Blogroll
- Architects For Social Housing
- Brent Housing Action
- Clean Air In London
- Defend Council Housing
- Emma Dent Coad's Blog
- Eviction Resistance
- Fight For the Aylesbury
- Focus E15
- Guinness Occupation
- Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth
- Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group
- Lambeth Housing Activists
- North Kensington Histories
- People Before Profit
- Pre-Pentimento
- Radical Housing Network
- RAP23
- Save Earls Court
- Save the Cremorne Blogspot
- Save The Sutton Estate
- Silchester Residents Association
- Squash Campaign
- The Kensington Creatives
- The Source Mag
- THis Is North Kensington
- Urban Dandy
- Westway23
Recent Posts
- 'West London Citizens' And KCTMO
- "Oh! What A Tangled Web…"
- 21st Century Slum
- 21st Century Slum – Part 2
- 38 Degrees Petition
- A Ballardian Interlude
- A Call-In Or Not A Call-In?
- A Complete Waste Of Space
- A Flying Mallet
- A Funny Thing Happened…The KALC Planning Application
- A Hard Rain – GAG joins the Radical Housing Network
- A Mock Eviction
- A Night At The Opera
- A Small Victory
- A Special Invitation
- A Sports Pitch Epilogue
- Academies To Hire Unqualified Teachers
- Air Pollution – Greening The Westway
- Aldridge Foundation To Pay London Living Wage
- All Animals Are Equal….
- An Act Of Pure Vandalism
- An Alien Landscape
- An Olympic Legacy
- An Open Letter – Chesterton Square & Broadwood Terrace
- An Open Letter To Nick Paget-Brown
- An open Letter to Nick Paget-Brown
- An Open Letter to RBKC Legal Services
- Another Fine Mess…
- Another Fire Safety Scandal
- Asbestos Scare At KALC
- AXE THE ACT DEMO
- Aylesbury Estate Occupied By Housing Activists
- Aylesbury Estate Versus Police State
- ‘Mystery Shoppers’ At North Kensington Library
- “Oh! What A Tangled Web…”
- “The Grenfell Pathway”- Will lessons be learned?
- Bad Air Days
- Bad Air Days – A Deepining Crisis
- Biting The Hand….
- Blakeman And Coleridge – The War Drags On
- Blakeman And Coleridge And The Gulf Of Mistrust
- Blakeman Bows Out – One Less Problem for Lancaster West?
- Blakeman Scores Some Points
- Block Boris – Demonstrate Against MIPIM
- Boris – Block The Budget
- Brickley’s Travels
- Campaign To Save Elliott School Playing Fields
- CCHP – When Is A Policy Not A Policy?
- Comments On The Planning Application
- Complaint to RBKC – North Kensington Library
- CONDEM Government Vandalises School Sports
- Considerate Constructors
- Court Victory For ‘Our House’
- Crisis – Kensington and Chelsea College Under Threat
- Cry Havoc And Let Slip The Dogs Of war
- Dale Youth – A Nugget Of Boxing Gold
- Dale Youth – A Source Of Pride
- Day Of Housing Activism – A Call To Arms
- Dead Man Walking – Merrick Cockell
- Dent Coad Parachutes Into Notting Dale Air Quality Debate
- Direct Action – We Salute The Guiness Trust Occupation In Brixton
- Divide And Rule
- Doing us down!
- Don't Mention The Slum Word
- Doors Wide Open
- East London March For Homes led by Focus E15
- Edward George And The Great RBKC Planning Dept Fob Off
- Enough Is enough – Testerton Walk
- Feilding-Mellen – RBKC's Social Cleansing Hitman
- Feilding-Mellen Bang To Rights? – No Way!
- Feilding-Mellen Versus Longniddry
- Fightin' Talk
- Fire Safety Scandal At Lancaster West
- Flies To Wanton Boys
- Flogging A Dead Horse
- Flood at the New Pools
- Focus E 15 Mothers – Liberating The Carpenters Estate
- Focus E15 – March Against Evictions
- Freedom of Information And The Arrogance of Power
- GAG AND KILBURN UNEMPLOYED GROUP JOINT ACTION AT NORTH KEN JOBCENTRE.
- GAG And Westway23 Visit the Hornton Street Circus
- GAG Petitions RBKC for New KCTMO Investigation
- GAG Salutes Victory of West Hendon Estate's Direct Action
- Giz A Job
- Good Morning Worm Your Honour
- Gove Ignored Advice
- Grasart At Lancaster West
- Grenfell Action Group Demands New KCTMO Investigation
- Grenfell Community Unite – A Small Victory
- Grenfell Community Unite Request Public Meeting With TMO/Rydon
- Grenfell Residents Resist TMO Intransigence
- Grenfell Tower – From Bad to Worse
- Grenfell Tower – Propaganda, Lies and Fact
- Grenfell Tower – The Great Snail Race
- GRENFELL TOWER FIRE
- Grenfell Tower Freedom Of Information Update
- Grenfell Tower Fun Day Remembered
- Grenfell Tower Funday
- Grenfell Tower Residents Address RBKC Scrutiny Committee
- Grenfell Tower Residents Still Waiting
- Grenfell Tower Still A Fire Risk
- Grenfell Towerresidents pleas fall on deaf Tory ears
- Guiness Trust Occupation Ongoing
- Guinness Occupation Blockade
- Happy Days
- Hard hats and double maths as Kensington Aldridge Academy remains a building site
- Have Yourself A Very Rocky Christmas!
- Health Expert Slams RBKC Over Westway Sports Centre
- Highway Robbery
- Ho-Hum 1
- Ho-Hum 2
- Hornton Street Calls Again! Save Earls Court
- Housing Activists Disrupt Bailiffs Award Ceremony
- Housing Activists Disrupt Property Awards
- Housing Activists Protest At City Hall
- Is Grenfell Tower A Firetrap?
- Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane?
- Is It Time To Ressurrect The EMB?
- Is Jaw-Jaw Better Than War War?
- Just Playing Chicken
- KAA – The Lights Are On But No One Is In
- KCC – Clear And Present Danger
- KCC Board – Coming Apart At The Seams!
- KCC resignations – was there a cover-up?
- KCTMO – Feeling the Heat!
- KCTMO – Playing with fire!
- KCTMO Versus Freedom of Information Act
- KCTMO- JUSTICE IS COMING.
- Kensington Academy – The Lights Are Still On
- Kensington Creatives – Standing at the Crossroads
- Kensington Society Objections
- Kill the Bill – Lobby of Parliament
- Kill The Housing Bill – National Demo
- Lancaster Green Goes Viral
- Lancaster Green Is Residential Amenity Space
- Lancaster West R.A. Fun day
- Last Sweets Way Family Needs Your Support
- Last Words On The Upcoming EMB Election
- Let's Go Get 'Em
- LET’S CLEAR SOME AIR!
- Little Lord Rock Weilding Felon
- Local Plan Partial Review – Latimer Area
- Location Of The Month
- Management and Financial Failures at KCC
- March Against The Housing Bill
- March For North Kensington Library
- March to Save Aylesbury Estate
- Marlborough School – Speaking Truth to Power
- Marshall Gets Stuck In
- Maxilla 3 – More Deceit And Betrayal
- Maxilla Nursery Scandal
- Maxilla Update – Crisis management RBKC style!
- McConville At MIPIM
- McConville’s Gravy Train
- MIPIM Matters
- Mock the Opera – A Qualified Success!
- Mock The Opera!
- More Awkward Questions For Cllr Rock FM
- More Broken Promises – The Wall
- More On Fire Safety
- More On The Cuckoo Syndrome
- National Demonstration For Health, Homes, Jobs, Education
- Never Fear – We’re Still Here
- New Labour And The War Against Nazism
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- No Justice For Grenfell Tower Power Surge Victims
- No Surrender – 'Our West Hendon'
- North Ken Library – Bad Blood And Backroom Deals
- North Ken Library Planning Application.
- North Kensington Library
- North Kensington Library – Dictat Versus Scrutiny
- North Kensington Smog Alert
- Notting Dale Is Latest RBKC Regeneration Target
- Notting Hill Housing Trust Does The Dirty In North London
- Official – RBKC Admits 'Social Cleansing' Plans
- Ombudsman To Investigate Closure Of Station Walk
- On The Nod
- OOPS
- Organising Resistance – Northwest London Radical Housing Network
- Our House Community Space
- Paget-Brown and MIPIM
- Paget-Brown – Digging His Own Grave?
- Paget-Brown Washes His Hands
- Pants On fire 3 – Feilding Mellen
- Pants On fire Award – TMO Chair Fay Edwards
- Pants On Fire No 2 – Todd Foreman
- Pants On Fire No.1 – Blakeman
- PETITION – SAVE THE KENSINGTON ODEON
- Petition Alert – Southwark Housing Scandal
- Petition RBKC To Offer Homes To Refugees
- Planning Policy Guidance and Lancaster Green
- Please Help Jim Vickers!
- Please Sir Can We Have Some Collective Representation
- Please, Sir, Can We Have Some More?
- Pooter's Folly
- POVERTY AT THE RBKC GOLDMINE!
- Prime Minister Visits Lancaster West
- Protest Against MIPIM In London – Homes For People Not For Profit
- PROTESTERS BLOCKADE CONTROVERSIAL MIPIM PROPERTY FAIR
- Public not Private – Why Our Library Matters
- Public Space v Private Education!
- Quotable Quotes
- Rachmanism Alive And Well In RBKC
- RBKC – What Future For Social Housing?
- RBKC and MIPIM: the search for the truth!
- RBKC and Savills – The truth they don't want us to see
- RBKC and their Private Business Deal
- RBKC – Autocratic Power And Sham Consultation
- RBKC Claims North Ken Library Deal Fully Transparent
- RBKC Cover-up at Grenfell Tower
- RBKC Declines to Investigate Rock Feilding-Mellen
- RBKC Gerrymandering In North Kensington
- RBKC Labour And The Elephant In The Room
- RBKC Regeneration – A Cuckoo's Nest
- RBKC, NHPS And Their Classroom Deals!
- RBKC- Snouts in the MIPIM trough?
- RBKC- Supping at the property developers table!
- Redpath, Holgate and Brickley.
- Remembering Lancaster Green
- Remembering Maxilla Childrens Centre
- Reprovided Sports Pitches – Part 2
- Reprovision Of Outdoor Sports Facilities
- Rights-Of-Way Update
- RIP – Tenants Consultative Committee
- RIP EMB
- Rnewing The Legacy – The Big Lie
- Rock – You've Been Mellened
- Rocky, MIPIM and the Lobbyist
- RSVP
- Rumbles Of Discontent At Lancaster West
- Save Earls Court – Protest 7th February
- Save Earls Court…No To Demolition – Yes To Community Control
- Save Maxilla Petition
- Save Wornington College
- Save Wornington College Petition
- Selling The Family Silver – Savills and the carve-up od our communities
- Silchester Fight Back
- Silchester Financial Viability Assessment
- Site Contamination
- Sleeping On The Job
- Smoke and mirrors. RBKC and NHPS.
- Social Cleansing – The RBKC Housing Waiting List
- Social Housing Wipeout In RBKC
- Solidarity Demo For Aylesbury Six
- Some Awkward Questions For RBKC
- Something Rotten – The EMB Crisis
- Speaking Out
- Station Walk – Did Senior RBKC Councillors Lie?
- Still No Way Out
- Stop The Housing Bill – Petition
- Strange Bedfellows
- Streets Of Shame – Wornington Green
- Study Reveals High Pollution Levels At Westway Sports Centre
- Sunlight Is The Best Disinfectant
- Support From The Open Spaces Society
- The Air Our Sporting Youth Must Breathe
- The Disempowered Of Grenfell Tower
- The Double-Glazing Debacle
- The EMB Crisis – Johnson Wades In
- The Facts About Regeneration
- The Gloves Come Off
- The International Housing Crisis
- The Kensal Gasworks Site
- The Latimer Masterplan
- The Latimer Masterplan And The Stock Options Review
- The Myth Of Affordable Housing
- The Noose Of 'Regeneration' Tightens Around Lancaster West
- The Planning Application – Late Objections From GAG
- The Royal Borough of Pure Hypocrisy.
- The Sound Of Silence
- The Stairs Of Shame and other abuses…
- THE TMO – STILL CRAPPING ALL OVER US!
- The Westway Trust And The 'Gentrification' Of Portobello
- The Witch Is Dead
- They are Smashing Down The Gym
- TMO And The Smell Of Bootleather
- TMO Freedom of Information Fiasco
- TMO Freedom of Information Fiasco – Part 2
- TMO Investigation – Borwick Steps in
- TMO Pour Salt On Festering Wound
- TMO Should Come Clean About Windows
- TMO Still Asleep At The Wheel
- TMO's Maddison On the naughty Step
- TMO-Time to act is now !
- To Be Or Not To Be
- To The Secretary Of State
- Trick Or Treat – The Grenfell Tower Project
- Trouble At Mill
- UCL RENT STRIKE MASS MOBILISATION!
- UN-TRUST THE TRUST!
- Urgent Call Out From Focus E15
- Urgent Petition – Save Earls Court Exhibition Centre
- Urgent Request – Help Save Westway Stables
- Urgent Silchester Petition
- Video Interview – The Housing Crisis In RBKC
- Vive La Difference
- Vote RBKC Labour – Get RBKC Tory
- War Breaks Out Over London Housing Policies
- Warwick Road Estate – The Last Castle!
- Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine
- Welcome To Hell
- West London Citizens And KCTMO
- West London Citizens-The return of the vultures!
- West London Rental Evictions At Record High
- Westway Air Pollution Scandal – Shocking New Revelations
- Westway Information Centre – RBKC Cashes In Again
- Westway Stables Reprieved – But Help Needed!
- Westway Stables Under Threat
- Westway23 Funday & Day Of Action
- What Future For Cremorne Estate
- What Future For North Kensington Library?
- What Has the Kensington Academy done for You Lately?
- WHAT’S GOING ON….
- Whatever Happened to The Grenfell Tower Project – Reprised
- Whatever Happened To….
- Whatever Happened….And Other Stories
- When They Go Low, We Go FoI!
- Where Do The Children Play?
- Who killed Bambi – Censored
- Who Killed Bambi – Revised And Expanded
- Who Killed Bambi?
- Who You Gonna Call? – Rydonbusters!
- Why Are We Waiting?
- Will RBKC Investigate Rock Feilding-Mellen?
- Windows Part Three – Signs Of Progress?
- Windows Part Two – Rifkind Rides In
- Wornington College – The Smoking Gun??
- Wornington College Threat Confirmed
- Wornington Road School – A History
Category Archives: Uncategorized
LET’S CLEAR SOME AIR!
RAP23 invite you to join us in the drive for clean air in North Kensington. The air quality in our area frequently breeches safety standards, with nitrogen dioxide and heavy particulate pollution at levels that are a known threat to … Continue reading
Warwick Road Estate – The Last Castle!
We recently received the correspondence below from the Secretary of the Warwick Road Estate Leaseholders’ Association (WRELA). We hope it will be of interest to our readers: Some of you will already be aware that our estate is under threat … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid., Broadwood Terrace, Charles House, Chesterton Square, Kensington Row, North Kensington, opulent luxury housing, RBKC draft Leaseholder Policy, St Edward Ltd, The Berkeley Group, Trinity House, Warwick Road Estate Leaseholders' Association, Wornington Green Estate, WRELA, WRERA
Wornington Road School – A History
‘Kensal New Town’ was laid out in the 1840s following the successful development of Kensal Green. At first it had been intended that Golborne Road should cross Kensal Road and the canal, so as to connect North Kensington with Harrow … Continue reading
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Tagged Chelsea-in-the-Wilderness, Florence Gladstone School, From Kensal Village to Golborne Road’, Golborne, Isaac Newton Boys’ Upper School, Jerome Borkwood, Kensal New Town, Kensington and Chelsea College, ragged schools, slums, Tales of the Inner City, Wornington, Wornington Road Infants’ School
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Save Wornington College Petition
This week, on Wednesday 26th April, the ‘Save Wornington College’ petition was presented to a meeting of the full RBKC Council and the folowing speech was delivered on behalf of the Save Wornington College Campaign: “Councillors, I am here to … Continue reading
McConville At MIPIM
Ever since the Grenfell Action Group joined the Radical Housing Network in 2013 we have been warning our readers about the sinister going’s on at the MIPIM property fairs held in both Cannes and London. We believe that no good … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela McConville, gentrification, mipim, regeneration, Westway Trust
Please, Sir, Can We Have Some More?
Anyone familar with the Ladbroke Grove area of North Kensington cannot have failed to have noticed the extensive hoardings that now surround the old Westway Information Centre. These hoardings have been erected to protect the public from the major construction … Continue reading
