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	Last Updated 13/07/2009
Toni Newman 13/07/2009	NHIG has lost a great supporter with the sad and sudden death of Toni Newman, one of its committee members, who was much involved with the NHIG art projects over many years.
The Council's Master Plan for Notting Hill Gate 13/07/2009	Due to the 2008/09 financial situation Land Securities is currently no longer in a position to work with the Council in undertaking any redevelopment in Notting Hill Gate; the result is that the Master Plan is currently in abeyance.
The Quadrant The columns of the Quadrant are getting a facelift! March 2004
The Coronet The Coronet Cinema in Notting Hill Gate has been acquired by Kensington Temple See also Coronet for details May 2004

Carnival Elephant by Nadim Karam 25/08/2003
	The unveiling of the Carnival Elephant by Nadim Karam took place at Noon on Monday 25th August 2003 (August Bank Holiday) on the Newcombe Piazza (outside Waterstones 39-41 Notting Hill Gate, London W11).
London Town Group plc 29/01/2003	London Town Group plc makes a funding contribution to NHIG and will feature a story about NHIG in its Newsletter for the new Corner development on Westbourne Grove covering the Eco Halo.
Evening Standard 28/01/2003	The Evening Standard runs an article on the Eco Halo publicising the fact that having obtained planning permission NHIG is now urgently seeking a major funder or funders for the project.
More Trees Nov 2002	The Council of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has agreed to provide £45,000 towards the cost of the additional tree planting in Notting Hill Gate in the centre of the roads outside the Czech Embassy and next to the junction with Campden Hill Road subject to NHIG raising and contributing £10,000. The Cherry Tree Residents Association, the Ladbroke Association and the Pembridge Association have all agreed to make major contributions towards this planting of additional trees for further "Greening the Gate". The work will be carried out jointly by the Planning & Conservation and the Transportation & Highways Departments of the Council.
The Eco Halo Project Nov 2002
	Design by Dante Leonelli - Digital Images by Richard Wilding Website: www.danteleonelli.co.uk
	The initial work of the design team for the exciting Eco Halo Project was funded by London Electricity. The planning application for the scheme was considered by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on 13th November 2002 having been recommended for approval subject to a number of conditions. The planning application was granted by the Planning Services Committee, in accordance with all the recommended conditions but with the proviso that permission is for 5 years and not the recommended 3 years; this followed a written request by Philip Gumuchdjian, the architect, who pointed out that by the time that all conditions had been fulfilled and the Eco Halo had been constructed on site the three year permission would only have about a year to run and potential funders could be put off.
The Water Wall Adorned Nov 2002!
	Another Art Project by NHIG designed to improve the visual appearance of the previous water wall outside Newcombe House. This is Andrew Lee's first public art commission, and the first in a changing series of exhibits at this site. Lee graduated from Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 2000 and has since shown publicly in galleries and studio shows in London. He has also had a solo show in Brussels. He is currently living in Thailand teaching art to Burmese refugees, and in June will start a 3 month artist in residency at Bangkok University. Lee works with paint, for the most part crafting abstract works by applying up to 20 layers of paint on a surface and then sanding down through those layers to produce images reminiscent of digital scientific photographs. Flat seductive surfaces of colour that appear synthetic and machine made, belying the very human method (brush, paint and sandpaper) of their manufacture. "I am interested in even flat surfaces and psychedelic patterns that suggest a mechanised or digital origin for the works. At the same time it is significant that they are laboriously hand made. The repetitive process of layering on the paint effectively turns me into a machine of sorts. This piece was inspired by the largely modernist architecture of the area. Cubes held in a grid structure echo that of the surrounding buildings. The illusion of depth suggests that the grid is seen from above, perhaps looking down from a passing plane. The work is sited in a place of flux. People walk past on their way from or too somewhere else. As other buildings in their frame of view shift in parallax, the singular viewpoint of the piece remains static, countering and confusing expectation. The colours on the surfaces imply a depth beyond the diagrammatical level of the grid - a shift into a more fluid and less modernistic space. Illuminated at night they seem to shift, preventing the eye from settling, burning out from the black background. Hopefully the work provides a focus for the area, drawing pedestrians attention to the other pieces on adjacent buildings and perhaps turning a grey place which was walked through into somewhere to meet, to congregate".
Fox Passage 29/11/2002
	The then His Worship the Mayor, Councillor Sir Anthony Coates, formally opens the mosaic walls in Fox Passage at the north end of Kensington Church Street, opposite Waterstones and behind Barclays Bank, surrounded by children from Fox School who contributed to the design. On the left of the Mayor is Cllr Dez O'Neill, who co-ordinated the project; on the right of the Mayor, wearing glasses, is John Scott, NHIG Project Co-ordinator.
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