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The Government’s Post Office closure programme hit the Ealing North constituency recently with the closure of the Greenford Green post office, despite petitions and lobbying.
There is talk of a further tranche of post offices being shut – the sad truth is that it is the elderly who suffer most from these closures. Do [...]
This week I announced some of the initial projects to be funded out of the £1 Million Youth Fund that we set up to provide improved facilities for youngsters in Ealing. In May and June, 18,000 questionnaires were sent to 11–16 year olds across the Borough so that young people could tell the Council how [...]
A visitor from outer space who was sad enough to come to last night’s cabinet meeting in Ealing could have thought that we were planning to do something horrible to the Hanwell Community Centre. In fact we are investing £2 million to restore this Grade II listed building, not that Labour leader Cllr Bell could [...]
I’m pleased to say that Cabinet tonight gave the go ahead to award the tender to build the new Islip Manor Children’s Centre in Northolt. This is a project that was threatened because the original estimate for the cost of construction was a mile away from the actual tenders we received. Erineaceous, our former consultants [...]
The Ealing Summer Festival is well underway. The popular Greenford Carnival kicked off this year’s festivities and it has now moved on to Walpole Park. I wandered down to the Global festival today with my family and we bumped into Keith Waite (pictured left). For those of you who don’t know Keith, he’s a superb, [...]
A number of Ealing schools have been hit by the fiasco over the marking of SATs tests this year. At key stage 2 (children aged 11), four schools have not received their English results, 3 schools are waiting for maths and a further 5 have not received their science results. At key stage 3, more [...]
Tesco have launched a consultation about plans to redevelop their store in Greenford. I had the opportunity to attend a preview of the plans which involve a significant increase in the size of the store and doubling of the parking spaces available.
The new store will keep the façade of the old cinema and the store [...]
I’ve been a councillor since 1992 and thought I’d seen my fair share of jargon, but a cringe making phrase appears to be entering the British lexicon – the “obeseogenic environment”!
I was at a London Council’s Young People Forum talking about childhood obesity. This is a serious problem. 12% of Ealing’s reception children are classed [...]
Copley Close on the borders of Hanwell and West Ealing is one of the 7 estates that Ealing has identified as a priority estate for regeneration. in my view Copley Close is in the most urgent need of all of them. I am chairing a committee of residents looking into the options for the regeneration [...]
Work has finally started on the Petts Hill Bridge improvements. Local residents have been campaigning for many years for this to happen and there have been several false dawns. The project is a collaboration between Ealing Council, Harrow Council, Transport for Lodon and Network Rail. The nature of the project means that there will be [...]
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