This website cannot be a source of all local news; things happen fast in Bayswater, and SEBRA does not have the resources to operate a full-service website with frequent updates. However, anything of real significance to our members should be found here, and we do e-mail all those on our list (the great majority of SEBRA members) with any really significant news. SEBRA NEWS W2, our magazine, remains the main source of information for our members.
The 2017 SEBRA Summer Garden Party took place on Thursday 29 June in Cleveland Square. This year we celebrated Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s “Blue Sapphire” Anniversary marking 65 years on the throne.
We’ve had some very positive feedback and you can view photos and read more by following this link.
The 2016 AGM was held at The Porchester Hall on 23 November. Minutes meeting can be viewed by clicking here or following the link provided below.
To gain admittance to the AGM, SEBRA subscriptions must have been renewed – the Notice of the AGM and Subscription Renewal Invitation is sent by post to all members in late September/early October each year.
The summer garden party was a roaring success, with the rain staying away and many guests enjoying great food and drink. The cocktail bar provided by Lancaster London was especially popular and over £200 was raised on the day for the St Mary’s Hospital “More Smiles” appeal.
For photos from the day please follow this link to our gallery page, and look our for a full report in the Autumn edition of SEBRA NEWS W2
The Minutes of the meetings held in recent years may be downloaded by following these links:
Eastbourne Terrace was reopened for buses only in February 2014. It will reopen to all traffic in 2018, when Crossrail services begin.
While Crossrail work continues at Paddington Station, Eastbourne Terrace may be closed again for short periods. During any period of closure buses will again need to be diverted along Craven Road and Westbourne Terrace, as they were for two years from 2012.
Our magazine SEBRA NEWS featured many articles about the serious affects on traffic in Bayswater of the closure of Eastbourne Terrace for two years from 12 February 2012, to enable the main excavations for the new Crossrail station below. We are delighted that the road reopened on time for buses only, on 14 February 2014. At a stroke this much reduced the serious effects on the traffic in many of the surrounding streets. Once all Crossrail works in our area are complete Eastbourne Terrace will reopen to all types of vehicle – we do not yet have a date for this, but it should be before the Crossrail scheme is finally completed in late 2018.
We remain very critical of the extraordinary failure of Crossrail and Transport for London—and some of those they work with—to have anticipated and prepared for the traffic problems which inevitably followed closure of Eastbourne Terrace in 2012, a major reduction in local highway capacity; their prior planning for the transition was woefully inadequate. They did eventually accept many of SEBRA’s problem-solving ideas. Some of the major changes for which SEBRA had to fight very hard were:
One of the most significant changes—moving a traffic light back just a few yards at the Craven Road/Westbourne Terrace crossroads—was finally done in June 2013. It took us many months of argument and persuasion to get this simple task completed – it transformed the congestion problems at this junction.
The Council announced late in 2015 that it was now going to hold a new style of public meeting entitled an ‘Open Forum‘. This is part of the Council’s ‘Community Engagement’ programme.
The meetings may still be attended in person, but anyone registered for them can also ‘attend’ on-line from home, using a computer and the Internet.
The Council requests anyone interested to: