Southall Residents’ Alliance: Your Voice. Your Community. Your Southall.

My fellow residents of Southall – The Southall Residents Alliance (SRA) was created as a movement born from our shared frustrations and unwavering love for our community. We are here to say, loud and clear, that your voice, your community, and your Southall matter! We believe that true change is only achievable when residents stand united. We are tired of the neglect, the poor services, and the double standards that have plagued our beloved streets for too long. Our mission is to transform that frustration into action, and that action into lasting, positive change for every single one of us. We are committed to working with you for a cleaner Southall.

Look around you. The evidence of neglect is everywhere, stark and undeniable.

Our Fight for a Cleaner Southall: Tackling Fly-Tipping Head-On!

One of our most urgent battles is demanding Ealing Council take decisive action to reduce the scourge of fly-tipping. It is disgusting, a misery for our lives, and utterly unacceptable! Overnight, clean spots become dumping grounds, often by those living in HMOs and renters, not homeowners who respect our shared spaces. We’ve seen overflowing bin bags, discarded mattresses, and even waste from barber shops with human hair littering our busy South Road. This happens right outside our doctors’ surgeries, in our car parks and outside Featherstone Road Clinic and Puri Pharmacy on Western Road and all over Southall Broadway and the connecting streets. It’s a health and safety nightmare, particularly for our children walking to and from school.

We question Ealing Council: why are street lights dimmed at night, seemingly assisting this rampant dumping? Why are six families with children in a single HMO given only two dustbins, forcing others to dump their rubbish around them? This is not fair when a family of four also receives two bins. We demand these HMOs are properly regulated, licensed, and provided with adequate waste disposal solutions, or even shut down if they can’t manage. We need the council to check waste licence contracts and fine businesses £1,000 for illegal dumping, and prosecute the worst offenders in Magistrates’ courts.

We’ve launched a petition, urging Ealing Council to be held accountable, and we need your support to make sure it leads to a debate and real change. We also offer simple guides on how you can report fly-tipping and keep our streets clean, because together, we can make a difference. (Ealing Council even has its own leaflet on fly-tipping, which we’ve highlighted).

Holding Our Councillors Accountable: Your Concerns Must Be Heard!

We will also place relentless pressure on our councillors to engage with residents and act upon your concerns. For too long, our elected representatives have been “missing in action”. When we fought against planning applications for thousands of new flats, our own Labour Party councillors stood with the council, not with us, the residents. They’re too busy making films for big developers like B Group, rather than serving the people who voted them in. We pay for parking permits in the L-zone, yet new flats are built without parking, and those residents are then given our permits, adding immense pressure to our already crowded streets. Ealing Council’s promise in 2010 that new flats would not negatively affect existing residents has been broken. Where is the respect, Ealing Council?

Our pavements are crumbling, leaving loose slabs and uneven surfaces that are dangerous trip hazards. Angela Fonso shared how she nearly lost her balance, and her own mother broke her foot in Northolt due to a paving slab. These are not minor inconveniences; they are serious dangers that can lead to death for our elderly! The council spent millions on the Southall Boulevard project, yet the maintenance is nonexistent. When our Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) see bikes illegally riding on pavements, they do nothing, despite it being against the law. Our council claims to have no money, yet they rake in “ton loads of money out of HMO licenses”. We are left in the lurch, with no supervision of HMOs, no safety checks, just money rolling in while they “don’t give a toss”. This makes Ealing Council nothing more than an ATM, a cash machine, for our money, but not for our services. We deserve better than councillors who don’t respond to our emails or attend our meetings. We will even run a poll later this year to see if residents have received replies to their emails.

Be the Change: Stand for Southall in 2026!

This neglect, this disregard, cannot continue. This is why we must rise. This is why we are encouraging residents, people like you and me, to stand as independent councillors in the May 2026 local election! We need decent people, rooted in our local town, who have “the full inner eyes and ears to see everything”. We need councillors who live in our borough, who understand our struggles, and who will fight for us. Don’t vote for those who don’t live here; it’s ridiculous. Our current leaders have filled Southall with rubbish and have no concern. We pay our rates, yet our council doesn’t listen or care about our cleanliness. We need leaders who will represent us, not just their party or developers.

Join Our Mission!

If you are tired of this, if you are ready to see real change, then join the Southall Residents Alliance. Report an issue, share your story, or volunteer your time. Every message, every voice, and every action makes a difference. Together, we can turn frustration into action – and action into change.

Let us stand together, and reclaim our Southall! Let us elect people in 2026 who will truly serve our community and bring about the cleaner, safer, more respected Southall we all deserve!

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