AGM, Feb 11th 2020
AGM Tuesday 11th February 2020 in the Cock and Bottle pub at 7.30pm. Click here for the Minutes of the last AGM which will be presented for approval.
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AGM on Tuesday 11th February
All are welcome at our annual general meeting to be held on Tuesday 11th February at the Cock and Bottle pub in Needham Road. Mulled wine will be served from 7.15pm with a prompt start to proceedings at 7.30 pm The agenda for the meeting follows below. If members would…
AGM – Guest Speaker
Tuesday 11th February 2020 – 7.30pm – location TBA We are delighted that Sue Snyder has agreed to be our guest speaker. Sue has worked for many years on local studies in Kensington and runs a local history group. We look forward to her illustrated talk about Westbourne Grove and…
Christmas Message 2019
Dear Pembridge Association Members, With Christmas almost upon us I hope you are able to look back at 2019 with good and pleasurable memories. For the Pembridge Association Committee, it has been a challenging year. The primary goal of the Association has always been to maintain the architectural heritage and…
TfL consultation on cycle superhighway and other measures / our response
In early May 2019 TfL launched a consultation on a traffic scheme in our neighbourhood: “Proposed improvements between Wood Lane and Notting Hill Gate”.In the Kensington section the proposals included a cycle superhighway, removal of trees, and other measures on Notting Hill Gate and Holland Park Avenue. The Pembridge Association…
Redevelopment plans at 146 – 164 Notting Hill Gate, W11
Frogmore plan to redevelop the site at 146 – 164 Notting Hill Gate, W11, which includes the Marks & Spencer Simply Food store.Plans include a mid-market hotel but not, apparently, replacement of the present housing units above the shops, or the shops themselves. Frogmore have arranged a couple of public…
AGM 7 Feb 2019 – Minutes of last AGM to be presented for approval
As previously announced, the PA AGM is scheduled to be held on Thursday, 7 Feb 2019. The minutes and other documents from last year’s AGM will be made available for review and approval and may be seen by following the links here. We look forward to seeing you at the…
AGM 7 Feb 2019 – Caroline MacMillan, local historian, is guest speaker
Everyone is warmly invited to attend the Pembridge Association Annual General Meeting on Thursday, 7 February 2019 at 19:30.The venue is the The Upper Room, The Cock & Bottle pub, 17 Needham Road, W11 2RP. In addition to the business of the AGM we are delighted to welcome as our…
Chairman’s Christmas and New Year message 2018
So here we are almost at the end of another year and the beginning of the next. Someone said to me recently, the Millennium was a long time in anticipation and now we are almost at the end of the second decade of the 21st Century. With time passing so…
Newcombe House redevelopment – approved by London Mayor
On 18 Sep 2018, at the public hearing in City Hall, Mayor Sadiq Khan approved the Newcombe House, Notting Hill Gate, development. The headlines of the press release issued by the Mayor are: – Sadiq ‘took over’ the Notting Hill Gate scheme and doubled affordable housing to 35%; –…
Newcombe House redevelopment – public consultation period extended to 30 Aug 18
The deadline for making submissions on the Newcombe House redevelopment plan has been extended to 30 August 2018. As before, you can obtain more information, including the application history, on the website of the Mayor and the London Assembly The Association’s original article on this development was published on 11…
Summer Garden Party 25 Jul 18 – speaker is RBKC Deputy Mayor
We are delighted to welcome Cllr Mohammed Bakhtiar, Deputy Mayor of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, as our guest speaker at our summer garden party on 25 July 2018. Reminder of details: 18.30 to 20.30 Leinster Square Gardens, London W2 (Entrance at western end) Tickets: £10 at the…
Newcombe House redevelopment plan refused by RBKC — now in London Mayor’s hands
At the RBKC Planning Committee meeting of 31 Jan 2018 the latest Newcombe House proposal was turned down. Unsurprisingly this controversial project was the only one on the agenda that long evening. The saga is not over and, at the end of March 2018, the Mayor of London announced in…
Passing of John Marmaduke Dickson-Simpson
We were saddened to hear of the death of John Dickson-Simpson, one of our longest-serving members, and our thoughts and best wishes go to his widow Ebba. John Marmaduke Dickson-Simpson (26 Dec 1932 to 29 Apr 2018) devoted his life to improving road transport safety and efficiency. He was a…
Splendid Restoration – 25 & 26 Pembridge Square
For a long time the building at 25 and 26 Pembridge Square, which used to be the Hyde Park West Hotel, was in decline and, in the last few years, standing empty. After two changes of owner the building is undergoing a splendid restoration with the recreation of two villas,…
