…and welcome Brentford Lubyanka. At Brentford County Court today St Georges PLC were granted a possession order for the land at Kew Bridge and the Eco Village can be evicted after a minimum of 7 days. In the eleven months since the occupation began the ecovillagers have proved to be excellent neighbours to the local community, giving much and asking little, and have been impressive in their commitment to a way of life which embraces and celebrates both people and the world in which we live in a caring and spiritual way. You will be missed.
As a counterpoint it is interesting to note Andrew Dakers, whose prevarication was in large part responsible for this site being granted planning permission, failed in his attempt to become MP for Brentford & Isleworth and that the voters in Brentford ward of Hounslow Council decided to dispense with his services as their councillor. Karma.
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There will be a Court hearing next Friday the 7th of May in which the developers St George are seeking a possession order with a view to removing the ecovillagers from the development site at Kew Bridge Road.
This will take place at Brentford County Court from 1PM onwards.
]]>Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009 7:30 pm, Sustainable Development Committee
Venue: Committee Rooms 1 & 2, Civic Centre, Lampton Road, Hounslow
Open meeting.
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Married Labour MPs Ann and Alan Keen have won a court hearing to take their “main” home back from squatters.
A judge at Brentford County Court granted the couple an Interim Possession Order at a civil hearing.
It comes as the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner confirmed the pair are facing a probe over the property.
Under Commons rules, they should have spent most of their nights there but it emerged last month that it had not been lived in for up to a year.
The squatters, who entered the empty property on 26 June, will have 24 hours to vacate the terraced property once the notice has been served.
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Guido Fawkes is reporting that Activists have moved into the vacant Brentford home of Labour MP couple Anne and Alan Keen, also known as “Mr and Mrs Expenses”, who were recently caught up in the MPs expenses row for allegedly claiming for two second homes. More images here.
Who would believe that sleepy old Brentford is now rapidly transforming into activist central?
Reports that quote the Keens as “not being keen on this action” are to be discounted, as any voter in Brentford or Ealing will tell you, the chances of the Keens responding meaningfully to any communications are vanishingly small.
The Daily Mail reported their combined expense claim of £313,714 in the last financial year here.
This comes just days after Hounslow Council began proceedings to repossess their Brentford home as reported by The Independent here.
Bloody Brentford. I love you.
]]>Would be perhaps useful if The Times were to look into potential abuses of the planning process whereby the developers, St George West London, submitted a revised application earlier this year where modifications to their previous application were minimal but had the effect of nullifying objections made to the earlier application and where the Brentford and Isleworth Local Planning Committee approved the revised plans in May despite the Affordable Housing element of the development being reduced to zero, and, curiously, without those who had made valid objections to the modified application being notified of or invited to attend said meeting and thus denied their right to voice their objections in person.
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