Ruislip Lido has had a difficult few weeks. First an oxygen crash killed a significant number of fish. Then, while the Council and the Environment Agency worked to put that right, one of the emergency pumps caught fire, and a Council officer was taken to hospital. Since then, the information coming from Hillingdon Council has […]
Some local residents in North Ruislip on the evening of the 23rd of June 2016, when a third cloudburst in a couple of days fell on Ruislip. It is estimated that some 45mm of rain fell in around 45 minutes onto already saturated ground, causing the Pinn to overflow its banks. There was widespread flooding […]
More than sixteen months after residents were promised rapid work on the “obvious risks” at Ruislip Lido, Hillingdon Council has finally published its new Operational Safety Plan. It contains some welcome improvements to emergency access, traffic management and incident reporting – but the document says that the specialist water safety plan is still to be […]
On 18 August, the Local Democracy Reporting Service revealed that Hillingdon Council’s Deputy Leader, Cllr Richard Mills, had spent months posting on Facebook under the name “DelightfulYuzu2877” – commenting on Council business and the conduct of residents as though he were an ordinary member of the public, while concealing that he was one of the […]
The Council’s own reviewer says its problems aren’t really about money at all. CIPFA – the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy – published its independent review of Hillingdon Council on 30 July. It was commissioned by ministers as a condition of the Council’s Exceptional Financial Support (EFS) request, and its findings were referenced […]
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:
