Westfield

Westfield Expands

July 4, 2011

I met Westfield management on Friday to hear about their new planning application for the land between their existing Centre and the Hammersmith & City line railway.  Currently an industrial estate, they bought it mainly to stop Tesco taking it over, but now want to develop it.  It is common gossip that there is going [...]

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Digby Jones Visit to Shepherd’s Bush

March 18, 2010

Last Tuesday it was my great pleasure to host a public meeting with Digby Lord Jones in the Westfield Shopping Centre. Local business men and women came together to hear one of Britain’s foremost experts in the business community and a man who has, for the past few years, dedicated his life to promoting British [...]

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More traffic chaos as Westfield opens

November 4, 2008
More traffic chaos as Westfield opens

The received wisdom about Westfield, Britain’s biggest in-town shopping centre that opened last week, was that it would be good for the Shepherds Bush end of my constituency but bad for Ealing and Acton. That is a verdict that might have to be revised already. 500,000 shoppers (or window shoppers) flocked into the £1.7 billion [...]

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Unwelcome Developments

November 4, 2008
Victory for residents lapdancing licence turned down

This week the Licensing Panel at Hammersmith Town Hall will decide whether to give permission for a lapdancing culb in a residential area of North End Road, close to local schools. If this club does go ahead, it will not be for want of opposition from local residents: given little more than a week’s notice [...]

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