Your editorial about the Dickens Yard Project states “The majority of Ealing Times readers believe the Dickens Yard project should go ahead in the centre of the borough.” However, by your own admission, only 40% of those polled were definitely in favour of the development. The remainder 60% were against or conditional on the Arcadia project going ahead or not. How do you deduce from these results that most of your readers are in favour of the Dickens Yard development?
I am also a reader of the Ealing Times and certainly do not agree with the project as it stands and would like your publication to insist that there is proper consultation before the Council approves St. George’s application for planning permission. Together with our neighbours in Gordon Road, my husband and myself are very concerned by the prospect of such high rise building just across the railway line from our back gardens and by the radical change to Ealing Central that the development will bring. We agree that the area needs regeneration and that Ealing Central has been left to deteriorate very rapidly but the height of the buildings that will look over the back of our houses is too out of proportion to the rest of the fabric of our town. We fear that the Council is showing a grave lack of sensitivity and respect for Ealing’s character and the wishes of its residents.

I totally agree with Patricia's comments and as I live in Pitshanger it's not a question of "Not in my backyard" but there needs to be proper consideration for existing residents and buildings close to the proposed developments of both Dickens Yard and the Arcadia Shopping Centre.

Ealing Council have so far viewed both these developments in isolation and any development would have a negative effect in the regeneration of Ealing - which I am sure most residents would agree needs to happen - until an integrated plan for the whole of the centre of Ealing is agreed to.

Massive overdevelopment as a money making scheme without proper understanding with respect to the provision of travel, parking, additional educational and health facilities this implies, would represent the worst possible outcome.

Ealing needs a "face lift" but with proper understanding to it's existing surrounds and residents.

Done sympathetically, it has the potential to provide a modern and vibrant environment for the residents of Ealing who live and work here.