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Brent Housing Management challenged at Scrutiny
A presentation from Harlesden Area Action put Brent housing chiefs on the spot at yesterday's Community and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee meeting when the Council was accused of not fulfilling their...
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Why preservation and enhancement of our parks and greens spaces is so important
Winter sunshine in Fryent Country ParkThe Space to Thrive report LINK was conducted by researchers from Sheffield Hallam University and The University of Sheffield. It was produced with The National...
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Celebrating the architecture of Ernest Trobridge in Kingsbury
Many thanks to Philip Grant for this fascinating Guest Post In February 1920, Ernest Trobridge displayed his design for a “home fit for heroes” as a show house at the Ideal Home Exhibition. In a...
View ArticleGreat rap on Climate Change from primary school children
The National Education Union Climate Change Network is advocating that next week be a climate change themed week in schools. This rap from a small primary in West Cork should get the children going...
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Petition launched to save two magnificent Oak trees from felling by Brent...
Justine Huxley has launched the petition below. You can sign it HEREIn the square of gardens between Willesden Lane, Coverdale Road and Brondesbury Park are two magnificent oaks. The larger of the...
View ArticleBrondesbury Park oak tree petition taken down after Brent Council clarifies...
The petition that was launched over the weekend to try and stop the felling of two oak trees in Brondesbury Park (advertised on Wembley matters yesterday) has been taken down after Brent Council...
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General Election 2019: Did the Greens sell their souls for a few scraps from...
It is just not the Labour Party that has to undertake a review of their performance in the General Election. The forthcoming Spring Conference of the Green Party will have to seriously consider its...
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Kenton's Sue Ellen appointed chief legal adviser to the Tory Government
Following Boris Johnson's appointment of Suella Braverman (nee Fernandes) as attorney general (shortly after she attacked judges as unelected and unaccountable) it is interesting to hear from someone...
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'Community versus Committee' conflict closes Wembley Central Mosque
Few passers by would have failed to notice angry scenes outside Wembley Central Mosque after Friday Prayers recently. In fact a conflict has been going on for some time with the DO NOT DONATE group...
View Article'Don't tarmac our pavements' - petition to Brent Council
The battle over tarmac is not over yet! A petition has been mounted to persuade Brent Council that replacing broken paving is a better environmental option than laying tarmac. The petiton is authored...
View ArticleTory opposition leader on Brent Council to get £2,000 rise
A report to Full Council recommends that the leader of the 3 member Conservative Group on Brent Council gets a Special Responsibility Allowance rise from £6,000 to £8,000. The recommendation is based...
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Deadline 24 February – your only chance to see the tile murals in 2020!
Guest blog by Philip Grant in a personal capacity:I wrote last month about the “reveal” by Brent Council and Quintain of three of the Bobby Moore Bridge tile mural scenes in Olympic Way, as part of...
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Development Report lays bare South Kilburn gentrification assumptions
Wembley Matters has carried several critical commentaries on the South Kilburn regeneration - a regeneration heralded by Brent Council as a model for others.The inclusion of private development in the...
View ArticleClarity needed on Adult Day Care 'savings' and the impact on providers and users
The proposed Council Budget includes 'savings' (rather than 'cuts') in Adult Day Care which as usual are said to have no impact on users.The reported approved by Brent Cabinet that will go to the Full...
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UPDATE - NOW AVAILABLE Agenda for tomorrow's Planning Committee disappears...
Council Committee agendas are supposed to be available to the public a week before the meeting. Simple democracy.Unfortunately when I tried to check an agenda item today for the Brent Planning...
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'Blot on suburbia' planning application comes up at tomorrow's Brent Planning...
Proposed buildingExisting house to be demolished in the distance (from Queens Walk)Existing house to be demolished (behind the hoardings) from Salmon StreetI wrote about plans for the demolition of an...
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Is there a case to defer the South Kilburn application at Planning Committee...
I have been having a frustrating time tonight trying to write about the major South Kilburn development, worth millions of pounds, that is coming up at Planning Committee tomorrow.First of all the...
View ArticleThe Deloitte/Strutt and Parker reports on South Kilburn in full
The Deloitte Report on the South Kilburn development NWCC, which is a mixture of social and private housing, is available again on the Brent Planning Portal. It is a long document on the financial...
View ArticleI'm afraid you're wrong, Councillor Denselow
In a preamble to tonight's meeting Cllr Denselow referred to complaints on social media the some reports were not available to the public. He denied that this was the case and suggested that the...
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