Today, the new park created from the golf course adjacent to Perivale Park, was inaugurated as Pear Tree park at around 11.00 this morning.
It was certainly an event for the youngsters, who turned up in numbers and participated in some very strange looking sports and there were lots of exciting and exotic stalls and performers! The weather was fantastic! One purpose of this meeting was to float ideas around what could become of this new park, and there were certainly lots of people around who were listening and who could make things happen.
Lots of people were taking photos, including official ones, and when any of these come my way, they will be added to the montage here as a souvenir of the day.
We have Ros to thank for the selection above.
- Link to new park via OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/4941094#map=16/51.5300/-0.3399
- Link to the new park via Google Maps: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Pear+Tree+Park/@51.5296264,-0.3409483,17z
Ealing Greenwayers and Goodgym are proud to have been instrumental in preparing the area round the cafe for the grand opening.
We noticed the pyracantha had been tamed. Enormously appreciated.
Now, who carved that wooden park sign?
We can’t lay claim to the carving but in addition to the prickly pyracantha, we did clear the rockery of thistles, ash and dandelion, and remove a build up of soil from the paving stone apron next to it. The current plans for the rockery are to plant alpines on it in due course. Suggestions are welcome for alternatives.
Daniel from Arbor Barba carved the park sign (daniel@arborbarba.co. uk)
Pear Tree Park is completely deserted and has been since the opening. The golf course it replaced was nearly 100 years old and used extensively. Please, can someone explain to me how creating a park that no one is using is a step forward.
It absolutely sickens me the way Deirdre Costigan MP takes every opportunity there is to advance her political career via Facebook by praising government initiatives, specifically around social care & welfare. She knows full well that as an Ealing councillor she played a crucial role in creating a worse physical environment for older people in Ealing by closing Perivale Park Golf Course.
We told her & others hundreds of times about the affect closure would have on all elderly golfers, who used the flat nine hole course for exercise and to meet friends. We gave Costigan viable alternatives and ways of changing the course to make it more accessible for everyone but she just didn’t want to know. All she was interested was pushing her political agenda.
I doubt she even thinks about those folk now at home staring at four walls, and not being to get out and about to get some exercise, have some kind of social contact. This isolation and lack of mobility will inevitably mean more of a strain on the NHS and the social & welfare fund.!
SHAME ON YOU DEIRDRE COSTIGAN FOR THE WAY YOU’VE ADVANCED YOUR POLITICAL CAREER BY MAKING LIFE WORSE FOR OTHERS.
There are ample opportunities for community engagement and recreation for the older members of the community. If those capable of a round of golf now choose to sit and look at their four walls, that is their choice e and I speak as a 74 year old. The masterplan for Ealing, promoting ecological sustainability is entirely laudible and any suggestion that Pear Tree Park is sterile and abandoned is wrong headed.
The result speaks for itself. A well-used, well-managed community facility was removed and replaced with an underused, poorly maintained open space that attracts far fewer visitors than before.
Over the past year at Pear Tree Park we have seen some tree planting and a “dinosaur” funfair, involving heavy lorries repeatedly driving across the grass, with little apparent regard for the park itself.
The one genuine positive has been the opening of the Pear Tree Park Bistro, which one hopes may help restore some sense of community life to the park.
What you see as laudable on the part of Ealing Council I see as a rebranding exercise that reduced activity, reduced amenity, and delivered little tangible benefit to the community it was meant to serve.