Comments for BESt: Brent Eleven Streets

Comment on Save Charteris Sports Centre by Vanessa Wozniak

Vanessa Wozniak — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:14:01 +0000

I hope you don’t mind me contacting you… I am very concerned about the Charteris Road gym closure. In brief, we ( a young couple) bought our first house last year, which is on Victoria Road. Our garden backs onto the back wall of the gym ( which I use regularly and which provides invaluable respite from strains of the daily grind!) If the gym closes, and the land is sold to developers, essentially we may, literally, ‘face’ having our back garden looking on to a block of flats which will totally devalue our property… I’m really angry about this and dread to think what the repercussions may be of having the site demolished ( essentially we’ll have a building site in our back garden) Not to mention the great loss of a great community gym, of course. Is there any way I can get involved to stop this going through or, at least, find out what plans the council has in terms of development of the site? It’s also a case of whether we should sell up! Fast!

Warm regards

Vanessa

Comment on Save Charteris Sports Centre by Hilary Curtis

Hilary Curtis — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:38:19 +0000

Closing Charteris would be a terrible loss to the neighbourhood. I hope everyone supports BESt’s campaign to keep it open.

Comment on Got a photo? by admin

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:17:45 +0000

Ok, I’ve stuck up a picture from the BEST Big Lunch event. But please send me better ones! I’ll put them up on the site.

Comment on Come and join the Big Lunch! by Lunching Big and Cycle Doctors « Rantings from Afar

Lunching Big and Cycle Doctors « Rantings from Afar — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:47:05 +0000

[...] Lunching Big and Cycle Doctors Every year, one day in July, something called ‘The Big Lunch‘ is organised. This is an opportunity for neighbours and communities to get together and organise a get-together, from “a simple lunch to a full-blown street party with DJs and a home cooked feast.” Unfortunately there wasn’t one in our area, but Cycletastic, the bike fixing organisation Michael is involved with, and which I have helped out with before, were again fixing bikes in an event called Dr Bike at the “Brent Eleven Streets” Big Lunch. [...]

Comment on About by Lunching Big and Cycle Doctors « Rantings from Afar

Lunching Big and Cycle Doctors « Rantings from Afar — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:48:45 +0000

[...] I have helped out with before, were again fixing bikes in an event called Dr Bike at the “Brent Eleven Streets” Big [...]

Comment on About by admin

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:55:03 +0000

Excellent, thanks Barbara. We’ll shortly be starting an online discussion forum so local people can get together through this site, but meanwhile I’ve forwarded your message to the BESt secretary Josie Walshaw.

Hope to see you at the Big Lunch on Sunday!

Comment on About by Barbara Gehin

Barbara Gehin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:00:51 +0000

Hello,

I am a resident in Ryde House, Kilburn High Road. If I can be of any help, just let me know !

Kind regards,

Barbara