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Cabinet 'review' leaves £18m Olympic Way proposal unchanged
If you'd had a fit of sneezing at the Brent Cabinet meeting yesterday you would have missed the decision to go ahead with the £17.8m public realm improvement to Olympic Way using Community...
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Neighbourhood CIL consultation closes today with key information unavailable
Brent Council's Neighbourhood CIL consultation closes today without the publication of the results of the Round 2 of Neighbourhood CIL allocations.Consultation should be based on the easy availability...
View ArticleBrent's Neighbourhood CIL consultation extended by one week - Deadline now...
Further to my story below and representations to the Council about the failure to publish the results of Round 2 of Neighbourhood CIL, the consultation has been extended by one week. Round 2 results...
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FURTHER UPDATE 21.00: Burst water main affecting NW2, NW4 and NW11 water...
Pictures from London 999UPDATE 21.00 from Thames WaterOur engineers are on site and we're working to restore the water as soon as we can. Then we can begin work on repairing the broken pipe. Bottled...
View ArticleQuintain announce new theatre on site of Fountain Studios
Press release from Quintain (Wembley Park) Quintain (Wembley Park) has announced an exciting new theatre venture. The flexible 1,000-2,000 seat capacity Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre is being...
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Tulip Siddiq's parliamentary assistant chosen to fight Willesden Green for...
Elliot Chappell, a parliamentary assistant to Tulip Siddiq MP (Hampstead and Kilburn) has been selected to be the third candidate on the Labour slate for the Willesden Green council election, following...
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'Radical action needed to protect Brent's children from air pollution,' says...
Poster from Green Action CentreFrom Clean Air for BrentThe Mayor of London has published his long-awaited School Air Quality Audits, and they include two Brent primary schools which are situated next...
View ArticleNeighbourhood CIL awards published at last
Following pressure from Wembley Matters, the outcome of applications for Round 2 Neighbourhood CIL has been published. The largest single award is £268,000 for fitting out Preston Community Library and...
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Celebrating Brent's Conservation Areas
I am please to publish this guest post by local historian Philip Grant Conservation Areas were introduced in England by the Civic Amenities Act 1967, as a way of preserving the character of areas in...
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Sweets Way evictor Guy Hands prepares bid for Quintain's private rental...
Guy Hands The financial press reported over the weekend that private equity investor and tax exile Guy Hands is contemplating a £2.5bn bid for Quintain in a move to get into the privately rented...
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The Memory Lounge, for people with Dementia and their carers, launches on...
The Memory Lounge launches at Preston Community Library on Monday June 11th with special guests The Wrinklers plus talks, information and refreshments.This is the only group in the area offering a...
View ArticleBravo! Sickle Cell Society's enormous achievements recognised with national...
Wembley Matters some time ago covered the campaign against the Brent CCG's decision to end funding for the Harlesden based Sickle Cell Society's local advice and support project LINK so I am...
View ArticleDisappointment as London Mayor decides not to intervene in the Cricklewood...
Sadiq Khan, the London Mayor, yesterday decided not to intervene in the construction of an aggregate Superhub in Cricklewood. It was open to him to directly refuse the application approved by Barnet...
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Brent set to build new primary school next to busy road despite air pollution...
The actual site yesterdayArtist's impressions of the new school above and belowLess than two weeks after Brent Clean Air warned about the need for urgent action to protect children from air pollution...
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Alison Hopkins rages against the machines - both mechanical and political!
Former Liberal Democrat councillor and Dollis Hill resident Alison Hopkins has reacted angrily to Sadiq Khan's decision to allow the Cricklewood Aggregate Superhub to go ahead. In a statement for...
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Is this worth £17.8m of our CIL money? Proposals for Olympic Way.
The new public spaceThe Agenda of the next Planning Committee LINK contains plans for the space next to the Brent Civic Centre/Wembley Library. Readers will recall that modification of the original...
View ArticleDo afternoon Cabinet meetings reduce accountability?
I thought that the early timing of the first Cabinet meeting of the new administration was deliberately fixed to allow a General Purposes Committee (with almost the same personnel) to take place...
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