Category: Gunnersbury Park

TfL’s proposed Bollo Lane development will have an enormous impact on Hounslow residents, putting even more strain on local infrastructure – schools, GPs, buses, trains, tubes, roads and more. It will also tower over, and overshadow, the charm of the nearby Gunnersbury Park Garden Estate, pretty mock-Tudor houses built in 1927, in the important Gunnersbury Park conservation area…

Chiswick’s councillors have published the cultural compendium they compiled to support Hounslow Council’s bid to be Borough of Culture 2021.  It shows Chiswick’s astonishingly rich cultural heritage, the diversity of its current cultural world and looks ahead to the future, making suggestions for improvement and change they would like to be implemented if the council…

Gunnersbury Park CIC is holding a workshop discussion on how the park should be run.  And MAMACO, in effect Lovebox/Citadel, is establishing a Community Advisory Board to ensure it is accountable, responsive and having a community benefit. It’s not enough but it’s a step in the right direction.   After calling for several years for the Gunnersbury…

We have been warned that Festival Republic, a well-known concert organiser, wants to announce before this weekend, and before having the necessary permissions and contract in place, that a festival called Gunnersville will be taking place in Gunnersbury Park over three days in September.  This arrangement has been described to us by the CIC as…

It’s two years since plans first emerged for the B&Q site (on the North Circular/Gunnersbury Avenue just north of Chiswick roundabout) for six blocks of flats (mostly for students) up to 22 storeys high plus a cinema (if my memory is correct).  Those plans have been shelved. The proposal is now for “the world’s first…

Councillors have just been told this evening that the Lovebox/Citadel Festivals will return to Gunnersbury Park in 2019. This will be disappointing news to many residents who were significantly affected by the festivals this year.  The three of us – Cllr Ranjit Gill, Cllr Ron Mushiso and Cllr Joanna Biddolph – will be working hard…

Gunnersbury Park is recruiting the last of its seven volunteer directors – five independents, one from the London Borough of Hounslow and one from the London Borough of Ealing – and is seeking someone who could be considered for the post of chair of the board which is currently being performed by one of the two…

Feedback from the two meetings for residents, held on 3rd September, have been published on the Lovebox/Citadel community website. Residents should have received an email informing them that the minutes are available online.  If you haven’t had that email, the minutes are available to download here. Meanwhile, Joanna submitted a 14 page feedback report detailing…

There we were, expecting the magic lantern festival to take place in Gunnersbury Park this winter, just as it has done for four years in the grounds of Chiswick House.  Some of us were also expecting the organisers to leave behind a mess of deflated lanterns and other detritus, just as they have done at…

Diversity, the dance troupe that won Britain’s Got Talent in 2007, will not now perform in Gunnersbury Park this year.  The group had applied to bring its current show, Ignite: The Street Dance Circus Spectacular, to Gunnersbury Park.  It has now withdrawn its application and will perform in Brent Cross instead. There had been some…