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by | October 2, 2026 · 11:17

West London Orbital Railway: Wood Lane Level Crossing and other matters

Wood Lane Level Crossing

Tomorrow, Saturday 3 October 2026 from 11:00 am to 2.00 pm

Drop In at Old Isleworthians Sports Ground

22A Wood Lane, Isleworth, TW7 5ED

With numerous advantages of increased passenger rail services being offered on the Hounslow Loop in the Mid 2030s, one drawback could be how to then cross the track at Wood Lane.

The promoter, in their recent letter to residents tells us,

“We would potentially need to make changes to how some level crossings operate, including the crossing on Wood Lane in Isleworth. This is due to possible safety concerns caused by increased barrier down time, if the additional WLO services were to use the crossing. We are looking at ways to keep the crossings open, and if they did need to close, we would ensure that pedestrians and cyclists were still able to cross the railway safely and conveniently.”

The West London Orbital people do acknowledge numerous challenges and a section of the WLO website on all three level crossing locations can be found here.

Should it turn out that, after vigorous examination, it may not be a viable to maintain a surface crossing here,  OSG Ward councillors will insist on a safe and convenient crossing route for pedestrians.  In ten years, nothing less a passenger lift for those wanting to reach London Road from the roads of Northumberland Estate and those in east Spring Grove and Osterley would be acceptable.

West London Orbital: Indicative timescale 2026 to 2035

It’s very early to surmise.  Residents’ comments on this very important aspect of the not fully worked up ideas for the WLO will be very much expected.  Much more information is contained behind this link

The West London Orbital Team will be holding a “Drop In” for all to attend to discuss any aspect of the current proposals at the Old Isleworthians Sports Ground, details above, at the start if this item.

Subsequent and similar events will events also occur on,

Thursday 22 October 2026, 16.00 to 19.00 London Museum of Water and Steam, Green Dragon Lane, Brentford, TW8 0EN and

Saturday 7 November 2026, 11.00 to 14.00, Hounslow Library, 7 Bath Road, Hounslow TW3 3EB.

TfL’s West London Orbital have shared the following very interesting  briefs on how the two OSG Ward Stations would fare as part of its proposal, not least staffed stations, something many of us have long time missed:

Isleworth Station

Syon Lane Station;

Elsewhere:  Hounslow; Brentford; Lionel Road

You can contact the Transport for London West London Orbital Team about the proposals in the following ways:
• Email: WestLondonOrbital@tfl.gov.uk
• Phone: 020 3054 6037 (call back service) – please leave a message stating you want to discuss the West London Orbital proposals
• Write to: FREEPOST, TfL Have Your Say (West London Orbital).

 

TL 2.10.2026

Copyright Tony Louki 2.10.2026. Please carry out your own research.

 

 

 

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by | March 7, 2025 · 09:50

Your Neighbourhod Grant 2024/2025: Still time to apply

In its third year, the Your Neighbourhood Grant supports projects, events and activities coming from local residents and that have the backing of their local Councillors.

Deadline to share applications with Osterley and Spring Grove Councillors is Tuesday 18 March 2025.

Guidance on what can be applied for can be read here.  Applications are accepted for up to £1,000 towards each project from a pot of  £3,000  allocated for Osterley and Spring Grove Ward, please use this form.

Resident volunteers managed Syon Park Gardens Amenity Space by the access to Great West Road

Awards made in Osterley and Spring Grove Ward in 2023/2024, backed by councillors, included support to residents of Syon Park Gardens to plant and manage the amenity spaces either side of its entrance to Great West Road, Thornbury Park Friends for tools, equipment and materials to fill its volunteer container for its regular Spring and Summer sessions.  Some funds were also made available to Spring Grove; St Johns; Osterley and Wyke Green residents associations for newsletters and events.

Thornbury Park Friends after a volunteer session with some Neighbourhood Grant funded equipment

Funding applications must be directly submitted by Councillors, if you have an idea for a project that you would like to be supported by the Your Neighbourhood Grant, please email or call one of us,

If not Osterley and Spring Grove Ward, find contact details for your own Ward councillor on the Council website

If there are any questions about Your Neighbourhood Grant please contact the Council’s Thriving Communities Fund Managers, Halima Hussain: Halima.Hussain@hounslow.gov.uk.

 

TL  7.3.2025

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by | September 10, 2023 · 10:51

Grove Road and College Road Junction Works

Ward Councillor Unsa Chaudri and I met on site with residents and Hounslow Council traffic officers to discuss this project when first proposed in early 2019.  Although some reservations were transmitted then, approval came via this Chief Officer Decision report in June 2020.

Grove Road and College Road junction November 2022

Slow forward to a couple of days before August Bank Holiday when, out of the blue,  we received another shout that month long works are about to start on this long forgotten (by us) decision to reduce the junction width of Grove Road and College Road by almost two thirds from the current 24 metres to 8 metres.

Grove and College Roads junction proposal

The scheme involves pavement widening, creation of a kerb level speed reducing surface, removal of the traffic island and three “rain gardens” designed to capture drainage water and feed plants to be located there.  This is being undertaken by Hounslow Highways who recently wrote to tell affected residents.

Traffic officers advise that the purpose of the scheme is to reduce junction approach speeds and improve road safety, elevating pedestrians so that they are more visible to oncoming traffic thus obviating the need for the current pedestrian refuge.  This has been explained via this LBH Traffic Team letter and detailed design currently being delivered locally.

A Rain Garden in situ

Nearly all street works come with diversions and here is a map for this one.  Hounslow Highways have been reminded of their responsibility to ensure that any temporary signs, including the diversion signs, are routinely checked.

The 2020 Chief Officer Decision included a sister proposal at the Ridgeway Road and College Road junction but is now on hold as there is no current funding available for this.  However, councillors are informed this will be reviewed as part of any future potential traffic reduction measures over the wider area in Osterley and Spring Grove Ward.

TL  10.9.2023

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by | July 9, 2023 · 15:26

NatWest Bank Closure: Protest at 10.30 am Tomorrow, 10 July 2023

NatWest Bank, bailed out by the people to the tune of £46 billion and still 39% Government owned, are using spurious statistics, poor consultation and erroneous assertions to shut down the last remaining and accessible bank between Hounslow and Chiswick.  It’s the only one with a customer car park and also located within the Council’s London Road 30 minutes free Stop and Shop parking facility.

Last bank standing: NatWest, 486 London Road, Isleworth

No amount of online, video or telephone banking can replace a human face to face physical transaction whether elderly or any other citizen within the 30% without the means, online savvy or inclination or just likes going out.

NatWest Isleworth: Elderly customer with their carer drew up to the front door to use this most accessible of bank branches

Recent pavement surveys by NatWest customer and Isleworth resident, Madhuri Kapila, show buoyant footfall at 468 London Road.  There has also been a keenness to sign this letter to letter to NatWest Head Office and, so far, 150 customers, many elderly, greatly concerned and fearful of the closure, have participated.

NatWest Isleworth: Open during convenient hours 5 days a week

Daily attendance at the branch, of late, shows around thirty customers per hour, more if ATM users are included, translating to at least 750 user per week.  NatWest profits for 2023/24 show a 50% jump to £1.9 billion in the first three months of the year; why should the company need to close a long established and well used branch operating from Freehold premises?

NatWest Isleworth Branch: Night safe

All of the many shopkeepers Madhuri has spoken to (NatWest did not reveal of having spoken to any of our traders in its public relations pieces), are greatly against the proposal.  They see the bank as an anchor business for London Road as well as a banking facility for them and everyone else.

Last Friday, Madhuri and I visited NatWest Headquarters at 250 Bishopsgate to present the collected letters but no one was available to receive them nor this additional letter to Dame Alison Rose, Group Chief Executive Officer of NatWest Bank..

Ruth Cadbury MP also wrote this letter to NatWest Bank asking for a meeting and for the closure to be withdrawn.

Recently publishing a booklet for bank branch visitors, NatWest used a mixture of pre, during and post pandemic figures, with obscure graphics, to justify their current stance.  The decision really did appear to have been made prior to any  real consultation and, responses from NatWest since seem at best repetative and standard public relations deflections but at worse, some may describe as lip service and sham going through the motions.

Please show your support in any or all of these ways:

NatWest Bank Isleworth: Please maintain the Welcome

Download, complete and immediately return this letter to Keep Nat West Bank Open via email KNWBOpen@gmail.com

Ask that the closure decision be reversed.  Email or write to Dame Alison Rose, Group Chief Executive Officer, 250 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 4AA: or email alison.rose@natwest.com and cc KNWBOpen@gmail.com

 

Monday 10 July 2023 at 10.30 am.  Join a peaceful protest against the closure outside NatWest Bank, 486 London Road, Isleworth, TW7 4DD.

Tell your friends.

Thank you.

 

TL 9.7.2023

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by | February 21, 2023 · 18:38

The Grove to be resurfaced

Pursued for a number of years and the subject of numerous meetings and correspondence, The Grove is about to get a proper fix.

With Hounslow Highways and residents on The Grove May 2017

I had, recently, stopped reporting potholes on the eastern stretch of The Grove, with an assumption that if not patched further, the surface would get to such a state that it would eventually fail inspections and, it seems, this may have worked.  Last week, I received an email from Mr Sabeel Khan, the council’s Head of Highways PFI [Contract], containing the following,

“Early in 2022, we met and walked about the south section of Osterley and Spring Grove Ward.  We specifically spoke about the carriageway condition of The Grove, particularly the section from London Road towards the green near Harvard Road.  The road was not in the best condition at the time.  We spoke about not carrying out localised repairs as the road was scheduled to receive a treatment under the PFI for 2024.

The Grove, continually patched. February 2023

I am pleased to inform you that based on the 2022 surveys, the section of The Grove will be treated this year in March 2023.  Hounslow Highways have prepared the attached resident notification letter which will likely reach doors next week.  Advance signage will be placed at various points in the road and on street cones supplemented by the Traffic Order will be placed soon.  Once the treatment has been carried out over the two day period, a line marking crew will remark the road.”

With Sabeel Khan at The Grove and the remnants of the poor Horse Chestnut by Kenwyn Court after Storm Eunice February 2022

Although not done yet (works are scheduled to start on Friday 10.3.2023), I salute everyone’s patience as it has only taken almost six years to get to where we are.

TL   21.2.2023

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