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Planning Applications

One of the most important of EFRA’s activities is to monitor, and respond to consultations on, the larger planning applications in our area.

We discuss these applications with the residents who are most closely affected and also assist them with their personal submissions to the Council’s planners.

EFRA is not opposed to developments but our submissions are informed by the view that the low rise and low density nature of our essentially Edwardian residential neighbourhood should be preserved.

Posted 21 May 2010

Pickering House Development

Pickering House is the three storey block of 18 former Police flats on the south side of Windmill Road, located between The Plough Junction and Windmill Court. The owner has applied to the Council to add 6 two bedroom flats on the top of the existing building.  This will involve raising the height of the roof and replacing the existing gently sloping roof with an additional residential floor that will extend to the edge of the building.

Posted 21 May 2010

Little Ealing Primary School Expansion

Ealing Council has decided to expand the local primary school from a two form to a three form entry that will increase the number of pupils from 500 to 710. The expansion should enable the School to admit pupils who live further away than has been possible in recent years. The majority of the additional pupils will be accommodated in a new, two storey high, classroom block facing Hereford Road. Other parts of the site will also be reconstructed. There will be an additional pedestrian entrance in Hereford Road.

Posted 19 May 2010

Cranmer Avenue Snooker Hall Redevelopment

Earlier this year an application was made to redevelop the site of the snooker hall in Cranmer Avenue; the developer submitted plans for a three storey building of 5 or 6 flats on this small-sized plot. The proposed building will be taller than the existing building and will dominate the whole street.
Cranmer Avenue Snooker Hall

Posted 15 May 2010

What’s happening in Blondin Park?

If you have not visited Blondin Park for a while you may be in for a surprise. Thanks to funding from the Northfields Ward Forum we now have new benches and bins and a path all round the perimeter (approximately 1 km), surfaced in ‘hoggin’ which is just right for those who like to jog round the park to keep fit. Keeping up the fitness theme, we also have a new MUGA (multi-use games area) in the corner of the sports field. In the nature reserve the pond has been re-excavated and re-lined and hopefully will soon be re-filled.

Posted 2 May 2010

New parking regime for Windmill Road

EFRA has campaigned for some time for measures to ease traffic congestion in Windmill Road. This residential road is a main route from Ealing to Brentford and the A4/M4 but was never designed to carry the amount of traffic now using it. The situation has been made even more difficult by the recent introduction of double decker buses on the E2 route. Along much of this road two large vehicles cannot pass easily with the resultant hold ups and build up of traffic.

Posted 2 May 2010