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The Brentford Stadium development

I went up to have a look around the other day - the first time I've really explored the area since the towers went up. It really reminded me of Docklands in the early nineties - very impressive visually but no indication of being a community. That's not to say that the flats are not occupied. Most of the balconies I saw gave an indication of the flat being someone's home it just felt a bit soulless.It still is partly a building site but I think the same mistake is being made as previously with East London. Communities build up around communal places such as pubs, places of worship and shops which this development lacks.

Kenneth Seally ● 221d5 Comments

When "oh when", will we be able to get to the M4 if coming from the  west. Currently there is only two alternative's, either continue in the inevitable queue, at Chiswick round about or try the Capital Interchange Way, which gets more and more congested by the week.  Please can whomsoever is responsible permit through traffic on Lionel Road South, at other times than on a match day!

Philip Weaver ● 191d

When the SEGA building on the Great West Road is demolished and replaced by even more tower blocks ...that whole area will resemble an upside down hairbrush!I understand that that former "Brentford East Ward" area is now part of "Chiswick's Gunnersbury Ward" within the Hammersmith and Fulham Constituancy!I believe that there is a resident'scoffee bar on the ground floor of one of the buildings. With (perhaps) a pokey small flat one's needs somewhere to meet the outside world.The flats on the upper floors presumably have great views across to other flats. What a let-down.

Jim Lawes ● 219d

The new blocks going up make the area look so DARK no sunlight,it make you fill depressed just looking at them.Still this is the future tower blocks all over the borough soon we will look like cities in BLADE RUNNER

Andrew Buckland ● 219d

The new blocks going up make the area look so DARK no sunlight,it make you fill depressed just looking at them.Still this is the future tower blocks all over the borough soon we will look like cities in BLADE RUNNER

Andrew Buckland ● 219d

The development is getting a shop I seem to remember hearing - a Co-op, I think. Well, it's something. I must admit that the development is rather lacking in atmosphere. I don't think that there is a cafe on site.

Anne England ● 221d