Aside from the Cooperative Party and Brent Labour Party, the only other group to submit a Borough wide submission on Brent's new ward boundaries was the Conservative Party, and it makes for rather odd reading.
In many cases the information is wrong or out of date. For instance, the statement that the Kensal Triangle RA is located in Kensal Green is simply wrong. That organisation is actually located in the Wakeman Road area of Queens Park. The Tories also say that Kensal Green cemetery is in Kensal Green ward, when actually it is not even in the Borough of Brent. The Dollis Hill section refers to an art gallery at "the farmhouse" in Gladstone Park. I take that is a reference to the now demolished Dollis Hill House and the Stables Art Gallery that moved from there in 2010/11. "Cricklewood Library is referred to as if it was still a library, and Anson Baptist Church is mentioned without reference to its conversion to housing. The Jubilee Clock is regarded, correctly, as a "major focal point" of where Harlesden is, but the writer appears not to be aware that the clock is right on the edge of where the existing Harlesden ward boundary is. That is one of the major arguments I would make for having a new Harlesden ward centred on the Town Centre. Incidentally, the Boundary Commission proposals are now published and they appear to have accepted the Town centre argument. The Queens Park section references include a number of mentions of buildings, such as the Jubilee Sports Centre that are actually in the London Borough of Westminster.
I suspect that the author is not local and is relying on either some very old notes or from some one who really doesn't know the southern end of the Borough.
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