Meeting with Alice Leister and Shama Tatler 4th March 2020 Following our criticism of some of the recent Planning Applications in South Kilburn we were offered a meeting with Alice Lester to gain more information. An invitation that we gladly accepted! In advance of the meeting we sent the questions that we would have liked …
The storms made way for fantastic light over Kilburn on 16th February. Herbert Brown premises at 306 Kilburn High Road, corner of Palmerston Road are up for rent at £25000 per annum. A great way to get cheap food goodies and to reduce food waste is to subcribe to Toogoodtogo. Several Kilburn businesses participate in …
What’s happened this fortnight 23rd February 2020 Read More »
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 »
There has been a lot of talk about improvements that are needed in Kilburn way back since 2012. And that is all there has been, talk, consultations and more talk and excuses. We wonder if/when Brent and Camden councils will put any of it into action. We love this tweet, “it took 8 years for …
What’s happened this fortnight 26th January 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 …
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Piccolo cafe are hosting music evenings for young musicians to play in. Labour’s Tulip Siddiq won in Hampstead and Kilburn in the general election. Whatever you feel about the election results, being part and helping our local community regardless of party affiliation seems to be the only caring way forward. A new mobile phone shop …
What’s happened this fortnight 22nd December 2019 Read More »