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Blondin park allotments expansion

Local people attending the Northfield Ward Forum on 8 January agreed to spend £30,000 out of the Forum’s £40,000 budget for the current financial year on improvements to Blondin Park. £20,000 of the total is to be spent on:

  • 6 benches and 5 new waste bins
  • refurbishment of the entrance signs, gates and railings
  • shrubbery improvements

Two alternative proposals have been made for spending the remaining £10,000. These are:

  • expanding the allotment site into the grassed area of Blondin Park, or
Posted 6 Apr 2009

Heathrow Update

Geoff Hoon became Secretary for Transport during the Autumn 2008 government reshuffle and is widely believed to favour expansion at Heathrow. However, the Government announcement expected for December has now been pushed to this month (January 2009). This is almost certainly due to the substantial backbench opposition to the expansion of Heathrow (over 100 MPs across all three parties, including 50 labour MPs) as well as to the position of the new Environment Secretary, Ed Miliband who is understood to be broadly opposed to expansion.

Posted 5 Jan 2009

Hoardings Victory

In our last newsletter we reported on our campaign to have the large revolving advertising hoardings at the junction of Little Ealing Lane and Northfield Avenue and Windmill Road removed. They had been erected early in 2007 with little consultation and less than a year after £45,000 had been spent by the Council on safety improvements at this busy junction. Thanks to our persistence and that of our local councillors we can now celebrate the fact that good sense has prevailed and they have at last been removed.

Posted 25 May 2008

Our Lampposts

lamppost.jpgMany members will have seen in the local press the various campaigns being waged in different parts of Ealing to retain our old cast iron Edwardian lampposts. The Council are committed to upgrading street lighting and bringing it up to European standards. In 2005 a Private Finance Initiative contract was entered into to replace existing posts and add extra ones where needed.

Posted 24 May 2008

Spring 2008 Newsletter

See the Newsletters section of the website for the latest edition of our newsletter, Little Ealing News. This has been distributed to all households with the EFRA area.
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Posted 24 May 2008

Local Councillors

The three councillors for the Northfield ward are:

David Millican (Conservative)

Mark Reen (Conservative)

Philip Taylor (Conservative)

Surgeries are held on the 2nd Saturday of the month, 10.30am-12 noon, Northfields Community Centre, 71a Northcroft Road, Ealing W13.

Details of how to contact the councillors can be found on the Ealing Council web site http://www.ealing.gov.uk/services/council/councillors/councillors_by_war...

Posted 16 Aug 2006