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Balfour Road, LONDON, W3 0DG

Many houses in this area have loft conversions. It appears that this detached house will have ground floor extension as well. The entire side wall and much of the rear wall have been demolished, the roof has been stripped. The planning application is for 2 storey side, front and rear extension and loft conversion. House prices in this area are rising, particularly with Crossrail being imminent at nearby Acton Mainline Station.

Walls are up, roof is off. An earlier photo Image gives information about the extension. We've seen many loft conversions in the area, this is more a complete rebuild.

The house shown in Image and Image and Image was sold in April 2014 for £665,000 as a 3 bedroom detached house. The major extension gives a six bedroom house, on the market in March 2016 for £1,675,000. [edit] It was sold in January 2017 for £1,250,000.

Houses on the north side of the road

A framed tent in a front garden as a temporary garage.

Residents were warned that a group of extras would be in the street, filmed by a drone. They were dressed in the red and white of the England flag.

New building opened in February 2006, on a site where there used to be a scout hut, next to a clinic built 1935 which is now a day hospital. View north-east

In coronavirus time the surgery organised flu vaccination for over-65s with a notice board of instructions, temporary shelter while waiting, several vaccination stations in the waiting room area, and a route out through the staff entrance so leaving patients avoid arriving ones.

Now used as Gunnersbury Day Hospital, it was built in 1935 when there was a great expansion of popuilation in the area. It is included as a Locally Listed Building of architectural or historical interest in Ealing Borough's new plan for the environment in http://www.ealing.gov.uk/services/environment/planning/planning_policy/new_plan_for_the_environment/ [edit January 2019] The site has been redeveloped as four town houses. The first plans kept the facade, but in the event no part of the 1935 building was retained

The London Borough of Ealing has just changed its rubbish collection arrangements to increase the amount recycled, see http://www.ealing.gov.uk/services/environment/recycling/. The hope is that householders sort their waste. Three different lorries come round the same day to collect it, and the streets are cleaned the next day. In this photo of our rubbish, from the left: reusable pink bags for garden waste - we happened to have a lot of woody and prickly prunings this week which wouldn't go in our compost bin; sealed green bucket for kitchen waste like fish and bones which we can't compost; cardboard; green box for paper, glass, tins, foil, and we could put fabric and shoes and phone directories in it; another green box for plastic except toys, furniture; and finally that little black bag for rubbish that can't be recycled. Didn't we do well! We separately collect cardboard drink cartons, metal, paint, batteries, ink cartridges, and some others and take them occasionally to the local tip - oops, mustn't call it the tip - local recycling centre.