Barnes Ponder Projects and Initiatives

One Barnes – group sponsor: Lynn McInnes

This is about bringing our community together so that wherever you live in Barnes, whether it’s by Hammersmith Bridge or in Little Chelsea, you feel well connected and well informed with access to new and creative social opportunities as well as to information about everything that is going on locally.

1. “One Barnes” Hub digital platform to improve communication, promote one village and inclusivity through sharing information

2. Banking hub

3. Men’s Shed, craft hub and friendship spaces

4. “Library of things”

5. Barnes - public realm improvements, infrastructure, street cleaning/fly tipping

6. Young People’s Ponder

7. Skate park at Vine Road – Barnes Common team

Green Barnes – group sponsor: Barnes Common

This theme is about ensuring that we maximise green spaces across our community taking every opportunity to repurpose space that is not being properly used to support our community’s environmental needs. This is also about ensuring that we are a community that leads the way in sustainability.

1. Explore the concept of the green village and identify and deliver local initiatives

2. Support Barnes Common with their flood resilience project  

3. Support Barnes in Bloom with their front gardens awards

4. Plastic free Barnes – work with business and community to reduce plastic use eg plasticfreepz.co.uk

5. Promote more rain gardens eg outside Waterman’s Arms

6. Greener streets - re-introduce grass verges / wildflowers in tree pits

7. Support Barnes Community Gardeners with their work at schools and front gardens transformations

High Street Barnes – group sponsor: Emma Robinson

 This theme recognises the critical importance of all our shopping parades to our community and is about working with local businesses to ensure they thrive.

1. Shop Local campaign

2. Weekly spend campaign

3. Work with businesses on “look and feel” (civic pride) in Barnes eg sweeping front of shop, shutters, illuminating signs, shop windows.

4. Digital high street – new project in partnership with MyHighStreet

Placemaking Barnes – group sponsor: Charles Campion

This theme is about improvements to the public space in Barnes capturing ideas to maximise space and to improve the look and feel of our village.

1. Graffiti wall at Barnes Station

2. Graffiti arch at Barnes Bridge

3. High Street closure for a community event

4. The View green walkway at Barnes Bridge

5. Glass river frontage at the end of the High Street

6. Small Profit Dock improvements and café

7. Phone booths removal or reuse

8. Rose House forecourt

9. Artwork on service cabinets and street signs 

Safe Barnes – group sponsor: John McNeilly

Safety and security was a common theme from the Ponder and this group will explore what more can be done to ensure residents feel safe in their homes and when out in our community.

1. Work with the community and businesses to improve awareness of how we can protect ourselves and our premises

2. Work with the One Barnes team to promote use of hub to disseminate information about safety locally

3. Work with Barnes Common to clear greenery on approach to Barnes Station

4. Work with Safer Neighbourhood Teams to deliver ‘safe haven’ approach across Barnes

Travel Barnes - group sponsor: Raphael Zachary-Younger

This theme is all about how we move around our village as a pedestrian, a cyclist or a user of public transport and the services that are provided to help us get about.

1. Improve crossing outside Essex House and on Station Road

2. Address all bus travel and infrastructure for Barnes

3. Improve cycle routes (Lonsdale Road and Rocks Lane)

4. Double yellows on Barnes High Street

5. Review junction and traffic lights on Castelnau (Lonsdale Rd and Rocks Lane junctions)

6. Provide Hammersmith Bridge rickshaw/pods

7. Mill Hill safer crossing

8. Towpath resurfacing (QEW to Beverley Brook) and improved management

Find out more about Barnes Ponder 2 HERE.