Get involved
Posted Sun 15 May '16We welcome people who want to help keep North Kensington Library Building open for public use. Below are some suggestions on how you can help.
Note: This now serves as campaing archive.- Collect signatures Petition PDF
- Write to your local councillor (list below).
- Write to Victoria Borwick MP.
- Make your feelings known at an Ask Nick meeting.
- Write about your experience and feelings about the library on our Facebook page.
- Sign our petition and share it on your social media/ through your networks.
- Write to the Mayor.
- Come to our upcoming events.
- Write to the private school personally (headteacher) and (chair of governors).
Points you may wish to include in your letter/s
- Council offering lease without public consultation.
- The council's own mystery shopper exercise report (PDF) shows North Kensington Library does better than Chelsea Library on all fronts.
- The increased floor space the council claim for the new building depends on ignoring the unutilised floor space of the current library.
- The Council have contacted precisely no disabled peoples’ groups to discuss arrangements, at the old library or the new.
- The top two floors of the new building will be leased to third party users, this will undoubtedly be primary school children from schools who can afford to lease the space.
- Cllr Fielding-Mellon’s children are on the list for the schools involved, a conflict of interest he wasn’t minded to announce when he proposed this strategy.
- Is an £11-million-pound new building really a fiscally sound managment of Library services
- Council report hoping that they can fit in as many books as the old library, but this is not guaranteed.
- Integrated access for the youth club, but only a single lift to transport large groups of wheelchair users to the club.
Select a councilor by ward
Note: Archive representing the Council at the time.Wards
- Dalgarno
- St Helen's
- Golborne
- Notting Dale
- Colville
- Norland
- Pembridge
- Holland
- Campden
- Abingdon
- Queen's Gate
- Earl's Court
- Redcliffe
- Courtfield
- Brompton and Hans Town
- Stanley
- Chelsea Riverside
- Royal Hospital
Councilors
Pat Healy
Labour
020 7361 3975
Cllr.Healy@rbkc.gov.uk
Robert Thompson
Labour
020 7361 3060
cllr.thompson@rbkc.gov.uk
Eve Allison
Conservative
07722 156866
cllr.allison@rbkc.gov.uk
Mohammed Bakhtiar
Labour
07963 868943
cllr.bakhtiar@rbkc.gov.uk
Emma Dent Coad
Labour
020 7361 3430
Cllr.DentCoad@rbkc.gov.uk
Pat Mason
Labour
07805 922239
Cllr.Mason@rbkc.gov.uk
Bevan Powell
Labour
07512 556429
cllr.powell@rbkc.gov.uk
Robert Atkinson
Labour
07714 097118
cllr.r.atkinson@rbkc.gov.uk
Judith Blakeman
Labour
Cllr.Blakeman@rbkc.gov.uk
Beinazir Lasharie
Labour
07800 575786
cllr.lasharie@rbkc.gov.uk
Monica Press
Labour
07503 568263
cllr.press@rbkc.gov.uk
Andrew Lomas
Lib Dem
cllr.lomas@rbkc.gov.uk
Harrison Littler
Labour
07828 549700
cllr.littler@rbkc.gov.uk
David Lindsay
Conservative
020 7243 5873
Cllr.Lindsay@rbkc.gov.uk
Julie Mills
Conservative
07980 711485
Cllr.Mills@rbkc.gov.uk
Barbara Campbell
Conservative
020 7727 5110
Cllr.Campbell@rbkc.gov.uk
David Campion
Conservative
07889 855153
Cllr.Campion@rbkc.gov.uk
Deborah Collinson
Conservative
cllr.collinson@rbkc.gov.uk
Rock Feilding-Mellen
Conservative
020 7361 3280
Cllr.Feilding-Mellen@rbkc.gov.uk
Warwick Lightfoot
Conservative
020 7229 6041
Cllr.Lightfoot@rbkc.gov.uk
Tim Ahern
Conservative
020 7361 2896
Cllr.Ahern@rbkc.gov.uk
Catherine Faulks
Conservative
020 7727 7823
cllr.faulks@rbkc.gov.uk
Robert Freeman
Conservative
Cllr.freeman@rbkc.gov.uk
James Husband
Conservative
cllr.husband@rbkc.gov.uk
Anne Cyron
Conservative
cllr.cyron@rbkc.gov.uk
Sarah Addenbrooke
Conservative
cllr.addenbrooke@rbkc.gov.uk
Sam Mackover
Conservative
cllr.mackover@rbkc.gov.uk
Daniel Moylan
Conservative
Cllr.Moylan@rbkc.gov.uk
Matthew Palmer
Conservative
Cllr.Palmer@rbkc.gov.uk
Fenella Aouane
Conservative
07795 210996
cllr.aouane@rbkc.gov.uk
Malcolm Spalding
Conservative
07789 587816
cllr.spalding@rbkc.gov.uk
Linda Wade
Lib Dem
020 7373 0810
cllr.wade@rbkc.gov.uk
David Nicholls
Conservative
020 7370 2558
cllr.nicholls@rbkc.gov.uk
Charles Williams
Conservative
cllr.williams@rbkc.gov.uk
Marie-Therese Rossi
Conservative
020 7244 8153
cllr.rossi@rbkc.gov.uk
Anthony Coates
Conservative
Cllr.Coates@rbkc.gov.uk
Quentin Marshall
Conservative
cllr.marshall@rbkc.gov.uk
Elizabeth Rutherford
Conservative
020 7361 2430
Mayor@rbkc.gov.uk
Timothy Coleridge
Conservative
020 7361 3946
Cllr.Coleridge@rbkc.gov.uk
Nicholas Paget-Brown
Conservative
020 7361 2114
Cllr.Paget-Brown@rbkc.gov.uk
Mary Weale
Conservative
020 7361 3944
Cllr.Weale@rbkc.gov.uk
Kim Taylor-Smith
Conservative
020 7751 5530
cllr.taylor-smith@rbkc.gov.uk
William Pascall
Conservative
07710 081027
cllr.pascall@rbkc.gov.uk
Paul Warrick
Conservative
Cllr.Warrick@rbkc.gov.uk
Adrian Berrill-Cox
Conservative
020 7361 2500 (
cllr.berrill-cox@rbkc.gov.uk
Maighread Condon-Simmonds
Conservative
07757 224470
cllr.condon-simmonds@rbkc.gov.uk
Gerard Hargreaves
Conservative
020 7361 3944
cllr.hargreaves@rbkc.gov.uk
Elizabeth Campbell
Conservative
07787 505564
Cllr.E.Campbell@rbkc.gov.uk
Emma Will
Conservative
07974 350986
cllr.will@rbkc.gov.uk
Andrew Rinker
Conservative
07887 702234
cllr.rinker@rbkc.gov.uk
Further resources
Hand Book for Library Friends and Users produced by the Library Campaign.
Grenfell Action Group's blog has revealed some of the underhand and undemocratic ways that the council has pursued this course of action.
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