Ealing’s climate challenge accepted
Ealing Council has formally adopted its Climate and Ecological Emergency Strategy, which will see wide-ranging and bold measures introduced across the borough to tackle the threat of climate catastrophe on a local level. The aim is to become carbon neutral, as a borough and an organisation by 2030. This will be achieved both through reducing […]
Vote by post from your own home
On Thursday, 6 May, elections for the Mayor of London and Greater London Assembly will take place. Originally due to take place in 2020, the elections were postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. With many people worried about going out while coronavirus is still a risk, Ealing Council is offering postal votes to anyone who […]
Put your questions on the council’s budget to councillors
Residents, business owners and voluntary and community groups are all invited to attend an online budget Q&A session. The event is a follow up to the Zoom sessions held in December. This session will also be held on Zoom on Wednesday, 24 February at 7pm and will be open to residents, businesses and the voluntary […]
Ealing council tax rise likely after ‘inadequate’ government settlement
Ealing Council’s cabinet has reluctantly agreed to recommend a package of measures for the 2021/22 financial year, including a 1.99% rise in council tax, plus the 3% social care precept. Full Council will vote on whether to approve the draft budget report when they next meet on Tuesday, 2 March. The government has left local […]
A new vaccination centre to help fight COVID-19
A new vaccination centre opened in Ealing this week as part of the fight against COVID-19. The new centre, which opened at CP House on Uxbridge Road on Tuesday (2 February), will mean that there is more capacity to vaccinate residents. It will help add to the number of people who can be vaccinated each […]
Celebrating National Apprenticeship Week 2021
National Apprenticeship Week takes place next week (8 -14 February). The theme this year is Build the Future with a focus on how employers benefit from the work of apprentices. You can get involved in National Apprenticeship Week, too. Ealing Council will be showcasing the impressive impact of apprenticeships during a series of online webinars […]
10,000 tests in Hanwell and West Ealing
On Monday we heard the news that Hanwell and West Ealing was one of just a handful of places in the country where a case of the South African variant of COVID-19 had been detected and that there was no direct connection between this case and travel to South Africa. In order to try and […]
Live meeting for residents in Hanwell and West Ealing
**The event is now oversubscribed and we are unable to accept any further new registrations. You can watch it live on YouTube Live Stream at 7.30pm.** A public online Zoom meeting for residents or workers in parts of Hanwell and West Ealing targeted for additional testing for the South African variant of COVID-19 will take place on […]
Urge to get tested after COVID-19 strain found
Ealing Council is asking residents living and working in parts of Hanwell and West Ealing to get a COVID-19 test, whether they have symptoms or not, after a local resident tested positive for the South African strain of the virus. The individual is understood to have been tested for the virus at the end of […]
COVID-19 is a deadly killer
This last week I have had a number of really sad and difficult conversations with friends who have lost family members to COVID-19 including those in the prime of their life in their 40s. This serves to remind us all that this disease is a deadly killer and we should not drop our guard against […]
Introducing Ealing’s Race Equality Commission
Ealing Council has announced 12 commissioners for the borough’s new independent Race Equality Commission, selected from a range of backgrounds and ages, to reflect the diversity of the community. The commissioners’ first meeting took place on Thursday, 21 January to discuss how inequality can be addressed in education, employment, crime and justice, health and housing. […]
Numbers worryingly high but coming down
In Ealing the COVID-19 infection numbers have gone down in the last week but are still worryingly high, says council leader Julian Bell in his latest video (above). For the week ending 17 January the rate in our borough is 859 per 100,000, a 20% fall from over 1,000 the week before putting us 5th […]