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Parking charges to rise by over 70% for residents: email the Cabinet and your ward councillors before Thursday’s vote

Cabinet meets at 7pm on Thursday 22 October 2026. Emails sent before then, ideally by Wednesday, are the most likely to be read. This form is about the parking charge increases only (Appendix A of the “Discretionary Fees and Charges 2027/28” report). It sends your personal objection to all seven voting Cabinet members and, as […]

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Resident parking charges to rise by about 70% in January – the second rise in a year, and nobody is being asked

Hillingdon Council wants to put up the price of parking from January. Anyone using the Hillingdon First resident rate would pay about 70% more in most car parks and on-street bays, on top of this April’s rises, while non-residents would pay about 15% more.  The decision is being made by Cabinet, the seven senior councillors […]

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Ruislip Lido: five months after a near-drowning and it gets more visitors than we have residents, has no water safety plan, and got no review

Five months after a toddler was pulled unconscious from Ruislip Lido, the Council’s own Operational Plan shows that the site typically draws more than 20,000 visitors a day, more than the roughly 16,000 people who live in the Ruislip ward. The promised Water Safety Plan has not appeared, there has been no update on the […]

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St Martin’s Approach Planning Application for 6 houses on the car park: Why Has No Decision Been Made?

Many residents have asked why the planning application for six houses on part of the St Martin’s Approach car park has still not been determined. The application has now been under consideration for many months and the target decision date shown on the Council’s planning portal has been pushed back several times. The most recently […]

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Garden waste to go fortnightly from April 2027, with £69 wheeliebins replacing sacks, and no public consultation?

If you pay for garden waste collections in Hillingdon, the service could look very different from April 2027. The Council wants to replace the reusable 90-litre sacks with 240-litre wheeliebins, collected every two weeks all year round instead of weekly for most of it. The charge would be £69 per bin. The decision is being […]

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Tuesday 16th March 2027 at Winston Churchill Hall, Ruislip