Pupils from Isleworth & Syon, The Green and Ashton House schools and local residents came together as they always do this day every year at the memorial outside the former teacher training college in Borough Road, Osterley and Spring Grove Ward.
Memorial to the students and staff of Borough Road College acknowledged locally this day every year
Nice and low key as ever.
TL 11.11.2015
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Filed under College Road, Education, Events, Middlesex, Neighbourhoods, Osterley, Spring Grove
Following some lengthy correspondence with Hounslow Highways, details of how the long awaited resurfacing of Wood Lane will be carried out and managed have now been made available.
After a few residents made contact with me about access to their properties (see item from 13.9.2015), Hounslow Highways have agreed that the works will now be carried out nightly, in sections: Parkwood Road to Musgrave Road; Musgrave Road to Borough Road; Borough Road to Great West Road.
Obviously, there will be short term disruption but whilst parking on Wood Lane itself will be suspended, residents should not be prevented from parking on their own drives outside road working hours.
The works start on Monday night, 12.10.2015 and are expected to last until Tuesday morning 20.10.2015 between 9.00 pm and 5.00 am (not Friday to Sunday due to the rugby). During the works there will be no access between Great West Road and Parkwood Road (apart from and to 120 Wood Lane via Great West Road).
Advanced warning signs have already been placed advising road users and residents of the start of the works and markings have appeared on the carriageway and by road humps.
Residents should expect parking suspension signs, no parking cones and all properties and vehicles parked in the area leafleted with another reminder of the works.
After 9.00 pm on road working nights, the H28 bus will be diverted to and from Wood Lane (north) via Great West Road, Syon Lane and London Road, see detail here.
Road diversions will also placed between Thornbury Road, Spur Road and further east; maps showing these can be found here, here and here. Finer detail can be read here.
All mobile plant used for the resurfacing will be parked safely at the end of each working shift; signed and protected accordingly.
Ruth Cadbury MP and I have asked for and waited a long time for improvements to this well used and important road and are grateful for Hounslow Highways’ positive response. Yes, there will be disruption to normal routine but the result should be worth it and (like our cars’ suspensions) last for many years.
The contact number for any resident enquiries during the works is 020 8583 2222.
TL 7.10.2015
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Filed under College Road, Great West Road, Hounslow Highways, London Road, Neighbourhoods, Northumberland Estate, Osterley, Public transport, Road works, Roads, Spring Grove, Thornbury Road, Traffic
Following an inspection with Hounslow Highways’ Network Manager, earlier this month and pursuit of outstanding matters previously raised with Hounslow Council’s Traffic Team, I am able to offer some updates that may be of interest to residents of Syon Park Gardens and surromnding areas.
Tidied up amenity area on eastern entrance to Syon Park Gardens
Amenity area near the junction with Great West Road – Late last week, spaces either side of the entrance to Syon Park Gardens were tended to by Hounslow Highways which involved plenty strimming and much mulching. It is expected that this will help reduce further weed growth and improve the overall aesthetic appearance of the vegetation.
Proposed double yellow lines at Great West Road junction
Junction with Great West Road – In recent months a number of requests have been made for yellow lines to be marked to improve safety at the turning on to and from the A4. Continue reading
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Filed under CPZ, Great West Road, Hounslow Highways, Neighbourhoods, Northumberland Estate, OSG documents, Osterley, Roads, Sky, Traffic
This week, all Hounslow councillors received a letter from Vincent & Gorbing dealing with the proposal to build a free school for 1400 children on the White Lodge site at 152 Syon Lane. Vincent & Gorbing is both the architectural company for the development and supplies the agent who submitted the application. They deal closely with planning officers on planning matters related to the development.
The purpose of the letter was to alert councillors to what V&G, on behalf of the Nishkam School Trust and the taxpayer bankrolled Educational Funding Agency, what they consider to be incorrect information about the development coming from the volunteer run residents’ group Keep Osterley Green.
Specifically the document to which the V&G referred to is a KOG document entitled Who is Spreading Rumours. This document was sent to all councillors as a reaction to a general comment about rumours in an earlier e mail from V&G to all councillors; you can see that here.
The letter from V&G can be found here and should Keep Osterley Green respond, I’ll again, to encourage the fullest possible debate, share as I have tried to do with previous communications.
TL 18.9.2015
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Filed under Education, Neighbourhoods, Osterley, Planning, Wyke Green
It’s no mean feat fixing Hounslow’s roads, pavements, street lights and signs; an ambitious long term project welcomed and complimented by most citizens. Hounslow Highways is good at engineering but telling people about the forthcoming Wood Lane works may suggest, the way information has been shared and the opportunities to make enquiries, is weak in comparison.
Wood Lane resurfacing,north to the Great West Road, starts here on 12.10.2015
Both Wednesday and Friday last week, residents in the area received inaccurate and incomplete information in two separate letters about the start of planned road resurfacing, see here and here.
With 103 roads in this (the borough’s biggest) ward, it shouldn’t be up to a councillor to seek and share bread and butter stuff but by late Friday, a couple of calls and a few emails have so far yielded the following: Continue reading
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Filed under College Road, Great West Road, Hounslow Highways, London Road, Northumberland Estate, Osterley, Public transport, Road works, Roads, Traffic
Hounslow's streets and street services are having a major make-over. If you have problems or questions concerning any aspect of this work then please contact <a href="https://fms.hounslowhighways.org/.
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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.
