Welcome to the website of BEST - Brent Eleven Streets Association.

The website is now growing nicely. You can read news articles and find out contact information for the BEST Organisation. We'll also post details of our meetings and the minutes of these meetings here too.  Please click on Residents' Contributions to see more of what local people like you have to say.

Please take the time to register yourself as a user of the site. Registration is easy, quick and free. Once you've registered and logged in, we will allow you to write your own contributions on the site and you'll have access to some private areas that other people can't see.  BEST also produces and distributes a print newsletter to homes in the area, and local news/information you write on this site may be used for that as well.

The Best area is boundaried by Kilburn High Road, Willesden Lane,  Paddington Cemetery and Victoria Road.

The Best area includes the following Eleven Streets: Priory Park Road, Glengall Road, Tennyson Road, Douglas Road, Kingsley Road,  Kenilworth Road,  Aldershot Road , Hazelmere Road, Esmond Road, Charteris Road and St Julian's Road.

MARCH

Kilburn Square

Saturday 29th March Greener Kilburn Event

Kilburn Square 11-3pm

MAY

Hazelmere Rd Letter Box Square

Sunday 11th May No Cars Day Community Event Free Dr Bike 11-5pm

Bike Training Dates and Events for PAYP and Freewheel Rides

JUNE

All at Bridge Park Brentfield Harrow Road Londondon NW10 ORG

Monday 30th June 2008 9.30-4pm             First Aid Training 

JULY

Tuesday 8th July 9-4pm            Health and Safety and Risk Assesment             Thursday Thursday 10th July 9.30-12.30            Child Protection and Common Assesment (date to be decided) (Management Information Requirement )

Paddington Arts 32 Woodfield Road W9

Saturday 5th July 2pm            Bike Ride Leader training

 AUGUST

All at Front of Charteris Sports Centre Charteris Road NW6

Saturday 16th August

Free Dr Bike and Learn to Fix Bikes PAYP 12-5pm

Sunday 17th August 

Bike Ride 11-6pm (Meet at Charteris  11 am )

Saturday 23rd August

 Free Dr Bike and Learn to Fix Bikes PAYP 12-5pm

Sunday  24th August          

 Carnival Bike Ride11-6pm (meet at Charteris 11am)

SEPTEMBER

Hazelmere Rd Letter Box Square

Sunday 7 th September Free Dr Bike in Preparation for the London Free Wheel Ride

Meeting at Front of North West London College

Sunday  21st September Free Wheel Ride  meeting @11am

Next resident Association Dates

All at North West London College Ground floor meeting room 7pm 

Thursday 8th September 2008

Thursday January 15th 2009 AGM

Thursday May 7th 2009

Streets for People Consultation Dates for Exhibition of Proposals

venue to be decided

Three half day drop in sessions when there will be a member from Brent Council on hand to answer questions from individual residents at these times/dates:

Tuesday 8th July 4pm-8pm

Thursday 10th July 4pm - 8pm

Saturday 12th July 10am - 2pm

Brent Transport department is circulating BEST residents with information and a consultation questionnaire about the Streets for People proposals - you should expect these in the mail on 30 June 2008.  Please make sure you respond by 28 July if you want your views taken into account!

The information will also be on display at the College of North West London in Priory Park Road, 9 am to 6 pm Monday to Friday from 30 June to 28 July, with council officers present and happy to discuss the scheme on:

• Tuesday 8 July, from 4 to 8 pm
• Thursday 10 July from 4 to 8 pm
• Saturday 12 July from 10 am to 2 pm.

If you don't receive the consultation pack or need further information, please contact: Paul Smith, Senior Engineer, Traffic Management Section, London Borough of Brent, tel: 020 8937 5143, email:

The aim of the Brent ‘Streets for People’ scheme is to improve the local environment of the BEST (Brent Eleven Streets) area and to make it a better place to live through creating more open space, more green areas for pedestrians and reducing the volume of traffic through the area. In September 2007 Brent Council appointed a partnership of firms specialising in transport research and urban design, Transport & Travel Research Ltd and Colin Davis Associates, to assist in working towards achieving these aims. These firms will carry out a number of activities within the BEST area from November 2007 to early 2008, including a travel survey, resident’s meetings and working groups. The Streets for People project is aimed at making the area a better place for the residents and as such the project will look to involve residents as much as possible.

One of the main activities of the Streets for People scheme is the introduction of a local area Travel Plan which will have the aims of promoting walking, cycling, public transport and car clubs as alternatives to private car ownership. To begin this process, residents will be encouraged to complete a travel survey so that data can be collected on current travel patterns and needs. This survey will be undertaken by post, and residents should expect to receive this within the first weeks of November 2007. These questionnaires will be supplied with a FREEPOST return envelope. There will also be a prize draw for completed questionnaires with prizes of car club membership and driving credit donated by Zipcar. For more information about car clubs and Zipcar please see the following websites: www.brentcarclub.net and www.zipcar.co.uk/brent.

Alongside the survey, we are also interested in gaining residents’ opinions on ideas and proposals and wish to invite residents to become involved in two particular aspects of the overall scheme; ‘green transport’ and ‘urban design’. There will be a number of meetings where groups of residents can discuss these issues in relation to the plans for the BEST area. These events will be publicised locally, however if you are interested in finding out more details or joining one of these groups then please contact Sarah Clifford (0208 240 4461, ) or Sam Roberts (01543 416 416, ).

 Updated!

The deadline for the Streets for People survey has now been extended until the 7th of December to allow more residents to complete and return their questionnaires. If you have received the questionnaire form but not yet completed and returned it, I kindly ask that you do so. If you have misplaced the questionnaire, they are now available to download from this website. There are 2 versions available to download; click here for the PDF version which is for you to print out, complete and return by post, or click here for the Microsoft Word version which is for downloading and completing electronically, before returning via email. If you have any questions, please contact Sam Roberts, 01543 416 416 or email