SEC is a voluntary alliance of 26 residents' and community groups from Hanwell to Acton. SEC seeks good planning for Ealing Town Centre that will reestablish it as the focal point for Ealing borough's residents. Contact Us to help, for info, to make a donation.

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Ealing In Perspective

What do Bolton, Brighton, Gateshead, Hull, Milton Keynes, Newcastle on Tyne, Northampton, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Southport, Stockport and Southampton have in common?

Answer: They all have fewer residents than Ealing does. With over 300,000 residents Ealing is a very large UK town. As such one might expect the town to have significant cultural, sporting, transport, healthcare, public safety and educational facilities.

Of these communities listed above which have smaller populations than Ealing, some have their own famous universities, major concert halls, Premier Football or Rugby clubs, significant museums, best performing hospitals, re-built railway stations and new Police Stations. Ealing has none of these!

We all must lobby our councillors to insist Ealing Council puts together an overarching integrated development plan, that combines residential, retail, transport, infrastructure and community facilities for Ealing Town Centre. This will attract the right type of developer for our prime sites and ensure that the developments, as a whole, will provide the right mix of facilities that will make Ealing the centre of the community once again.

SEC responds to Glenkerrin's revised Arcadia plan  Glenkerrin ran a public exhibition of their revised proposals for the Arcadia site on 25 July and 26 July. Feedback comments will be reviewed. They expect to submit a revised Planning Application in September-October. SEC attended and provided a detailed response back to Green Issues Communications. Read the SEC comments. 

Legal & General has entered into exclusive talks with Doughty Hanson and Plus Shops to sell its £175m, 275,000 sq ft Ealing Broadway shopping centre. Source: 15 July 2008 Property Week.

Dickens Yard Update Thank you for your support during the public consultation on the planning application for Dickens Yard  site, the car park behind our Ealing Town Hall, illustrated by the red silhouette below.  We believe the Council has received a significant number of letters from concerned residents. The Planning Officers are analysing the response and will be preparing a report for the Planning Committee which is expected to meet in mid September. Please send your objection letters to your ward councillors too. 

The incoming Head of neighbouring Christ Church C of E School handed the Council an objection letter with 560 signatures from parents. The plans show a 10 storey building is to be positioned 5 metres from school classrooms, the school will lose sun light after 1:30 every afternoon and will be cast in shade for most of the winter and the school is to lose valued playground space.   

CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) joins English Heritage and objects to Dickens Yard. CABE has informed the Council that they are not supportive of the current planning application from St George as they do not consider that the proposals gave the ‘quality of living environment’ now expected of such developments.  The full text of the letter will be publicly available online at CABE’s web site shortly. 

Did you miss the Dickens Yard objections June 27th deadline? You can still write one. The Authority must still take account of you views, if it can, before making its decision in September. So keep writing to Steve Austin AND send a copy to your councillors. Send your objection to Steve Austin and your Councillors at HOW TO OBJECT.

Ealing in Decline and Still NO Masterplan for Revitalisation

Until Ealing Council puts together an integrated development plan, that combines residential, retail, transport, infrastructure and community facilities, Ealing Town Centre will continue to decline and remain under seige from property developers that propose massive residential ghettos that are labelled 'regeneration' and 'retail'.

Save Ealing's Centre (SEC) urges Ealing Council to formalise an integrated development plan with policies that maintain the uniqueness and established spacial characteristics, scale, character and identity of Ealing Town Centre. The Council's responsibility is to create an environment that meets all stakeholders needs.

Ealing deserves better!