Labour-run Ealing Council plans a Controlled Parking Zone on Perivale Lane beside St Mary’s Perivale, a Grade I listed building, starting this March. The scheme would remove free parking on weekday afternoons, a move organisers say could seriously threaten the future of this historic venue.
For 20 years, St Mary’s has hosted over 1,700 concerts, attracted more than a million online views, and earned a national and international reputation. Those weekday concerts are now at risk.
Organisers and volunteers say they have proposed common-sense alternatives, including limiting the CPZ to mornings, but feel their concerns have been ignored.
Residents say this reflects a wider pattern under a Labour council that, after 16 years in power, has grown tired, complacent, and increasingly out of touch with local concerns.
