This week sees the last free garden waste recycling collection from Ruislip and Ruislip Manor. For collections from next week, you’ll need to have subscribed to the £70 service. Is it three tags? Or Six? When you subscribe to the service, you’ll be sent three tags. Unless you ask for more bags while you’re subscribing, you […]
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Shopfront reinstatement at 111 High Street, Ruislip
We have been tracking the shopfront at 111 High Street (now Hungry Olive). A Planning Enforcement ENF/308/22 was originated in 2022. The Enforcement notice was served to remove the insertion of the slit windows, but rather than carry out the works, the enforcement was appealed. The Planning Inspectorate dismissed the appeal on 10th April this […]
Rural Activities Garden Centre – “as seen on TV” – on ITV News this evening
Following last night’s impressive display of support from the Friends of the Rural Activities Garden Centre and hundreds of residents from across the borough, two of our three MPs (Danny Beales and John McDonnell), our London Assembly Member Bassam Mahfouz and a dozen or so supportive councillors, ITV News have today visited the RAGC. Tonight’s […]

Campaign to save RAGC continues, gaining momentum with the front page of this week’s Uxbridge Gazette – join the demonstration on Thursday evening
London Borough of Hillingdon’s Cabinet will meet at 19:00 on Thursday evening with plans to decide on the closure of the Rural Activities Garden Centre. Before then, from 17:45 in the square in front of the Civic Centre, the Friends of the Rural Activities Garden Centre will hold a demonstration – and they call for […]
Rubber tubes for traffic surveys on the roads around Ruislip Manor
A few streets in Ruislip Manor all of a sudden have pairs of rubber tubes along their length – but why? In February, March, and May, residents along Sunnydene Avenue, Dulverton Road and Cornwall Road each independently had a petition hearing before Cllr Steve Tuckwell, Cabinet Member for Planning, Housing & Growth at the […]