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Central Ealing Referendum

can anyone tell me why the whole of Ealing is not being involvedas well or is it only the posh bit of Ealing that matters

Harold John Ward ● 2958d20 Comments

sound's about right

Harold John Ward ● 2945d

Well I thought I had better read through the Neighbour Plan proposal since I'm allowed to vote on it. To put it mildly, I'm disappointed. It's apparently taken five years to come up with the proposals and they seem very wishy-washy, with little learning taken from other urban areas in the UK or elsewhere. Almost nothing about greening or adapting to current trends, let alone future ones, nothing about encouraging carbon neutral buildings etc. etc. And why 10 polling stations open for fewer than 3,000 people to vote? As usual I will have to walk past the Ealing Cricket Club polling station, less than 200 metres from where I live, to the polling station at St Peter's, nearly a kilometre away, right at the very edge of the neighbourhood plan area. Not much planning there.I still don't know how I'm going to vote, or whether it is indeed worthwhile doing so. In the plan preparation and run up to the referendum I've never been asked about my opinions or ideas, I knew nothing about the CENP until about a month ago. And now it is a simple "yes" or "no". Sounds familiar?

Susan Rowe ● 2945d

I'm referring to the Ealing Central Neighbourhood Forum not this one!Their email is: ealingneighbourhood@gmail.com

Terry Freestone ● 2951d

This referendum is for the area covered by the Central Ealing Neighbourhood forum, which is similar to a residents association but much larger. These forums are set up and run by local residents and are completely independant of the local council, although the council is legally obliged to take the forums views on board when planning development in the area.If you don't live in the catchment area of an existing neighbourhood forum then you should get in touch with like minded residents and set up a forum of your own.To do this you should research how on the internet.

Bob Little ● 2952d

I asked that same question at the beginning of my post but no one has told me so I still don't no why it does not involve all of EALING so someone please tell me

Harold John Ward ● 2952d

It may have to do with what is allowed under the Localism Act. Why don't you ask them at the forum? They will probably tell you.

Terry Freestone ● 2952d

so why not give us all a vote because we have an interest also in what happen's in our town maybe they would get even more yes vote's which is what they won't

Harold John Ward ● 2952d

Here's a link to the history of the local plan:http://www.centralealingforum.com/creating-the-plan.html

Terry Freestone ● 2956d

What do you think this is about? Have you looked at the website? It seems people think they are "missing out" on something but they don't know what. To me it looks like most of the plan is involved in trying to get a leverage tool to use when dealing with developers. The Ealing Civic Society is supporting it and they're not known for being fans of sky high towers and insensitive overdevelopment.

Terry Freestone ● 2956d

that's not the point if you live in Ealing everyone should be involved or is it just for the few

Harold John Ward ● 2956d

they do what they like. Coming out of Bond Street im facing some monstrosity (Dickens Yard carpark?) feet away from an English landmark Christchurch.All wrong

Peter Yale ● 2957d

I consider that I'm in Central Ealing, but they don't seem to. I miss it by one street. Ridiculous decision

Simon Bell ● 2957d

Here is their website:http://www.centralealingforum.com/There's a map on this page showing the area involved. Click on the map to see.  If you were living in the referendum area you should have received your polling card in the last week or two.

Terry Freestone ● 2957d

"it wont make any difference there will still do what they won't to do So you shouldn't feel bad that you have not been included.

Terry Freestone ● 2957d

who no's it seems it is only for people in central Ealingthe rest of Ealing it seems we don't count

Harold John Ward ● 2957d

it wont make any difference there will still do what they won't to do

Harold John Ward ● 2957d

How do we know if we have a vote?

Simon Bell ● 2958d

So it is a way of involving people in the decision that has already been made to build lots of tower blocks. i expect that by offering a referendum with carefully crafted questions there will be an outcome that will suit the decision makers. However as we all know from last year!! Sometimes a Referendum does not give the result that the powers that be want!!! Interesting!!!

Peter Chadburn ● 2958d

I can assure you that my street is by no means posh.One of the objectives is: "To ensure careful siting of tall buildings so as to protect Ealing’s heritage of human scale" The development of Perceval House is specifically mentioned "Development should respect and enhance the setting of the adjacent Conservation Area and Listed Buildings, particularly the Town Hall, in terms of height, scale, massing, design and use of external materials and finishes. Longfield Avenue should achieve a building height to street ratio which allows an increase in density without creating an overbearing impact..."  Which rather jars with the current proposals.

Terry Freestone ● 2958d

My question is what does voting No entail ? And is anyone putting forward an argument to vote No  and what their criteria for a No vote might be ?But do agree it should apply to more than just the central area of Ealing and is the implication that Central Ealing is protected and the rest sacrifices to accommodate this?I had a very good outline emailed to me after not really knowing too much about all this. But that was the Yes outline and in the main is more or less what one would imagine the vast majority would like to see. But I think it equally applies as much to most of the Borough.

Mark Kehoe ● 2958d