Cheerful signs along the path from Popes Lane remind visitors of the wonderful chance to see inside the Walled Garden for a fund-raising sale of plants grown by Capel Manor College students. Really well worth the visit, 11am to 3pm,
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Approval granted to Putt in the Park
On Thursday evening Hounslow’s Planning Committee voted to allow the company, Putt in the Park, to take over the bowls pavilion and green and turn it into a café and mini-golf course. The permission was granted with conditions – that
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Planners advise approval of the Putt in the Park application
In a long and detailed report, which you can read here, the officers of the Planning Department have advised the Planning Committee (meeting at 7 pm on 24th June) that: The application is recommended for approval, subject to appropriate safeguarding
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The Community Interest Company
If we step back from the detailed considerations required by the planning process, whatever the outcome of the Planning Committee’s meeting on 24th June, the whole dismal saga of the Bowls conflict reveals some long-term issues which need to be
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Planning Issues: The Bowling Green and the Car Parking
We have submitted responses to two planning consultations – on adapting the two car parks for charging, and on the revised application from Putt in the Park to take over the Bowls pavilion and green. The parking application is a
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Revised planning applications for Parking and Putt in the Park
Hounslow Council’s Planning Department is currently considering two applications which relate to Gunnersbury Park. They are likely to be considered at one of two Planning Committee meetings in June so we thought it important to ensure that Friends were aware
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AN ABSOLUTE PASSION: ROTHSCHILD ORCHID COLLECTIONS, a talk on 20 May 2021
Do join our on-line talk by Francesca Murray on 20 May 2021 at 6.30pm Book a free ticket at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-nrzzzp Our speaker has researched the Rothschild family’s passion for orchids at Gunnersbury, at Tring Park and at Exbury. The Rothschilds
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Gunnersbury’s Notice Boards
The struggle over the future of the bowling green and pavilion is being played out on Gunnersbury’s notice boards. In late March, graffiti demanding David Bowler’s resignation appeared on notice boards and walls around the Park, and was swiftly cleaned
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Gunnersbury awarded £367,365 from the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund, Round 2
We are delighted to see that Gunnersbury appears in the list of emergency funding grants totalling £400 million which were announced on 2 April 2021. The grant of £367,365 is for the period up to 30 June 2021. The Culture
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The mourning & funeral of Sir John Maynard of Gunnersbury in 1690, a talk on 15 February 2021
This online talk has been arranged by the Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society and the Gunnersbury Friends and takes place at 7.30pm on Monday, 15 February. Wealthy lawyer and politician, Sir John Maynard, built a Palladian mansion and laid
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