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| 10th June | An announcement is expected today to confirm that Ealing NHS Trust is proposing cancel it long planned project to to establish a large surgery in the Daniel development. The future of the boarded up store area, long an eyesore adjacent to Five Roads, is now totally uncertain. |
| 30th May | May 2010 Newsletter is now available - details of the street party on 13th June. |
| 1st March | Five Roads Street Party will be on Sunday 13th June. |
NOT SO HOT NEWS
| 11th October | Newsletter 32 - Read the results of the CPZ reconsultation.. |
| 1st October | Ealing "Direct Support for Cycling" scheme Direct Support for Cycling (DSC) helps new cyclists with all the knowledge, training and equipment they need both to start cycling and to successfully continue to do so. Ealing considers Direct Support to be a critical element of any programme of support for actual or potential cyclists. It is necessary for “More cycling, more safely, more often”. Read more about this award-winning initiative at http://www.ctc.org.uk/resources/Benchmarking/Ealing_TRAINING_AND_DIRECT_SUPPORT_FOR_CYCLING.pdf. Featured in the annual report is a case study on the first of the Bike Buddy and "Keep Riding" trainees in 2002, 5RF resident Kostas Evangelides. Kostas says "Unless I have an untypical programme at work or illness, I cycle to work every day, winter and summer - and have been for seven years. |
| 9th September | Naked Streets The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is adopting homezone principles by "decluttering" streets in an effort to reduce accidents and encourage motorists to use their cars less. He plans to try this out in an araea bounded by Oxford Street, Hyde Park, Regent Street and Picadilly. Read more about Naked Streets / Shared Space at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_space. |
| 24th July | CPZ Reconsultation Ealing Council has reconsulted on the arrangements for residents parking in the Home Zone. The consultation has now closed. Did you have your say? Watch out for the results and the FRF comments on this consultation. |
| 20th July | Living with Urban Foxes Are foxes giving you problems? Read Lisa's suggestions for what you can do about it. |
| 1st March | The FRF 2007 AGM was held on Saturday 17th January. Meeting details can be seen here. |
| 10th January | Newsletter 31 - Read it here.. |
| 21st September | The Five Roads "Olympic" Street Party was on Sunday 21st September. Pictures of the FRF Street Party are now available on the website. Thanks to photographer Caroline Evans! Mark Tompsett has produced a short video to capture the sense of the occasion - watch it here |
| 21st April | Ealing NHS Trust is proposing to establish a large surgery in the Daniel development. It is not one of the politically contentious polyclinics - it is moving the existing Mattock Lane Health Centre and providing additional facilities. This will replace the initially intended Daniel retail development. |
| 21st November | Use our Search facility on the FRF website to find what you are interested in. And there are now a staggering 211 links to other websites with a local Ealing focus. |
2007 NEWS
| 11th May | There is an interesting exhibitions of photographs of Ealing people and places at Pitshanger Manor 11th May - 10th June. This includes pictures of our 2006 Street Party taken by James Buchanan. |
| 23rd April | West Ealing Neighbours meeting on Regeneration: the future of West Ealing - 3rd May 7:30 pm at Dean Hall, Singapore Road |
| 2nd March | West Ealing Designated Dispersal Area was introduced by Ealing Police and Ealing Council because of the amount of antisocial behaviour in the area. This covers the shopping area at the south end of The Avenue and surrounding areas. The whole of the Five Roads Homezone up to St Leonards Road is included in this area. The police have additiuonal powers to break up gatherings of people in the evening and even escort young people home. |
| 13th January | The FRF 2007 AGM was held on Saturday 13th January. Meeting details can be seen here. |
| 25th Jan | Can I play out?? Making residential streets
and Home Zones fit for communities 4pm, Monday March 12th 2007, City Hall This conference will explore the transformation of local streets into vibrant shared street spaces that are child friendly and welcoming to the community, known as ?Homes Zones?. It will be a celebration and evaluation of London Play's Home Zones for London 3 year project; and a chance to examine how London residents and local authorities can continue to develop solutions for child-friendly schemes across the capital. Take part in a Q&A with our panel of home zones experts, followed by an opportunity for networking and an exhibition showcase. Discussions will consider the development process, the importance of community participation, and the positive impact of Home Zones on community cohesion and road safety. Who should attend? All those interested in making London?s streets more people-friendly! From the play sector, planning, transport, housing, community consultation, landscape design, local and central government, and community development. For further information please email events@londonplay.org.uk or click on: Can I play out |
| 1st Jan | Annual General Meeting Saturday 11th January at 11am 39 Broughton Road All Five Road residents welcome - coffee will be served. |
2006 NEWS
| 11th November | Pictures of the FRF Harvest Street Party held on Sunday 10th September are now available on the website. |
| 1st Nov | Planning Applications - FRF have made representations
against two planning applications around FRF Building a house on the access road from Daniel site into Denmark Road Extensions to Bulvinos House (at the bottom of Broughton Road, by the historic milestone) creating offices to shops and flats. |
| 18th Sept | West Ealing Neighbours are runnning a public meeting on 28th September, 7pm in Deans Hall, Wilkins Road (behind Wilkinsons in West Ealing) to discuss flytipping, Safer Neighbours Scheme and an update on the Tram. |
| 28th June | Newsletter 27
is now available. Harvest Street Party - Sunday 10 September Put the date in your diary!!! |
| 25th June | In early July, the overgrown hedges on Broughton Road and Hartington Road will be trimmed back. This has been arranged by the local Police Safer Neighbourhoods group under the Community Payback scheme - an initiative to provide environmental improvements by offenders. There is no charge to Broughton Court residents for this work. |
| 2nd July | BBC London will be filming in the Five Roads Home Zone on Wednesday 5th July for a program on neighbourly communities. |
| 5th June | Come and join Ealing Cycle Campaign on the 17th June at The Green on Ealing Broadway to celebrate Bike Week 2006. Doctor Bike will be there from 10.00 to check over bikes and perform simple maintenance for free. More details on www.ealingcycling.org.uk |
| 30th March | The Planning Inspectorate has decided to permit Daniel to build a new warehouse alongside the massive site redevelopment, much to everyone's disappointment. |
| 2nd March | A meeting attended by 30 residents was held with the local police on "Safer Neighbourhoods". |
| 1st. March | Supporters of the Ealing Fairtrade Campaign are raising awareness of Fairtrade and fairly traded goods by holding a Fairtrade Fair on Ealing Green 11am - 4pm, Saturday 11th March. |
| 14th January | The FRF AGM was held on Saturday 14th January. Meeting details can be seen here. |
2005 NEWS
| 3rd December | Newsletter
26 is now available. AGM - 14th January Put the date in your diary!!! |
| 6th November | TfL have produced new plans for the Uxbridge Road tram scheme. This will involve demolishing several shops adjacent to the Lido junction (the junction with Northfield Avenue) on the Uxbridge Road. Their demolition would reach almost to Hartington Road. View the plans here. |
| 20th October | Daniel have twice applied for planning permission to build a new warehouse (in addition to the redevlopment of their old store site, and these appliacations have been rejected by Ealing Council. Daniel are now taking their latest proposal on appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. |
| 1st October | There are now 187 links to other Ealing websites available. Suggestions for any others welcomed! |
| 21st Sept | Pictures of the FRF Picnic in the Street held on Sunday 18th September are now available on the website. |
| 30th July | We regret to announce the
death of Vic Fisher, FRF representative for Hastings House. Vic was an active member of FRF from its foundation, and many of his photos of street parties and other events are on this site. Vic died after a long illness, and will be sorely missed by all. |
| 5th Sept | Picnic in
the Street Sunday September 18 The Picnic-in-the-Street is nearly upon us and we need to find volunteers to help out. We are looking for people to help set up and clear away, and staff the tombola stall, the books and videos stall, and the tea, coffee and squash stall. Also we need donations to the tombola (old vases, picture frames, bottles of wine etc), and for the books and video stall. Offers of help and donations for the stalls all go to 19 Broughton Road. The music will be organised by Fred Harris who is happy to play any requests. Get any of your favourite music to Fred at 22 Broughton Road as soon as possible. Don’t forget that this year it is a Picnic-in-the-Street. That means that people will have to bring their own food and drink. The afternoon will start with a children’s teddy bears’ picnic—where children can bring their favourite toys dressed up for the occasion for a little picnic. A prize will be given for the best dressed teddy bear. Timetable for the party will be : 3pm Set Up 4pm Teddy Bears picnic / stalls open 4.45pm Games 5.30 Picnic 6pm Quiz 6.45pm Disco 7.30pm Clear Up |
| 25th Aug | At
last we have a new date for the Five Roads Street Party. The Picnic-in-the-Street will be on Sunday 18 September. This year it will be completely free — just bring yourselves and your own picnic. We already have a £50 donation from a local business towards holding the street party — so it would be a shame not to use it! Music will be provided by Fred Harris — this year playing tracks rather than playing in a band. There will be a Teddy Bears’ picnic for the children, face painting, games and a few stalls. We will be looking for people to help out with the stalls, setting up and clearing away. Please could people also set aside items they think might make good tombola prizes. More details coming soon. |
| 4th July | Launch of Good
Going travel awareness scheme |
| 14th June | Picnic in the Street has had to
be postponed from 17 July - more news soon |
| 31st May | Newsletter 25
is now available. Picnic in the Street - Sunday 17 July Put the date in your diary!!! |
| 25th April | Demolition has begun on the Daniel site prior to
construction of their new store. If nearby residents have any problems
with excessive noise or dirt and dust during demolition, you should ring
the project manager for the demolition company, Gary Ellis, on 07711 715
075. Please also be aware that demolition will displace rats and other vermin in the area. We have already had reports of rats in gardens adjacent to the Daniel site - please, please be careful with your rubbish, ONLY place it outside on your collection day, and use a sealed bin if you can. Rubbish collection on Broughton Road is MONDAY and Denmark Road is TUESDAY. |
| 13th March | West
Ealing Regeneration celebration in Dean Gardens on 19th March,
10:30 to noon. Free refreshments, free childrens activities, free basketball coaching. |
| 22nd Feb | News from Ealing Council: Planning Application to build an additional warehouse by Daniel has been turned down The "bent" gate in Hatings Road should be replaced in the first week of March. |
| 15th Jan | The FRF AGM was held on Saturday 15th January Minutes now available here |
2004 NEWS
| 8th Dec | Newsletter 24 is now available. |
| 22nd Nov | New plans for inceased development around the FRF area - see here for details |
| 19th Nov | Living Streets Walkability Survey in Hanwell in early December |
| 19th October | FGW train schedules for Winter show 4 trains per hour calling at West Ealing during peak hours. Timetables available at FGW website. Excel spreadsheet of timetable downloadable here: W_Ealing_Winter04_schedule.xls |
| 11th Nov | London Assembly’s Transport Committee has issued a report in response to the consultation on the West London Tram that voices serious reservations about the project. After extensive collection of evidence, the Committee has failed to give backing to the controversial £650 million project. |
| 20th August | Department of Transport Consultation on Quiet Lanes and Homezones - a consultation paper on draft regulations and statutory guidance. Deadline for responses is 19 Nov 2004. See D of T website for details, or FRF Legislation page. |
| 12th October | London Mayor's 5-year £10bn plans for transport do not include funding for the West London Tram scheme. |
| 2nd October | Pictures of the FRF Street Party held on Sunday 12th September 2004 are now available on the website. Thanks to photographers Vic and Mark! |
| 8th October | Tram There is still today to respond to the Transport
for London's tram consultation questionnaire. If you have not received anything from TfL, you can get the information and complete the questionnaire online at http://www.transportforlondon.gov.uk/trams/initiatives/wlt/scheme.shtml Please tell everyone about this, and encourage them to participate in this important consultation. |
| 19th August | The National Autumn Walk to School week dates are: Monday 4th - Friday 8th October 2004, which is also International Walk To School week. |
| 8th July | FR Home Zone residents should all now have received
copies via post of Transport for London's tram consultation brochure and
questionnaire, though several people report not having received them. If you have not received anything from TfL, you can get the information or even actually complete the questionnaire online at http://www.transportforlondon.gov.uk/trams/initiatives/wlt/scheme.shtml You can also send them an email requesting a copy of both the brochure and questionnaire by post from westlondontram@tfl.gov.uk . Additionally, there are consultation roadshow exhibits being planned in Ealing which we should all attend (before completing the questionnaire, if possible). On weekdays, the roadshow will be there from 12 noon until 8pm. On weekends, from 11am until 5pm - the local schedule is: 16-17 July Ealing Town Hall, New Broadway Ealing 3-4 August Waitrose, 2 Alexandria Road, West Ealing 15 August London Mela 2004, Gunnersbury Park 24-25 Sept. Waitrose, 2 Alexandria Road, West Ealing 1-2 October Ealing Town Hall, New Broadway, Ealing Please tell anyone you like about this, and encourage them to participate in this important consultation. |
| 27th April | Urban Design Week 2004 will take place from 13-19 September, with a theme of ‘Creating successful communities’. Organised by the Urban Design Alliance (UDAL), the week incorporates events held across the country promoting urban design and its role in making places we all want to live in. |
| 12th Sept | FRF Street Party was held on Sunday 12th September 2004. Theme: Five Roads Forum Olympic Games. The weather mostly held fair, and a good time was had by all! |
| 9th Sept | Public debate in the Town Hall on the proposed tram. The debate was won decisively by the 'No Tram' side. The motion was 'This house believes that a tram is suitable for the Uxbridge Road'. The result of the vote at the end was, Yes 16, No 141. The event will be covered in the next Gazette. |
| 3rd August | FRF Street Party on Sunday 12th September 2004. Theme: Five Roads Forum Olympic Games Read all about it here. Volunteers needed! |
| 3rd August | FRF Street Party on Sunday 12th September 2004. Theme: Five Roads Forum Olympic Games Read all about it here. Volunteers needed! |
| 30th July | Ealing Gazette reports that Crossrail will have a stop at West Ealing. That should seriously improve transport from the FRF area - but not until 2016! |
| 23rd July | Good luck to the residents of Durham Road in their campaign for a Home Zone, publicised at their street party on 17th July. |
| 3rd July | Protest Meeting on Saturday 3rd July against the
proposed West London Tram scheme, organised by
Save Ealing Streets . Have you seen the proposal and responded to the questionnaire? If not, visit the Transport for London website. |
| 5th June | London Sustainability Weeks (5th-19th June) is London's biggest community mobilisation since the Dig for Victory campaign, and with more than 250 events over the fortnight it will highlight just how much Londoners are doing to make their capital cleaner, greener and healthier. |
| 26th May | Daniel Site
Development At the Planning Committee meeting on Wednesday 26th May, the Daniel site redevelopment application was passed after a split vote by the Chairman's casting vote. The approval is subject to a long list of restrictions attempting to reduce the negative impact on the Home Zone and individual residents. More details soon. |
| 22st May | Daniel
Site Development In the past couple of weeks representatives from the home zone have: - met with LBE head of planning and planning officers - conducted site visits within home zone for both planning officers and transport officers - submitted a letter of objection to planners - prepared documents for planning committee site visit and planning committee meeting - met the planning committee members on site on 22nd May |
| 13th May | Transport Research Laboratory traffic and speed counters have been installed in the area for a fortnight to measure the impact of the Home Zone changes. |
| 12th May | More pictures of the planter boxes and mosaics available on the website now - thanks to Mark Tompsett and Vic Fisher for providing them. |
| 7th May | Meeting between FRF and concerned residents with Planning Department re Daniel site development held on 7th May. |
| 30th April | The London Asembly Transport Committee report London's got the hump (about speed humps) shows the Broughton Road/Denmark Road intersection as front page illustration. The report recommends that Given the overwhelming evidence of the reduction in deaths and serious injuries resulting from the presence of speed humps, any removal of speed humps by the boroughs should be accompanied by equivalent or more effective alternative speed reduction measures. |
| 24th April | Official launch of the Home
Zone! At the same time as he celebrations, Neighbourhood Watch held a Crime Prevention Day. Beesafe offered tips on making your home burglar-proof. Police community safety officers attended. Ealing Fire Service had one of their fire engines on display. The Ealing Gazette attended to take photos. Pictures of the FRF Home Zone launch are now available here (credits to Mark and Vic for photography). |
| 21st April | About 80 residents and other
interested groups (Ealing Civic Society, Walpole Residents' Association,
etc.) attended two public meetings on 20th April organised by our three
ward councillors about the
proposals to redevelop the Daniel site. Crest Nicholson
presented their proposals, but Daniels would not attend. A report on the meeting was published in the Ealing Gazette on 23rd April. |
| 14th April | Newsletter 23 is now available (Daniel development update and the formal launch of the Home Zone). |
| 13th April | A report from the Sustainable Development Commission (reported today on BBC News ) gives the Government a DREADFUL rating on Road traffic. "Britain has the most congested roads in Europe, and we spend more time commuting than any other European nation. The Government's response seems to be to alter targets rather than change policies to meet previous targets." The Commission calls upon the Government to open up a much more fundamental debate with society about what will be involved in moving to a more sustainable pattern of transport in the future. |
| 13th April | The sub-standard pavements in Hastings Road have been dug up and are being replaced. |
| 7th April | Planning Department has posted out letters to residents re the Daniel's redevelopment, and a notice of this application appeared in the Ealing Gazette on 9th April. |
| 18th March | Meeting on 18th March, 8pm at 12 Denmark Road, to discuss the proposed UDP (planning policy for Ealing) re the east side of St Leonards Road, which could seriously affect YOU! |
| 15th March | Revised Planning Application for Daniel's site redevelopment has been received by the council - notices to residents should be circulated soon. |
| 2nd March | TRL is conducting a survey in FRF area on the impact of the homezone introduction on our environment. Similar studies have been conducted in other homezones across UK including Manchester, Leeds and Sittingbourne. |
| 25th February | A Home Zone walkabout was held involving FRF committeee members, council officials and councillors to identify "snagging" issues that need to be resolved (including the broken Hastings Road gate, pavements in Hastings Road East, installing the mosaics, etc.) |
| 20th February | More meetings with the Ealing Council Planning Department about the Daniel's site redevelopment and the Daniel's warehouse application have been held. |
| 1st February | Charmian Boyd was a guest on LBC (97.3FM), Charlie Jordan's "Sunday Supplement", talking about our Home Zone and how to have one of your own. |
| 28th January | FRF featured in Evening Standard article "Street wise" |
| 17th January | The FRF AGM was held on Saturday 17th January. The minutes can be seen here |
| 16th January | FRF now linked by BBC iCAN website |
| 8th January |
A second meeting was held between the developers and the ad-hoc committee of residents to discuss the changes which Crest Nicholson are considering to their initial submissions for Daniel's redevelopment. |
| 6th January | The London City Car Club (sharing quality cars for occasional use) will be launching the car club on Hastings Road, next week. The first 10 members who join in West Ealing will receive 3 month's FREE membership, so do hurry! For more information on the London City Car Club, visit www.smartmoves.co.uk or call Menno Martens (menno@smartmoves.co.uk) on (020) 7700 7118 |
2003 NEWS
| 17th December | A (hopefully fruitful) meeting was held with the developers (Crest Nicholson) to review their proposals and make suggestions on what we would like to see changed. This meeting was also attended by Peter Kyte, our appointed town planner. They agreed to go away and look at whether they can make some amendments, to address some of our concerns |
| 15th December | Newsletter 22 issued (covering the next AGM, Daniel development update and social events). |
| 8th December | Brief meeting Thursday 11th Dec, 7pm, for those interested at 29 Denmark Road. Those attending (or wanting more info by email) please let John Potts know at jpotts @ millfield-partnership.co.uk |
| 3rd December | FRF committee members have met with local councilors about the detailed objection document to the Daniel site planning application. |
| 27th November | There have been several burglaries recently in the FRF area, including two day-time break-ins in Arden Road this week. Police report a significant increase in burglaries in W13 over the last few months. If you see anything suspicious, please contact the police immediately. |
| 25th November | FRF committee members continue to meet the London Borough of Ealing Planning Department over the Daniel site planning application to discuss our detailed objection document. |
| 12th November | A new video designed to provide the first step towards a Home Zone for local communities around the UK has been released. Produced by Transport 2000 and the Children’s Play Council, it provides advice, ideas and encouragement to local residents keen to see their streets redesigned with people-friendly traffic calming, trees and shrubs, play areas and seating. It includes footage of Five Roads Home Zone. |
| 8th November | The decision of the Ealing Cabinet to keep the Hastings Road traffic gate has been ratified. |
| 31st October | Many residents have expressed a concern that the
letters of objection posted to the council regarding the Daniel
development may have been caught up in the postal strike. FRF suggest that you also email your letter to sandra.winwood@ealing.gov.uk to ensure that it reaches the Planning Department asap. |
| 30th October | Health Development Agency calls for speed to be cut to 20mph on residential roads to reduce children's deaths and injuries by 67%. The need for 20mph speed restrictions in areas of higher pedestrian activity is supported by the findings of the Accidental Injury Task Force report to the Chief Medical Officer, which recommended they be introduced as a priority. "Schemes such as those implemented in Hull have been hugely successful in reducing car speeds and reducing road deaths and injuries - over 300 accidents have been prevented in the city since the 20 mph zone implementation. Roads have been car-focussed for too long, it's time for a balance that improves safety for the whole community." See the full report |
| 11th October | Additional interesting sites on the Ealing links page |
| 10th October | The Daniel's site planning application was published in
the Ealing Gazette on Friday 10th October. You have only 21 days to
formally protest. The developer's public relations company is hosting an exhibition of their proposals at Daniel's cafe on 15th October - see all the details here. |
| 8th October | The GLA has launched an Inquiry: ‘Should Londoners Dump the Humps?’ on the pros and cons of speed humps. The Committee will scrutinise the competing arguments about these traffic-calming measures and make recommendations for actions to the Mayor of London and the capital’s boroughs. For more information on how to take part, visit the GLA website |
| 2nd October | The FRF website has been rebuilt to make it easier to find your way around all the background information now available |
| 24th September | More pictures of the very successful FRF 2003 Street Party are now available here. |
| 23rd September | 50 concerned residents attended a meeting on Tuesday 23rd September. As yet, plans of the development are not available from the Planning Department. Watch out for more details soon. |
| 16th September | Government announces launch of 10mph speed limit trial in Morice Town Home Zone, Plymouth. |
| 12th September | The developers of the Daniel site have decided to submit a planning application for their 140-flats 8-storey development without consulting with the site's neighbors about their intentions. |
| 1st September | More pictures of the traffic chaos before the Home Zone! |
| 13th Aug | Details of nearly 100 other homezones in UK now available in "Other Homezones" |
| 20th July | FRF Homezone featured in the "Mail on Sunday" - a transcription is available on this website |
| 1st July | Interested in a softball match? contact Kostas on 8840 1938 |
| 23 June | Coming soon - relaunch of Neighborhood Watch in the Five Roads |
| 23 June | THIEVES have been stealing plants from the planter boxes - please tell your street rep if you see anything suspicious. |
| 15 June | Latest newsletter (number 21) is now available |