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Overdevelopment Special Ealing Broadway West Ealing Hanwell Neighbours’ Paper Issue No 82 Putting the People of Ealing First Autumn 2017 Free Please Take One Overdevelopment Special Ealing Broadway West Ealing Hanwell With special Questioning... Celebrating! guest editors Is it OK for the council to Arts in Ealing Eric Leach and Will French be a property developer? Ealing Lawn Tennis Club Acton | Ealing | Greenford | Hanwell | Northolt | Perivale | Southall Read NP Online at www.neighbourspaper.com ContentsContents Editorial Editorial................................................ 2 Guest editors Eric Leach and Will French are specially highlighted. Eric chairs take charge for this edition. They focus the West Ealing Neighbourhood Forum Events Around Ealing ......................... 2 on residents' concerns about property which is preparing a spatial plan for developments that are replacing the West Ealing Town Centre and Will chairs Window on West Ealing ..................... 3 best bits of the borough with poorly Save Ealing’s Centre, an umbrella group designed over-sized blocks of flats. of residents associations who have Ealing Notes .....................................4-5 Examples in West Ealing and Hanwell views about the state of central Ealing. Overdevelopment in Hanwell ............ 6 EVENTS AROUND EALING Plans for Perceval House ................... 7 Soundbite Street Food Markets Neighbourhood Planning in Ealing ... 8 Saturday 9 September,1:00pm + Acton Farmers’ Market: to 9:00pm, Dean Gardens, Every Saturday: 9:00am – 1:00pm Ealing Planners Out of Touch ............ 9 West Ealing W13 9BG Outside Morrisons, Acton Free entry, music, food, craft market, + Ealing Farmers’ Market: UFO Steel Band ................................. 10 free children’s activities, donkey Every Saturday: 9:00am – 1:00pm rides, free cookery workshops Leeland Road, West Ealing+ Tap into the BEAT .............................. 11 www.soundbitefestival.org + Northfields Market: Every 3rd Saturday: 10:00am – 2:00pm 135 Years of Lawn Tennis ................. 12 BEAT Borough of Ealing Art Trail Northfield Avenue, West Ealing Friday to Sunday 8–10 & + W5 Food Market: 15–17 September. Every 2nd Sunday: 11:00am – Neighbours’ Paper Free entry to 61 Open studios, 3:00pm Outside Ealing Town Hall 170 artists showcasing their works Subscribe for a year: Just £4. Send a in houses, studios, or pop up Ealing Walking, Talking cheque to The Publisher, Neighbours’ exhibition spaces across Ealing. & Exploring Group Paper, 12 Waldemar Avenue W13 9PY www.ealingbeat.org.uk South Acton and its Street Art Now. Find 020 8579 4847 out about Carrie Reichardt’s mosaic, Dr Bike: Free Maintenance Thierry Noir’s promised mural and is Twitter.com/NeighboursPaper Checks Bollo Lane’ name traceable back to Learn how to check your bike The Vikings? Saturday 16 September: Facebook.com/NeighboursPaper for roadworthiness and get 11:00am – lasts 2 + hours. Starts at some good cycling advice. Acton Town Tube Station £10/head Email: [email protected] Locations throughout the Borough. Enquiries: Joanna Dudzinska: Google: Dr Bike Ealing for [email protected] Editor in Chief: Tom Whiting locations and monthly dates. London Open House Weekend Guest Editors: Will French, Eric Leach Free Concerts at St Sat/Sunday 16/17 September. Mary’s Church Hundreds of buildings all over central Treasurer: Judy Breens The Friends of St Mary’s Perivale: and greater London are open and Every Tuesday 2.00pm. Wednesdays free on Open House London weekend. Writers: Judy Breens, 7.30pm and Sundays 3.00pm Catalogue from the libraries or see Will French, Kay Garmeson, Enquiries: 020 8997 7691 or www.openhouselondon.org.uk Eric Leach, Tony Miller www.st-marys-perivale.org.uk Ealing Half Marathon 2017 Designer: Jamie Anson Free Concerts at St Sunday 24 September: 9:00am – 2:30pm Cover: Buildings: (In order) Barnabas Church 13.1 mile/21.09 kilometre run. Starts Replacements for: Perceval House, Pitshanger Lane Every Friday at 1.00pm and ends in Lammas Park, W5 5JH, BHS & former Peugeot site. and Sunday Operas 7.00pm in the where a retail village will be located. Hall 10th September, 22nd October, Run, volunteer or spectate Webmaster: Sonia Nimley 19th November, 17th December. www.ealinghalfmarathon.com See: www.barnabites.org/concerts Advert Designer: Sandy Anson Welshore Chess Club The Taming of The Shrew Welshore Community Hub, 99, Printer: Pollyprint Ltd, 263 Northfield By William Shakespeare: Church of Broadway West Ealing W13 9BP Avenue, Ealing W5 4UA, the Ascension, Beaufort Road, W5 3EB All ages- Saturdays 9 & 23 September 0208 579 1441, www.pollyprint.co.uk Beaufort Players Wednesday, Thursday -Every fortnight following. 10:00am - and Friday 8pm Saturday 7pm 27 – 30 1:00pm Enquiries: Richard Mwangi: Advertisement rates: Single Box £25, September Enquiries: 07730 572389 [email protected] Double Box £45, Triple Box £70 2 Putting the People of Ealing First Next copy deadline: 30st October Read NP Online at www.neighbourspaper.com Window on West Ealing BY ERIC LEACH Save Our Woolworths Heritage 136 Flats in 11 Storey Property developer A2Dominion wants block on the BHS site ARTISTS IMPRESSION OF THE MOSQUE to build a 14 storey residential block at 96 - 100 Broadway, West Ealing. The On 24 February 2016, Ealing Council New Mosque for 3,000 Worshippers plan involves demolishing the iconic Planning Committee approved the Woolworths building frontage. Built in building of this residential tower block Demolition work has begun in 1926, the Woolworths building features with an excessive density almost twice preparation for the West London a classic four tiled art deco façade. that permitted in planning guidance. Islamic Centre’s (WLIC’s) new regional The store finally closed its doors for The inhabitants in the 136 flats in an mosque on the corner of Brownlow business in December 2008. This façade 11storey tower will be served by 270 and Singapore Roads. This elegant, is one of 22 Heritage Asset buildings bike racks. The current site owners distinctive piece of architecture will to be retained in the emerging are Thames Valley Housing. Previous rise to five storeys and be a ‘no car West Ealing Centre Neighbourhood owners were Southern Grove of development’. WLIC has so far raised Plan (www.wecnf.org). The West Ealing Mayfair, Sir Philip Green’s stepson £3 million of the total estimated build Centre Neighbourhood Forum (WECNF) Brett Palos and BHS. Demolition cost of £8.3 million. Phase 1 will provide wants to save this valuable piece of West started in September 2017. With the new ground level facilities and has a Ealing history. WECNF has begun petitions neighbouring WLIC mosque being target completion date of May 2018. to save the façade. 550 people have demolished at the same time it’s Phase 2 will complete all external already signed. A paper based petition going to be a dusty and congested structures and Phase 3 will be internal is available at Jeff’s Flowers in Melbourne Autumn for local residents, business fit-out. No dates have been released Avenue. An online petition is available at: staff and visitors in West Ealing. for the completion of Phases 2 and 3. www.wecnf.org/save-our-heritage. [Visual: 2ND building on the cover] More at: www.wliconline.org New West Ealing Web Site Money from Ealing Council’s 2012 Riot Recovery/High Street Innovation Fund has been invested in creating a new online presence for everybody who lives in, works in or visits West Ealing. You can find the address and contact details of over 500 retail, business and community organizations on this site. More at: www.mywestealing.org.uk Welshore Chess Club Welshore Community Hub, at 99 the Broadway, West Ealing, hosts fortnightly meetings of the Welshore Chess Club. The club meets from 10:00am to 1:00pm on alternate Saturdays, (next meet is 9 September). Adults and children all welcome. Club member Christo Sivakov stole the show at the 2017 Middlesex Mega Final Delancey UK Chess Challenge Christo clinched a brilliant First Prize to become Middlesex Under 8 Chess Supremo! The Middlesex Mega Final was held at Harrow High School on 1 May 2017. Club members are looking forward to another great year at the London Chess Classic on 29 November – 11 December 2017 to be held at Olympia. More from Richard Mwangi: [email protected]. Putting the People of Ealing First 3 Read NP Online at www.neighbourspaper.com Read NP Online at www.neighbourspaper.com Ealing Notes COMPIleD BY WIll FRENCH 9-42 The Broadway Days before the Inquiry was due been no investment in it for years and Public Inquiry to start, Benson Elliott announced it devalues the town centre overall. they had sold the site at what British Land has a reputation for taking As widely reported, the long those in the know said, was a huge a strategic approach, so SEC looks anticipated public inquiry into profit and were pulling out. New forward to hearing its long term vision the giant development opposite owners British Land, who also own for Ealing and its plans for this site’. Ealing roadway station was the Ealing Broadway Centre next surprisingly cancelled in May. door, say they are still considering British Land are promising to their development options. reimburse SEC for all its expenses Developers Benson Elliott had obtained in preparing for the inquiry. planning permission to replace the Will French, Chair of Save Ealing’s remaining historic buildings on the Centre who lead local groups Long after the deadline expired site with an 18 storey tower block, objecting to the plans says ‘SEC for doing so, LBE said they were still but the Government decided there is pleased Benson Elliott’s scheme considering whether to apply for should be an inquiry into the plans would not go ahead. However, this the £74,350 it spent on behalf of the and their impact on two of Ealing’s key site at the heart of the town borough. Easy come, easy go. It’s most prominent Conservation Areas.
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