LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS 100 KCWKENSINGTON, CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER, HAMMERSMITHt &o FULHAM, WANDSWORTH a y AND SELECT LONDON BOROUGHS ISSUE 0078 NOVEMBER 2018 FREE 1100 hrs 11.11.18 FIDE World Chess Championship 2018 9-28 November INDEPENDENT SCHOOL SHOW EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT EVENTS • NEWS • BUSINESS & FINANCE • EDUCATION • HEALTH DINING OUT • MOTORING • ARTS & CULTURE • LIFESTYLE • LITERATURE OPINION & COMMENT • SPORT • CROSSWORD • BRIDGE • CHESS 2 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 3 Contents & Offices News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk particular poignancy, as we reflect on the to wreak havoc and claim countless Kensington, Chelsea LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS century that has passed. lives across the world. Unperturbed & Westminster Today Contents Our Remembrance Day traditions by the lessons of history, we stumble KCWKENSINGTON, CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER, HAMMERSMITHt &o FULHAM, WANDSWORTH a y AND OTHER SELECT LONDON BOROUGHS ISSUE 0077 OCTOBER 2018 FREE can be traced back to 1919, when South into further wars. This is not to belittle 80-100 Gwynne Road, London, 100 YEARS African politician Sir James Percy the bravery of thousands of men and © Pixabay Photograph SW11 3UW Fitzpatrick suggested a period of silence women who commit their lives to the Tel: 020 7738 2348 to mark the exact moment the armistice armed forces with full knowledge of the came into effect. Shortly after, George personal danger they face. This selfless V issued a declaration that two minutes’ commitment is not to be disparaged. E-mail: [email protected] silence should be observed, igniting a Sadly, however, the “war to end all wars” Website: News tradition that has continued ever since. has done little to dampen humanity’s www.kcwtoday.co.uk 3 A report in the Manchester Guardian self-destructive instinct. Advertisement enquiries: Statue & Blue Plaque beautifully depicts the first time the But this is not what Armistice Day [email protected] country fell silent in remembrance: is about. Despite growing politicisation 8 “Everyone stood very still... The hush and controversy, its purpose is AUTUMN GETAWAY Subscriptions: SEE THE EVENTS SUPPLEMENT FOR ENJOYABLE AND INSPIRING ACTIVITIES deepened. It had spread over the whole commemoration not celebration. 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But regardless Editor-in-Chief: Kate Hawthorne 15 his November marks 100 years the red flowers that emerged resiliently of political and social developments, Art Director & Director: Tim Epps Lest we forget: since the end of the First World from the chaos and desolation of the human cost of war remains the Senior Business Development: Antoinette Kovatchka Astronomy War. Though conflicts have the battlefields. The Royal British constant that underpins our tradition 16 Remembering the Fallen continued to rage through the 20th and Legion, founded in 1921, began its of remembrance. Modern society Architecture: Squinch T By James Warrington 21st centuries, the Great War remains ‘poppy appeal’ that year and ever since is of course entitled to challenge Art & Culture Editors: Don Grant, Marian Maitland Business & Finance a bitter benchmark of the human cost millions of people have worn poppies our understanding and depiction of Astronomy: Scott Beadle FRAS 17 of combat. Every year at 11am on 11 to commemorate the dead and to wars past, present and future. But Bridge: Andrew Robson Literature November, to mark the formal end of raise money for veterans, armed forces these debates should not supersede 21 hostilities in the First World War, the personnel and their families. remembrance of those who have died Business & Finance Stephanie Hawthorne, Holly Mackay country falls silent in remembrance of So what has changed since the guns and, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh Douglas Shanks, George Vines Events & News those who have been killed in battle. fell silent a century ago? In some ways, day of the eleventh month, they should Chess: Barry Martin 24 This year the commemorations take on sadly, very little has. Conflict continues not impinge on the silence. Opinion and Comment: Marius Brill, Peter Burden, Lifestyle Derek Wyatt 25 buck and the applications keep pouring Music: Geoff Cowart, in. These new proposals are a big step Westminster toward consigning them to history.” Crossword: Wolfe Events © BT Photograph 29 The proposal from the Ministry of Dining Out: Max Feldman, David Hughes (Editor) Council could get Housing, Communities, and Local Editorial: Evangeline Crouchey, Max Feldman, Education powers to clamp Government said the need for public Fahad Redha, James Warrington 33 call boxes had been shrinking for some down on phone time due to the rise of mobile phone Education: Max Feldman, Fahad Redha 41 Events technology. Despite this, local authorities Events: Fahad Redha boxes are fielding increased numbers of Health: Fahad Redha, By Local Democracy Reporter applications for the boxes, and are facing Dining Out increasing appeals to the Planning Feldman Reviews: Max Feldman 46 Talia Shadwell Inspectorate over attempts to block Literature: Max Feldman, Don Grant Health them. Motoring: Fahad Redha 48 The report acknowledged local News, Online Editor, Max Feldman authorities’ concerns the kiosks were Westminster City Council has welcomed likened to a game of “whack-a-mole”. applications to the courts, says the cluttering high streets, making them Arts Correspondent & Travel 52 a proposal to hand local authorities long- The central London borough, which planning reform proposals will give them “less attractive” and posing pavement Picture Editor sought powers to limit the numbers of already has more than 1,000 phone the chance to rule just how many of obstruction. International Editor: Michael A Kolarov Arts & Culture phone boxes popping up around Britain. boxes, claims the kiosks represent an the kiosks its streets need. Its planning If the change goes through the Councils nationwide have complained proposal said it would not affect Sport: Fahad Redha, George Vines 58 advertising space grab in high profile chief Councillor Richard Beddoe said that the modern kiosks popping on locations like Oxford Street, Victoria the government was giving Westminster existing kiosks and their ads. It said Sub-Editor: Leila Kooros Motoring pavements alongside Britain’s iconic red Street and Baker Street. If the council a chance to take back “control of our the increasing demand for mobile Travel: Don Grant, David Hughes , 66 phone boxes are advertising hoardings had approved every application for pavements.” coverage and the 5G roll-out means Cynthia Pickard posing as call boxes. Edgware Rd there would be one phone “Until now arcane planning rules telecommunications operators are Sports However the telecoms companies box every 15 metres, it said. have left the council playing whack-a- increasingly needing to boost radio 68 setting them up say they are providing mole with the phone boxes popping up equipment on street level. Crossword, Bridge & Public Notice a public service by removing ageing The kiosks have flourished because across our city. These aren’t the popular, If councils are given increased 70 phone boxes off the streets, with some ageing legislation that promoted public historic red boxes we all love but ugly powers to refuse the kiosks, it would be replacing them with interactive display access to calling services, has meant local oversized advertising structures posing monitored to ensure they are balancing Chess kiosks that include services like free authorities presently only have the power as telephone boxes cluttering our iconic that against the demand for mobile 71 WiFi. Westminster City Council has to consider whether to grant the sites streets,” he said. network infrastructure, the report added. been lobbying for more control over its requested, and whether they can feature “Whilst we’ve had some success pavements after fielding applications advertising. refusing and removing these The proposal to remove the current for 300 phone boxes in the space of But Westminster, which has in monstrosities, telecoms companies can permitted development rights are open two years, which its planning chief has the past taken its fight over kiosk see the opportunity to make a quick to public consultation until January 2019. 4 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 November 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 5 News News online: www.KCWToday.co.uk Our residents rightly expect the highest