Images above: LB Hounslow Chief Executive Niall Bolger; Cllr Gerald McGregor The new leader of the Conservative group of councillors on Hounslow council has said the council has done "great job" of handling the Covid pandemic. "The council's officers have been doing splendid work on that front" Cllr Gerald McGregor told The Chiswick Calendar. When the pandemic started to take

Images above: Traffic signs showing Fisher's Lane road closed, at the south end and at the north end I never thought I'd find myself saying this, but I am beginning to feel almost sorry for the council. Somebody somewhere is working very hard to introduce the new traffic measures throughout Chiswick, in the fond belief that they are positive and beneficial, but Chiswick drivers ar

Image above: squashed planter on Turnham Green Terrace Keith Richards wrote last week about the 'mess' that is Turnham Green Terrace, where confusion reigns over unclear signage, tin planters and ugly plastic bollards scattered about. Supposedly they demarcate the areas where pedestrians can walk in a safely socially distanced fashion and wh

Transport for London is skint, its coffers emptied by the cessation of use of public transport during the lockdown. Many people might have quietly thought that would put paid to Cycleway 9. After all the bitter recriminations and virtual civil war over the issue, a little drop of Covid-19 might have seen it off, they might have thought. They'd be wrong. Construction of the new junction at th

Image above: Steam Packet pub, Strand on the Green The Steam Packet pub on Strand on the Green, whose owner Food and Fuel went into administration at the end of March, has been bought by pub company Brunning & Price and is set to reopen on Friday 31 July. The Roebuck, which was also a Food & Fuel pub, is also in the process of being bought by the same company, though at

Image above: Cavendish Primary School; Google streetview Hounslow Council has agreed to abandon plans to make Edensor Rd a 'School Street', favouring instead a suggestion by Chiswick Cllr John Todd to extend the Red Route which runs along the A316 Great Chertsey Rd round the corner into Edensor Road and past Cavendish Primary School. Plans to make Edensor Rd a School Street were

Cllr Joanna Biddolph, leader of the Conservative councillors in Chiswick, has published her vision for how she would like Chiswick to be in the future. She set up the Chiswick Shops Task Force two years ago (July 2018) to come up with ideas to solve what councillors  described as the 'crisis' facing local shops, warning that Chiswick High Rd could become a 'ghost town' unless urgent action was