Leader’s Notes

30 Apr 2025

VE Day stands for a set of values

Next week is the 80th anniversary of VE Day, when we celebrate 80 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe. …

10 Apr 2025

Survey shows progress – and shapes priorities

We made a set of promises to you in 2022, when we published the ‘council plan’, setting out our 4-year goals – running up …

6 Mar 2025

Financial planning for the year ahead

This week we, as your local council, set a budget for the next financial year, which runs from 1 April 2025 to the end …

29 Jan 2025

‘Helping more people choose cycling’

In April last year we announced our plans to invest £28million into the borough’s streets to make them more attractive to live, work and …

3 Oct 2024

A journey of reclaiming narratives

October marks Black History Month and this year there’s a significant shift towards recognising and correcting the narratives of black history and culture with …

16 May 2024

New horizons for leisure and culture

This month we will be sharing our new masterplan for a new Gurnell Leisure Centre and next month we’ll be opening a new park …

4 Apr 2024

Creating and sustaining communities

All across the borough in the weeks just passed, and the ones ahead, communities have been and will continue to come together to mark …

15 Sep 2022

Paying respects to an extraordinary life

Since the sad news came of the passing of Queen Elizabeth II last week, residents across all seven towns of Ealing have come together …

1 Dec 2021

Good jobs, shaping our borough and more

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit us all hard in many ways – the terrible death toll, friends and family or ourselves contracting the virus, …

5 Jan 2021

Lockdown 3 to fight surge in virus cases

Last night (Monday, 4 January), the Prime Minister announced that the country must go into lockdown to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed by …

22 Dec 2020

Christmas 2020 is unlike any other

Christmas 2020 will not be as we’ve known it before, says council leader Julian Bell in his latest video update (above). Like other religious …

20 Nov 2020

COVID still rising – we must get tests and follow rules

We are now two weeks into national lockdown and there is a lot of speculation this week about whether the government will relax COVID …

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