Brent East Campaigning

Photos from Stonebridge - Hillside & Fawood Children's Centre

From wikipedia: Stonebridge is the largest electoral ward in Brent and includes Stonebridge Estate, and parts of Park Royal and Brent Park, St. Raphael’s Estate, Mitchellbrook and the Hillside district. The area has strong links with the Afro-Caribbean community which forms the ward’s ethnic majority. Here are a few photos of the last remaining block on the Stonebridge Estate off Hillside, Brent. You can see the cleared land from recent demolition work in the foreground....

Dawn Butler's hoarding at Unisys, Brentfield

Is back on its legs. Whatever you do, don’t visit the web address stencilled on the windows of the building, unless you want to book an escort….

Does Dawn know (or care) where Stonebridge is?

On this mornings electoral communication from the Labour Party, Dawn Butler highlights housing, in particular the investment in Stonebridge and St. Raphael’s Estate where monstrous concrete high rises are being destroyed, replaced with low-density and low-rise housing. Regeneration of Trellick Tower? Only that is not Stonebridge. It’s Trellick Tower, 3miles down the road in Ladbroke Grove….. trellick tower The stock photo comes from PhotoEverywhere....

Local Torys ready for an election.

Torys care for mapesbury! Is the exclamation mark is necessary? Well, I’m as surprised as they are, so I guess so! On the back, Brent Conservatives ask Mapesbury residents how they would vote IF there was a general election in the next few months…… Someone ought to let Sachin Rajput know that he’s on the list for Thursday. Picked up on Mora Road on Monday. Uploaded to TheStraightChoice.

Dawn Butler hording advertising at Unisys, Brentfield.

“Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may even break into the building, and if it’s unoccupied, perhaps become squatters or light fires inside.” Wilson and Kelling, 1982. A building like this? The ex-Unisys building on Brentfield has been empty for well over a decade. In 1997 the owners were granted planning consent to convert the office blocks to a 330-bedroom hotel, add a new penthouse storey on front block facing North Circular Road, a new single-deck car park and new boundary wall....