| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:West Ealing Action Group | |
| Posted by: | Will French | |
| Date/Time: | 13/08/25 20:29:00 |
| Goodness knows, West Ealing Centre needs some TLC – as does Ealing town centre as a whole - but this road has been travelled down repeatedly in the past 25 years without getting anywhere. Will things be different this time round? The signs are not propitious. This exercise looks set to follow closely the footsteps of previous ones. Those who have already come this way will see it’s reached step 2 of a 5 step exercise in futility: Step 1: Secure some public money from somewhere – TfL, the GLA or the Government are likely sources. £50,000 is a good amount. Step 2: Buy a few packs of post-it notes, find a room, make some powerpoints, gather some like-minded folk together and have yourself a workshop or two. Step 3: Post the outcomes of Step 2 on a website. Don’t forget to include the heading ‘next steps’. Step 4: An inner group gets going on the ‘next steps’. Phew, it’s slow going but the group reports eventually. OK things are a bit different from what was said at Step 2 but there are lots of recommendations for politicians to champion. Step 5: Nothing happens. The inner group is sidelined and the report is shelved. The world moves on until eventually, a new group starts again at Step 1. West Ealing Centre Neighbourhood Plan shows how it works. The plan was prepared by a neighbourhood forum with £37,000 of public money. It carries lots of worthwhile policies and was approved in 2018 after a local referendum. It is recognised in Ealing’s new Local Plan but otherwise it’s been ignored - by LBE generally as well as the new West Ealing Action Group. A similar fate befell the West Ealing Liveable Neighbourhood Project, which promised to improve West Ealing with £8m of projects. ‘Over the summer of 2019, the council engaged with local stakeholders, residents and visitors’. A glossy report was published in 2020 but that’s as far as things got. And now we are told the West Ealing Action Group will reinvent the wheel once again. As I say, I fear it’ll be an awful waste of everybody’s time and money. |
| Topic | Date Posted | Posted By |
| West Ealing Action Group | 08/08/25 12:36:00 | Arthur Breens |
| Re:West Ealing Action Group | 08/08/25 14:03:00 | Keith Iddon |
| Re:West Ealing Action Group | 10/08/25 11:17:00 | Nick Roll |
| Re:Re:West Ealing Action Group | 10/08/25 11:32:00 | Rosco White |
| Re:Re:Re:West Ealing Action Group | 10/08/25 12:30:00 | Arthur Breens |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:West Ealing Action Group | 10/08/25 17:24:00 | Rosco White |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:West Ealing Action Group | 13/08/25 20:29:00 | Will French |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:West Ealing Action Group | 13/08/25 21:02:00 | Simon Hayes |
| Re:West Ealing Action Group | 14/08/25 11:47:00 | Steven Toft |
| Re:Re:West Ealing Action Group | 20/08/25 20:45:00 | Jo Smith |
| Re:Re:Re:West Ealing Action Group | 21/08/25 10:12:00 | Rosco White |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:West Ealing Action Group | 25/08/25 11:19:00 | Raymond Havelock |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:West Ealing Action Group | 25/08/25 14:18:00 | Rosco White |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:West Ealing Action Group | 26/08/25 21:17:00 | Anthony Hawran |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:West Ealing Action Group | 27/08/25 15:15:00 | Rosco White |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:West Ealing Action Group | 27/08/25 21:40:00 | Arthur Breens |