Osterley folk have won a skirmish they could have done without with just a few phone calls, an e mail or two and their local councillor. Like the Grand Old Duke of York, Michael Gove’s Education Funding Agency has now skulked back from its trespass on public land.
The big grey fence has gone.
Going, now gone: the EFA’s costly trespass of public land on Syon Lane, Osterley
Filed under Education, Neighbourhoods, Osterley, Schools, Wyke Green
Following extraordinary activity the past fortnight on the former Conquest Club/White Lodge Club/Pyrene Sports Ground where its new owner, not satisfied with their many new hectares, decided to nick another belonging to the community, spoiling the view from 177 to 211 Syon Lane, wasting public money on an illegal structure and getting off on the wrong foot with hundreds of residents.
Brave jogger by the EFA’s illegal hoardings on Syon Lane
Filed under Education, Osterley, Planning, Wyke Green
London Road entrance to Thornbury Park
Sidmouth Avenue and Crawford Close residents put in a shift
Invited by David and Eileen Tannahill of number 12, I had a walk with some 24 residents of all ages around Sidmouth Avenue, Crawford Close and Thornbury Park late September 2014 to discuss mainly environmental, flytipping and other occasional anti social behaviour. People spoke of ideas to spruce up the neighbourhood, reduce flytipping, improve service roads safe access to Isleworth Station through the Metro Industrial Estate and to Thornbury Park.
An early outcome from that meet was a neighbourhood clean up day on the last Saturday of October (see photo). Equipment, bags and a truck to take them away was arranged by Hounslow Highways and a skip was supplied by Hounslow Council’s Pollution Team. Effort and enthusiasm was provided by a large number of residents. Continue reading
Filed under London Road, Neighbourhoods, Spring Grove, Thornbury Park, Thornbury Road
The Barclays Bank site being acquired by Sainsbury’s
Sainsbury’s and Tesco are less able to cut it with their big shops or the Germans so they’re coming to a High Street near you
Sainsbury’s has secured all permissions for the former Barclays Bank site at 459 London Road and Tesco is developing 1 Clifton Road.
The closure of the third and last of Isleworth’s Barclays Bank branches offered the orange team an opportunity to maintain their rivalry with the blue team, Sainsbury’s secured the option to buy the lease on the former bank site but they had to get their permissions first. Continue reading
Filed under College Road, London Road, Planning, Spring Grove
The ARK site acquired by Tesco
Tesco and Sainsbury’s seeking to reverse their superstore failures and fight it out on London Road
Tesco is developing 1 Clifton Road and Sainsbury’s has secured all permissions for 459 London Road Isleworth.
Soon after May 2014’s election, a couple of early cases featured Tesco Stores Limited; not the confident and connected market leader Hounslow had to deal with when their superstore expansion meant five giant sheds were built in the borough in the early 1990s.
One Tesco attempt was to wake their neighbours up really early morning by seeking to change their Syon Lane store opening hours from 8.00 am to 6.00 am. I felt that the council’s planners were going to allow this but I was able to get it on to the Planning Committee agenda for its 31 July 2014 meeting with the aim of getting its members to reject Tesco’s application. Continue reading
Filed under London Road, Osterley, Planning, Spring Grove, Thornbury Road, Wyke Green
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Elected (with me) on 3 May 2018 on a 9.4% swing
Councillor Unsa Chaudri
Councillor Richard Eason
RUTH CADBURY MP
Ruth Cadbury, MP for Brentford and Isleaorth, re-elected on 8 June 2017 with a 13% increase in vote and a 20% majority.
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