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Public meeting about plans for Dean Gardens on Thursday 12th March 7.30pm

You may well have had one of our leaflets about this already but this is a reminder about our public meeting about the design changes planned for Dean Gardens. The park is to get a complete redesign as part of the TfL funded West Ealing Liveabe Neighbourhood project. We will have details of the final plan for you to see and you will be able to ask questions of the Council’s landscape architect for this project.

There are details about the plans on the Live West Ealing website.

The meeting is on Thursday 12th March at the Welshore Community Hub, 99 Broadway, West Ealing W13 9BP. The meeting starts at 7.30pm

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Apologies

Apologies to all our subscribers for the last odd and unexpected email. Our site was hacked. We are working hard to put it right as fast as we can.

In the meantime, we will soon be sending out details of a public meeting on Thursday 12th March about the plans for Dean Gardens. The meeting will be at 7.30pm at the Welshore Community Hub, 99 Broadway, West Ealing W13 9BP.

Our apologies again.

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OPEN Ealing finds a permanent home

WEN is delighted that the arts organisation OPEN Ealing now has a permanent new home in Dickens Yard. OPEN started life in what was A2Dominion’s old headquarters on the Uxbridge Road opposite the fire station. There it grew and thrived and became a key arts venue for all of Ealing with a wide range of arts activities across the seven floors of this building. One highlight for me will always be the residence of the Opera Viscera and their sell-out perfomance of Narcissus and Echo

OPEN had to leave the building when A2Dominion wanted to build their new HQ on this site. Since then OPEN has continued to run classes and events from a number of temporary homes. Now, at long last, OPEN has a brand new permanent home in Dickens Yard located between Jigsaw and Gymbox. Great news and we wish them well.

More details about OPEN Ealing can be found here

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New effort to save Warren Farm

The struggle to save Warren Farm continues. This is a recent email from the Hanwell Nature group:

‘After 9 long months, we can finally announce their is exciting news – a real break through in the campaign to protect Warren Farm.

cHanwell Nature’s legal team have found the strongest legal argument yet, and a local resident and member of Hanwell Nature has issued legal proceedings against Ealing Council’s decision to grant planning permission without undertaking an Environmental Impact Assessment. (EIA) as to the impacts such a development would have.  We firmly believe Ealing Council has a duty to protect our open green spaces, and the environment that we all share. This new legal action opens the door to a judicial review of that decision in the High Court.  Therefore we need your help to make sure that happens.

WHY IS THIS SO IMPORTANT?

At a time of perilous climate change and the world’s attention firmly on creating solutions to protect our environment, we can’t keep looking away helplessly while our environment suffers at the hands of ill-considered development. It’s time to take a valiant stand for nature and ensure our Councils are protecting it when considering large developments, with high impact. 

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THERE ARE MANY WAYS YOU COULD HELP

  • You can pledge to donate to the legal fund on our crowd justice page  we have 29 days to raise £11,000 we are almost half way there!
  • Forward this email to your group, family and friends.
  • Download a copy of  “easy steps to protect Warren Farm”that you can take with 5mins – 1hr of your time  here.
  • Could you join together with others to become and Environment Angel (see the attached PDF for more details).
  • Please share on your social media
  • Comment on our blogs. http://www.hanwellnature.com/blog/  have your say.
  • Share the campaign video https://vimeo.com/356906929
  • Like and follow us on Twitter, lets get it up to a 1000 followers (don’t have a twitter account perhaps someone you know does, why not share the link with them to like our Twitter profile https://twitter.com/HanwellNature
  • Like our Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hanwellnature/?hl=en  there are some amazing pictures of the wonderful nature now living on Warren Farm. 


    We appreciate all your help in getting this important cause out there, and if you would like us to talk at a meeting or gathering of your friends or local residents we would love to support you in that.  Or maybe you can think of other like minded groups that support the environment, that you could reach out to? 

For further information please email us, we would love to hear from you. 

The Hanwell Nature “hive” is at maximum output.

Best wishes and thank you again, every bit of support keeps us going.’

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How you can help save the Victoria Hall

Ealing Council wants to hand over Victoria Hall and the Princes Hall to a developer. See our story of December 2nd for full details of the Council’s plans for the Town Hall.

There are several things you can do.

!. Object to the Council scheme, now published by the Charity Commission (details at http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Schemes/4057721.pdf). Since our last e-news, the Friends of Victoria Hall have suggested how best to comment.  You can find out more on through these links to the Friends web site:
What’s wrong with the deal
What Ealing is saying
How to object

There is more background in a video at https://exposurebox.com/save-victoria-hall/.

The Charity Commission allowed only 30 days over the Christmas period for the consultation, but after the Friends objected this has been extended to Monday 6 January 2020. Please find time to submit your views, ideally in your own words but based on the reasons set out in the Friends’ summary. Please do it as soon as possible.

2. Sign the petition on 38degrees.org.uk.

3. Join the Friends by using the form at 
http://www.cepac.org.uk/uploads/1/3/3/4/13344659/fovh_joining_form_p1_11-19_nf.pdf

Thanks to the Campaign for an Ealing Performance & Arts Centre for this information.

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Ealing CVS is successful in bid to take over West Ealing Library

Ealing Community and Voluntary Service (CVS), currently based at the Lido building, has been successful with its bid to take over West Ealing Library and run it as a community managed library. It seems Ealing Law Centre has been successful in its bid for Hanwell Library

West Ealing Library is due to shut after tomorrow in preparation for the handover to Ealing CVS. You can find out all about Ealing CVS and what is does here.