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News from across Bayswater for people living in our part of Westminster, supporting our local Action Team led by Christabel Flight, Emily Sheffield and Mark Tozer.

📜 Chag Sameach to everyone in Bayswater marking Sh'mini Atzeret and Simchat Torah this weekend. New West End Synagogue h...
02/10/2026

📜 Chag Sameach to everyone in Bayswater marking Sh'mini Atzeret and Simchat Torah this weekend. New West End Synagogue has stood on St Petersburgh Place since the 1870s, and this is the weekend its Torah scrolls come out for the dancing. To everyone celebrating, chag sameach.

01/10/2026

🚦 Anyone who has sat on the Bayswater Road at five o'clock knows how little slack there is in these roads.

From 26 October, Oxford Street carries no traffic at all, and the vehicles using it today have to be somewhere else instead.

Interviewed by BBC London, Councillor Tim Barnes listed what has not been settled: street cleaning, policing, and the route an emergency vehicle takes when the road it would have used is closed.

Local councillors Christabel and Mark want those same answers applied here, for Queensway and Westbourne Grove.

If you see the traffic change on your street, tell us and we will pass it on.

👉 www.westm.news/oxford-st-questions

🗳️ Survey deadline today. Budget Choices stops taking answers at 5pm.You are given six areas and asked to rate them, the...
30/09/2026

🗳️ Survey deadline today. Budget Choices stops taking answers at 5pm.

You are given six areas and asked to rate them, then to say whether they would justify more council tax. Waste collection and street cleaning are grouped with parks and public spaces.

On Queensway and Westbourne Grove that is the grouping people notice first.

👉 westm.news/bc

🧯 Emergencies do not announce themselves, whether you are above a shop on Queensway or up towards Westbourne Grove.Which...
27/09/2026

🧯 Emergencies do not announce themselves, whether you are above a shop on Queensway or up towards Westbourne Grove.

Which is the whole argument for the Community Resilience Day the council and St John Ambulance ran at the Paddington fire station. Preparing for the worst, first aid that works under pressure, and London Fire Brigade advice rooted in the calls they actually get.

Staff brought Budget Choices along as well, open until Wednesday. The borough stands to lose close to half its money, so the priorities residents set genuinely carry weight.

Local councillors Christabel and Mark would like Moscow Road and the streets off Bayswater Road counted in the results.

👉 https://westm.news/BC

🏆 Somewhere between the Porchester Centre and the north side of the park, most of this ward's sport is happening on any ...
24/09/2026

🏆 Somewhere between the Porchester Centre and the north side of the park, most of this ward's sport is happening on any given evening. Somebody is running it.

The ActiveWestminster Awards are the council's annual recognition for those people, and nominations are open now. Nine categories, and Unsung Hero is one of them.

Local councillors Christabel and Mark would like a Bayswater name on the list this year. Queensway, Westbourne Grove and the streets behind them are full of people who would never put themselves forward.

So somebody else has to do it.

The window shuts at midnight on Monday 28 September.

👉 https://www.westminster.gov.uk/activewestminster-awards-2026

23/09/2026

Queensway has enough going on without a row of hire bikes parked across the middle of it.

Councillors were given the year's enforcement figures last week. Around 700 dangerously parked bikes seized, £250,000 taken back from the firms in penalties and seizure costs, and the four operators brought in and told to get a grip.

Local councillors Christabel and Mark hear about this constantly, on Queensway, Westbourne Grove and Porchester Road.

Spot one lying across the pavement and westm.news/r will log it before your bus arrives. The council deals with it from there.

22/09/2026

Anyone who drives east in the morning already knows where this one is going.

247 names went from Brook Street and the roads around it to the Full Council meeting of 16 September, about queues that form every morning now that road runs on a single lane.

The meeting heard that someone has now stood at the junction, that revisions are being worked up, and that both lanes back is the aim. Nothing happens until an order is made and residents have been consulted, so the timing is early next year at best.

A city-wide review of active travel schemes comes with it. Local councillors Christabel and Mark pushed for that review and will report back on what it means for the roads here.

From sundown this evening until nightfall tomorrow, Yom Kippur is kept across Bayswater.The Day of Atonement is the most...
20/09/2026

From sundown this evening until nightfall tomorrow, Yom Kippur is kept across Bayswater.

The Day of Atonement is the most searching date in the Jewish year, and the quietest.

Local councillors Christabel and Mark send their best wishes to everyone who is fasting.

G'mar chatima tova, and well over the fast.

A quiet Sunday, an easy run north from Queensway, and a street full of bicycles at the other end of it.Church Street is ...
20/09/2026

A quiet Sunday, an easy run north from Queensway, and a street full of bicycles at the other end of it.

Church Street is hosting Sunday Streets, on till two, a London Cycling Festival date. Free Dr Bike checks, the preloved bike market, skills sessions, cargo cycles to try, and stalls, food and music.

Local councillors Christabel and Mark hear plenty about how people get around Queensway and Westbourne Grove, and a free bike service is one of the more useful things going on in the borough today.

Church Street, until 2pm.

Shanah Tovah! 🍯🍎Wishing a happy and healthy new year to everyone in Bayswater and across Westminster, and around the wor...
11/09/2026

Shanah Tovah! 🍯🍎

Wishing a happy and healthy new year to everyone in Bayswater and across Westminster, and around the world, celebrating Rosh Hashanah. May the year ahead be filled with sweetness, peace, and good health for you and your loved ones.

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