The Victoria Hall DOES NOT NEED SAVING, help Ealing people rather than mouldering victoriana
The Victoria Hall (part of the Old Town Hall) DOES NOT NEED SAVING, it is a piece of uneconomic Vistoriana (of questionnable architectural merit as Charles Jones who designed and builtit apparently started off training as an architect, but ended up qualified as an engineer) that without the investment of several million poinds cannot be used for anything other than as a draughty Victorian hall. As libraries close, disabled centres disappear, mental health support disappears we are left with a bunch of second-rate activists looking for a cause. Hey, if we need a theatre then put a plan together, raise the money and build one, if it is economically viable as the acitivists claim then they should put their money where their mouths are, get a great big mortgage, put up their houses and business as collateral and make a fat profit, if it is not profitable then why are the people of Ealing being asked to underwrite a fools errand?If the plan was to turn it into half-way housing, short term social housing, a disabled support facility, a multi-media library resource facility, even a soup kitchem, so many things that people could get behind to hekp others in Ealing, however, a subsidised entertainment facility with a bar?To me it makes more sense to shed the overhead of this relic (having preserved its architectural heritage (such as it is) which is happening, move on and spend the money saved from not having to maintain this decaying facikity along with the money earned through renting it out to a hotel into something USEFUL, social housing, a libray, a much, much better option
Mark Julian Raymond ● 2440d22 Comments ● 2433d