'Therefore it makes most sense, in the first instance, to improve those parts which are most obvious to the majority of citizens.'Alan, I think the point is that the money being spent on central Ealing is not money being spent 'in the first instance' but continuous upgrading at the expense of other parts of the borough that would like some initial funding to introduce much needed facilities into their comparatively deprived areas. Central Ealing's parks, library and town centre have been improved several times in my own living memory whereas the Northala project is a one-off opportunity to create something iconic in Northolt.Of course the Borough does not have unlimited funds - that is precisely why it would be fairer to see that which it does have spent where it's needed most and I would suggest that should not be in central Ealing but where facilities are most lacking, as in Northolt.I cannot see how the back streets of south Ealing and Northfields, or indeed Northfields Avenue shopping centre fall into your category of being one of 'those parts which are most obvious to the majority of citizens' and so more deserving, according to your philosophy, of investment from our council tax than Northala Fields. People are less likely to get on a bus to go there than they are a country park. Neither do most people in the Borough visit Pitzhanger Manor or Ealing Studios for that matter. Yet the current Council is beligerent in its fixation to pinch the much valued heritage street furniture from conservation areas such as Brentham and Hanwell Village Green in order to manufacture a heritage quarter there.It would have been wiser and fairer to allow the few areas that still have these lights, that wish still to keep them, that feel so aggrieved that they are being taken to glam up the false heritage quarter creation, to condense them in their own areas so they too could preserve part of their own genuine heritage.
Hannah Wells ● 6572d