Current News and Issues
1. The ban on using hosepipes until 4th July includes a ban on:
· watering a garden or plants
· cleaning a motor-vehicle or a private leisure boat
· filling a domestic swimming or paddling pool
· drawing water for domestic recreational use
· filling a domestic pond or ornamental fountain
· cleaning walls, windows, paths and patios of domestic premises
There are exceptions to the ban for:
(a) Persons holding a valid Blue Badge issued by a local authority; or persons without a Blue Badge who have a disability preventing them from using a water can, providing they register with the relevant water company.
(b) Systems on domestic premises for watering plants using a fixed drip or trickle irrigation watering system, connected to a metered water supply, which is fitted with a pressure reducing valve and a timer and which places water drip by drip directly onto the soil surface or beneath the soil surface, without any surface run off or dispersion of water through the air using a jet or mist
Veolia Water has created a dedicated webpage https://central.veoliawater.co.uk/drought.aspx which contains everything that customers need to know about the temporary ban.
2. Ruislip Lido is in the news: The planning application for the additional car park at the rear of Willow Lawn has been re-submitted. This and other proposals for Ruislip Lido are highly contentious and, as often happens, our members are not all of one mind in their responses. We shall monitor all proposals closely. To read more details click here for access to our Ruislip Lido page
3. Renewal of water mains in Ruislip High Street: Veolia Water and its contractor, Balfour Beattie Utility Solutions, will be renewing water pipes in the Ruislip High Street area over the next year. All properties within the area of work will receive a letter with date and full details. The old iron mains will be replaced with new, durable plastic pipes. However two-way traffic will be maintained throughout these operations.
Work In Ickenham Road started at the end of March. Work on the Church Road junction will start in the second half of April Click here for the timetable for the revised schedule .
4. Ruislip Manor to share a £2.7m boost with Northwood Hills!e Splendid news - Hillingdon Council's bid to the Outer London Fund has been successful! Less than the total bid for, but still a huge achievement. the icing on the cake to rejuvenate Ruislip Manor shopping area. Three giant steps - the road widening and parking scheme recently completed, the shop-front improvement scheme already in progress, and now this wonderful news. Click here for further news as it unfolds
5. Update on Eastcote Hockey Club proposal for a hard surface hockey pitch on Kings College Fields, plus fence and 30ft floodlights:·
The Eastcote Hockey Club’s application to build this pitch on Kings College Playing Fields was to have been heard by Hillingdon's Planning Committee on Thursday 2nd February - but the surprise news was that it had been withdrawn! However the Hockey Club has stated that it plans to submit yet another revised planning application in the future. We will let you know when that happens.
Our members clearly rejected the proposal for the hockey pitch at our AGM last June. Even further back, in May, we expressed our views about this issue to Hillingdon Borough Council - see that letter by clicking here on our
Environment Page . Our stall at the Ruislip Manor Fun Day in November was used by Friends of Pinn Meadows to collect nearly 4,500 signatures opposing the proposal.·
To see their website click here·
6. HS2 Decision - the decision is to go ahead but to tunnel under Ruislip:
A package of alterations to the proposed route were announced in January 2012. These alterations include additional tunnelling in the Chilterns and in Ruislip. More than half of the route will be in a tunnel or cutting.
Details of local tunnelling in Ruislip are not clear, but it appears that the tunnel will start at Northolt, before South Ruislip Station, and end after West Ruislip Station, probably on Ruislip Golf Course. However, at a March meeting of invited representatives, it was suggested that the tunnel might possibly be extended further. See more details on our High Speed 2 page by
clicking here 7. The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II:· To mark Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee, on 10th May 2012, members of our Executive presented a memorial chair to Ruislip Manor Library, on behalf of our Association.
8. Localism Act:·
The Localism Act will shift power from central government to individual, communities and councils. To read more click on our Localism Page in the menu to the left of this item, in the section on National Issues.
This page was last updated on 16th May 2012
