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Would you object to the Brentford Towers being demolished & replaced with more appropriate housing?

I was fascinated and stunned to discover that the resident's association of Grenfell Tower helped the surrounding towers to smother any talk by the council to demolish the towers and replace them with something more appropriate. K&C council has a regeneration drive to demolish former estates and replace them with more appropriate housing. A simple example is the estate at the end of Portobello Road (just after Goldborne Road). The residents agreed for their estate to be demolished and replaced with more suitable housing. They have now completed the first few phases of this massive project and all previous tenants and home owners are still on the same site but in more appropriate housing.I have also noticed not many - but a few very loud and strong voices of local Brentfordians doing what they can to make sure the Brentford Towers are not demolished. IDS and Rees-Mogg both called today for these poor build tower blocks to be demolished and replaced with more appropriate housing - however everyone else was concentrating their efforts on refitting these shoddy blocks ad infinitum. What are your thoughts? How far would you go to make sure the Brentford Towers are never demolished?For your information - here is a resident of an adjacent block to Grenfell talking about how they blocked K&C regeneration attempts on the area.https://twitter.com/EL4JC/status/874936178776170496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fvoxpoliticalonline.com%2F2017%2F06%2F14%2Fgrenfell-tower-blaze-no-accident-say-residents-highlighting-gentrification-plans-strong-language%2F

Jacob James ● 3415d30 Comments ● 3414d

£300,000 Community Chest

Hounslow in £300,000 Giveaway to CommunityCome to the launch to learn how to bid for the money6pm Thursday, 13 July at the Holiday Inn, Brentford "Councillor Theo Dennison, London Borough of Hounslow’s Cabinet Member for Finance & Citizen Engagement invites you to the CIL launch event to learn how you can bid for a big new pot of cash to support projects recommended by local residents and community organisations. "The Community Infrastructure Levy ('CIL') will provide hundreds of local charities, voluntary and community groups and residents with the resources they need to make a positive difference in their local area for local community projects like skills and training; transport, public spaces, art and leisure; and improvements to educational, health, community, leisure, cultural and faith facilities. "Councillor Dennison, explains: 'We are really impressed by the tremendous work done by the voluntary and community sector and the fantastic results they achieve, so we are determined to do more to help support their wonderful efforts by ensuring people get a chance to direct where money is spent to improve and benefit their area.' "The event will start at 6 pm on Thursday, 13 July 2017 at the Holiday Inn, Commerce Road, Brentford TW8 8GA, where information and advice will be available on how community organisations can bid for a share of the money. "For further information, please contact the council’s Infrastructure Team at CIL_S106@hounslow.gov.uk"

Phil Andrews ● 3417d7 Comments ● 3416d

Illegal Parking in CPZ on Haverfield.

Coates Walk on the Haverfield has 2 car parks on the Ealing Rd side of the block that are accessed from turning in from Burford Rd.In the evening and overnight these car parks are often overcrowded. Vehicles park up after the CPZ from around 9pm onwards. Often parking in the yellow diagonal striped boxed area at the top of the car park that clearly says no parking. In bays reserved for disabled permits and worst of all straight down the middle of the car park as there are no spaces left.      My main concern here is how would the fire brigade get access to this side of the block in the night?Forget the whole other issue of most of these late night/ overnight vehicles not having CPZ permits as they know they will be gone before the morning zone comes into effect and likely not return till after the evening zone - so park for free whilst other residents have to pay and then strugggle to find a space late evening.     The top end of Coates Walk actually on Burford Rd itself has a very small car park - no bays are marked out and cars often block the pedestrian access down the side of Coates Walk.    The recent shocking events at Grenfell Tower ( where i grew up) have only highlighted the whole issue for me.Is it the same all over the estate?I know the CPZ has had a positive effect in many areas, especially during the day. But it appears to do little or nothing overnight.     Is there not a fire brigade inspection that should highlight this situation?

Martin Webb ● 3422d13 Comments ● 3419d

Code Club at Acton & Ealing Central Library

https://www.codeclub.org.uk/Code Club is a nationwide network of free volunteer-led after-school coding clubs for children aged 9-11.I am currently volunteering for 2 code clubs, one at Acton Library and other at Ealing Central Library.Currently we have few seats available for the children so if you're interested for your child to learn about coding, then please get in touch with the hosts below:Acton Library:Everyone Active Acton Centre, High St, London W3 6NEAwatif El-Martaoui elmartaouia@hotmail.comTime: Saturday 11-12 pmEaling Central Library:103 Ealing Broadway Centre, London W5 5JYMartha LambertMartha.Lambert@carillionservices.co.ukTime: Thursday 4-5 pmCode club projects help children learn to code in Scratch, HTML & CSS and Python by using step by step guides to make games, animations or websites. The projects gradually introduce coding concepts to allow children to build their knowledge incrementally.We also support active clubs with a range of extra resources like certificates and posters, as well as competitions and offers.To join the code club, we will need from a parents/ carers,1) A small permission form signed on the first day2) An email address which will be used by the children to create accounts for online resources.Please feel free to get in touch with me in case you have any questions. And do check website https://www.codeclub.org.uk/ if you want more information.Many Thanks,Sandeepsanmestry@gmail.com

Sandeep Mestry ● 3422d0 Comments ● 3422d