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Reynard Mills parking

Anyone using Windmill Road in recent weeks can't have failed to notice the change in the road layout to 'facilitate access to Reynard Mills'. Not only does the extension of the pavement - and a blooming big kerb - into the carriageway pose a risk to less observant drivers, it has also resulted in the loss of a number of parking spaces on the other side of Windmill Road.Interestingly, the planning application from Ealing Council for these works to be done was only published on June 23, when all the work had been completed. There was no public consultation on this, nor were residents in the area informed of the changes.It has been suggested that Hounslow Council slipped a financial consideration to Ealing Council to smooth the passage of the changes to the road. I have asked our local councillors to investigate this.More worryingly, there is a suggestion that future residents of Reynard Mills will be allowed to apply for CPZ permits for the Little Ealing zone, despite being residents of Hounslow rather than Ealing.Has anyone any information about changes to the parking provision on site at Reynard Mills? The approved planning application made a big play of there being enough parking on site.If this rumour proves to be true it will make it impossible to park in most of the roads adjoining Windmill Road.

Simon Hayes ● 3188d3 Comments

Agree with all the comments. Its beyond me in this day & age how these measures are allowed? Surely they can be reversed or stopped? Someone must be answerable & held to task.Is there any action that can be taken?On a similar note the Costons Lane Ruislip Rd has been put back to a layout of past times where there were numerous bad accidents. Cars turning in or out meet head on, particularly those with larger vehicles.Will it take a major accident before someone is held accountable

Peter Yale ● 3187d

That protrusion into the road is downright dangerous to cyclists in both directions and hugely dangerous for buses which now find themselves on a collision course with other buses and wider vehicles.  It will only be a matter of time before a calamity occurs.This also creates an obstacle for emergency vehicles in what is a regularly used route by emergency servicesThose with good memories will remember a huge accident with two fire enginesthat swerved because of an obstruction on that very section of road.The recent Tragedy in Latimer Road and in South London revealed just how difficult is is becoming for Fire Appliances and specialist fire appliances to access areas even by A and B roads.  They are not consulted properly, and are pressured to dance to the tune of the local authorities too much.There are now a lot of high rise buildings in the vicinity and NO appliances with hi rise capability in the whole area. So jamming up through roads with obstacles has ramifications that need to be fully discussed with people who know the area and not by some bod doing a CAD diagram from a google map..It makes one wonder just what some people are thinking by messing with what are already narrow two way artery roads.Given the huge 'concern' Ealing Council make to justify the peculiar turning ban at Longfield Avenue, they do not seem to have the same concern with this self created hazard.Double standards yet again.Maybe one or two Cycling Advocates within LBE ought to try cycling in the dark wind and rain up and down Windmill road themselves and see just what an all round hazard they have created.I would love an explanation of what it is they are trying to achieve?

Mark Kehoe ● 3188d

The chicane outside the entrance to Reynard Mills is a hazard on an already narrow road used by buses. These things are sneaked in through the back door without any consultation and seems to be the way things happen on these large developments.

Elizabeth Price ● 3188d