March to Ealing Common

March and Rally
Saturday 27th April

Meet at Acton Park (Uxbridge Rd entrance) 12.30pm 

March to the Rally at 2pm on Ealing Common

The Hammersmith and Ealing Save our Hospitals campaigns are joining to march to Ealing Common this Saturday in protest at plans to close local A&E departments and downgrade our hospitals.

• Save our Hospitals page
• facebook like it!

Monday 29th Update: 
- Shepherd's Bush Blog report on the march
- London24 report

- Andy Slaughter story

Black Velvet club - New Music Venue

Live music returns to our area of West Kensington with the soon to open Black Velvet. Sited above Sainsburys, the club intends to provide live bands with a top class, but intimate, showcase venue for their talents. 
Music lovers can expect to see up to 3 bands a night in plush surroundings, with a midnight licence. The venue opens this Thursday 2nd May and on Friday 3rd, they have Eric Van Burens Rumblin Train and J D Smith playing live.

Check out their What's On link to see other acts scheduled to play, they have the Black Olives and renowned rock critic/musician Charles Shaar Murray lined up for future dates.

• Black Velvet  webpage
• Twitter - give them a tweet
• facebook page
• Hammersmith Today

West Ken & Gibbs Green Handover Approved

Demolition of our neighbouring estates, West Kensington and Gibbs Green, moved closer after the Governments handover of  the land to the developer Capco. This, despite a petition signed by 1000 local residents and a letter, against the loss of their 761 homes, that they handed over last week to Communities Secretary Eric Pickles. 

LETRA is concerned that residents of the estates are ignored, in favour of the plans and profits for the developer. 

Already the promises of new homes in the area and like for like seems to be slipping, plus it's doubtful if adult children will be rehoused. How many more will be broken before the project is finished?

• Good debate of the issue on W14
• Andy Slaughter's take on the transfer
• Hammersmith Today report
• West Ken & Gibbs Green - The People's Estate (their website)
• It's Our Earls Court - Area Action Group

Sunday in the Park

Marcus Garvey Park

This Sunday, 21st April in Marcus Garvey Park should be a good place to enjoy the Spring sunshine and if you have some spare time to help in a litter clean-up. From 10am to Noon, volunteers are welcome to join in the tidy up of the park, as part of the Hammersmith Community Gardens project to improve the flowerbeds and wildlife habitat. 

• March Marcus Garvey Workshop

Park Update: Tuesday 23rd April

Bags collected on Sunday

The clean-up went well on Sunday, with 7 volunteers collecting 12 bags of rubbish.

The next event for your diary is Saturday, 11th May from 10am to noon, which will involve the planting of sunflower seedlings in the park.   

Please join, if you can spare some time on that Saturday, to prepare the planting areas and plant the seedlings.

• facebook  Marcus Garvey Community Garden page

Bournemouth Trip Reminder

All Residents wanting to go on the day trip to  
Bournemouth on Saturday 20th July 2013
will need to return the request slip by the 30th April 2013.
We have to know the numbers of people wanting to go on the trip, so that a coach can be booked in time for the day.
Please hurry up and get your request slip in. 
You don’t want to miss this 
free trip for pensioners and residents with families.
You can either post your slip through the letterbox of the
Lytton Estate Community Hall, North End Crescent
Or send an email to Dawn - lyttontrip@gmail.com

• Bournemouth Tripadvisor
• Visit Bournemouth

A4 Hammersmith Tunnel Exhibition 30th April

The days of the A4 being a boundary road to our estate could be numbered if a group of local architects and H&F have their way. They are proposing that a tunnel could be built, to take the road from the Hogarth Roundabout to Earls Court, thus bypassing the Lytton Estate. Plans are still at an early stage, but for residents wanting to know more, there will be a exhibition in the Town Hall on Tuesday 30th April, at 6.30pm in the Mayor's Foyer.

• Chronicle story
• H&F page

Lytton’s Boris Hole

The TfL works to install a bike station power pillar in front of Samuel Richardson House have still not been finished. The job was supposed to be completed in 3 working days, yet 18 days later, residents young and old, are having to walk out into the road, just to access the building.
LETRA has contacted TfL several times and has been promised that the work will be finished shortly, but the workmen have not returned to close the hole and replace the pavement. 
These works were started without the promised consultation with residents, or before checking that the location was likely to receive approval, as there are a number of factors making a bike station unsuitable for the estate.
LETRA will contact TfL again, to try and have this unnecessary problem resolved.

11th April -

 finally after 27 days the hole is filled in and the pavement reinstated.