MORE than 100 owners and residents of Ealing Village have signed a petition to ask Ealing Council’s planning committee to support essential restoration works to the estate.

Ealing Village, built as accommodation for stars using Ealing Film Studios, is seeking permission next Wednesday night to carry out a programme of external repairs.

Planning and conservation officers are already behind the plans to restore the elegant Listed buildings but councillors deferred a final decision in December so they could see the condition of the buildings.

The once-luxury estate has suffered decades of under-investment and decline. This has resulted in severe leaks, damp living conditions and potentially unsafe structures.

Frustrated by the recent delay, more than 100 residents rallied to lobby the council to support their plans.

They also submitted to the planning committee four videos of the conditions in which they live.

The estate is now owned by its leaseholders, who have drafted a £6m 10-year business plan for essential external repairs to restore an important part of Ealing’s heritage.

Plans include new roofs, repairs to balconies, a double-glazed exact replica of the original windows and external repainting.

Ealing Village board chairman Dan Johnson said: “As we reach the culmination of several years of planning and hard work, it is great for us to have the backing of the majority of the community on plans to reverse the decline and provide dry, warm living conditions and restoration of a much loved jewel in Ealing’s crown.”