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The Cherry Tree the Cherry Tree The Cherry Tree 1/2005 The Cherry Tree TheThe CCherryherry TTreeree A newsletter for the Cherry TTreesrees Residents’ Amenities Association A newsletter for the Cherry Trees Residents’ Amenities Association 1/2005 Editor: Thomas Blomberg Evenings: 7938 3775 Mobile: 07785 393 330 [email protected] Material for future issues can be sent to: Starting 12 July in the Town Hall: Flat 7, 18 Vicarage Gate, London W8 4AA The Cherry Trees Residents’ The big battle for Amenities Association Chairman: Willoughby Wynne the nursing home 39 Brunswick Gardens,London W8 4AW Tel: 7727 9786 n 12 July the Planning Inspectorate (the Double The aim of The Cherry Trees Residents’ Amenities Association is to improve our Government’s “appeal court” in planning mat- summer parties neighbourhood and to function as our rep- ters) starts its public hearing in the Town Hall resentative towards the Council and other O about the planning application for the Vicarage Gate a big success authorities in matters concerning the area Membership is open to all residents living House nursing home. The hearing, which is expected in Palace Gardens Terrace, Strathmore his year the CTRAA decided Gardens, Berkeley Gardens, Brunswick to last some ten days, is the consequence of the to hold two summer parties; Gardens, Inverness Gardens, Vicarage property developer Northacre’s appeal against the one in Inverness Gardens on Gardens, Vicarage Gate, Kensington Mall, T and on the eastern side of Kensington Council’s rejection of their application to replace the 24 May and one in the vicarage’s Church Street between Kensington Mall nursing home with a block of luxury flats. garden on 16 June. Both proved to be and Vicarage Gate. a big success, with the first attracting The Planning Inspectorate’s hearings are usually held at their offices 80-90 members and the second a in Bristol, but due to the intense public interest it was decided that this record 150. We now have hearing should take place in Kensington, to allow as many as possible As some could make it to one of our own website from the public to attend. It will be held in the main Council Chamber, the parties but not to the other, we starting at 10 am. he CTRAA now has its estimate that this dual party strategy All the resident associations in Kensington are strongly opposed to own website! It contains enabled some 200 members to attend Northacre’s plan, as there are several nursing home companies who at least one of the summer parties, T a presentation of the have expressed an interest in acquiring the site and building a new which is almost twice as many as association, contacts, tips for nursing home on it, which would be of much more value to society. usual. newcomers, useful telephone Although the hearing will mainly consist of a “fight” between the legal Beside the usual guests from the numbers, access to back issues representatives of Northacre and the Council, the Vicarage Gate House Police and the Council, the party of the Cherry Tree in pdf format, Action Group, which represents all the resident associations, will hope- in the vicarage’s garden recieved and a news page. fully be given a chance to present the view of the local residents. a quick visit from Kensington’s It’s still very much an experi- We urge as many as possible to attend the public hearing. As it is new MP, Sir Malcolm Rifkind. ment, and we’re grateful for any expected to last for some five days, most people probably can’t be there Tuggy Meyer’s Huntsworth Wine feedback, as we want to make every day, but will hopefully find the time to attend once or twice. suppled the wine to both parties it as useful for our members as The Inspectorate’s decision will be final, so if it supports the Council, at a very favourable discount, and possible. Northacre and their financial backers will have to find a way to restore Winkworth’s provided the superb You can access it at: the site to its former use. We will try to keep you updated during the food catering for the second http://homepage.mac.com/ The nursing home from an angle most residents haven’t seen... hearing days on the new Cherry Tree website (see the last page). party. cherrytreelondon Any memories Resident parking will cost at least £310/year from our area during the war? if we’re included in the congestion charge zone n my series of articles about n 4 July the conges- the plan to include our Borrough The western extension plan, High Street between 07.00 and the Cherry Tree area in the tion charge for central in the congestion zone is soon which now also includes North 18.00 (the new proposed end past, I plan to cover the war O London will increase by coming to an end. If you haven’t Kensington, can be implemented time), as some of the traffic not I 60%, from £5 to £8 per day. In received the questionnaire, you in January 2007. Provided that Mr heading for the current or the years as well, but for this I need help from those who lived here February 2003, shortly after can order it on 0800 028 5470, or Livingstone doesn’t increase the extended congestion charge then and/or have any pictures the launch of the congestion download it (or fill it in on line) on charge again in the meantime, zone will probably divert to the from the area taken during that charge, the Mayor of London, the Transport for London website or changes the 90% discount for new zone border streets A3220 period. Ken Livingstone, said, “I can’t (http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/cc-ex/ residents within the zone, and and Earls Court Road. There was a fair amount of conceive of any circumstances leaflet.shtml). The questionnaire disregarding any increases of the If the scheme is enforced, it bomb damage in our area, and in the foreseeable future where must be in by 15 July. resident parking charge between should be possible to convince several houses were apparently we would want to change the However, most expect that the now and then, this will mean that the Council that it should offer a taken over by various military charge, although perhaps 10 extension will come no matter the annual cost for residents in package deal, where the conges- authorities as offices. All this, years down the line it may be what the result of the consulta- our area to have the car parked tion charge is included in the and any other local information necessary.” tion will be. The result of the in the street will treble, from resident parking charge, as one will not be able to use a resident from that period, is of great inter- A 15% “discount” will be intro- limited consultation regarding £108 to £310, even if the car is est to us who weren’t even born the 4 July increase, shows that never used. In addition, every parking permit without also pay- duced for those who pay for a ing for the congestion charge. then, so I would be grateful for whole month or a year, which Mr Livingstone consults only year - and in addition every time any help. because the law requires him to one changes one’s car - one will However, right now the most means that such charges will important thing is that as many I can be reached on 07785 393 do so, but whatever the result have to fill in application forms “only” increase by 36%. This is residents as possible say what 330 or 7938 3775, or via email he carries on with his plans. and pay two different authorities: not due to any kindness, how- they feel about the proposed to [email protected] Transport for London’s own fig- the Council’s Parking Shop as ever, but because someone after extension. It may not make much or through letters to Flat 7, 18 two years has figured out that the ures show that there was a mas- well as Transport for London. Vicarage Gate, London W8 4AA sive resistance (75-89%) against difference whilst Mr Livingstone administration costs will go down But it may not be all doom and is in office, but in 2008 there will (a former bomb site). the forthcoming price hike from if people pay more less often. gloom. We may, hopefully, see be another mayoral election… Thomas Blomberg At the same time, the second all the different interest groups some reduction of traffic on The Cherry Tree Editor public consultation regarding consulted. Church Street and Kensington Page 2 The Cherry Tree 1/2005 1/2005 The Cherry Tree Page 3 was immensely happy about. During Max Beerbohm: the war years the now Sir Max gave several very popular radio talks and did whatever he could to help in the war effort, but in 1947 it was time for Wit, elegance him and Florence to move back to Villino Chiaro – and they were never to return to England again. Max was now 75 and Florence 71, and they and caricature were both becoming frail. Elisabeth Jungmann On the 24th instant, at 57 Palace Gardens Terrace, In 1951 Florence died. A devastat- Kensington, the wife of J. E. Beerbohm, Esq., of a ed Max called Elisabeth Jungmann son.” This little notice, published in the Times on in London a couple of days before, “ and she dropped everything and 26 August 1872, heralded that Julius Beerbohm and his took the first train to Italy.
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