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Arts & Crafts Events

Please can anyone post details of forthcoming Arts/Crafts events (Fairs, Bazaars etc) in the Hammersmith/Fulham/Chiswick areas. I'm looking to sell my wares but there seems to be a real lack of opportunity in this area.  There was a time when you could exhibit in the Lyric foyer.

Tania Beaumont ● 5364d1 Comments ● 5345d

Evictions from Pallingswick House

The Council should reveal details of the financial arrangements for the West London Free School. If this school is good and if it is a desirable addition to the borough it should not be frightened of telling council tax payers how much money and benefits it has received to move into Pallingswick House.

Una Hodgkins ● 5363d4 Comments ● 5348d

Road gritting

On Thursday, just before the latest snowfall, I was in Goldhawk Road watching a borough street-sweeping machine carefully clearing away all the grit-salt from the road surface.  Was this council policy or a local initiative, or what?

Robert Shaw ● 5350d0 Comments ● 5350d

good full English breakfast - W6

I'm looking for a place for a good full English breakfast. We used to go to the Tootsies on Chiswick High Road but not only did that branch close down, I don't seem to like their breakfast in other branches as much.We've also tried The Grove on Hammersmith Grove but find their breakfast a bit too posh.Any recommendations?

Emily Wood ● 5357d3 Comments ● 5351d

up date on West London Free school.

Flagship free school deluged as nine pupils apply for every placehttp://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...A flagship free school in Hammersmith has been swamped with applications only five months after it opened, with nine children vying for every placeSeems to be going well. Pity it wasn't located in Acton wasn't it?

Maire Lowe ● 5352d0 Comments ● 5352d

Paid Market Research In Sheperds Bush

We are looking for Caucasian women who use any brand of DRY SHAMPOO often . Participants must be aged 18 -60Participants must not be pregnant or breastfeeding, have any allergies or skin diseases e.g. psoriasis The study involves using 2 types of dry shampoo for 5 days each, and have a recorded interview in their home. If you live in the Hammersmith, Chiswick or Shepherd’s Bush area and  you are interested in taking part then please get in touch!call on : 02088340785

Dalya Ortanallama ● 5358d0 Comments ● 5358d

Fire in Wood Lane, Shepherds Bush

Probably best to avoid this area, if you canhttp://storify.com/josephstash/fire-in-white-city-unigate-dairy-factory

Carol Burge ● 5361d1 Comments ● 5361d

Public Meeting today on Flyover issue

A public meeting organised by Mary Macleod, MP for Brentford and Isleworth, will be held in the West London Free School, Cambridge Grove,Hammersmith at 2pm. Representatives of TfL and Hammersmith and Hounslow Councils will attend.

David Giles ● 5379d2 Comments ● 5376d

Town Hall goes to City Hall tomorrow with Vanessa Redgrave

Come to the rally at City Hall tomorrow, Wednesday at 10.00am.Join Vanessa Redgrave and residents outside City Hall to protest at Hammersmith and Fulham Council's decision to approve the ruinous Town Hall development scheme. Mayor Boris Johnson is making his decision tomorrow on whether to block the plans - or not. Bring family, friends, banners, and bring your letters to the Mayor so we can hand them in (even if you've already sent one): 10:00am GLA - The Greater London Authority City Hall The Queen's Walk, London SE1 2AA Nearest tube from West London: Tower Hill (District Line) Cross over Tower Bridge and it's outside the blancmange-shaped steel and glass building on the south bank. Vanessa Redgrave will be attending and Sir Trevor Nunn also hopes to be there. See you there. 

Rosemary Pettit ● 5410d5 Comments ● 5378d

Mayor's referral - Hammersmith Town Hall redevelopment proposal

Despite all sorts of tweaking I still can't respond to messages on the Forum, so have to start a new thread, as follows:The Mayor of London was due to consider the application yesterday. However, SOS received this message from the GLA this morning:'Hammersmith & Fulham Council has withdrawn the stage II referral until further notice.  It means that the Mayor is not required to take a decision at this time.  The application is still live and therefore it may be referred back to the Mayor at a future date.  This will be at the Council's discretion.'There is no strict timetable for the Council to follow. The only procedural requirement for the Council is that it cannot issue a decision notice on this application until it has referred the application to the Mayor. Once the Council has referred it the Mayor, he has 14 days within which he must respond. Now the GLA has confirmed that the Council has withdrawn this referral. This simply means that the process is on hold. The Council cannot issue a decision until it has referred the application to the Mayor, and the Mayor will not respond as there is no current referral for it to respond to.  One possibility is that the Council will refer the application again in the New Year.  A second possibility is that the Council spoke with the Mayor or GLA officers and learnt that it would direct refusal. The Council then decided to withdraw the referral, allowing the applicant to withdraw the application. This would prevent the GLA making its Stage II report public.Any material changes would require the application to be taken back to the Planning Applications Committee.

Rosemary Pettit ● 5408d3 Comments ● 5378d

Public Meeting today on Flyover issue

A public meeting organised by Mary Macleod, MP for Brentford and Isleworth, will be held in the West London Free School, Cambridge Grove,Hammersmith at 2pm. Representatives of TfL and Hammersmith and Hounslow Councils will attend.

David Giles ● 5379d0 Comments ● 5379d

Hammersmith Flyover Closure Till January?

Hearing reports from various sources but nothing seems to be official. Can anyone confirm? Will make the holiday period a nightmare.

Paul Corcoran ● 5400d7 Comments ● 5379d

London Stuff for Free Event:  Help yourself, help others, help the environment

Hi - just wanted to let you all know about a unique event that the green charity 'Healthy Planet' is organising. West London residents can get rid of their clutter and unwanted Christmas presents and take home what they really need at a series of Stuff for Free events in January.Vision Warehouse 15, on Kendal Avenue in Acton will be the site of these unique community events where people can drop off any unwanted stuff and those who are feeling the pinch after Christmas can pick up household items they may need.What’s more, they’ll be helping the environment. By re-using things instead of throwing them away, residents will be helping to save landfill space, reduce fly tipping and save valuable resources. You can read more and find dates and directions at: www.stuffforfree.org.uk  

John Brookes ● 5382d0 Comments ● 5382d

Town Hall continuing

Yes, it provides housing but to whom? Not to H&F residents in all probability. Flats will be hugely expensive if similar towers at Brentford are anything to go by. It will demolish 54 Pocklington Trust homes for the blind and low paid. It will demolish the 1930s cinema (and not replace it), despite it being profitable and despite all studies showing that a cultural offering is essential to regeneration. It will introduce a bridge across the A4 and land-grab part of Furnivall Gardens. Yes, it will reinstate the north face of the Town Hall and remove the Town Hall extension (good) but it will obscure the west face of the Town Hall. English Heritage and 38 resident and amenity groups - including the Georgian Group, Victorian Society and 20th Century Society - are against it. It will give new offices to benefit the Council.  Apart from the Premier Inn (a 1960s aberration) there are no tall buildings at this end of King St.It will ruin the skyline from the Thames of the oldest and most beautiful part of Hammersmith.

Rosemary Pettit ● 5417d10 Comments ● 5386d

Town Hall bridge

You're quite right, residents will be able to use the footbridge but Una's point was that the developer inserted the bridge to benefit the owners of flats in the towers and blocks. The bridge will cost millions to build, it's long, it's high (wet and windy), it will be subject to vandalism and bricks being heaved off it, and it impedes the view of the west side of the Town Hall, a Grade II listed building. It also blocks a view of the Town Hall from Furnivall Gardens and the river. The developer had opportunities to remove it but has chosen not to do so. Despite user reservations about the underpass it is short, protected from the wind and weather, is rarely troubled by graffiti and is not a crime hotspot. The ideal solution would be a surface crossing but that would require permission from Transport for London.Now that Hammersmith flyover's life is surely limited perhaps this would be the time to push the traffic underground extending west beyond the Town Hall?(Apologies for not continuing the thread as given; despite all help from the site I still get 'Internal Server' error messages when replying to posts.)

Rosemary Pettit ● 5387d0 Comments ● 5387d

New Cleaner - recommendations anyone

Hi,Please could anybody recommend a cleaner for a flat in Shepherds Bush?  We are looking for somebody for 3 hours per week for cleaning and some ironing.  My cleaner is leaving to go back to Poland and I am looking for somebody to take her place.Thank you very much for your help.Many thanksCharlotte

Charlotte Cappin ● 5408d3 Comments ● 5388d

How to cook a turkey!

First, buy the turkey and a bottle of vodka.Pour yourself a glass of vodka and put the turkey in the oven. Take another 2 drinks of vodka, and set the degree at 375 ovens. Have 3 more vodka of drink and turn the oven on. Take 4 of vodka drinky and turk the bastey.Stick a turkey in the thermometer, and glass yourself a pour of vodka.Bake the vodka for 4 hours, take the oven out of the turkey, and floor the turkey up off the pick.Pour yourself another glass of turkey.Now just tet the sable, and turk the carvey :D Crappy P!ssmas!.

Carol Burge ● 5400d1 Comments ● 5388d

Hammersmith and Fulham Council Withdraws King Street Plans (contd)

Re the Planning Applications Committee meeting on 30th November at Latymer Upper School: Was David Walters even at the meeting? If he was he would have seen that it was a charade, a "kangaroo court" rightly held in contempt by the 400 objectors who attended.The officers presented a "report" which was a summary of the application submitted by the developers. It was not a balanced assessment of the advantages AND DISADVANTAGES of the proposals, as it should be. Apart from the list of objectors there was barely any discussion of the substance of their objections. There were uproar and shouts of "shame!" at some of the most outrageous aspects of the proposals. The Council's officers fielded planted questions from Conservative councillors on the PAC and opposition councillors sought fruitlessly to get answers to their much more searching questions. Finally, after four and a half hours of waiting the majority Conservatives rubber-stamped their approval of this shameful scheme. Hammersmith Council was seen to be an authoritarian regime determined to railroad their plans through the hearing come hell or high water.I don't think that PAC meetings are really supposed to be like this!

Una Hodgkins ● 5407d6 Comments ● 5403d

Hammersmith and Fulham Council Withdraws King Street Plans

David Walters has consistently misrepresented (1) the number of people who responded to Helical Bar and Grainger's "consultation" - actually a carefully orchestrated PR exercise and (2) the nature and selling price of the proposed flats.(1) The number of respondents at a public meeting in a tent in Lyric Square in July 2010 was very, very small - about 400 in all. The visitors were shown three plans which looked very similar and asked to choose between them. They were not encouraged to answer separately: "None of the above". The "consultation" was a "box-ticking" exercise, in order to include a "Report on Consultation" with the planning application, as the developers are legally required to do.(2) Early on we found out that Helical Bar and Grainger were using as their model riverside developments by St George's at Imperial Wharf (Sands End/Chelsea) and at Battersea Reach next to Wandsworth Bridge. These flats are sold over the internet to buyers seeking to invest in Luxury Investment Properties (LIP in the trade!) for between 500K and £4M (see for example flats at Kew Bridge development - also St George!) The owners hardly ever visit them. Not at all the "regeneration" of King Street which Hammersmith Council has trumpeted!In order to attract these ultra-rich overseas buyers the proposal included the horrendous footbridge over the Great West Road: the owners of the penthouse flats were to be given the illusion of their own "private" access to "their" riverside gardens - This is actually Furnivall Gardens, a metropolitan  open space created in 1951 for the people of Hammersmith.Crucial elements of the development have been misrepresented. The developers hoped to get away with their deliberate "economies with the truth". They have not!

Una Hodgkins ● 5407d0 Comments ● 5407d

Council Slammed over Handling of Super Sewer Plans

I was at the meeting. Stephen Greenhalgh towered over the slight Phil Stride and Richard Aylard. He was itching to snatch the microphone back from them as they tried to answer the questions put to them. Of course I am sorry for the residents next to the proposed site. But the method for selecting sites for drilling which is being followed by Thames Water is the correct and legal procedure, the point which the two directors were trying to make. If the procedure comes up with the "wrong" answers, that is not the fault of the messengers Phil Stride and Richard Aylard.Mr Greenhalgh is in a position of responsibility and should be impartial. Could his barely suppressed frustration with the selection of the Carnwath Road site have more to do with (1) the delay to the "Fulham South Regeneration Site" which he has championed and (2) just possibly his ownership of 4 properties in Fulham (H & F Register of interests)? In addition the wholesale rebuilding of the central and northern parts of Hammersmith up to Old Oak will add 25,000 residential units to the borough over the next 15-20 years. Where is the sewage supposed to go??

Una Hodgkins ● 5413d1 Comments ● 5411d