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Gunnersbury Park Bowls Club - Petition

The Gunnersbury Park Community Interest Company has refused to grant access by the Bowls Club to the bowls green to carry out urgent maintenance work.Some readers may wish to sign this petition:https://petitions.hounslow.gov.uk/GPBowlsClub/Our request is that all councillors, whether members of the Planning Committee or not, should seek to use their good offices to persuade the CIC to allow the Bowls Club access to the bowls green.Gunnersbury Estate (2026) Community Interest Company (the CIC) is responsible for the management of Gunnersbury Park on behalf of the joint owners, the London Boroughs of Hounslow and Ealing.In April 2020 a planning application was refused for the conversion of the bowls clubhouse to a cafe/restaurant. In January 2021, a decision on a further, almost identical, planning application was deferred by Hounslow Planning Committee. This proposal would lead to the re-purposing of the bowls green as a mini-golf facility which would mean the end of bowls in Gunnersbury Park after 90 years.In deferring their decision, the Planning Committee wished to have more time to consider all of the relevant facts, including the consideration of alternative sites for the mini-golf facility.The Bowls Club and volunteers from the wider community have been refused access by the CIC to carry out urgent maintenance work. Without this work the bowls green will rapidly deteriorate to a condition beyond repair and this will mean that the Planning Committee will be faced with a situation where bowls is no longer a viable use for the site of the bowls green.The Bowls Club is not opposed to the establishment of a mini-golf facility in the Park. Indeed, it supports the principle of this important source of revenue for the CIC but not at the expense of the bowls green and the Bowls Club itself.

Jim Storrar ● 2062d13 Comments ● 2039d

Chiswick Post Office (Heathfield Terrace)

It has now got to the point that sending anything via this post office is guaranteed not to get to the recipient. I sent legal documents recorded delivery in December 2020, only for it never to be received and came up with no information on track and trace, when I complained to Royal Mail they sent me a book of 6 postage stamps as an apology. Thanks for that!I then received no mail for 3 months, between November 2020 until February 2021, whatsoever, despite living 500 yards away from the post office and sorting office. End of January 2021 I received a bulk of mail and once again this caused a significant issues as contained legal documents I was required to respond to within 28 days as the defendant was making a settlement.Early March 2021 I move house, to another part of chiswick and, as the move was last minute I had to sign up to (and pay) for the redelivery service for 3 months whilst I transitioned to my new house and found time to change over my address. Since then, now coming up to two months since I moved I have received no redirected mail what-so-ever. I sent my mother a recorded delivery track and trace card from the same aforementioned post office a week before mothers day and she has still not received it. There is no record on track of trace of it being delivered just states it was received at Heathfield terrace post office. Where is all this mail?Calling or trying to contact Royal Mail is near impossible and their online chat contact service is impossible. Am I alone in this experience with Royal Mail and this post office? I have absolutely no faith in the service anymore and see no point in spending money, time and putting any faith in a system that clearly does not work. Using the pandemic as an excuse for mail constantly and each time going missing will simply not wash anymore. How is it, that Amazon can deliver the next day (even on items of small value) and these clowns are taking a premium fee for nothing in return?Answers on a postcard!

Kayte Martin ● 2041d2 Comments ● 2041d