Angry Residents Redesign Ealing Council Logo
Stop the Arden Tower Block group suggests alternative borough branding
The Arden Road car park. Picture: Google Streetview
A group of West Ealing residents angry at plans to build an 8-storey block in their area have designed a new logo for Ealing Council with towers replacing trees.
The ‘Stop the Arden Tower Block’ group is opposing a development of 29 private flats on Arden Road – a small side street in the Five Roads Homezone. It says it will destroy a community garden that residents have been nurturing for over ten years and may lead to the next door church being forced to close.
The development will be built on the Arden Road / Uxbridge Road car park and is part of Ealing Council’s plans to build nearly 2,000 flats in the Central Ealing and West Ealing area.
The group is now suggesting replacing Ealing’s famous tree logo with one that will represent the number of tower blocks being built in the community. A similar idea was first proposed by the Stop The Towers group.
Local resident Charmian Boyd said: “We called it the Oasis Garden as it was a quiet place people could come to sit and relax. We’ve planted olive trees and herbs and flowers there. We get quite a lot of visitors who appreciate the hard work we’ve put in.
“This 8 storey block will be on its south side and will take all the sunlight. Nothing will thrive there if it’s built.”
The proposed logo redesign
The new block will go up next to the Ealing National Spiritualist Church – a single storey church building.
President of the church Jeannine Andre said: “The development will block daylight from the church and prevent us from using the fire escape which goes into the car park.
“Many of our congregation are quite elderly and use the car park so that they can easily get into the church. We also park cars for weddings and funerals there.
“If this development goes ahead, we may lose some of our congregation and it could lead to us closing down.”
Hugh Comerford, chair of the Five Roads Forum residents’ association said: “Our residential streets are being surrounded by a ring of huge tower blocks currently being built and with others planned – in Gordon Road, in Hastings Road, in Manor Road by West Ealing station and now in Arden Road.
“We understand that flats in West Ealing are currently being advertised and sold abroad – so how is that providing homes for local people. The council is just selling off our quality of life – not helping local people.”
You can make comments on the plans on Ealing Council’s web site using reference number 203717FUL until 10 November.
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October 14, 2020
