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Bridgewater Road, to the west of One Tree Hill recreation ground.He pointed out that this area was cut off from Peri vale, inEaling, by Sudbury Gol f Course and Alperton Cemetery. Fourmembers of the public specifically objected to the transfer ofthis cemetery, which, they said, had traditionally catered forresidents of Wembley.115. Mr Harry Greenway MP commented that the Abbey Estate isdependent on Alperton for shopping facilities, and suggested thatthe recent opening of a supermarket in the Ealing Road wouldserve only to increase these links. His views were supported bytwo residents of the Abbey Estate, who considered the River Brentto be a more significant barrier in this area than the GrandUnion Canal. Mr Greenway suggested that the boundary should becontinued along the Grand Union Canal between Clifford Road andEaling Road, and then follow Ealing Road south to the existingboundary by Riverside Gardens. The Ealing Labour Party consideredthe Abbey Estate to be isolated from all surrounding areas, butfelt that, on balance, its affinities of interest were withBrent, rather than with Ealing.116. We accepted the force of the argument against the transferto Ealing of the various local authority properties situatedsouth of the canal. We acknowledged that the transfer of theseproperties to Ealing would, in the short term at least, causedislocation to services in Brent, and that the interests ofeffective local government would be better served by retainingthem in that Borough.117. Although only two residents of the Abbey Estate commenteddirectly to us, we felt we had sufficient information to concludethat the Estate looks mainly north to Alperton. We acknowledgedthat the River Brent and the North Circular Road are significantphysical features which tend to limit north-south movement inthis locality.118. We concluded that the existing boundary could besubstantially retained from the point in the west whereBridgewater Road crosses the Piccadilly Line to the point in theeast where it leaves the River Brent. However, we felt that the34