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More surge testing for South African variant needed for Ealing
The Sky News website has today (Thursday 25th February) reported that additional surge testing is needed in Ealing as more cases of the South African variant have been found in Greenford, Acton, Southall and West Ealing.
Find out delivery schedule for home testing kits for South African strain of Covid-19
The Council's map shows the likely delivery days for all the areas needing to be tested for the South African variant of Covid-19.
South African Covid-19 strain found in Hanwell
You may have alreday seen the temporary walk-in testing centre in the Dean Gardens car park. The email below from the Council details their efforts to test people living in or working in parts of Hanwell and West Ealing to track if this particular strain of the virus...
Covid-19 infection rate continues to drop in Ealing
Eric Leach's latest Covid-19 newsletter states: For the week of 21 to 27 November 2020, 598 new Covid-19 cases were reported in Ealing and Ealing’s infection rate was 175/100,000 people. This was a reduction from the previous week’s rate of 190.5. You can check the...
West Ealing North LTN coming soon and temporary no right turn in to Northfield Ave
Following on the heels of the controversial West Ealing South LTN, the West Ealing North one will be implemented in the next few days. The area covered will be from the Broadway/Uxbridge Rd north to the railway line and west from Drayton Green Rd to Eccleston Rd. The...
Low Traffic Neighbourhood coming to West Ealing late August
As part of the Covid-19 emergency Ealing Council is bringing in Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTN) across the borough. The idea of LTNs is to reduce the amount of traffic on residential roads and encourage more walking and cycling. These LTNs have proved highly...
Plans to redesign Dean Gardens put on hold
The redesign of Dean Gardens along with all other plans for the West Ealing Liveable Neighbourhood project have been put on hold because of Transport for London's Covid-19 driven financial crisis. It seems all TfL's Liveable Neighbourhood projects are on hold and will...
Hanwell Hootie goes online – Saturday 9th May
The team organising the Hanwell Hootie have done wonders and a show will go on - streamed live on its Facebook page from 4pm on Saturday May 9th. So at least we can enjoy some live music and some of the artists will get a chance to play. To help pay the artists and...
Council’s plans to sell Victoria Hall blocked by Charity Commission
Ealing Council planned to sell Victoria Hall, one of the main halls in the Town Hall, to Mastcraft as part of a deal to turn part of the Town Hall in to an hotel. This plan has caused enormous controversy because the Victoria Hall was originally funded by public...
April newsletter on planning matters from Ealing Matters
Greetings from the Ealing Matters working group. We hope that you are keeping safe and well in these extraordinary times. Despite the current health crisis, Ealing Council’s planning juggernaut keeps rumbling on (see below). This is a brief summary of the latest news...
Coronavirus: Advice on how you can help
If you want to help your local community during this Coronavirus emergency then a good starting place is reading Ealing Council’s piece on their website. It covers topics such as: Ways to help Avoiding scams How we can all help to slow the spread of the virus There...
Ealing Matters Newsletter February 2020
Crowd funding initiatives by local residents who are trying to prevent Ealing Council’s disposal of public assets in the town are on the rise. Hanwell Nature launched legal action against the Council in December 2019. It is raising cash to pay for legal advice to...
Ealing arts group finds a permanent home
Local arts group OPEN Ealing has found a brand new permanent home in Dickens Yard. Having started life in the 8-storey old A2Dominion HQ opposite Ealing Fire Station and then spent some years moving from one temporary home to another, OPEN has finally found a...
Find out what's happening around Ealing Ealing is becoming one of the most over-developed boroughs in London. Ealing Ma:ers research has found that 85 tower blocks over 10 storeys were built in the borough recently, are being built or are in the pipeline. Of these...
West Ealing high street gets more high rise buildings
Admittedly at 9-storeys high this proposed development in the Broadway is nowhere near the 25 and 26 storey towers proposed around West Ealing station. Even so, 9-storeys high continues the march of high rise buildings in the centre of West Ealing. The plan is for 53...
Now a 26-storey tower planned next to West Ealing Station
No sooner had we had the news of A2Dominion's plans for a 25-storey tower block in Hastings Road that we now have news of a 26-storey tower block being proposed next to the new West Ealing Station. The plan comes from the same group behind the development of the BHS...
West Ealing hotel up for sale
Three hotels in London, including West Ealing's Holiday Inn Express, have been put up for sale for £46m. Worth noting that this hotel has permission for 27 additional rooms.
25 storey tower proposed opposite West Ealing station
Locally based housing developer A2Dominion has bought the Majestic Wine Warehouse/Halfords site opposite West Ealing station. It held a public exhibition of these plans last week which showcased a 25-storey tower block at its heart. On its Woolworths site in West...
Public meeting about saving Ealing’s libraries Weds 8th May 7pm Town Hall
The organisers of a campaign to save the seven Ealing's libraries the Council plans to turn in to community run libraries or close have a public meeting on Wednesday 8th May starting 7pm in the Liz Cantell room at Ealing Town Hall. There's a an article with more...
Ealing Matters March 2019
24 March 2019ISSUE 4 The mood of community and residents’ groups in Ealing varies from gloomy to angry. Disenchantment with over-development, planning decisions, and planning competence has been well documented by Ealing Matters and on a number of online forums....