Category: Pollution

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…

Joanna spent Monday, 25th February 2019 in Enfield listening to independent traders about their experience of the Mini-Holland scheme along the A105 through Palmers Green and Green Lanes then on to Winchmore Hill. This is her report. What they told me wasn’t a surprise – traders have been saying out loud what TfL doesn’t want…

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…

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 will now  be a second feedback session for residents to have their say on the Lovebox/Citadel festivals  – because the first session is oversubscribed.  The second session will be held at 20.00 hours on Monday, 3rd September – immediately after the first session at 18.00 hours.  Be quick to apply – spaces are limited.…

Councillor Joanna Biddolph has called for a shake-up of the management of Gunnersbury Park.  She has renewed her call for the Gunnersbury Park Community Interest Company to establish a formal consultative committee to give local residents and organisations a say in the management of the park.  She has also called for local councillors from all…

On Tuesday, 21st June several local organisations and individuals spoke at the public inquiry, all against the proposals to build the 32-storey Chiswick Curve at Chiswick roundabout.  The same issues were raised over and over again: its design; its visual impact; pollution levels at the roundabout; landscaping; and contradictions with the local plan and London policies.  Joanna Biddolph spoke out strongly…