BRA News Archive
Dec 08
Nov 08
As promised Boris Johnson the Mayor Of London has launched a review of the West London Congestion Charge Zone.
Have your say by filling in the questionnaire on the Transport for London Web Site (consultation now finished)
Remember if you want to get rid of it then it is Option 2 ONLY
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A number of cars were damaged overnight in Carthew Road & Cardross Street (7 April 08)
If you were affected then report this to the police either by calling the
local station on 020 8246 2425 or by
doing it on line. Link is on the BRA website under Neighbourhood Watch or direct
by going to URL
https://online.met.police.uk/
At least 15 broken wing mirrors were seen by one of our members this morning.
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Dear Member,
At the planning committee meeting on Tuesday the NCP carpark development
was approved by councillors. After three hours presentation of reports,
questions and discussion councillors voted:
For:
Cllr Lucy Ivimy (Chair)
Cllr Alex Karmel (Vice-Chair)
Cllr Will Bethell
Cllr Helen Binmore
Cllr Andrew Johnson
Cllr Steve Hamilton
Against:
Cllr Colin Aherne
Cllr Michael Cartwright
Cllr Wesley Harcourt
Abstention:
Cllr Eugenie White
This association will be considering what further action, if any, it will take.
In the meantime there are posters to remove from trees and telegraph posts.
We fully intend to remove all posters but it would greatly aid our task if
you would safely remove a poster near your home and dispose of it.
I would personally like to thank all those who wrote letters, put up
posters, delivered leaflets, gave advice and support, asked questions and
attended the meeting this evening. Without you this development would have
gone through almost unnoticed.
With best wishes,
Rosemary
The AGM of the Brackenbury Residents Association was held on Monday, 9
July, 7.00pm at the Grove Neighbourhood Centre in Bradmore Park Road.
Minutes of the meeting to follow.
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Under new garden waste collections the Council
will collect garden waste in
white sacks on Mondays (instead of Saturdays) from 2 April. You will need to
register with the Council by calling tel. 0208 753 1100 or by going online
at
http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/gardenwaste from 28 March 07.
Registration costs £6 and enables the council to deliver sacks directly to a
resident’s door rather than gardeners having to collect them.
If you have any white sacks left over from last year they can still be used,
but you will need to register so the Council knows where to pick up your
garden waste.
What are you
doing on MONDAY, 26 February, between 7.00 – 9.30 p.m?
Whatever you’re
planning it won’t be as much fun as joining us in the great hall of Godolphin
and Latymer School, Iffley Road, for BRA’s 2007 Social.
Have a friendly
chat with your neighbours, friends, councillors, and even our MP over a glass of
wine and nibbles.
Tickets: £3 in
advance, or on the door - your first drink is complimentary.
Tickets are
available from Buchannan's and from BRA’s membership secretary, using the form
below. Tickets bought in advance will be distributed a few days before the
party.
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Please book………………………. persons to the Social on 26 February
My name………………………………………………………………….
Address……………………………………………………………………
Email………………………………………………………… Tel. No……………………………...
I enclose a cheque, payable to Brackenbury Residents Association for £………… (£3/person)
Cash for hand deliveries only. Send to: Rosemary Pettit, Membership Secretary,
45 Bradmore Park Rd, W6 0DT. Tel. 020 8846 9707.
Local Talks
Location : Holy Innocents Church in Paddenswick Road
1) Mortimer's Miscellany with Sir John Mortimer CBE, playwright,
novelist and former barrister. He'll be accompanied by Joanna David, amongs
others, in an evening of music and readings from plays, novels and stories at
6.00pm on Sunday, 28 January, in aid of a cancer research project at th Royal
Marsden Hospital. Tickets are £15 and £10 (restricted view) to includ wine and
canapes, and may be ordered by sending a cheque, made out t CAF/Shocking Pink
Party Appeal (with SAE), to Sally Munton, 31 Basildo Court, 28 Devonshire St,
London W1G 6PP
2) Song recital by Catherine May accompanied by Lindy Tennent-Brown on Sunday,
25 February at 4.00pm and is a song recital by Catherine May accompanied by
Lindy Tennent-Brown. The recital includes songs by Debussy, Britten and the
first London performance of 'Mr Tambourine Man' song cycle. Tickets are £8.00
(£5.00 concessions), available at the door.and is a s. The recital includes
songs by Debussy, Britten and the first London performance of 'Mr Tambourine
Man' song cycle. Tickets are £8.00 (£5.00 concessions), available at the door.
Beware of Scammers - 1st Nov 06
See more details here
Parking Comments
In this quarters newsletter residents were asked to comment on the local parking issues. The email address given in the newsletter was incorrect.
It should be:-
B•R•A•CKENBURY
YOUR FRONT
GARDEN
Growing plants or
concrete?
· Like a more beautiful front garden?
· Room for pots and window-boxes?
· Looking for ideas and inspiration?
· A greener and more flourishing neighbourhood?
Then come to a garden meeting on
Tuesday, 14 November, 7.30 – 9.30pm
at
Grove Neighbourhood Centre, Bradmore Park Road
With speakers *CHRISTINE EBORALL* of Ealing Local Agenda 21, an environmental group researching disappearing front gardens, and *KIM WHATMORE*, local garden designer and plant enthusiast.
To make your booking please send a cheque for £3 per person (£4 non-members), payable to Brackenbury Residents Association, to the Membership Secretary, 45 Bradmore Park Road, W6 0DT. Include your name(s) and contact details – tickets will be delivered a few days before the event. The evening will conclude with a glass of wine.
THE AGM AGENDA
1
Welcome2
Apologies3
Minutes of 2005 AGM4
Chairman’s Report5
Secretary’s Report6
Treasurer’s Report7
Activity Reports- Planning and licensing
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Graffiti•
Police and crime matters•
Street cleaning and recycling•
Next year’s objectives8
Rule ChangeTo consider the proposed new rule 12
9
Election of Committee Members10
Questions and issues from the floorGuest Speaker: Adrian Chiles, broadcaster
and local resident
11
Thanks and closeApologies and queries to the Secretary,
Treena Jinnah, at treena_maguire@yahoo . co . uk
Q&A
If you have any questions on issues not covered on the AGM agenda, it would be helpful to have them in advance so the committee can provide you with a considered response.
As our guest speaker this year we are delighted to have
Brackenbury resident, Adrian Chiles, who will give us his wry observations on
living in the area.
He is a familiar face on BBC television and radio, presenting a broad spectrum of sport and business programmes such as “Working Lunch" on BBC2 every weekday and “Chiles on Saturday” on BBC Radio Five Live. Currently in Germany presenting “World Cup Match of the Day” every evening on BBC1, we are delighted to welcome him to the AGM.
On Thur 11th June Leslie Speirs hosted a start your own Neighbour Hood Watch Scheme at the Grove Neighbourhood Centre.
Contact Details will be available shortly at the bottom of the Neighbourhood Watch Section
This is one for your diary - 18 June, 2-6pm, 156
Dalling Road
Kim Whatmore, local resident and garden designer, is opening her
garden in Dalling Road under the National Gardens Scheme. Admission £2 plus home-made
teas.
Kim's garden, though small - as are all our gardens in Brackenbury - is a little
gem with its three 'rooms' and bower at the end. It's stuffed full of plants and
any gardener will enjoy visiting it and gaining inspiration for their own plot.
This is the only garden in Brackenbury to open under the National Gardens Scheme
(profits to charity) - and well worth a visit on 18 June.
This year's New Year Social was held on Tuesday, 21 February at Godolphin & Latymer School from 7pm until 9:30pm
The local Hammersmith TV relay transmitter is off the air. Apparently there was a fire at the site yesterday and currently there is no BBC1, BBC2, ITV & Channel 4 available. They are putting in a new power cable in today and hope to have it finished before this evening.
Note that this will only affect you if you normally don't receive Channel 5. If you look at satellite (Sky), Freeview or direct from Crystal Palace then you will not be affected. (You can tell if you look at Hammersmith relay if your aerial has it's 'fins' vertically aligned rather than horizontally.) An example can be seen here.
Post script - Service was resumed today (11/11) at 16:20
Local licensing applications could allow local bars and restaurants to open until the early hours of the morning in the Brackenbury area..
The council website shows these applications at the Grove bar in Hammersmith Grove, The Thatched House in Dalling Road and Tree House People (formerly the Duke of York's ), Attwood Road & The Brackenbury Arms (Top Brackenbury Road).
These can all be found here on the Council web site
The Grove (page 38), The Thatched House (Page 7) and the Duke of York (appears not to have applied just yet)
and the Brackenbury Arms here (Page 7)
(Update 31/7/05- Application for
late-night licence by the Grove Bar refused
Cllr Michael Cartwright wrote:
Many representations were received. These included representations from the
police, environmental protection, health and safety and many residents,
including Brackenbury Residents Association.
The hearing for this application took place on 25 July 2005 and after the
licensing committee heard the representations from all of the relevant parties
and information from the applicant they decided to refuse the variation that had
been applied for. Therefore the Grove has not been granted an extension of their
hours and has only been permitted what they currently have.)
(Update 16th August - Thatched House
Following a residents' meeting yesterday with the licensee and Young's
representative at the Thatched House (chaired by Cllr Chris Allen), I've been
asked to send a brief summary to members.
An amended licence proposal by the Thatched House is as follows: sell alcohol
10am to midnight and 10am to 1am on Fridays and Saturdays plus half an hour
drinking-up time. Entertainment to finish half an hour before stopping serving
alcohol. Up to 12 events a year (subject to police permission) for an extra
hour. All activity in the garden to cease at 11pm.
An entertainment licence has also been applied for - to include amplified music.
However, as with other venues, the soundproofing requirements are strict. No
noise must reach the boundaries of neighbouring premises.
Cllr Allen said that 28 objections had been received to the application by the
Thatched House. The date for receipt of objections has now past. Those who had
written to the Council about this application will be notified of the hearing.
The date for this has not been set but will be about the third week of
September.
Sixteen residents attended yesterday's meeting and, despite the amended
proposals by the Thatched House, there was continuing strong objection to an
extension of existing hours for reasons of noise and general disorder. There was
considerable disquiet about amplified music and the clientele it would attract.
These views were made known to the meeting.
BRA's webmaster has had confirmation from LBHF that the Green Waste Collections will start again on 28th May 2005 then every Saturday until 3rd December.
Tony Stephens our Chairman was featured in an article the Hammersmith & Fulham Gazette recently. See the article here. We will forgive them even though they did get our Web address wrong!
See our Graffiti Page
The Annual General Meeting will be held at the Grove Neighbourhood Centre in Bradmore Park Rd on Tuesday 21st June 2005 and will start at 7 p.m. and will finish at 9 p.m.
We will have our usual order of business and elect Committee members as well as review the activities of the Association over the last 12 months.
In particular we are to consider changing the Rules to allow residents outside the Brackenbury area to become members. The following wording is proposed ‘By restricting the percentage of members resident outside the area’, with the percentage being 5% of total membership. Associate members (with no voting rights) outside the area are also to be admissible.
These changes are to be made to Rule 3 and the appropriate wording will be presented at the Meeting for members to vote on.
We are delighted to announce our guest speaker this year is Commander Heather Valentine from the local Metropolitan Police. She will be giving us updates as to the progress she has made with crime initiatives and the implementation of the Safer Neighbourhood Teams in the area.
See the planning page for latest news.
Social Evening (added 24/2/05)
The Brackenbury Residents Association social took place at the Godolphin & Latymer School in Iffley Road on Tuesday 22nd February 2005.
It was really well attended and we had about 70 people there. Great atmosphere - everyone was really chatty, friendly and very supportive.
Lots of people were really interested to hear about this web-site So if you have any further ideas please let us know via our contacts form.
Brackenbury Post Office (added 1/2/05)
BRA has been notified that the Sub Post Office in Brackenbury Road will finally close for good on 14th February 2005. Despite the apparent intentions to consult with the users the Royal Mail didn't consult with BRA.