The Cherry Tree 1/2004 audible intruder alarm, you must The Cherry Tree The Cherry Tree appoint two key holders and noti- A newsletter for the Cherry Trees fy the police of the key hold- Residents’ Amenities Association er’s details. For each false alarm A newsletter for the Cherry Trees Residents’ Amenities Association 1/2004 the Police will downgrade their Editor: Thomas Blomberg The Events Calendar response, and after five false Daytime: 8237 7907 alarms in a 12 months’ period Evenings: 7938 3775 Mobile: 07785 393 330 Charging zone Northacre, the company they will stop coming altogether. [email protected] Still no planning decision For more information, contact Material for future issues can be sent to: extension wanting to replace the Andy Booth, the Crime Prevention Flat 7, 18 Vicarage Gate, London W8 4AA Vicarage Gate House Officer, on 8246 0169. now more likely nursing home with a for Vicarage Gate House Car Crime: Theft from cars is Contacting the Police: The 999 The Cherry Trees Residents’ Summer Party 24/06 Amenities Association The London mayoral election luxury flat development, the most common crime in our number should only be used when is over and Ken Livingstone made an announcement On Thursday 24 June, from neighbourhood. A shopping bag police are immediately needed, 6.30 pm, the CTRAA holds its Chairman: Willoughby Wynne comfortably secured a second on 11 May in which it, for or a package left in view is often for example when there is a crime 39 Brunswick Gardens,London W8 4AW term. This means that his plan annual summer party in the gar- enough temptation, so never leave in progress. If you wish to report Tel: 7727 9786 the first time, acknowl- dens of St Mary Abbots Vicarage to extend the congestion charg- anything in view in a parked car - a crime where the suspect has The aim of The Cherry Trees Residents’ ing zone to most of Kensington edged that there are in Vicarage Gate. All members not even in attended car parks. already left the scene, call the Amenities Association is to improve our local objections to the and wannabe members are very neighbourhood and to function as our rep- and Chelsea looks much more Burglaries: Insecure letterboxes local Police switchboard (7221 welcome. resentative towards the Council and other likely to happen. company’s plans, and are very popular among burglars, 1212); and if you want to notify authorities in matters concerning the area. If there is a decision to proceed that this opposition is so as a way to open the lock from the the Police about things that need Membership is open to all residents living with the extension, our area could strong that the council’s inside or reach keys on a hall table to be tackled in the medium or in Palace Gardens Terrace, Strathmore Autumn Party 12/09 Gardens, Berkeley Gardens, Brunswick become part of the congestion planning department has with the help of tools. The best long term (suspected drug traffick- On Sunday 12 September, Gardens, Inverness Gardens, Vicarage charging zone in two years’ time. security is a metal basket or shield ing, for instance), call the Police Gardens, Vicarage Gate, Kensington Mall, delayed the processing from 12 noon, the CTRAA will So, what would an extension have its annual autumn party on the inside of the letterbox. More Intelligence Unit’s free phone and on the eastern side of Kensington of Northacre’s planning Church Street between Kensington Mall mean in practice for us? information can be obtained from number (0800 328 7250). application. in Inverness Gardens. All mem- and Vicarage Gate. If one’s car always leaves the Andy Booth, the Crime Prevention Voice-Connect: You can receive bers and wannabe members are zone before 7am and never re- The company commented that Officer, on 8246 0169. regular up-to-date information welcome. been the victim of a crime or enters the zone until after 6.30pm, this delay may make an appeal about crime trends in our area Bogus callers: Burglars posing attempted crime in our area, Monday to Friday, one doesn’t to the Government’s Planning as meter readers or builders haunt by joining the Voice-Connect AGM 22/11 please inform Mariju Lee or Ashley have to pay. Nor does one have to Inspectorate necessary. However, our area, sometimes claiming to Scheme, which sends you such McNeile, the Cherry Trees area The Annual General Meeting pay if the car always sits still in a it is possible that it decides not to come on behalf of the landlord or information by telephone, fax or Neighbourhood Watch representa- of the CTRAA will be held on resident parking bay during those appeal, as Northacre notes that, an estate agent. Always check the email. To get hooked up, con- tives, so they in turn can inform Monday 22 November at 8 pm hours. And holders of disabled “if this course of action was pur- identification of such unexpected tact Charles Franklyn, Borough everyone in the area about current in Essex Church, 112 Palace person’s parking badges are fully sued, a decision would probably callers, and don’t hesitate to call Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordina- criminal activity. Their telephone Gardens Terrace. Drinks will be exempt from the charge. be delayed by a further 12 months their company if in doubt. tor, on 8246 0824. numbers are: 7727 0205 (Mariju) served afterwards. All other resident car owners will from the date of the appeal”. Burglar alarms: If you have an Keep us informed: If you have and 7229 3239 (Ashley). have to apply for the 90% charge Besides acknowledging the We thank the advertisers below for their contribution to the printing cost of this issue. reduction once a year, on a form problem with the delayed plan- very similar to the resident park- ning decision, the AIM listed ing application form and providing company’s announcement to the the same proofs of ownership and London Stock Exchange under- The fate of Vicarage Gate House is still undecided. residency. Once registered and lines its general troubles. Of the The Mediterranean Kitchen approved, one will be able to pay three uncompleted luxury flat In a previous statement, issued in sioned by the Liberal Democrats. is celebrating its first weekly, monthly or for a whole projects Northacre is or has been March, the company announced This has found that the London year. The reduced rates are cur- involved in (KINGS in Chelsea, that the much hoped for buy-out boroughs on average place 40% anniversary and is proud to rently £2.50 for a week, £10 for a the Phillimores on Campden Hill, by Northacre’s founders, John of their nursing home patients support the Cherry Tree. month, and £126 for a year. and Vicarage Gate House), only Hunter and Klas Nilsson, wouldn’t outside their own boroughs, and So, in practice, the zone extension the Phillimores may possibly happen, as they hadn’t been able that the existing nursing homes in Our new manager, Jenny means a doubling of the resident bring in some money for the com- to find the money necessary. London have 50% more patients parking cost for most car owners pany during the current financial So, with mounting debts, very than they’ve been designed for. Svenburg de Andrade, in our area, requiring two separate year; but if so not until early next little money coming in, and no At the same time, other studies offers breakfast, lunch and applications sent to two different year, and only if the Phillimores buyers of the company in sight, show that the need for nursing dinner, seven days a week. authorities every year. Can one is completed in time (December what solutions remain? Well, the homes will treble within 30 years. perhaps hope for a joint applica- 2004) and the expensive flats May statement ends with a very Turning its focus on Kensington Our specialities include tion in the future, administered by very quickly find buyers (as carefully phrased sentence: “The and Chelsea, the article proceed- the borough’s Parking Shop? Northacre’s financial year ends 28 directors are currently undertak- ed by noting that our council has light snacks, salads, pas- If we are included in the conges- February). However, the possible ing a review of the Group’s opera- the lowest provision of homes in tas, grilled meats and fish. tion zone traffic will probably be revenue from the Phillimores dur- tions, a component of which is the country, compared with the less in Kensington Church Street, ing this financial year is very lim- likely to include some reduction of size of its elderly population, but Our food is delivered fresh Notting Hill Gate and Kensington ited, as Northacre’s share of the the Group’s ongoing overhead.” that it has recently introduced daily, and all dishes are High Street during the charging Phillimores flat sales was capped What that means, is anyone’s new planning rules which will made in house. hours, as the only non-charged at £2.5 million when the company guess… make it harder to convert nursing routes through the borough will sold its share of Phillimores last Our fight for the Vicarage Gate homes for other uses. be Chelsea Embankment and spring – an amount that will only House site is being noticed in In a separate editorial com- The Mediterranean Kitchen Westway. However, the north-south be achieved if and when every flat ever-wider circles. On 1 June, ment, the newspaper urged the is set in a contemporary route between the two, through has been sold at the maximum the Evening Standard had a big Kensington & Chelsea council to background, with friendly Shepherd’s Bush Roundabout and price expected.