Along with its usual work of helping the residents of Ruislip, the RRA sometimes takes on more national issues, that nevertheless have an effect on Ruislip.
At present we are dealing with the proposals for High Speed 2 (HS2), which goes through Ruislip, partly in a tunnel and partly on the surface. We are working to reduce the impact of this major national infrastructure project on Ruislip and its community.
On October 24, 2025, Hillingdon Council shared a five-month-old video from London Councils via social media . The council’s post stated the video illustrates pressures like “rising inflation,” “escalating demands,” and Hillingdon being “severely underfunded.” The video itself talks about these issues developing since 2010 . However, the timing and content of this communication raise serious questions about […]
The council’s £31.6 million deficit is not a mystery, nor is it explained by the public reasons related to asylum seekers and/or Chagossian arrivals, National Insurance hikes or decisions the Labour government has made recently. It is the result of different individual reasons, but three specific internal failures were all long predicted or known about: A £17.8 […]
The council’s most-used public explanation for the financial crisis is a multi-million-pound cost for supporting asylum seekers and Chagossian arrivals, which it claims the government should be funding. The council has cited a cost of £16m for asylum seekers and of £2m for Chagossians. Even if those figures are genuine and don’t get reimbursed, the […]
Hillingdon Council’s financial crisis has not happened overnight. It has unfolded through a sequence of predictable steps, starting with the drawing down of significant sums from reserves – which last December’s Cabinet report described as being in “steady decline over the last four years” and “too low for a borough of our size and complexity” to cover […]
This series of articles has been written by residents, for residents, and while the subjects covered are both nuanced and complex, we have aimed to keep the language simple and the explanations easy to understand. There are necessarily some terms that simply have to be used, so to assist the reader in following them, we […]
Historically, Ruislip is in the hundred of Elthorne, in the county of Middlesex, but for modern administrative purposes it is part of the London Borough of Hillingdon. Answers to many questions about services in and around Ruislip can be found on Hillingdon’s website:
Areas surrounding Ruislip are covered by other Residents’ Associations, so here are links to them:
