Hillingdon Council is facing a serious financial problem. It is significantly more serious than we have understood until now. In a report which will be presented to this Thursday evening’s Cabinet meeting, posted to the Council’s website today, there are new details of how bad the situation has become. For the 2024/25 financial year that […]
Archive | 2025
Concerns over large extension proposals on Deane Croft Road
We received a message from a local resident concerned about a large extension with a pending planning application, and took a look at the plans. The resident’s concerns were that a semi-detatched house on Deane Croft Road would be extended so substantially as to be near-unrecognisable, building a new two-storey extension at the side and […]
Bishop Ramsey School’s Summer Festival
On Tuesday July 15th the school held its Summer Festival from 4pm – 6pm. This was an excellent opportunity for parents, carers and guests to wander between departments and explore the many events demonstrated by the school’s students. The first stop for visitors was the International Food Hall presented by the Modern Foreign Language students. […]
LB Hillingdon consultation on banning motorcycle parking within Ruislip town centre
Motorcycle parking along Ruislip High Street has been an increasing problem for some residents, especially outside the takeaway restaurants where UberEats, JustEat and Deliveroo riders park. London Borough of Hillingdon announced this week that they intend to ban motorcycle parking within Ruislip town centre all along the High Street and adjacent in The Oaks and […]
A view from Ruislip Lido: Where natural beauty battles the blight of visitors’ bad parking and behaviour
In recent years, summer brings chaos at the Lido: we’ve all heard of parking and traffic nightmares, litter strewn all over, irresponsible barbecues, antisocial behaviour, people endangering themselves by going into the water, and comically ill-informed features in newspapers and on social media about ‘London’s secret beach’… but what is it actually like to live […]
