This edition of ‘East Acton Labour News’ includes articles on :
- Magistrates agreeing the gating scheme for the Avenues (see post on 19th January)
- New Street Lighting agreed for the Vale (see post on 21st October)
- Controlled Parking Zone – Consultation results
- Old Oak Surgery (see post on 24th January)
- Planning applications in the area (including the new application to convert 2 The Vale - the former "Curtain Mill" - into a 'wine bar').
"The Curtain Mill" at 2 The Vale - proposed to become a wine bar
The only one of these issues that I haven’t featured on this blog is the Acton Vale Controlled Parking Zone consultation. What we’ve said on this in the newsletter is :
“The first results of the recent consultation on the hours of the Acton Vale Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) seem to show that most local people want to reduce the hours. Around 70% of replies to the consultation want to reduce the current 9am to 9pm seven days a week controls.
However, there doesn’t seem to be the same level of agreement about what any new hours should be—with around half supporting 9am to 5pm and half supporting later hours.
The final results, including a road-by-road listing of views, will go to the next Acton Area Committee on 28th February. Any decision they take to change hours, either in all or part of the zone, would have to be agreed later by the Council’s Cabinet.
Cllr Paul Woodgate says “As local Councillors, we have always said that local people should decide. We will look at the results road by road to make sure of this.””
The biggest issue raised in the listening canvass was the proposal by Berkeley Homes to create a further 86 flats in addition to the hundreds already being built in the conversion and redevelopment of the former Government pensions building next door at Bromyard House. This concern was linked to concerns about the short-term implications for parking and the street environment of the current works being undertaken at Bromyard House. However, we also found very real delight that the alley gating scheme could now go ahead, and strong evidence of the support shown in the early consultation results for some reduction (but not removal) of the current CPZ hours.
I also put some local history on the newsletter. The Avenues – First, Second and Third Avenues – were named as streets in 1903, and built in stages thereafter. However, a map of 1910 shows that the original intention was that there should be nine Avenues rather than just three – makes you think what value local estate agents would have put on houses in 5th Avenue W3.
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