Thank you to everyone who has signed and shared this petition — we're now over 430 signatures and growing.
Here's where things stand and what's coming next.
No planning application has been submitted yet. TT Group's proposed ~190-home, 6-storey development on Queen's Drive remains at pre-application stage. Our EIA screening request to Ealing Council is on record. This means we still have time to shape the conversation before any formal determination — but we need to use it.
We've uncovered a powerful new angle: safeguarding.
The proposed 6-storey building would sit approximately 350 metres from Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls — a secondary school with around 1,400 students. Upper-floor windows and balconies would create direct, elevated sightlines over school grounds, playing fields, and outdoor areas. This isn't about casual observation — it's about the capacity for uncontrolled surveillance of children from hundreds of private residential windows.
Here's what makes this argument so strong:
Ealing Council has a statutory duty under Section 11 of the Children Act 2004 to consider child safeguarding when making planning decisions. This isn't optional — it's the law.
The NPPF (the national planning rulebook) explicitly requires safety to be considered near education establishments (Paragraph 102, Footnote 44). It also requires developments to create safe places with a high standard of amenity for existing users (Paragraph 135f) — and 1,400 schoolgirls are existing users of this neighbourhood.
Ealing Council's own Policy 4C already recognises a 400-metre school proximity zone for sensitive land uses. At 350 metres, this development falls squarely within it.
The London Plan's "agent of change" principle (Policy D13) is clear: the school has been there since 1974. The developer is the newcomer. It is TT Group's burden to prove their building can coexist with the school — not the school's burden to prove harm.
What we're doing next:
We are writing to Ellen Wilkinson School requesting that their Designated Safeguarding Lead formally assesses the risk posed by this development. A school's own professional safeguarding assessment carries enormous weight with planning committees.
We are also requesting input from the Metropolitan Police's Designing Out Crime Officer on the security implications.
We continue to call for three independent impact studies — GP capacity, school safeguarding, and traffic safety — before any application is approved. This is not anti-housing. This is pro-evidence, pro-due-diligence, and pro-community.
What you can do:
Share this petition with neighbours, parents, and anyone connected to schools in North Ealing. If you know staff or governors at Ellen Wilkinson School, please encourage them to engage with us. And if you haven't already, leave a comment on the petition explaining why this matters to you — every comment strengthens our case.
More updates soon. This campaign isn't going anywhere.