From a local Ealing paper today........ Ealing residents are mounting a last challenge to try and save Warren Farm School Sports Centre for the community. They're planning to crowdfund to raise money and are aiming to take Ealing Council to court - one more time. The group, Save Warren Farm (SWF), has been campaigned for the last three years after Ealing Council gave the go-ahead to QPR to use the land for a multi-million pound training facility. Read the rest here....... http://www.ealingtoday.co.uk/default.asp?section=info&page=eawarrenfarmnovember001.htm
Hopefully they will raise about £750 and then crawl away to lick their wounds in shame. I thought the last legal battle was the last one (excuse the poor English)? It's one thing for people to feel passionately about a cause and quite another for them to be bothered enough to give up their hard earned cash.
This was always going to be a tough one. The key question for me is whether the NIMBYs actually represent the majority of properly informed Ealing Residents. If they do (which I severely doubt), then that's democracy and we should jog on I suppose.
If the changes to the boundary's go in effect we will become part of Ealing. By the way I have some crap memory's of Warren Farm going there every week while at Wren. Its was always freezing cold, muddy and foggy, even in the summer.
Selective memory mate, I remember my school used to use the playing fields at Ewell in Surrey and they were always freezing cold, muddy and foggy all at the same time...
You had it easy. Ours were permanently frozen into razor sharp ridges. And we lived in a hole in the ground and had to clean the lake before we went to school.
Maybe we should scrap the idea and move to Watership Down ... Better carrots there I have heard Someone should tell Diggery Diggery Delvet He is wasting time looking for fat worms at the farm (My name for TF as he always looks like he has been digging and has that mole type face when he surfaces... Look out for that one)
Well Tone's wealth fell by nearly 60% last year to a mere $230m from a high in 2014 of $650m, so he'll be able to join in soon. His co chair Ruben is much richer, but only because of his dad.
Watership Down is one of my favourite books. By the... Windom... have you read The Secret History Of Twin Peaks? It is now also one of my favourite books. It's truly awesome.
So frustrating...here is an idea, why don't QPR counter complain that local residents, with clearly absolutely nothing to do, are blocking a major community development project, which will at no cost to the general public, take an area of land and develop it into a major resource for the local community as well as serving as a training facility for the club. The club should argue that Save Warren Farm are blocking a major community development scheme. If you really want your blood to boil have a look at this: http://www.savewarrenfarm.com/
£1120 raised of a target of £15k with 28 days to go. Hopefully won't even get the 15k that would only buy you a decent legal team for 2 to 3 days at the most.
