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Friends of Kensal Rise Library update 20th July 2014

THIS JUST IN:

Hi Everyone,

Two important points:

1. The planning application for the Kensal Rise library was approved at the planning Committee Meeting on Wednesday 16th July.

2. The developer has agreed to name FKRL as the 'actual' rather than 'preferred' tenant of the community space. This means that subject to lease and management arrangements being agreed the space will not have to be tendered out to other groups (The 'Exception' in the Localism Act allows for this) and FKRL can look forward to being the new tenants.

FKRL knows that this is not an ideal but a compromise solution, and we know there are challenging times ahead, but there has been so much support for our campaign, and there remains so much goodwill, that we are determined, with this continued support, to have a library back in our building. We are looking forward to planning our library and community space and we hope as many of you as possible will want to be involved.

Thank you to everyone in the community, and beyond, who have supported us for nearly four years, any success we have had is due to your support.


Regards,

Margaret Bailey
Chair
FKRL

Norfolk Square

London Plane

Norfolk Square Gardens

Thursday evening

Huge London plane trees as big as the five-storey buildings in Norfolk Gardens, Paddington

Mutant spider trees

Mutant spiders spin their webs from these odd trees along Cavendish Avenue, near Sudbury Hill.

Dangerous junction

Cavendish Avenue/Greenford Road

Radio Shh

"Broadcasting from a secret location in Sudbury Hill, Harrow". It's now a playlist on Spotify: Radio Shh.

Glenda Jackson on Saint Iain Duncan Smith

Big tree

South Wharf Road, W2

Posters, Sudbury Hill

Corner of Cavendish Avenue and Greenford Road

Bus stop, Greenford Road

Looking up former trees*

Cavendish Avenue

* Apologies, a mouse has eaten the corners of the top photo. Ed.

In Gayton library

Studying under the unseen gaze of the Grim Reaper

Chinese section

Link: Harrow libraries

Just when you thought it was safe to back on the field

Suarez / Jaws

Lawson Cypress

Three pictures of the same tree, with its parallel offshoots, yesterday evening. It's in the, uh, grounds of the new Herald House. There's another one alongside but it is incorrigibly tangled with two other trees and undergrowth.

London Plane trees, Du Cane Road

Du Cane Road is lined on both sides with London Plane trees. They are tall and not deformed by pollarding like many others. These are three of the ones along the south side of the street opposite Wormwood Scrubs. In the pictures above you can see the self-cleaning action of the trees, which enables to thrive in polluted atmospheres such as London's by continually shedding and renewing their bark.

Wildflowers

Wood End Road

They are complex flowers, very beautiful, and there are lots growing wild round here. Can you identify them?*

* Love in a Mist! Thanks Nigella. Ed

Singapore London Property for sale: The Library at London Willesden Green

SingaporePropertyHunt.com says:

QUOTE:

for Sale: The Library at London Willesden Green*

"a good time for investment both for capital appreciation and currency appreciation London properties are worthy investment as investors can also look forward to reaping good yields ... a rare opportunity to own a piece of heritage London in a much sort [sic] after north west London Borough of Brent."

Note: "The Library" now means the investment apartments. The former library becomes "a cultural centre". Doesn't it make your blood boil? Ed.

Meanwhile this: Anti-Homeless Spikes Outside London Flats (The Independent)

More of the different

London Plane, Greenford Road near the Kellogg Tower

Elm? Lime? Whitton Avenue West

Another? Whitton Avenue West

Again? Whitton Avenue West, corner of Wood End Lane

?. Wood End Lane, very tall tree. Lollipop?

Willesden Library Centre redevelopment

 

We're to have a Stalinist patronising "Cultural Centre" instead of the library centre and several blocks of flats advertised for sale in Singapore, guaranteed to contain "no affordable housing" and "no key worker housing". And Willesden Green now has no car park.

Brondesbury Park, Willesden

London Plane

Edgware Community Hospital

Douglas Pine? 

Ash

Willow

Horse Chestnut

Horse Chestnut (same) 

Silk Stream

Ornamental Plum and Whitebeam, Harrow

Ornamental Plum. 2 June

Whitebeam. 3 June

Back in the world again

David Gray on the Late Late Show live from Dublin. WH had a couple of spies in the audience for this and it was pretty cool. Also spotted the man himself and his band at the RTÉ canteen earlier in the evening. Did you know that his album White Ladder is the best selling album ever in Ireland?

Sing along...

...if you can keep up.

East London from the air

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." Samuel Johnson

Video by Honey Worth
"#eastlondonair @honeyworth @standaloneuk
A unique and fascinating look at East London from the air.
Music 'Stratosphere' kindly donated by David O'Brien / Gareth Johnson."

Phoenix Park, Dublin

Oak 1

Oak 2a

Oak 2b

I took these on the way in to Bloom in the Park yesterday (Phoenix Park, Dublin).

Harry Lemon