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Cllr Biddolph is dead against the market (and God forbid that anyone calls that rather forlorn triangle of tarmac "market place", or "square", or - shudder - "piazza"!) because, I think, the more that bit of Chiswick is used for productive activities, the less it'll be a car park and, eventually, it might no longer be used as a dumping ground for cars to do what they normally do, i.e. sit unused. The idea that the market would take customers away from local retailers seem to ignore the fact that some of those very retailers - Planet Organic being one - actually take part in the market activities.I've said it before, I'll say it again: if we want Chiswick to be livable, it could do with having less cars littered around the streets, and it could do with underground car parks.In another thread, Councillor Biddolph wrote that the "anti-car" borough is against car parks. Which is puzzling, for there are multi-storey car parks here:1. Brentford, though NOT an example I'd follow, for it is an eyesore of the like that civilised parts of the world (Europe, mostly) have not authorised since, well, I'd say the mid-80s https://goo.gl/maps/y8gDrZn7kpjAWpKc92. Hounslow, Treaty centre: https://goo.gl/maps/UFXhj7mGYVA9m1sF83. Hounslow, Blenheim centre: https://goo.gl/maps/LwhTnb53SQ185YYQAPlus other surface car parks, which I'm not a fan of. Perhaps if we had better councillors, we could have a proper underground car park, surface space dedicated to other things rather than car park (with the annexed risk of cars falling off the railing, like it happened around Christmas), and perhaps even those cherry trees that were meant to be planted over in Turnham Green!

Francis Sheehan ● 384d