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 your support.
Members of the Ruislip Residents’ Association committee will be present at both the demonstration and Cabinet Meeting, showing our strong support for the RAGC and urging the council and our councillors to reconsider. Please join us.
Over 6000 people have signed the Change dot org survey started by John Scrivens, and over 1300 Hillingdon residents signed the ePetition started by Dominic Craddock on LBH’s own website. Both spoke powerfully at the petition hearing on 11 June.
“MyLondon is calling on Hillingdon Council to keep the vital garden centre open”
– page 3 of Uxbridge Gazette last week
“I appeal to the Cabinet to have a rethink and show that they have a heart”
– Barbara Fisher, page 11 of Uxbridge Gazette last week
“I hope that councillors will realise this is a heartless idea and will instruct officers to consult the people it affects, as well as us tax-payers. People I’ve spoken to are insulted by the idea that tax payers don’t want to subsidise a place that shines a light in an increasingly depressing world.
If they think that it’s only the vulnerable people who use the centre and their families who oppose the move, they couldn’t be more wrong. People all over Hillingdon and beyond have voiced their dismay to me”
– Barbara Fisher, page 13 of Uxbridge Gazette this week
“We’re not just growing plants – but growing people” — Front Page story of this week’s Uxbridge Gazette newspaper and MyLondon website.
“The discretionary spend element under review, is unlikely to be in the Council’s top 50 priorities.”
– Cllr Douglas Mills
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