by David Highton | Jul 9, 2018 | high street, housing
Welcome to the second newsletter from Ealing Matters. Formed in winter 2017/18 we are a network of residents’ groups throughout Ealing which is attempting to hold the powers that be to account and to maintain and enhance quality of life for Ealing residents. At our...
by David Highton | May 18, 2018 | building, high street, housing, iconic
A2Dominion have submitted a planning application for the old Woolworth’s site in West Ealing. It was due last year but has been delayed. In the meantime, many hundreds of people signed West Ealing Centre Neighbourhood Forum’s petition to save the art-deco...
by David Highton | Jan 7, 2018 | high street
Today’s (7th January) Sunday Times business section has an article about the owners of upmarket bed makers Warren Evans racing to secure an emergency sale as it head for a loss. Warren Evans has 14 showrooms with one in West Ealing on the old Daniels site. The...
by David Highton | Jan 2, 2018 | high street
It looks like the New Year has answered some people’s prayers – a new independent coffee shop has opened in West Ealing just east of the Lido Junction. Doppio is the fourth branch of this small chain though a big part of their business is in supplying...
by David Highton | Dec 29, 2017 | building, high street, Music and arts
In June the Sainsbury’s site in Melbourne Ave was bought for £22.4m by Aprirose and Aurora Is this the first step to a new development stretching all the way north to Broadway…could be a new, bigger Sainsbury’s? The West Ealing Hub in St James Avenue seems to have...
by David Highton | Dec 15, 2017 | building, high street
These two cranes caught my eye and just encapsulate how much West Ealing is changing. One crane is on the site of the new mosque and the other on the BHS site. Both these buildings will radically alter the local skyscape in the next couple of years. And I can easily...
