BRA News Archive

Christmas tree recycling details can be found on the Council's website.

Recycling your cards
The Woodland Trust is once again running its annual Christmas card recycling campaign, which last year collected nearly 60 million cards. To take part, simply drop your used cards into special bins in branches of Marks and Spencer, T K Maxx and WH Smith throughout January. The cards will be collected and recycled into newspapers, paper towels and writing paper, and the Woodland Trust will plant 12,000 new trees.

Annual Party

Tuesday 2 March at Godolphin and Latymer School (not 23 February as previously advised).

Are you Ready?

Meeting about preparing residents for emergencies, led by H&F Council: Thursday, 25 February, 7pm, Brackenbury School. More details to follow - do make a note in your diary.

Goldhawk Appeal
Homemade grapefruit marmalade now selling in Buchanans, that excellent delicatessen. Proceeds towards the barrister's fee for the Goldhawk Industrial Estate call-in enquiry.

Innocent to leave Brackenbury
Innocent is to leave the Goldhawk Industrial Estate for the more hospitable surroundings of Portobello Dock. See the Evening Standard story at http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23787605-innocent-smoothies-in-the-dock-but-its-sales-shoot-up.do. Not only is Fruit Towers moving out of Brackenbury, it is leaving the borough altogether - our loss, Kensington's gain.

Brackenbury Christmas tree
Kindly supplied by Shoots and Leaves, the Brackenbury Christmas tree is now twinkling with lights beside Port of Manila restaurant, and awaiting children singing carols next Friday, 11 December, from 4pm. (If you have spare Christmas decorations feel free to adorn the tree.) After the carols those who wish may adjourn to Gina's Cakes and then to Discantus Christmas readings and music at Holy Innocents at 8pm - see the poster here.

Carols

Goldhawk Industrial Estate - planning decision postponed

(Posted30/7/09)

We had expected that the proposal to redevelop the Goldhawk Industrial Estate would be heard at the next Planning Applications Committee (PAC) on 5 August. A couple of days ago, however, we heard that the Environment Agency had renewed its objection to the application so that the developer, London & Newcastle, could supply more information on flooding. We're making enquiries and representations. If you would like to be on our Goldhawk emailing list for further details, just get in touch. We also have a site on Facebook - just write 'Goldhawk' in the Search box - great visuals. And on Wednesday, 5 August why not join us at the Town Hall at 7.00pm for the PAC meeting (sans the Goldhawk estate proposal)? Sooner or later developments affect us all - just as well to see Council decision-making in operation.

Goldhawk Industrial Estate, the planning committee and Patrick Clarkson QC
On 5 August, 7.00pm onwards at the Town Hall the fate of the Goldhawk Industrial Estate off Brackenbury Rd will be decided. At the Planning Applications Committee (PAC) meeting we will hear if enterprises such as Innocent Smoothies may continue, or will London and Newcastle get permission to raze the lot and cram in an office block and residential accommodation? To discover what the planning officer says in his report this coming Tuesday (28th), click on http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/Council_and_Democracy/Decisions_meetings_and_agendas/Other_Committees/68510_Other_Committees.asp . Then click on Planning Applications Committee and go to 5 August which will be highlighted by Tuesday. In there we should find the agenda and other documents, including the officer's recommendation for the Goldhawk Industrial Estate application. But it's not up to him to decide to pass or refuse the application - that's the job of councillors on the PAC.

From past experience we know that officers advise the PAC to accept an application because not to do so would invite an appeal from the developer. With this in mind residents and the Soundhouse on the estate have instructed Patrick Clarkson QC to examine the officer's report to the PAC. Mr Clarkson is a top planning barrister who acted for the Council - and won - in the Allied Carpets appeal.

Join us on 5 August at the Town Hall.

AGM 2009

Annual General Meeting - date for your diary
The Annual General Meeting of BRA is booked for Tuesday, 7 July (evening) at the Grove Neighbourhood Centre.

BRA's 10th Anniversary!

We cordially request the pleasure of your company at the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Brackenbury Residents Association on Tuesday, 24 February.

It’s 10 years since the Brackenbury Residents Association first drew breath, and you’re invited to help celebrate a decade of successful community activity:

10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
ON 24 FEBRUARY
6.30 – 9.00pm
Godolphin and Latymer School, Iffley Rd

Guest of Honour:
Cllr Andrew Johnson
Mayor of Hammersmith and Fulham

Meet neighbours, friends & invited guests over wine and canapés

Tickets cost £4 in advance, or £5 on the door – 1st drink complementary. (Then a modest contribution of £1.50/glass.)
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Tickets from BRA, 45 Bradmore Park Rd, W6 0DT. Cheques payable to Brackenbury Residents Association; cash – hand deliveries only. No tickets issued in advance – to be collected on the door, on the evening.

Please book ……… persons to the Celebration on 24 February

My name………………………………………Email address or tel. no…………………………………..

I enclose a cheque or cash for £…………. (£4 per person).

Goldhawk Industrial Estate update

Keep in touch with the Goldhawk Industrial Estate redevelopment through our regular emails. Last Saturday a Gazette photographer took our photos by the entrance to the estate (thanks to the 20 plus people who came along), a delegation is meeting Cllr Greenhalgh and our Ravenscourt Park councillors tomorrow, and on Wednesday you're invited to attend Council Questions at the Town Hall, 7.00pm in the public gallery of the Council chamber (be there at 6.45pm); three residents local to the Goldhawk estate will be asking questions. If you'd like to be added to our Goldhawk emailing list just let me know. We've also got a Goldhawk group on Facebook. Come along, see what's on offer and join up. We should have some new visuals very soon, produced for the meeting with councillors tomorrow.

Rubbish and recycling bags

From next week, the rubbish collectors will pick up orange recycling bags if easily visible from WITHIN your premises at street level. Put the bags out, say the Council, from 9.00pm the night before and before 6.00am the morning of collection. Rubbish will not be collected from basements. The contract requires the rubbish collectors to return bins to the property, with the bin lid replaced. Please report missed collections, or non bin/bin lid replacement, to cleaner.greener@lbhf.gov.uk as this will help to implement the contract effectively.

For clarification (says the Council) black bag rubbish has always been collected from frontages as well as street pavements. When the orange bag system was introduced, residents were asked to present them on the pavement to aid collection. Since all residents are now assumed to be participating, the rubbish collectors will collect from your premises.
 

Xmas Tree Recycling 5th - 16th Jan 09

LBHF will again be recycling Christmas trees this year and will also be collecting them from the kerbside as well as 4 designated drop off points. To see more details see the LBHF Website.

For a map of which day they will be collecting in your area click here.

Goldhawk Industrial Estate Redevelopment - Public Meeting
If you live in the vicinity of the Goldhawk Industrial Estate you may have seen a flyer pop through your letterbox just before Christmas, announcing a public meeting this coming Wednesday, 7 January.

And here are the details: Goldhawk Industrial Estate – proposed major commercial & residential development near you:
 

P U B L I C   M E E T I N G: Wednesday, 7 January: Brackenbury School, Dalling Road, W6

6.00pm: London and Newcastle exhibition ~ meet the developer
7.30pm Public Meeting with speakers: Angela Clarke, chair, Hammersmith Society ~ Richard Winterton, architect, Brackenbury Residents Association
Chair: Cllr Stephen Cowan

London and Newcastle proposes to redevelop the site from 11 light-industrial units to 52 dwellings and 11 commercial units. See the developer’s application HERE.

This may affect YOU if you live in -
…  BRACKENBURY ROAD or nearby - extra traffic, parking stress and noise;
…  DALLING ROAD or CRESSY COURT - loss of privacy and noise, extra traffic;
…  GOLDHAWK ROAD - security, light, intrusion and loss of privacy.
It is also concerning that the building works are so close to Brackenbury School. How, for example, to pile drive an underground carpark so that neither the school nor residents are unduly disturbed? There are security and privacy matters also.
All are welcome to the Public Meeting on 7 January - hear about this development - ask questions. Even if you think it won't affect you the ripple-out effect of increased traffic and parking demand will go much wider than the immediate area.

We've started a group on Facebook. Called Goldhawk Industrial Estate Redevelopment Ha! it's at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=42160945966&ref=nf. You don't have to be signed up to Facebook to see it, but if you want to contribute it's easy to do. Why not click through and have a look at comments made by residents, photographs of the estate, mock-up of the 4-storey block as seen from Goldhawk Road and an architect's drawing of the proposed housing as viewed from Dalling Rd. Also a pic of the site for four proposed 'mews houses' on Vinery Way - thus creating the perfect bottleneck along the service road.


Goldhawk Industrial Estate - Public Meeting
London and Newcastle proposes to redevelop this site (off Brackenbury Rd) from 11 light-industrial units to 52 dwellings and 11 commercial units. In conjunction with nearby residents the Brackenbury Residents Association has arranged a Public Meeting on Wednesday, 7 January at Brackenbury School. See attachment for further details.

If the Council accepts the planning application the redevelopment will have significant effects on you if you live in Brackenbury Rd (or Brackenbury Gardens, Carthew Villas, Benbow Rd and Coulter Rd west), Dalling Rd, Cressy Court or Goldhawk Rd. Increases in traffic and parking stress will ripple further afield along Cardross St, Carthew Rd, Iffley Rd, Nasmyth St, Tabor Rd, Wellesley Avenue and Wingate Road.

This is a big development. Come to the Public Meeting at 7.30pm to hear all about it; and meet London and Newcastle and visit the exhibition beforehand at 6.00pm.

Rubbish/waste collection
The Council informs us that this is changing in our area to Wednesdays from 2 February.

Garden waste service
You may recall that we requested your views on the continuance of the white sack garden refuse collection service, following a letter from the Council setting out three options: stopping collecting, booking a service or continuing existing service with reduced subsidy. We received some responses but they were not conclusive. Some members have already submitted their responses directly to the Council. If you wish to do so then go to www.citizenspace.com/local/lbhf; you can view other residents' responses which may be helpful in formulating your own.

Godolphin and Latymer School
Ancient Greek and Roman Breakfast Club:
The breakfast club recommences on Friday, 9 January, with 'Visualising Virgil' by Dr Christine Spillane. Breakfast: £2.00 at 7.45am. Talk: 8.00-9.00am.

Cinema Club: 'Top of the World Ma' : American Dreams, American Gangsters. 
Monday, 12 January, 6.30pm in Room 5, the Main Building. Contact Stephen Ridgwell via email at 

sridgwell(at)godolphinandlatymer.com.

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

                                 Residents Association

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.

Green Waste Collections Commence

BRA AGM

1 Welcome

2 Apologies

3 Minutes of 2005 AGM

4 Chairman’s Report

5 Secretary’s Report

6 Treasurer’s Report

7 Activity Reports

• Graffiti

• Police and crime matters

• Street cleaning and recycling

• Next year’s objectives

8 Rule Change

9 Election of Committee Members

10 Questions and issues from the floor

11 Thanks and close

Neighbourhood Watch Scheme

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

National Gardens Scheme in Brackenbury Village 

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. 

New Year Social

This year's New Year Social was held on  Tuesday, 21 February at Godolphin & Latymer School from 7pm until 9:30pm

Tree meeting - Wednesday, 30 November, 7.00pm, Grove Neighbourhood Centre, Bradmore Park Rd

Local TV transmitter off the air (11/11/05)

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 pubs & bars to open until 2:30 in the morning. (added 22/7/05)

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.

Green Waste Recyling

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.

BRA's Chairman hits the headlines (added 3/5/05)

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!

Graffiti Day (added 26/4/05)

See our Graffiti Page

Annual General Meeting  (added 26/4/05)

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.

Planning Update  (added 26/4/05)

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.