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Annual Residents survey. Results are better?

Are they? Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 3,230 residents aged 18 and over between 22 September and 11 November 2012.What we should be told is where these surveys take place.If you are used to worse standards and then live here, you are bound to be more likely to approve.If you have lived in Ealing for a long time, then how many think it is a better place?

George Knox ● 4892d8 Comments

re Welcome to the seventh richest country in the world            xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx      well we used to be the fourth Eric, as T B was  fond of reminding us to justify his Govt's spending on asylum seekers.

Tony Price ● 4876d

Crime and fear of crime is, as ever, residents biggest concern. Healthcare services come in at number two as residents' biggest worry. As the NHS is no doubt going to announce closing Ealing Hospital's Accident and Emergency unit on 19 February this concern is clearly justified.As for law and order, those who sat in the GLA/Met Police presentation in Ealing Town Hall on 5 February had the jaw dropping information that we will in future have just one 24 hour public counter access (at Acton Police Station). Allied to that we will have just one Police Officer and one PCSO based but not necesarilly 'officed' in each Ward. So one customer desk at night to serve 320,000 people across 21 square miles, and two 'Police' probably on bicycles to immediately serve 12,000 people.Welcome to the seventh richest country in the world.

Eric Alan Leach ● 4877d

"....If you have lived in Ealing for a long time, then how many think it is a better place?"I've been an Ealing resident(as a student, a resident, a lodger, freeholder, leaseholder, a worker, a visitor) for decades and I've never completed a survey questionaire.Do I think Ealing has improved since then? Answer is YES! Ealing's become cleaner, has better amenities, is more convenient for travel, livlier, brighter(lights), improved in most ways imo. 

Gerry Tan ● 4877d

The Labour group can be safe in the knowledge that even after Jason Stacey and Co. did a pretty remarkable clean up job after the last Labour administration they were still voted back out again thus paving the way for another 5 year term of shambolic services, dirty streets and rotten borough style politics. In short - even a scorched earth policy from the current Labour group would still most likely result in their councillors been returned at the next local elections.

Tony Gould ● 4889d

Well you know the old saying: Self praise is no recommendation.

Jean F Fernandez ● 4889d

It is amazing to see how the present administration manages to manipulate facts and figures in order to appear competent. If they were to publish the whole survey result then one can clearly see that they are NOT really doing a good job. In fact, considering that for the first two years or so they have been able to provide services (such as the improvement of the ten minor parades of shops, or the South Ealing Road improvement as well as improvements being carried out in central Ealing – just to name a few, with funding negotiated, secured and allocated with over £50M set aside by the previous conservative administration, then they really are doing a very poor job indeed. We will soon find out what they are really made of, as that money is now running out – although they still have the £30M or so to play with that they have raised by closing down youth clubs, the various centres catering for the elderly and disabled, increased parking fines and residents’ parking permits, the £40 yearly charge for the garden collection, and so on and so on.

Rosa Popham ● 4889d

I recall receiving an email from the Ealing Council inviting me to participate in this online survey, which promptly ended up in the recycle bin.I registered to receive information updates when putting my name down for the Olympics Torch Relay in Walpole Park last year, so this would probably explain it. It seems that registering online with the Council is what you would need to do in order to get a chance to reply to future questionnaires.

Tom Carroll ● 4891d

There is always room for improvement and there is no point in any council being complacent.I wonder who they ask to participate in questionnaires? I have never been stopped and asked about residents satisfaction rates.The results do seem rather surprising bearing in mind the incompetence of Enterprise since April last year. Is everything in the garden rosy?

Jean F Fernandez ● 4892d