budget To improve traffic flow around the ward, a number of road These projects will be funded as part of an annual £40,000 alterations will be supported. These will include, extending budget, made available to Norwood Green for local existing yellow-lines on Green Drive with new bollards to improvements. prevent footpath parking, a yellow line on Windmill Avenue and a double yellow line on Tentelow Lane by the Three If you have an idea of how further improvements could be Bridges. made in Norwood Green, come along to next ward forum or contact your ward councillors or neighbourhood co-ordinator. Two traffic signs directing motorists to Toplocks estate will Contact details are shown inside this newsletter. be placed on Merrick Road. Your ward forum, your issues
Resurfacing damaged roads
Ealing Council has dedicated £6.5 million to the 2009/10 Footway and Carriageway improvement programme. In the Norwood Green ward this will mean resurfacing for both Wimborne Avenue and Wylie Road.
The council has also introduced six new specialist ‘drive- through-and-fix’ crews, to mend new potholes within five to six weeks . This will be at a cost of £299,000. Pothole patrols will fix damaged roads The recent extreme wet and freezing weather, which has been described as the worst wintry conditions for 20 years, has caused a number of new potholes to appear in the borough’s roads. Safer Norwood Green
To report a pothole contact 020 8825 6222 or email Teams join forces to tackle drug use [email protected]. The Norwood Green Safer Neighbourhoods Team has Way forward for Manor House Grounds joined forces with drugs workers and the council to deal with the problem of drug misuse in the Havelock Road cemetery. Manor House grounds may have missed out on securing funding in the Mayor of London’s recent ‘Help a London This followed several reports from relatives who had found Park’ program, however Ealing Council is making sure there discarded syringes on the graves of loved ones. The Drugs are still opportunities for its improvement. & Alcohol Action Team ran a pilot project to change the existing needle-exchange policy and limit the number of Funding has been allocated to build a new children’s play syringes issued to local addicts. Safer Neighbourhoods area in the park, working with young people at Featherstone officers carried out joint patrols with council park rangers Secondary School, Visions Youth Club and St Anselms and and advised the council CCTV unit regarding installing Havelock primary schools to come up with ideas for the play cameras at key locations in the cemetery. Private area. contractors ensured that the cemetery was cleaned at regular intervals and the gates locked promptly at closing The park attracted 1083 votes in the London-wide scheme, time. The problem has dramatically reduced. being ranked seventh out of the nine north-west parks, while Ealing’s Brent Rover Park successfully secured £400,000 for improvements by receiving 4,648 votes. Look out for Neighbourhood Watch
Your Safer Neighbourhoods Team has been working hard to expand the Neighbourhood Watch Scheme across the Norwood Green ward. New watches have opened in Comer Crescent on the Windmill Park Estate, Shaftesbury Avenue, Stour Avenue and St Mary's Avenue Central. The team is on the lookout for other areas of the ward to continue the expansion and help to combat crime. For more information please contact the Safer Neighbourhoods Team on 020 8721 2046.
Speak to your team
Residents are reminded that weekly drop-in surgeries are held at the Windmill Park Estate Community Centre (Tuesdays 1.30-2.30pm) and at the Hunt Road Community Shop on the Havelock Estate (Tuesdays 2-3pm). Officers A view from Manor House Grounds also perform a ward walk-around at Ealing Hospital on Tuesdays and the team is represented at the ward forums held at St Mary's Church Hall.
Historical check-up for Manor House In September 2008 the team moved out of Norwood Green Police Station into a new purpose-built base at The Arches Ealing Council has commissioned a survey on Manor Business Centre in Merrick Road, near to the South Road House. It’s located on The Green, Southall and is a historic rail bridge. The base is shared with the Southall Green ward Grade II listed building. The project will assess the historic team. The contact phone number for Norwood Green significance of the house along with examining the condition Safer Neighbourhoods Team remains unchanged at 0208 of the building. 721 2046. Input will be sought from English Heritage and the local community to identify areas of improvements. Your Councillors
Councillor Councillor Councillor Mohammad Aslam Rajinder S Mann Virendra Sharma
Tel: 020 8574 0448 Tel: 020 8574 5538 Tel: 020 8574 0657 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Surgery times Agenda – 17 April 2009 First Friday of February, April, June, August, October and 6.45pm: Refreshments available December. 7-8pm, St Mary’s Church Hall, Norwood 7pm: Forum opens Green, Southall Second Friday of January, March, May, July, September 1. Signing of minutes from Norwood Green Ward Forum, 7 and November, 7-8pm, Community Shop, Hunt Road, January 2009 Southall, 2. Matters arising from 7 January 2009 ward forum 3. Ward forum projects update 4. Local policing update Your Neighbourhood Co-ordinator 5. Suggestions for 2009/10 ward improvements spend Kofi Nyamah 6. Public forum 7. Date of next meeting: 22 October 2009 (provisional)
Tel: 020 8825 5818 9pm: Close of forum [email protected]
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Norwood Green
The 2008 Ealing Residents Survey highlights that the issues the highest proportion of residents describe as a concern are crime, including anti-social behavior (29%), litter/dirt in the streets (26%) the level of Council Tax (25%) and traffic congestion (23%). These four issues have consistently featured among the top concerns of Ealing residents in previous surveys. Availability of parking was also a concern for 19% of respondents1. Across the borough these five issues in general remain the priority concerns for residents, although in a varying order of importance.
The survey also indicates that four in five (84%) residents state they are satisfied with their neighbourhood as a place to live2. We are now planning ward forum events for 2009-10 and want to ensure that your local concerns are included. To help us do this, please answer the question below.
What issues would you be interested in attending your ward forum to discuss? [please tick all that apply]
Crime & Anti Social Behavior [ ] Parking issues [ ] Recreational facilities [ ]
Litter/dirty streets [ ] Health services and issues [ ] Education & schools [ ]
Council tax [ ] Facilities/jobs for young people [ ] Public transport [ ]
Traffic congestion [ ] Housing issues [ ] Pollution/environmental issues [ ]
Services/support for the elderly [ ] Other (please specify)
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1 2008 Ealing Residents Survey is based on 3030 face-to-face interviews, the 2008 survey is the first time parking availability has been included in the list of concerns. 2 Neighbourhood is defined as ‘within 10 minutes walk from your home’. Useful Information
You can find out all you need to know about Council services and local facilities near your home on our website www.ealing.gov.uk.
Just click on Find My Nearest and enter your address or postcode to find out information including:
what day your refuse and recycling is collected your nearest library, leisure centre and park your nearest doctor, dentist and pharmacy your nearest school and nursery your local police team and police station St Mary’s Church (main hall), Norwood Green To read about previous ward forums or Road, UB2 4LA previous newsletters, visit the Ealing council website at www.ealing.gov.uk/wardforum and select the Norwood Green page.