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Duke of Northumberland's planning application

See the front page - if you live in Isleworth and try to negotiate the horrendous traffic you will be horrified to see that the Duke has a planning application in to build on the allotments in Park Rd. - a development of over 100 homes. At the same time another application wants to move the allotments in a vastly different form and plonk them in a Grade 1 listed landscape designed by Capability Brown. These applications go to planning cttee. this Thursday 22 June. The Duke claims he needs the dosh for the upkeep of Syon House the same tale he has been telling for everything, the hotel development, the sale of art works from Syon - the Aphrodite statue auctioned at Sotheby's for a cool £9M a couple of years ago, he has yet to spend any of this. It is outrageous that Hounslow seem to be looking with some favour at this application and local organisations are doing all they can to make the case for refusal. Please do go to the planning cttee. and make you feelings known if you can - 7.30.p.m. Hounslow Civic Centre. You can only imagine how many extra traffic movements this will put on our overburdened roads, plus we have another school due to open this year just up the road from this application, right at the junction of Park and Twickenham Rds. virtually at the junction with Busch Corner. It is appalling that rich members of the aristocracy think they can ride roughshod over local people who do actually care for the local heritage and environment.

Vanessa Smith ● 3373d12 Comments ● 3362d

Would you object to the Brentford Towers being demolished & replaced with more appropriate housing?

I was fascinated and stunned to discover that the resident's association of Grenfell Tower helped the surrounding towers to smother any talk by the council to demolish the towers and replace them with something more appropriate. K&C council has a regeneration drive to demolish former estates and replace them with more appropriate housing. A simple example is the estate at the end of Portobello Road (just after Goldborne Road). The residents agreed for their estate to be demolished and replaced with more suitable housing. They have now completed the first few phases of this massive project and all previous tenants and home owners are still on the same site but in more appropriate housing.I have also noticed not many - but a few very loud and strong voices of local Brentfordians doing what they can to make sure the Brentford Towers are not demolished. IDS and Rees-Mogg both called today for these poor build tower blocks to be demolished and replaced with more appropriate housing - however everyone else was concentrating their efforts on refitting these shoddy blocks ad infinitum. What are your thoughts? How far would you go to make sure the Brentford Towers are never demolished?For your information - here is a resident of an adjacent block to Grenfell talking about how they blocked K&C regeneration attempts on the area.https://twitter.com/EL4JC/status/874936178776170496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fvoxpoliticalonline.com%2F2017%2F06%2F14%2Fgrenfell-tower-blaze-no-accident-say-residents-highlighting-gentrification-plans-strong-language%2F

Jacob James ● 3371d30 Comments ● 3370d

£300,000 Community Chest

Hounslow in £300,000 Giveaway to CommunityCome to the launch to learn how to bid for the money6pm Thursday, 13 July at the Holiday Inn, Brentford "Councillor Theo Dennison, London Borough of Hounslow’s Cabinet Member for Finance & Citizen Engagement invites you to the CIL launch event to learn how you can bid for a big new pot of cash to support projects recommended by local residents and community organisations. "The Community Infrastructure Levy ('CIL') will provide hundreds of local charities, voluntary and community groups and residents with the resources they need to make a positive difference in their local area for local community projects like skills and training; transport, public spaces, art and leisure; and improvements to educational, health, community, leisure, cultural and faith facilities. "Councillor Dennison, explains: 'We are really impressed by the tremendous work done by the voluntary and community sector and the fantastic results they achieve, so we are determined to do more to help support their wonderful efforts by ensuring people get a chance to direct where money is spent to improve and benefit their area.' "The event will start at 6 pm on Thursday, 13 July 2017 at the Holiday Inn, Commerce Road, Brentford TW8 8GA, where information and advice will be available on how community organisations can bid for a share of the money. "For further information, please contact the council’s Infrastructure Team at CIL_S106@hounslow.gov.uk"

Phil Andrews ● 3373d7 Comments ● 3371d

Illegal Parking in CPZ on Haverfield.

Coates Walk on the Haverfield has 2 car parks on the Ealing Rd side of the block that are accessed from turning in from Burford Rd.In the evening and overnight these car parks are often overcrowded. Vehicles park up after the CPZ from around 9pm onwards. Often parking in the yellow diagonal striped boxed area at the top of the car park that clearly says no parking. In bays reserved for disabled permits and worst of all straight down the middle of the car park as there are no spaces left.      My main concern here is how would the fire brigade get access to this side of the block in the night?Forget the whole other issue of most of these late night/ overnight vehicles not having CPZ permits as they know they will be gone before the morning zone comes into effect and likely not return till after the evening zone - so park for free whilst other residents have to pay and then strugggle to find a space late evening.     The top end of Coates Walk actually on Burford Rd itself has a very small car park - no bays are marked out and cars often block the pedestrian access down the side of Coates Walk.    The recent shocking events at Grenfell Tower ( where i grew up) have only highlighted the whole issue for me.Is it the same all over the estate?I know the CPZ has had a positive effect in many areas, especially during the day. But it appears to do little or nothing overnight.     Is there not a fire brigade inspection that should highlight this situation?

Martin Webb ● 3378d13 Comments ● 3374d