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It's across the whole Borough but I suspect very few (as another contributor has pointed out) will read the whole plethora of PDFs and it takes experience of reading other boroughs versions of the same old guff that this 'consultancy' Allies and Morrison pedals out.In fact this online mire should have been made into a synopsis booklet and sent to every home and business in the Borough with online links to the actual consultation and documents.The % of informed respondents will be tiny and as Hounslow and Ealing  and the GLA carry on, they simply disregard anything that may not like to hear.Does not seem to apply when a tiny % of voters turn out and the victors claim a full mandate to proceed with their policies.  Not really is it?It's simply rewritten and repacked repletion marginally better than the last one I read for another borough but quite frankly for a few hundred thousand quid its b****$£@ t to baffle brains and for them Money for Old Rope.Huge amount of inaccuracies and all modelled on supposition and speculation.and the get out is the reference to the Mayor of Londons overdense plans which are gradually ( but too late) being unravelled as even more seriously flawed than first thought.One simple example.  The A40 opened in 1970 with the implications of degradation.The A40 Western Avenue was built in the 1930s around the same time as the A4 Great West Road. The Hangar Lane Underpass is over 60 years old.The actual fact is the A40 was upgraded with the Greenford Flyover and Perivale underpass in the 1970s to handle the anticipated growth when it is connected to the M40 to the Midlands.The idea of reducing the A40 through Ealing to a third less capacity than in the 1930s and removing side street car access to force personal car ownership is quite extraordinarily infantile.  Only someone working on a computer  with no experience of the real world or understanding of real life other than in a Virtual 3D and statistical perception could come up with that. All they mention is cars but not lorries, vans and working vehicles. Ealing along with others never questioned or opposed any of the GLA plans and that is a failure to the whole existing populous who are simply pawns in their political games with developer vampires.It's really difficult to know just who petitions and objections should be aimed at.Local Council, The GLA or the Government.

Raymond Havelock ● 456d