Category: W3

An open letter from Helen Osman, an Enfield resident who promotes Winchmore Hill, to Professor Tom Pike’s emails and Tweets  in which he counters what local traders say has happened to shops, cafes and restaurants as a result of the Enfield mini-Holland scheme.  Dear Professor Pike, I have been forwarded several emails and tweets relating to your…

Councillor Joanna Biddolph has made another appeal for action on the dangerous junction in Chiswick’s Turnham Green ward, where Princes Avenue meets Gunnersbury Lane in the Gunnersbury Park Garden Estate conservation area. She has renewed her call for a mirror to be put on the lamppost opposite the junction which residents have been asking for…

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…

The council’s overview and scrutiny committee (OSC) has just started reviewing the borough’s library services. Two Turnham Green ward councillors – Ron Mushiso and Joanna Biddolph – are members of OSC and would like Chiswick residents’ views on the library service. Do you use the library regularly or occasionally and, if so, what’s good about…

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…

After a flurry of posts on www.chiswickw4.com forum about flytipping (headed Hounslow Borough – Fly Tippers’ paradise) and criticisms from Councillor Guy Lambert about Joanna’s contribution to his workshop on tackling Hounslow’s streetscene, she has decided to post the exchange and, more importantly, the contribution she made so others can judge whether they are relevant…

It’s Small Business Saturday and our local independent shops, cafes, pubs and restaurants would welcome your support on this special shopping day – and beyond.  Knowing how easy it is to get into a routine – visiting the same independents (or to keep meaning to divert from a supermarket or chain) how about going to…

After receiving complaints from residents, and reading about others’ irritations on social media (including from people who regularly cycle), I asked whether we could reassess the contract with Mobikes to manage the sudden proliferation of bikes – including many left inconsiderately, blocking bike racks so others can’t park their own bikes or left across pavements…

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…