Ealing Council is consulting on how it will deliver its youth services for the next three years while planning to demolish the Young Adult Centre (YAC) in Park View Road, Southall.

The Council are carrying out a consultation about this important building and we hope you can add your views and comments.

Southall Community Alliance has discussed this matter at a number of their meetings and local community groups have strongly supported the building being kept open and better used. The Council have proposed that the building be demolished, housing built on the site and youth services re-located elsewhere in Southall.

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Given the growth of the local population and increasing needs, coupled with the need for youth facilities now as we recover from successive lockdowns, we hope you will respond to this consultation and urge the Council to change their plans and have a PROPER community engagement about the future of this building with Southall’s young people, groups and residents.

This consultation will continue until 2 March 2022, so please pass on to anyone who may be interested.

Share your views at www.ealing.gov.uk/youthplan

The Young Adults Centre (YAC) is a purpose built youth-centre in the heart of Southall.

Bright future ahead for Youth Services in Southall?

Another petition has been started to stop the planned closure of Southall Sports Centre in March 2022.

The young people in Southall will benefit if the existing facilities/services are maintained and improved.

Not if Ealing Council demolish the existing services/premises to be replaced by “state of the art” mini/reduced/smaller services/facilities.

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What was Ealing Council response to a petition to save the Young Adults Centre?

Councillor Peter Mason, leader of the council, said: “I’d like to thank the young people who presented the petition for making the case so brilliantly for high-quality youth services in Southall. We agree with them, and we know that many people have a strong attachment to the existing Young Adult Centre in Southall."

“We’re pledging to invest in Southall’s young people and provide even better youth facilities."

Councillor Kamaljit Nagpal, cabinet member for a fairer start, said: "This is a really exciting once in a generation opportunity for Southall’s young people to work with us to design brand new youth facilities that work for them."

“Urgently-needed family sized genuinely affordable homes“?
Have you seen the number of high rise developments going up and planned in Southall?
These are JUST investment opportunities.

Ealing Council has a history of running down assets in Southall, selling them and delivering very little in return for Southall.

The proceeds from this development, even if invested in Southall, will deliver less than what is taken away.

What do the people of Southall say:
Leave the YAC as it is.
Build your housing at the proposed new location.
Re-invest the proceeds into the existing centre.

What does Ealing Council say:
We agree with young people who want to save YAC in Southall.
So, we are going to run it down and flog it to shore up Ealing Council finances and call it “once in a generation opportunity” for Southall youth facilities by PROMISING to deliver LESS than what we will take away.

On 20th May 2021 Peter Mason said “The community [Southall] don't trust the Council, and quite frankly you don't trust me..."