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Posted by: Simon Hayes
Date/Time: 03/09/26 11:03:00

They will undoubtedly approve it.

I’m not saying there haven’t been improvements to the park, which there obviously have been, but the state is was allowed to slide into for years before shouldn’t have been permitted. And before you leap to the ‘cuts to council funding’ argument, the lack of maintenance in Gunnersbury dates back to the 1990s, if not before.

Exactly the same happened with Warren Farm, another well used sports venue. It just happened that some cunning fellows at the council had other plans for that site, so allowing it to rot suited the purpose.

The councils have a duty to maintain public buildings and open spaces. It shouldn’t be the case that they plead poverty simply because they haven’t spent their allocated budgets doing so. Ealing Town Hall had a major renovation about a decade ago. Then a short time later we were told it was unfit for use and a hotel on the site was the only way to save it. When asked for details of what defects were so severe that the building had to be abandoned the council couldn’t provide any. Isn’t that strange?

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TopicDate PostedPosted By
Gunnersbury Park Festival Debacle14/05/26 12:36:00 Mark Evans
   Re:Gunnersbury Park Festival Debacle27/08/26 11:09:00 Colin Goodman
      Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park Festival Debacle27/08/26 12:19:00 Rosco White
      Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park Festival Debacle27/08/26 13:50:00 Susan Kelly
         Re:Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park Festival Debacle27/08/26 14:33:00 Mark Evans
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park Festival Debacle27/08/26 17:11:00 Rosco White
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park Festival Debacle01/09/26 11:25:00 Colin Goodman
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park Festival Debacle01/09/26 11:33:00 Mark Evans
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park Festival Debacle01/09/26 15:42:00 Rosco White
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park Festival Debacle02/09/26 12:52:00 Colin Goodman
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park Festival Debacle02/09/26 14:47:00 Simon Hayes
                           Reply03/09/26 09:49:00 Gordon Southwell
                              Re:Reply03/09/26 11:03:00 Simon Hayes
                                 Re:Re:Reply03/09/26 15:47:00 Rosco White
                                    Re:Re:Re:Reply03/09/26 19:22:00 Colin Goodman
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply04/09/26 08:37:00 Colin Goodman
                                          Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply04/09/26 10:48:00 Maria Isabel Cunha
                                             Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply04/09/26 11:04:00 Rosco White
                                                Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply08/10/26 10:23:00 Mark Evans
                                                   Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply08/10/26 15:51:00 Colin Goodman
                                                      Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply08/10/26 16:09:00 Simon Hayes
                                                         Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply14/10/26 10:46:00 Mark Evans
                                                            Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply14/10/26 11:10:00 Paul James
                                                               Reply15/10/26 18:22:00 Gordon Southwell
                                                                  Reply19/10/26 11:25:00 Gordon Southwell
                                                                     Reply19/10/26 17:09:00 Andy Jones
                                                   Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply10/10/26 11:31:00 Rosco White

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