We have been very busy this fortnight, attending various meetings, reporting fly-tips, broken pavements, broken lights, litter, eyesores, illegal parking and trying to get answers from Brent and Camden Councils. Read more further down. Our local historian, Dick Weindling has also been very busy! Here is a story about the Sidings, off Maygrove Road and …
What’s happened this fortnight 9th February 2020 Read More »
We attended the above meeting in an attempt to find out what will be programmed and what would this would mean for residents. The meeting was poorly attended and no local Councillor was present. A production manager (Wesley Pierce of Number 8 Events) has been appointed to manage the logistics of the Party. We were …
Residents ,businesses and users of Kilburn High Road have been promised public realm improvements since 2012. So far very little has come to fruition and we have decided that we would this time follow it through! In July 2019 we attended a pre-consultation meeting promising a formal consultation on the plans by September 2019. We …
Kilburn High Road Improvement Project update of 3rd February 2020 Read More »
A case study for November 2019 There are many complaints about the lack of cleanliness of Kilburn High Road. Many factors contribute to this perception ie litter, fly tips, rubbish bags strewn across narrow busy pavements, unkempt shop fronts, stained pavements, stickers on frontages and street furniture, dirty public bins etc… In November 2019, it …
Welcome to our first newsletter of 2020 and sorry we skipped on week… Kilburn has outstanding Fish and Chips according to our local culinary expert, at the North London Tavern and at the Black Lion. It was nice to see that on Christmas day most of Kilburn’s pubs were open and that also our 24/7 …
What’s happened in the least 3 weeks 12th January 2020 Read More »
Brent have secretly devised plans to change the public realm around Kilburn station. One of our reader alerted us to the ‘secret’ consultation that is open till the 6th January 2020. Unfortunately this consultation has not been publicised. Here is the consultation. Here is the map of proposed changes with the very significant issue that …
Proposed changes to public realm around Kilburn Station Read More »
On the 12th November Brent hosted a press launch of the Brent Borough of Cultures 2020 at the Kiln Cinema. We were not invited! A lot of selfies and 2 major announcements that affect Kilburn; Zadie Smith is writing a play to be performed end of 2020 at the Kiln Theatre and the Kilburn Street …
What’s happened this fortnight 24th November 2019 Read More »
Most of you would know that Kilburn High Road was referred as the ‘Music Mile’. Very few of you know that Kilburn High Road has hosted a large number of cinemas. Today only one is open! These old Cinemas have mostly been destroyed however some still provide a distinct character to the High Road. 1. …
Traffic chaos on the Kilburn High Road was created again by Thames Water fixing their chamber cover in front of 207 Kilburn High Road. This was their third attempt in one year! Let’s hope this time they did it right. We showed pictures of their previous attempts to the engineer from the company that supplies …
What’s happened this fortnight 10th November 2019 Read More »
The Local Government Boundary Commission of England are consulting until 11th November 2019 on new proposed ward boundaries in Camden. Here is a map of the new proposed wards. When we saw the proposals we were puzzled by the proposed changes so decided to investigate how Electoral Wards have changed over time in North West …
Local Government Wards- History of North West Camden changes Read More »