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Communities join in Brent to fight council s asphalt plans

Published: 10:17 AM June 10, 2021    Updated: 10:48 AM June 10, 2021 Pavements de-slabbed in Brondesbury Road to be replaced by asphalt following failed opposition by residents - Credit: Flavia Rittner Communities across Brent exasperated with seeing their streets asphalted have joined together to confront the council. Eleven groups have come together to form Brent Residents Against Asphalt Pavements [BRAAP] to campaign in reversing Brent Council’s policy of asphalting at all costs. Cracked and buckled asphalt in Dartmouth Road, Brent - Credit: Maggie Chambers Robin Sharp, joint convenor of the group, said: “This is a unique coming together of 11 residents’ groups and associations in Brent objecting to replacing long-lasting paving slabs with cheap impermeable tarmac. 

Willesden locals urge council to reject Merkur Slots centre

She said: “We need children to aspire to great things, not just to reaching the age where they can go inside these places.”  She said the proposed 24-hour opening of the shop is “absolutely inappropriate”, given the close proximity of residential flats and has witnessed people coming out of these places “clearly disturbed or intoxicated”. “It s really not fair on the residents and shopkeepers, especially in such difficult times where many are struggling financially, she said. Our High Road needs a positive push, which definitely is not this.   A Merkur Slots spokesperson said it is an excellent opportunity to bring this important site, a closed venue in the heart of the town centre, back into commercial use .

Brent Council rejects latest Willesden Green Garage proposals

A CGI of the proposed development (Photo: Brent Council) Plans to add more flats to a proposed development at the site of a disused MOT garage were rejected by councillors. Brent Council’s planning committee yesterday (Wednesday, April 7) refused an application for 16 extra homes and an additional storey at Willesden Green Garage, in St Paul’s Avenue. It suggested the new plans “fall short on so many levels”, with concerns around limited amenity space and the level of affordable housing. A scheme seeking to provide 70 flats in a building up to seven storeys was approved on appeal in December 2019 after councillors had initially rejected it on similar grounds to those given yesterday.

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