UP FRONT
Sports awards are back
Here is your chance
to recognise
the outstanding
achievements of local
sports club members,
coaches, volunteers
and clubs themselves
with the 2019 Ealing
Sports Awards. The
aim of the popular
Actonians won club of the year 2018
awards, now in
their third year, is to
celebrate the achievements of local clubs
and individuals and inspire people of all
ages and abilities to Get Moving and get
involved in sport.
For more details and to make
nominations visit www.everyoneactive.com/EalingSportsAwards
and read more on last year’s winners at ealingnewsextra.co.uk/getmoving
Award for housing
The council has won an award for its
ground-breaking temporary housing made
using modified shipping containers.
These homes, built in partnership with
QED Sustainable Developments, house
96 vulnerable families who would otherwise be in bed and
breakfast accommodation. Ealing was one of the first local
authorities to do this.
They are at Marston Court in Borders Walk, Hanwell; and Meath
Court in Hope Gardens, Acton; and the council picked up the
Homes and Housing category at the Place West London Awards
2018 for the improvements these homes have brought to the
lives of homeless residents.
One resident said: “I was so happy that I had my own front
door that I could lock and my own bathroom and kitchen. It
gave me peace of mind that I was keeping my daughter safe. It
was also a relief to be able to stay within Ealing, and be close
to my friends, family and work.”
Read the full story at ealingnewsextra.co.uk/latest-news
Westgate House
Offices to homes
A well-known office building next to the
Hangar Lane gyratory is being transformed into
apartments – and the new development will
include genuinely affordable homes.
Once work by Galliard Homes is finished,
Westgate House will provide studio flats
and one- and two- bedroom apartments –
a proportion of which will be available at
genuinely affordable rates.
It is part of the council’s plans to work with
developers and housing associations to provide
2,500 genuinely affordable new homes in the
borough by 2022 in response to London’s housing
crisis. They will qualify as ‘genuinely affordable’
by being available as social rent, London Living
Rent or London Affordable Rent tenures.
Visit ealingnewsextra.co.uk/latest-
news/new-homes
Cinema update
Work is now well under way on bringing Ealing’s
cinema back to life, along with a ‘cultural quarter’
of shops, restaurants and homes.
Piling work was due to finish by the end of
November; and the foundations should be
completed early in the new year, when the rest
of the building work will start. The new cinema
is due to be ready for autumn 2020, with the rest
of the cultural quarter completed spring 2021.
Watch a video of council leader Julian Bell at
the site at www.youtube.com/EalingCouncil
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