SPORTS DIRECT TO KNOCK DOWN MARLBOROUGH PRIMARY SCHOOL

TO HELP SAVE THE MARLBOROUGH PRIMARY SCHOOL
PLEASE SIGN PETITION BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK


So the man who will be making shedloads of money razing to the ground the beautiful Marlborough Primary school is now none other than this man....the mysterious Mike Ashley, founder of those Sports Direct outlets that pollute our streets.
This is even more reason to sign the petition.

NO LOVE OF BEAUTY-JUST CASH

In a late night deal last Friday, John Lewis flogged on the Clearings site to Ashley. 
Ashley plans to make close to a billion pounds developing the site, including the school, by building more buy to leave homes for the international super rich. 
Or those from countries you don't want your gap year daughter sending postcards from.

YOU CAN HELP STOP THE DESTRUCTION OF MARLBOROUGH PRIMARY SCHOOL

In ten years we will look back with contempt and anger at the barbarians who destroyed of one of the London’s best examples of Victorian civic architecture,the Marlborough Primary School.

It just shows what Victorian civic leaders were capable of.....

.....unlike the reptilian,ex K&C leader, Nicholas Freeman, who knocked down the Victorian Kensington town hall hours before listing...a near criminal act.

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But here’s the odd thing...the Council makes a huge fuss about minor planning infringements in Conservation Areas, yet allows this landmark building to be reduced to rubble. 

So far, the petition to the Council has generated over 500 signatures. 

Another 1000 are needed to obtain a Council debate. 

The Dame loves Marlborough Primary School. 

Please sign, if you have not done so, and ask everybody you know to do the same. 

John Lewis Partnership plan to raze it to the ground immediately after term ends on July 17th.

If you sign, at least you can say, you did your best to halt this vandalism.

Here is the link. PLEASE SIGN NOW

VOLPE 'THE FOX' IN THE CANNY SCOT'S HEN COOP

The decision to hand over £5m+ of taxpayers' money is being made, tonight, at Cabinet. Does the chairman of the Opera Holland Park Trust, Charles Mackay, know what he's getting into?

MACKAY...FOOD FOR THE FOX?

Has he even seen this extract from the Limited Assurance Auditor's report follow up of January 2015?

Would he know that Volpe and Clutton REFUSED to deal with the issues raised in the report? 

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Hardly the sort of good corporate governance Mackay would expect from the many companies he has managed.....

So why has Charles Mackay agreed to chair Opera Holland Park?
Mackay has a reputation for being a 'no frills', hard nosed Scottish businessman. 
His career has mainly been spent with the very unsentimental Inchcape Group.
It seems improbable, at the end of a long and distinguished career, an ex INSEAD council member would agree to involve himself with a failing and badly managed amateur opera company..... paid for by taxpayers....
For years, ex travel agent, Michael 'The Fox' Volpe, has made a lucrative career out of taxpayers. 
The arrival of Mackay might make things just a little harder for him.
As it is Volpe has now cost Kensington & Chelsea taxpayers the thick end of £9 million.....

EARLS COURT RESIDENTS SHOUD TELL DECAUX TO TAKE A HIKE

Decaux's intrusive advertising ruins London. In their home city of Paris they would be told to take a hike

DECAUX STREET LITTER

In London they are able to do what they wish.

Fortunately, a hawk eyed resident alerted the Dame to their plan to erect a 12 metre by 3 metre, internally illuminated, static panel outside Earls Court Tube station.

You can see the details on this LINK

Some years back Danny Boys Moylan had breakfast with the oddly named Monsieur Jean Jean of Decaux.

Danny Boys revels in being Cllr de Clutter. Maybe he should have a stern word with Decaux and explain that we don't want their junk in our Conservation area.

OPERA HOLLAND PARK... 'LET THEM EAT CAKE'

AMATEUR OPERA 

The Dame is angry....angry that these demonstrations against the squandering of millions of pounds on Opera Holland Park were ever necessary.


Opera Holland Park sucks in millions of much needed resident's tax for the benefit of just a few.
Most OPH goers come from outside the borough but, leaving that aside, the real question is whether the council should be funding opera when first class opera at the ENO and Covent Garden exists a few miles away.

These demonstrations are embarrassing. They need to be stopped. 
The best way of stopping them is by getting the council to stop frittering taxpayers' resources on fripperies...and OPH is a frippery.
George Osborne talks of 'small government'.....maybe this council should be thinking similar thoughts. 
Using taxpayer's money to support opera is NOT what a council should be doing.

OUR MONEY IN TRANSIT TO ROSS/O'NEILL...THANKS TO OUR COUNCIL

Despite pleas of poverty and demands for more money from C. Government, the Council splurges tens of thousands of pounds on bizarre 'street art' projects organised-or, to remove the money grubbing bit-'curated' by these young poseurs, O'Neill/Ross looking desperately 'cool'.

The Dame had to ask her hipster nephew, Ludo, to decipher their UTTER RUBBISH
It is wrong-morally and financially, for the Council to sponsor this pretentious silliness when front line services are being decimated.

Cool Dudes wasting taxpayer's money
Click to read their nonsense

SHOULD THE CHELSEA SOCIETY BUTT OUT OF CROSSRAIL 2 DEBATE?

RESIDENT ASSOCIATION
CHAIR PERSONS

Tonight, over 250 residents swarmed into the Chelsea Town Hall to hear why the Crossrail 2 Station should NOT be built on the site of the Fire Station in King's Rd.
The meeting was a heated affair.....



When Cllr Coleridge attempted to put the case for the Council he was shouted down.

STANDING ROOM ONLY

It seems the only resident facing association in favour of the King's Road site is the Chelsea Society.
The leading figures of this Society have links with powerful local property interests. 



In this important debate they are all heavily conflicted.
In the interests of fairness the Society should not lobby on behalf of the Crossrail 2 Station at the Fire Station site.
But maybe hope can be drawn from the statement made by Michael Steven, head of the Society's Planning Sub Committee. He said he would be feeding back the residents' views to the Society's council....

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT....CHELSEA RESIDENTS MEET TONIGHT AT CHELSEA OLD TOWN HALL

The venue for tonight's meeting: the Old Town Hall, will resonate with residents, or at least those with memories long enough to remember how the appalling Nicholas Freeman destroyed the old Kensington Hall hours before it got listed.

Residents have organised a public meeting at Chelsea Old Town Hall. It will take place tonight at 6.30pm.

"Protesting Chelsea residents are raising “a people’s army” in a bid to battle plans for a Crossrail2 station in the Kings Road which they say will destroy the area forever"