UP FRONT: In focus
Planned investment
✔ £45million over five years on expansion of
secondary schools, including £12million to
replace the main building at Northolt High
✔ £8.3million towards completely
transforming Gunnersbury Park’s sports
facilities, over five years (see p16)
✔ £4million on improving streets
and footpaths
✔ £3.3million on disabled facility grants
✔ £480,000 to help start work on Dine
in Southall restaurant and hospitality
training school at Southall Manor House
✔ Estates regeneration programme
continues, with Copley Close in Hanwell
and Havelock in Southall the latest to
take big steps forward this year
✔ The ongoing £11million Southall Big
Plan continues with improvements at
street level
✔ The council’s New Build Programme will
continue, meaning new council housing
stock and affordable housing for the
borough. In total 70 new council homes
will be completed this year, by March
2016, meaning the council will have
built 307 homes since 2011.
Did you know?
Despite the backdrop of the economic
crisis, the council’s latest residents’
survey has shown encouraging signs
of a strong community spirit – while
82% said they were satisfied with the
area they lived in. Almost a fifth of the
2,306 residents questioned said they did
unpaid volunteering for local groups and
organisations. And an all-time high for the
survey came when 91% of respondents
agreed with the statement ‘People from
different ethnic backgrounds get on well
together’. This is up 20% since 2003. Visit
www.ealing.gov.uk/consultations for more.
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