Belgravia Bulletin FOREWORD

Your community news from Belgravia Bulletin FOREWORD

Dear all,

We are delighted to share our first edition of the Belgravia Bulletin, a new update from Grosvenor on all of our community matters in and around Belgravia. We hope you will find this useful, as in response to feedback, we want to keep you all more regularly informed of Grosvenor’s events, retail news and openings, community ventures, development and works updates, environmental efforts and lots more. Importantly, we will also be publishing details of local development consultations. Your feedback and first-hand experience of the area is vital in ensuring that our investments deliver the results that you would like to see, so we would encourage you to participate and let us know your thoughts. We would welcome any feedback you have around this new newsletter and thank you in advance for taking the time to read it.

Best wishes, Above: Paul O’Grady Douglas Crichton and Paul O’Grady Director, South Belgravia [email protected] To receive the Belgravia Bulletin and events news by email, please Above right: Douglas Crichton contact [email protected] Director, North Belgravia [email protected] Please follow us on @belgravia_ldn

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RETAIL NEWS year. Please come down and training and work experience Place with near neighbours. try them out. scheme, giving participants Please do come along to EVENTS AND Motcomb Street Tart London has opened the core skills to gain entry an open drop-in event on SAVE THE DATES the café and deli areas of level jobs in the horticulture Thursday 28th March from We are pleased to announce its long-awaited ‘Wild by industry without having 15.30 – 19.30 in 27 Eccleston that Violante Nessi opened at Tart ’ concept restaurant at any previous experience or Place to discuss our plans. Easter Egg Hunt 14 Motcomb Street at the end Eccleston Yards and we look specialist education. Bankside Following that we will then Motcomb Street of February for up to 6 months. forward to the main restaurant Open Spaces Trust has review your comments and (by Sue Liberman violantenessi.com opening shortly. teamed up with Grosvenor to feedback with a view to and the MSTA) The Pantechnicon will reopen tart-london.com deliver the programme set to progressing to a planning 30 March by late summer and we look run for five years. submission later this year. FLOWER forward to telling you more Elizabeth Street bost.org.uk/future-gardeners-1 Thank you to all those who Daily Dress Edit about this exciting new have contributed. 6-7 Motcomb Street POWER development very soon Prima Lashes has opened at Grosvenor Landscape 9-22 May The refurbishment of the 145 Ebury Street, next door Management (GLM) continue Cundy Street Quarter Residents are encouraged to play Halkin Arcade is nearing to London Grace nail bar, to run a weekly after school Belgravia in Bloom their part in this year’s Belgravia in completion and will be fully adding to the beauty and gardening club at St Barnabas We recently announced Throughout Belgravia Bloom extravaganza by creating open to public in early April. By neighbourhood offering for the School working with the proposals for the Cundy Street 20-25 May their own colourful displays. June, we will have increased area. school on lessons in the Quarter. the level of seating for all to primalashes.com gardens covering biodiversity, Our proposals cover an London Craft Week You can participate in the popular annual enjoy this new open space. NRBY, a new clothing brand, habitats and maths. GLM area bordered by Ebury Pimlico Road event by transforming your window boxes have opened up in our pop-up are also helping create fun Street, Cundy Street and 8-12 May or decorating your front door with a splash Kinnerton Street shop at 73 Elizabeth Street for activities for the schools within Pimlico Road. The existing of colour, with a prize awarded for Best 3 months. Please do take a the gardens for the Easter buildings are subject to lease May Fair Floral Display. After almost 35 years trading look. period. expiries from 2021, providing St Peter’s Church, More than 50 vibrant installations will as Jay’s Newsagent, Mr and a rare opportunity to invest Eaton Square transform the streets of Belgravia in May Mrs Majeed have decided Pimlico Road We are pleased that substantially in the area. Our 11 May, noon-4pm with ‘The Language of Flowers’ a central to retire and Grosvenor will according to official statistics, ambition is to create a mixed- theme of this year’s festival. be taking on the property. It We are pleased to welcome Belgravia is one of the safest use neighbourhood that can Open Gardens Must-see floral displays will bloom outside currently comprises a shop two great design names to the areas of London. However, complement and enhance Squares Weekend Peggy Porschen, Les Senteurs, Neill Strain with the family flat above, Pimlico Road Design District. we will be hosting a security facilities for local residents Throughout Belgravia Floral Couture and restaurants and hotels and we will be retaining the SCP will open at 57 Pimlico briefing for all retailers across and the wider public, as well 8-9 June including Jones Family Kitchen and The shop, and creating a separate, Road prior to starting works on the Grosvenor Belgravia Estate as deliver a significant number Hari hotel. self-contained flat above. Newson’s Yard. on the evening of 16th April. of new homes. Belgravia Barbecue Pierre Herme is entering into the We know how much they will scp.co.uk The local police offices will be We believe that a Belgrave Square spirit by creating floral macarons for the be missed and it has been a We are also delighted to attendance and will provide comprehensive but sensitive Gardens occasion and there will be two immersive pleasure dealing with Mr and welcome Hilary Batsone at 84 our retailers with useful advice redevelopment can unlock 20 June installations and workshops spaces in Mrs Majeed. Bourne Street for 6 months. on how they can make their substantial long-term benefits Eccleston Yards – home to a Botanic Identity hilarybatstone.com shops more secure. Hopefully for the local community. Belgravia Dog Show Bar – and the Halkin Arcade, which will be Eccleston Yards We are sorry to see R you will have received your These include more homes Belgrave Square transformed into floral mood gardens. Chocolate leave the street invitation. If not, please speak (including more affordable Gardens It runs from May 20 to 25. If you would @ecclestonyards and hope to welcome them to your Property Manager if homes) across a range of sizes 22 June like to be involved, email belgravia. We are delighted to announce back to Belgravia very soon you would like to attend. and tenures; vital uses that are [email protected] to register. that Ole & Steen, the Danish Ochre have reopened at currently lacking in the area Belgravia Classic bakery, will be opening at 31 24 Pimlico Road, having DEVELOPMENT AND such as senior living and more Car Show Eccleston Place on the corner relocated from no. 57. CONSULTATIONS retail, leisure and community Belgrave Square of Eccleston Street this spring. ochre.net spaces. Gardens olenandsteen.co.uk 27 Eccleston Place In addition, we believe there 23 June HotPod Yoga hotpodyoga.com COMMUNITY INITIATIVES is an opportunity to craft a and Batonnage the wine bar Grosvenor is currently more welcoming and inclusive mayfairandbelgravia.com barbatonnagewines.com opened Launched in 2016, Future consulting on the environment for residents, in Eccleston Yards earlier this Gardeners is an innovative reconfiguration of 27 Eccleston workers and visitors through

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COUNCILLORS the creation of new amenities, From 3 April, we will begin For further information or to leave to help improve air quality better public spaces and a listening exercise to help additional feedback, please see and the look and feel of the News and views from your Knightsbridge more greening, alongside us fully understand what our website playground. Grosvenor is very and Belgravia ward councillors investment in the surrounding benefits you want to see cundystreetquarter.com and we pleased to have contributed streets and squares, brought forward through our hope to see you there. £5,000 towards these Belgravia’s residents and businesspeople bring particularly Orange Square, investment. We will use this improvements. a real sense of community to the area. The Ebury Square and Pimlico information to inform our initial SUSTAINABILITY AND Belgravia Society and the Belgravia Residents Road. designs. THE ENVIRONMENT GARDENS Association must be congratulated for the work We recognise that this Please do come to our drop- they do. They are on the front line, scrutinising all is a substantial investment in sessions, which will take Grosvenor teamed up with Grosvenor will be issuing the aspects of proposed changes to the area. in the area and are keen to place at 198 Ebury Street on the Sustainable Restaurant annual membership renewals The Belgravia consult widely to ensure that the following dates: Association (SRA) in 2018 to for the Garden Squares Neighbourhood Forum a broad range of views can Wednesday 3 April: 12-8pm support delis, restaurants over the course of March. has begun work on the be considered early on in the Thursday 4 April: 11am-3pm and cafes in Mayfair and Where applicable, these neighbourhood plan, which design process. Saturday 6 April: 9am-3pm Belgravia to tackle important memberships include the will help guide local planning environmental issues, like following decisions. The forum recently single-use plastic, food waste • Tennis Court Membership surveyed hundreds of and sustainable sourcing to • Dog Registration residents and businesses for GROSVENOR WORKS create delicious solutions. • Belgrave Square their views on Belgravia. The project commenced Membership Our traders’ associations Cllr Tony Devenish Tony Cllr Grosvenor is carrying out the following external repairs with a One Planet Plate For more information please deserve our thanks for and redecorations across Belgravia during the next cooking demonstration contact ensuring a thriving retail three months. Your Property Manager will have been in and panel discussion at Thomas Gibson climate. We will miss Grace contact with you to discuss these and will provide further Grosvenor’s Summer in the Garden Office: 133 Ebury Street, Belgravia, which sadly closed communications before these works commence. Whilst Square. Subsequently, it has London SW1W 9QU last month, but we must we appreciate these works and particularly scaffolding included visits to Grosvenor 020 7312 2770 continue to support our other can cause some disturbance, it is necessary that these tenants/customers conducting [email protected] local businesses through the works take place to maintain the building fabric and surveys on their sustainability economic highs and lows. retain the beauty of the Belgravia estate. We will aim practices. Belgrave Square Tennis Court When councillors and

to keep the impact of these works to a minimum, if you Following this, Grosvenor The court may only be booked community work together, Hitchcock Elizabeth Cllr require any further information, please contact your and SRA have decided to out by a member. that is when we can achieve Property Manager who will be able to assist. continue their focus on food (Open for use 7am- 11pm) real success. Westminster waste and single-use plastics, Book online: PEOPLE City Council has made Address Anticipated Start Date forming an ambitious project belgravesquaregarden. changes to the planning 9 Chester Square Mews 01/04/2019 spanning 2019, to support clubsolution.co.uk At the end of March, Nigel Hughes retired as Grosvenor’s process, with greater pre- 14/17 Eaton Square 01/04/2019 Grosvenor’s longer-term goal Or call on 020 7730 7788 (Lines Estate Surveyor. Nigel has worked tirelessly for application consultation 75/77 Elizabeth Street 01/05/2019 of eliminating food waste on open Monday to Friday the Estate for over three decades, championing and public speaking rights 63/63A Elizabeth Street 01/05/2019 the London Estate by 2023 and 9.30am-4.30pm) improvements throughout Belgravia from protecting its at planning committee 19 Cliveden Place 01/05/2019 be single use plastic free on unique heritage for generations to come, to pioneering meetings to allow greater Cllr Rachael Robathan Rachael Cllr 20 Cliveden Place 01/05/2019 the estate by 2023. public realm investments such as Elizabeth Street and community involvement. 21 Ebury Street 01/06/2019 The project will place an Prospective Customers Motcomb Street. 85/88 Eaton Square 01/06/2019 emphasis on education and Nigel was awarded the Lifetime Service Award this Twitter: @KandBWard 28 Eaton Mews South 03/06/2019 tenant engagement through Residential Lettings year at the Belgravia Awards and was awarded an MBE Facebook: @knightsbridgeandbelgraviamatters 72/72A Elizabeth Street 01/07/2019 workshops, site level support. 020 7312 6444 in the 2016 New Year Honours for his services to the Instagram: @knightsbridgebelgravia 30 Eaton Place 01/07/2019 events and knowledge [email protected] business community in London. He will be sorely missed 3 Eaton Place 01/07/2019 sharing. by all his colleagues at Grosvenor and by many in the Cllr Tony Devenish: [email protected] 90 Eaton Place 01/07/2019 Commercial Lettings local community. Cllr Elizabeth Hitchcock: 69 Kinnerton Street 15/07/2019 St Peter’s School has received 020 7312 6442 [email protected] funding from the GLA for commercial.lettings@ Cllr Rachael Robathan: the next phase of greening grosvenor.com [email protected]

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alling all toddlers! St Peter’s Church in Eaton Square needs cash for a you. quiz champs A “Poppets” toddler group runs in the parish hall every good cause Monday and Friday, from 9.30am until 11am. The third Monday night Belgravia pub quiz took place at CChildren under the age of four have the chance to play with lots of the Star Tavern, and began with a cheque presentation Students and teachers at Quest new, creative toys and the opportunity to use their creative side with to the Children’s Trust for £1,000. The charity helps Professional have raised £19,400 for Play-Doh, colouring and crafts. children and young people with brain injuries, and was a children’s charity. “St Peter’s Poppets has a distinctly international flavour which chosen by previous winners The Hari hotel. The business college, based in adds to the creativity and fun,” says the Revd Julie Khovacs. “Parents Competing for the winning trophy were teams Grosvenor Gardens, raised the cash and carers frequently comment on how they enjoy seeing their child from Errol Douglas, The Hari, Grosvenor, Waitrose, through a sky dive, an obstacle play while they spend needed time chatting with new friends. Westminster councillors, The Lanesborough, Child & endurance course, charity runs and “If you have a toddler and would like to find a peaceful and Child, The Peninsula London Project and Grosvenor two major fundraising events. beautiful space for them to Place. After two lively rounds of quiz questions, and Action for A-T is a charity play please do drop in.” fuelled by snacks provided by the Star’s manager Foil for children who have Ataxia- POPPETS To find out more, Ollie Coulombeau, it was a tie for first place between telangiectasia, a condition leading to email julie.khovacs@ Grosvenor and returning champs The Hari, with the fellow the deterioration of motor skills that SEEKS stpetereatonsquare.co.uk or hotel winning on a bonus question. impacts eye movement and speech. visit the church’s website at A talented teenager With no cure or treatment for the TODDLERS! stpetereatonsquare.co.uk from Belgravia has condition, children are confined to a been selected to wheelchair by the second decade of fence for his country. their life and need assistance with Ethan Zazo, 15, everyday tasks. Grosvenor is offering a has been picked convenient way to manage your account and connect with Farewell to Grace for the under-15 the local community. England fencing You can now register and “The last seven years have been an amazing squad and will duel log in at grosvenorconnect. journey of learning and experience for Dr Tim in the international com to manage your account and I, and we have met and worked with so many competition finances, request and track inspirational people. One of the things I will miss Challenge Wratislava maintenance (if the property is most about running Grace is the support in Poland at the end maintained by Grosvenor), connect with community events and access exclusive offers across Mayfair and Belgravia. and kindness that you, my friends in of this month. If you have not yet registered, please contact the local business community, have He is a member of the [email protected] and the team will provide shown to us.” Kate Percival FCL (Fencing Club you with an authorisation code. London).

rosvenor has become the first private sector “The monitors will set an important benchmark and help organisation to join the London Air Quality improving local us track the effectiveness of our interventions, and we will be Network (LAQN), Europe’s most sophisticated able to share our findings widely to help better understand urban air quality monitoring network that is Air Quality London’s air quality problem.” Grun by King’s College London. Grosvenor is on track to reduce carbon emissions on the The LAQN uses King’s specialist knowledge to Grosvenor is determined to reduce estate by 50 per cent between 2013 and 2023. In 2017, the determine the impact of air pollution on health. It also air pollution in Belgravia company reduced emissions by 4,278 tonnes of CO2, equivalent works closely with those responsible for air quality to a rainforest 108 times the size of Regent’s Park. management to support policies and actions to minimise Recent measures to achieve this have included encouraging pollution. of Mayfair and Belgravia are above the UK limit for nitrogen electric vehicle usage and adding new charging points, The scale of the urban air quality problem requires dioxide levels. consolidating vehicle deliveries to offie, cnoiaig wast action from all sectors of society, both public and private. Emily Hamilton, the senior sustainability manager at collection, protecting existing trees and planting new ones. For Grosvenor’s part, the company is commissioning two Grosvenor, said the firm is “deeply invested in the health of Shirley Rodrigues, deputy London mayor for environment new permanent air quality monitors on the London estate, London. We want to make a positive difference for the tens of and energy, said that it was “good to know that I can count on after modelling by the college in 2013 indicated that all thousands of people on our estate every day. Grosvenor as we look to clean up the air we breathe”.

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