Do you live in Syon Lane north of A4?
You may know that the London Borough of Ealing owns playing fields known as Warren Farm on the east side of Windmill Lane north of the M4 bridge. Ealing has neglected these facilities for many years and is now entering a deal with Queens Park Rangers F C to develop the site as a training facility for the Club. Understandably the Club wants a 'level playing field' and originally proposed grading the site into a series of terraces to provide a number of level football pitches. But QPR then got demoted from the Premier League and could no longer afford the costs of this development. Somebody then came up with the bright idea of raising and levelling the whole site to the highest current level by importing tons of landfill for which the Club will be paid. This then makes the development affordable. There are many issues surrounding this development about the loss of community facilities, the loss of public access and the impact of development on Metropolitan Open Land but the Labour Group on Ealing Council, in the face of massive public opposition, recently rubberstamped the planning application. This may be OK for Ealing but of course, the width restriction at Three Bridges means that the waste material to level the site will have to be brought along Syon Lane from the A4 to the site. QPR state that importing the waste material to level the site will require 150 Heavy Goods Vehicle movements for 10 hours per day for 8 months! This is really not acceptable!
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