Residents should be aware that there have been sightings recently of a black Range Rover & a black Mercedes parked up on Castellain Road with the occupants behaving suspiciously. According to local resident Giorgios Giannakopoulos over five consecutive days they have been driving up around midday & staying put for a few hours with their engines running. Today at a slightly earlier time they were joined by a silver BMW. Originally they parked at the bottom of the road near For

.....try acting as a volunteer for three hours over the London Open Gardens Weekend which opens up private spaces like ours to the public -- this year on June 7 -- in aid of their charity. Mild temperatures & a blessed lack of rain meant that no fewer than 196 punters passed through the Castellain Road Gate, re-emerging with comments like: "What a lovely little hidden gem", "You can tell this is loved & a proper community garden" " & perhaps most gratifyingly, from a couple w

......but with a small tweak to its name! It's now known as Little Red Pepper, in a nod to its Little Venice location. When the previous owner died last September it looked to be the end for this family business which had been a fixture on Formosa Street since the mid-1990s (& widely held to be purveyor of the best pizza in London...) Relatives didn't have the heart to continue & were set to give up the lease, but enter the unlikely pairing of local residents fashion designer

And not a moment too soon.... After careful consideration of extensive feedback Westminster Council has now approved a revised design for the Warwick Avenue Public Realm Project at an additional cost of £2.9m. The measures will include discouraging anti-social behaviour through improved lighting & CCTV, creating safer & clearer pedestrian routes, greening around the station ventiltion shaft to enhance its appearance & sustainable drainage to improve flood resilience. Resident

As we start the year, this blog shares a few important updates and reminders from the Board with residents, as our next full Newsletter will not be sent out until the beginning of April. We hope you had a lovely break and are looking forward to the year ahead. We’re excited for another year of enjoying our shared garden together and hope you've already spotted some of the new plans such as the mini orchard. As was communicated to all freeholders, the garden gate has not been

Residents may remember that last Summer Sutherland Avenue resident John Gregson launched a petition calling for the short stretch of Formosa Street between Warrington Crescent & Castellain road to be closed to traffic. The idea was to make it a safe space for people to shop, eat, socialise & generally support our vital local businesses as suggested in the artist's impression above. Anyway the petition garnered enough signatures for it to be considered by Westminster City Coun

For those who dread the onset of Winter there's brighter news from this Sunday (Nov 23) when the big tree in Formosa will again be lit up through until the end of February. Sadly it's not quite the spectacle it's been of recent years as when the lights were switched on briefly at the end of the Bonfire Night celebrations, as has become customary, it was found that around a third of the bulbs were no longer working. Rather than attempting to fix the problem this year with its

As all public-spirited dog-walkers will know once you've taken the trouble to bag up your dog poo the correct thing to do is to take it...

Westminster City Council is proposing to introduce a contra-flow system for cyclists on a series of one-way streets in the Borough,...

If you've been out enjoying the Garden recently you can hardly fail to have noticed this magnificent wisteria whose luxuriant blossoms...