Will there be border guards with searchlights and passport checks?
Ealing to install ANPR cameras in residential districts
Covid-19 Response LTN Surveillance Increase by Ealing Council
Acronym soup is coming to our LTN road blocks with CCTV, ANPR and PCNs. What can we expect next? Border guards with searchlights and passport checks resembling Checkpoint Charlie in divided Berlin in the 1960s?
In another financial investment by our cash strapped Council, it has allegedly purchased the ‘online engagement platform’ called Commonplace. It is to be used to better understand residents’ perceptions of LTNs on a larger scale. Commonplace is sold by Commonplace, a company offering planning consultation, community engagement and transport planning services. The Commonplace Sales and Public Affairs Executive is Ealing Council’s Councillor Peter Mason who is responsible at Ealing Council for Housing, Planning and Transformation. More at: www.commonplace.is
Ealing Council Leader Julian Bell’s obsessions with LTN surveillance, PCN revenue generation, anti-car and pro-cycling evangelism must take up a lot of his time. But he fails to acknowledge that the majority of those Ealing residents who have spoken out about LTNs have been strongly opposed to them. We have yet to watch 2,500 march in favour of LTNs or 8,500 residents sign a pro-LTN petition.
The Council’s web site states that 70% of car owners who drive through an LTN do not live in the LTN. This data gathering suggests that these non-LTN resident vehicle owners are not welcome in our neighbourhoods or shouldn’t be there. So….…delivery drivers, family, friends, taxis, Ubers, mini-cabs, plumbers, builders, electricians, Sky technicians, SSE lighting engineers, piano tuners, carers, shop owners, gardeners, painters, decorators, estate agents, midwives, district nurses, concrete mixers, Skip transporters, carpet cleaners, carpet layers, heating engineers, dish washer repairers, washing machine maintainers and solar panel installers – none of you are welcome if you are non-resident in the LTN, unless you enter and leave the LTN on foot or on a bike.
Now some road block bollards have been officially removed and numberplate recognition cameras are about to be installed, some WE Zone CPZ residents are asking - why can’t we pass freely through these LTN 21 road blocks to reach our homes? We are after all paying for the privilege of parking in our roads and why should we pay again to reach them directly?
No Covid-19 Deaths in Ealing 29 August to 4 September 2020
And just two throughout London. Although across England there were 64 deaths. The Covid-19 case count for Ealing during 7 September to 13 September 2020 was 100. This number has risen week on week recently.
Northwick Park Hospital Harrow Reports No Covid-19 Deaths 23 July to 1 September 2020
At the end of August 2020, the hospital was treating just five patients suffering from Covid-19. In April 2020 the hospital treated 1,398 Covid-19 patients. During 2020 up till 23 July 2020, Northwick Park Hospital and Ealing Hospital reported 614 Covid-19 deaths.
Covid-19 Outbreak at Featherstone Primary School Southall
‘My London’ reported on 23 September 2020 that a member of staff had tested positive and that she and all the children she had come in contact with were sent home.
Ealing Pubs, Bars and Restaurants To Close at 10pm as From 24 September 2020
Come Friday 25 September it will be just waiter/waitress service in pubs and bars. No doubt most places will start closing down by 9:30pm. Many publicans expect their trade to suffer badly even though some drinkers will be no doubt be doubling up on their last round of drinks.
It will be interesting to see how McDonald’s implements waiter/waitress service
Takeaways will have to close down from 10pm to 5am. Although takeaways can be ordered online/by phone and delivered.
‘Taking Advantage of Covid’
A video has popped up on social media in which Ealing Council Leader Julian Bell uses this phrase when addressing property developers at a July 2020 conference. He further talks about ‘making these changes permanent’ and wanting to make Ealing the ‘cycling Copenhagen of London’.
Report Estimates Up To 62,000 Job Losses at Heathrow Airport
Heathrow Airport currently supports 133,600 jobs. ‘Best’ case job losses are estimated at 37,000 and ‘worst’ case 62,000. Passenger traffic is down 81% this year. The boroughs most impacted by all this are Ealing, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Harrow, Hounslow, South Bucks and Spelthorne. (Report from Oxford Economics – www.oxfordeconomics.com)
Plans to Allow Crowds at Sporting Events from 1 October 2020 Have Been Shelved
The new surge in Covid-19 cases has delayed ‘perhaps for six months’ the return of crowds to all sporting venues. This clearly includes Ealing’s largest sporting venue - Trailfinders in West Ealing. It is the home of Ealing Trailfinders Rugby Union team and London Broncos Rugby League team. Even when crowds are allowed back in sometime in 2021, attendance will probably be capped at 25% to 33% of capacity.
Eric Leach
eric.alan.leach@gmail.com
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September 29, 2020
