Useful Information
This is a list of resources / contact details of useful information pertinent to locals. It is by no means comprehensive...If anyone has any more resource information they would like to share, then please send it to resource@clevelandsquare.org and we will consider including it when we update the site.

In  Emergencies always call: 999
General Police Switchboard: 020 7402 1212
Paddington Green: Police Station 020 7321 2791
Harrow Road Police Station 020 7321 2791
Click here for more on Policing & Enforcement

Local Representation

Our MP, Mark Field MP (Conservative)
Role: Shadow Minister for London 
He can also be contacted at the link below:
www.theyworkforyou.com

Our Local Lancaster Gate Ward Councillors
Cllrs Sir Simon Milton, Robert Davis and Susie Burbridge. Advice surgery held 10-11am on the last Saturday of every month in Pickering House, (opposite the school) Hallfield Estate, W2.

Councillor Sir Simon Milton (Conservative)
Role: Formerly The Leader of the Council now Senior Advisor for Planning to the Mayor for London
Committees: Appointments, Cabinet, Council, Council & Staff Joint Consultation Committee

Councillor Susie Burbridge (Conservative)
Role: Deputy Cabinet Member for Housing; Built Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee; Planning Sub Committee No 3 
Committees: Amberley Motor Project Task Group,Built Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee, Council, Planning Applications Sub-Committee (3)

Councillor Robert Davis (Conservative)
Role: Cabinet Member for Planning; Chairman of Planning Sub-Committee No 1; Standards Committee; Chairman of GP Committee 
Committees: Appointments, Cabinet, Council, General Purposes, General Purposes, Urgency Sub Committee, Planning Applications Sub-Committee (1), Standards, Urgency Sub-Committee

SEBRA - The South East Bayswater Residents Association was formed in 1970 and works to promote the interests of residents in the area.  SEBRA represents some 1,000 residents across the region. We hold several events each year and welcome members to the annual Summer Garden Party and the SEBRA Annual General Meeting. SEBRA isa non-profit, non party-political, voluntary organization and really worth joining

National Rail Enquiries - Trains to Everywhere

Transport to the Airports - Heathrow Express - Gatwick Express - Stanstead Express - Luton Airport -

Speed Camera Info - This site specialises in the growing controversy regarding speed cameras. Also tells you where the cameras are.

Challenge Your Parking Ticket

If you recieve a parking ticket that you feel is genuinely unjust, rather than getting a ticket when you are 30 minutes late back to your car, it may well be worth challenging. You need to know the rules and you should be ready to fight it beyond the first stages as the council will often reject your first appeal and you should be prepared to go to adjudication. The following links are a very good place to start.

Surprisingly Westminster publishes a very usefull document called the Parking Enforcemet Protocol [Code of Practice] which defines the rules on how parking wardens should issue parking tickets. This is normally a good place to start ones fight to see if the parking ticket has been issued in accordance with Westminster's regulations.

London Motorist Action Group [LMAG] aim to 'EMPOWER London motorists in their fight against parking enforcement'. It is an excellent resource containing links to everything you need to fight your case. including the various Acts of Parliments, Statutory Regulations and Codes of Practice that set out parking regulations and determin how parkning tickets should be issued.

London Parking and Traffic Appeals Service is the independent organisation set up to consider motorists' appeals that have not been resolved by councils. It fully explains the service it provides and how to make an appeal. It also has reports of 'Key Cases' it has considered - very useful.

NB Westminster has recently started issuing parking tickets remotely by CCTV - it appears that Westminster is failing to follow the Traffic Management Acts statutory guidlines and codes of practice as well as Westminsters own CCTV and Parking codes of practice with the issuing tickets by CCTV. Most importantly these failings include, not putting up CCTV enforcement signs at the entrance to enforced zones, not allowing the correct amount of loading and unloading time nor allowing passenger to be picked up or dropped off on yellow lines as per Traffic Management Act. Therefore, with a little research, it is worth challenging any parking ticket recieved that has been issued by CCTV.

A direct link to Google Map. just type in your post code for a map of your area.

Historical online maps of the area circa 1870, 1910 and 1950

Westminsters online maps of everything - crime statistics, parking zones, conservation areas, christmas tree recycling stations and much, much more