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Queen’s Park Area Residents’ Association May 2022
LOVE QUEEN’S PARK QUEEN’S PARK 2022
Flavia Rittner, Chair, SUMMER EVENTS ARE BACK!
Queen’s Park Area Residents’ Association Over the past few weeks neighbours have
come together to try to “beat the Covid
FUN FAIR IN QUEEN’S PARK OVER blues, get fitter, meet new people” by joining
When asked if I THE PLATINUM JUBILEE WEEKEND
would consider in local 5km runs, swimming lessons and
28 May – 7 June cycles. It’s been as much about participation
standing for the
position of Chair of and fun as the event they are “training” for
SHAKESPEARE’S “THE TEMPEST”
QPARA following – the Blenheim Palace Triathlon on Saturday
Saturday 18 June
Virginia Brand’s 28 May. The 200-strong Kensal Tri team is
excellent 5 years at the helm, I didn’t 2 Performances: made up of all abilities and ages, from four
think twice. QPARA is a vibrant residents’ Matinee & Evening in the Quiet Garden in to seventy-four year olds, and is already
association run by volunteers with an Queen’s Park. Susan Fletcher the biggest team at this prestigious national
impressive range of expertise that drives our Tickets are now on sale at event. We invite you to join us - either by
action groups. They have achieved a lot www.shakespeareinthesquares.co.uk taking part in the fun or by sponsoring the
over 50 years, supporting the Park, which team on the links you can see at
is the beating heart of the neighbourhood, OPEN GARDENS AND STUDIOS www.kensaltri.com/localcharities.
helping to protect the conservation area and Sunday19 June
Last year the team raised over £134,000
reaching out to our communities. I always A special day for all those interested in for local charities. For more information
look forward to the QPARA-run Queen’s gardens and the work of talented local artists contact Giles Deards at
Park Day and Open Gardens and everyone and craft makers. We will have several new kensalqueenspark@gmail.com
benefits from QPARA’s green initiatives Gardens and Artists this year. Look out for the
which enhance the streetscape with trees banners and posters around the park and do
and planters. We’re all trying to reduce tell your friends to book and come along. LOCAL HERO
our carbon footprint, and with that in mind, Flavia Rittner, QPARA Chair
our Environment Group has commissioned Tickets on sale from Saturday 04 June from
a report on greener ways of insulating and Worldly Wicked & Wise, Salusbury Rd and
heating our homes - we’ll be sharing the from Scarlet & Violet on Chamberlayne Rd.
results as soon as they’re ready. Robert Budwig, Open Gardens & Studios
Organising Team
As we go to press, a new group is exploring
what support QPARA members can offer to QUEEN’S PARK DAY
Ukrainian refugees arriving in Queen’s Park. Sunday 11 September 12-5.30pm
If you have experience in this field or want to
be involved, do contact us. Our free, annual extravaganza for all the
family returns on Sunday 11 September.
Although QPARA is non-political, our action Organised and staffed by volunteers, this
groups have a positive working relationship year we need old friends and new to help
with the Council, holding Brent to account on make the day as spectacular as ever. To
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs), tower offer help setting up gazebos, enclosures and
blocks, planning, transport, streetscape and more, get in touch: aszalanczi@hotmail.co.uk
street trees. They meet regularly with the
Police and the Park Team. QUEEN’S PARK BOOK FESTIVAL
QPARA opposition to the Council’s policy Saturday 17 September & Helen Durnford has been a super-energetic
of replacing paving stones with asphalt Sunday 18 September member of QPARA for 40 years. As well as
has expanded our connections with other being Manager of Queen’s Park Farmers’
The programme already includes some of
residents’ associations across the borough. Market for 15 years, she has kept Brent
the most celebrated names in literature,
And we support local charities too. Council on its toes in relation to parking,
alongside exciting new talent and of course
cycling, bins, nurseries, asphalt, phone
It’s this community spirit that drives our many fantastic local authors in our Queen’s
boxes and station lifts as well as playing a
volunteers and we are keen to welcome all Park Community Tent. It was wonderful to be
key role in setting up the glorious planters
newcomers and young families, with their able to relaunch in 2021, We look forward
on Salusbury Road. Helen has been the
fresh ideas and skills. QPARA street reps to welcoming you all again this year.
driving force behind the phenomenally
cover every road and we are here for YOU! successful Queen’s Park Day for the past 10
We will have events for children, great value
As we approach our 50th anniversary in years but sadly this year’s event will be her
weekend passes, and lots of food trucks!
2023 come and join us. last as she will soon be moving to Wiltshire.
Thank you everyone for your invaluable
QPARA’s monthly meetings are on the second support, without which the festival would Now it’s time to say a heartfelt thank you for
Thursday of every month, on zoom or in not be possible and please do continue to everything you have done for us for so many
person at St Anne’s Church. spread the word. Thomas du Plessis years: your creativity, commitment and hard
www.qpark.org.uk www.queensparkbookfestival.co.uk work. How we’ll miss you. Lucky Wiltshire!
This newsletter is produced and delivered to all households and places of business in the area, free of charge, by the Queen’s Park Area Residents’ Association.
QPARA is a non-sectarian, non-political, non-profit making community organisation established to promote a better quality of life in the Queen’s Park area.
www.qpark.org.uk queensparkresidents @Qparkres
NEW STREET TREES
WHAT CAN WE DO TO CUT ENERGY USE AND REDUCE
IN OUR AREA
CARBON EMISSIONS? Celia Franks, Environment Action Group QPARA Street Tree Team
How do you insulate solid-walled Victorian QPARA wanted reliable advice and has
houses in a Conservation Area? Can recently succeeded in getting a Brent Council
heat pumps replace gas boilers? An Together Towards Zero Grant to pay for an
expert report commissioned by QPARA, energy efficiency report on older buildings
with a grant from Brent Council, aims to in our area. An independent expert with
answer these questions. 43% of all carbon experience of retrofitting energy efficiency
emissions in Brent come from energy used measures and low-carbon heating in older
to power and heat Brent homes. Reducing properties will survey sample homes. The
these emissions is an essential part of the resulting report will set out options for
national and Brent climate strategy to Queen’s Park residents: how to heat older
achieve zero net carbon. properties more sustainably and make
Replacing gas boilers with heat pumps them more energy efficient. The report will
requires very high standards of energy be presented at a public meeting – to be
insulation and other changes - it’s not like- advertised on the QPARA website - and
for-like. Studies show the cost of retrofitting shared with other residents’ associations in
the necessary measures in Victorian and Brent. A leaflet with the key messages will be
Edwardian terraced houses and flats is so sent to every local household, business and
high as to require financial incentives. school in the QPARA area.
New tree on Donaldson Road
BRIGHT FUTURE FOR PARK CONSERVATION ISSUES
BRONDESBURY VILLAS Park Liaison Group QPARA Street Tree Team has been busy -
working with Brent to get stumps removed
POCKET PARK The Pitch and Putt is an area of high and more street trees planted in our area.
Rebecca Ralphs conservation value for butterflies and ground Local residents were offered the chance to
feeding birds and not an area for dogs sponsor a tree in their street and the response
to be walked off lead. Hampstead Heath was overwhelmingly positive. We are nearly
Love Brondesbury Villas is a there with planting all the sponsored trees.
charity set up by local residents Constables will be patrolling to reinforce the
to regenerate the neglected dogs on leads bylaw throughout the Park. Thirty new trees have been planted within
Brondesbury Villas pocket park. the QPARA area so far. Street trees improve
Vanessa Cordero, a local resident and air quality, the visual landscape and provide
founder of Claroscuro Studio, volunteered her pollen for our bee corridors so we are
time as landscape architect to develop and always looking to plant more. The next tree
submit the new design. Love Brondesbury planting season is in autumn and we will be
Villas has secured funding to regenerate the publicising possible locations for new trees.
pocket park, turning it into a vibrant and lush If you’ve noticed a new tree in your street,
garden for everyone to enjoy. please contact your QPARA street rep and join
the watering rota – they will need frequent
The tarmac footpath will be replaced with a watering this summer but not too much!
permeable surface; there will be new seating
and a rich palette of trees and plants will be
added to improve air quality and provide a QUEEN’S PARK IS
habitat for birds and insects.
Wild garlic in flower FUNDRAISING
Energy Garden, an organisation that
John Blandy
supports community engagement with
gardens across London, will run a
workshop programme to enable inner-city THE WOODLAND WALK Summer 2022 and it’s wonderful to have all
schoolchildren to learn about gardening Robin Sharp our Park events happening again! The Park,
and the importance of protecting the natural though, is recovering from a wet winter and
environment. From early 2021 the QPARA Woodland increased popularity during the pandemic..
Walk Working Group and the Park Manager Funding for the Park is a pressing issue. The
If you wish to find out more about this project playground equipment is in dire need of an
and other projects the charity is planning, have been devising ambitious plans to
restore the much degraded habitat of the upgrade. The sandpit needs relining and the
please follow us on Instagram toilets need improvement. £35,000 more is
@LoveBrondVillas. woodland walk area, to increase its size and
allow nature to flourish. There will still be needed to cover work on the sandpit area
public access but on a less intensive basis. alone.. Local fundraising by the Park has so
Current priorities are to find a partner body, far raised £11,500.
such as Groundwork, to supply expertise
and to identify funding for the elements that
volunteers can’t provide.
New design for Brondesbury Villas Pocket Park
Woodland Walk in need of an upgrade
LIFTS AT QUEEN’S PARK
STATION AT LAST? LOCAL HISTORY: WAR MEMORIALS Steve Crabb
Robin Sharp
4. A war memorial in the School Hall at
Ark Franklin Academy can only be seen
Hard to believe that QPARA has been by appointment.
campaigning since 2012 for much needed
passenger lifts at Queen’s Park Station.Our 5. Kilburn Police station has a war
case was based on official statistics showing memorial that can also only be seen by
that over 5 million people use the station appointment.
annually. When Brent Council and TfL failed 6. Former pupils of Salusbury School
to respond, QPARA began campaigning, died in both wars. A bit of a mystery
collecting 1,000 signatures in support. surrounds their war memorials as they
We were told the lifts would be installed as disappeared when extensive changes
There are a number of Queen’s Park war were made to the School in the 1970s.
part of the Access for All programme, but memorials that encourage the community
delayed until after 2019. QPARA’s Jamie If any residents have any information,
to honour the men and women who died we’d love to hear from you!
Newall with support from Cllr Neil Nerva serving their country in two world wars.
and Tulip Siddiq MP, finally secured a site 7. A stained glass window from St
meeting at the station on March 4th 2022. 1. A memorial in St Anne’s Church, Laurence’s, a Church which once stood
We learned that Network Rail has sole Salusbury Road, on the first floor. (It on Chevening Road, is now in the
responsibility for the lifts project. Sangeeta was once in the old St Anne’s Church, Victoria and Albert Museum.
Ahir, from Network Rail, will lead on the demolished in 1996.)
design and implementation of the scheme 2. Easy to find is the memorial in the quiet 8. Paddington Old Cemetery, Willesden
and is determined to see it through after area in Kilburn Library, Salusbury Road, Lane has a small War Graves plot
the long delay. The cost has now leapt to commemorating 50 former Kilburn with a traditional memorial cross
some £16mn and rising! Completion is Grammar School boys who lost their lives as well as a Wall of Remembrance.
planned within the current Control Period in the First World War. Kilburn Grammar Every year there is an Armistice Day
ending in 2024. Although there is only one closed in 1967. Commemoration that is well worth
design option, this must now be assessed for attending.
3. A bookcase donated by the Kilburn
“buildability” by an independent contractor. Grammar Old Boys’ Association can also
Sangeeta will hold regular meetings in the be seen at the Library. It commemorates
coming months to monitor progress and to 68 former pupils who died in the Second Steve’s book, Queen’s Park: A History, will
report back to the community in Brent and World War. be published in September
Westminster.
UPLIFT FOR
THE WAR IN UKRAINE Vivien Barr
CHAMBERLAYNE ROAD
LOCAL COLLECTION DEPOT QPARA Transport and Streetscape Group
UKRAINIAN REFUGEES COMING TO THE UK
The list of eligible family members has Work is underway on Chamberlayne Road to
recently been expanded to include siblings, deliver Brent’s long planned Kensal Corridor
grandparents, cousins, uncles and aunts. scheme. A short section by Harrow Road
So many UK families have offered spare was upgraded first, but the main push is now
rooms and empty properties, but the around Station Terrace, Kensal Rise Station
process of matching them with refugees and nearby sections of Chamberlayne.
is taking too long. QPARA members who
want to support Ukrainian refugees have Designed by BDP Landscape Consultants,
recently formed a new group. Please let there will be new paving and layouts, with
QPARA know if you wish to be involved. extra trees and other greening to complete
the phase by the summer. Further stages,
DEC UKRAINE HUMANITARIAN APPEAL pending funding by TfL and Brent, will see
The Disasters Emergency Committee is more sections of Chamberlayne upgraded,
made up of fifteen member charities, all adding trees and moving parking / loading
experts in humanitarian aid that specialise onto designated bays.
in different areas of disaster response. Details can be found on Brent’s website, by
www.dec.org.uk/donate/ukraine looking for Kensal Corridor.
233 Willesden Lane has become the
North London Collection Depot for medical
and humanitarian aid for Ukraine. Anton
Vyborni, the owner of this long established
construction site, funds lorries delivering
aid to Ukraine. The site is staffed by an
employee who receives the donations, while
the boxes are packed by volunteers. The
lorries are driven to Poland on Mondays and
Saturdays and then the UK cargo is loaded
onto another lorry which takes supplies to
Lviv and from there to different cities within
Ukraine.
233 Willesden Lane is open Monday to
Saturday 9am to 7pm. They are asking for
donations of cardboard boxes, needed to
pack the goods. They need non-perishable
food, medical equipment and blankets,
but no clothes. A full list is on the QPARA
website: www.qpara.org.uk
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POLICING QUEEN’S NEW RESTAURANT FOR
PARK WARD LONSDALE ROAD
Janis Denselow, Police Group Richard Johnson, QPARA Planning Group
DARK HABIT
The police station in Salusbury Road is no There are plans for a new Italian restaurant,
longer open to the public but just functions
as an office base for a number of different
Lino, to open on the north side of Lonsdale
Road, which backs onto the cemetery. The
Coffee & Wine
operational and admin teams. Our current licence application for Lino was discussed at Open 8am - 3pm
Queen’s Park Safer Neighbourhood Team the March QPARA meeting, and since then
(SNT) comprises a shared sergeant, Sergeant concerns about noise have been raised by
72A Salusbury Rd
Dave Close, PC Dale Channer and Ali those living nearby. Residents in Tennyson
Dogan, PCSO (Police Community Support Road and Hartland Road have been affected
Officer). PC Nathan Bates, a probationer, by noise from nearby businesses in the ST ANNE’S
will be joining the team from May for six past. Brent has since approved the licensing BRONDESBURY
months. application, but it will require a two-stage Confidently sharing the love of Christ
delivery programme to reduce disturbance.
Phone 101 to contact the Queen’s Park St Anne’s, your local Church of England Church
Sundays at 9.30am
Safer Neighbourhood Team or email The QPARA Planning Group passed on the
Tea and Chat –Fridays 2-4pm
BrentQueensPark.SNT@met.police.uk or noise issue to Brunswick Property Partners / My Move Playgroup –Friday 9.30am in term time
www.twitter.com/MPSQueensPark. It is very Akoya, the company that owns most of the 125 Salusbury Road NW6 6RG
important to report all crimes. If you witness properties on Lonsdale Road. Jon Cochrane, www.st-annes-brondesbury.org.uk
a crime being committed, even a car break from Brunswick, came to the April QPARA motherchristinenw6@gmail.com
in, do phone 999 so that police can respond meeting and gave assurances that they will
immediately. Always phone 999 in an take steps to manage and control excessive
emergency. If not an emergency phone 101. noise from the businesses in Lonsdale Road.
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AL KHOEI SCHOOL NEWS
ICMP is offering an opportunity to local
providers for a ‘Pop Up’ takeover of their
newly developed refectory / cafeteria space
from the start of the new academic year. The Life is too short to
wear average glasses
space has display, refrigeration, counter- The pupils at Al Sadiq School and Al Zahara Sid Fiz Optique in London’s Queens Park is a boutique Optical Store
CALL 020 7625 6694
top service space and some reheating School have embarked on raising funds
in NW6 providing the highest level of optical care together with an
eclectic mix of spectacles, sunglasses, contact lenses and Children’s
or email info@sidfizoptique.com to book an eye test.
glasses to cater for all your needs.
such as microwave, toastie and griddle for orphans in Iraq through the Al Kawthar 46 Salusbury Road, Queen’s Park, NW6 6NN
WWW.SIDFIZOPTIQUE.COM
CALL 020 7625 6694
but no cooking facilities. This is a flexible charity, involving a sponsored walk and a or email info@sidfizoptique.com to book an eye test.
46 Salusbury Road, Queen’s Park, NW6 6NN
opportunity to provide food and drink for cultural day. They have also been working WWW.SIDFIZOPTIQUE.COM
ICMP students for a day, a week or longer. on a project with the charity London Citizens QPARA MEMBERSHIP
If interested please contact alongside churches, synagogues and other
schools, to explore the development at Old For information about joining, please
chris.catchpole@icmp.ac.uk go to www.qpark.org.uk/join-us or
Oak Common.
email our Membership Secretary at
qpmembership@gmail.com
Photo Of Icmp Sign As In Previous Isssue Annual £10 (£5 concessions)
Annual standing order £8 (£4 concs)
Life membership £100 (£50 concs)
Innovative Architectural
Practice based in Standing Orders Contact Membership
Queen’s Park Secretary for details.
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