Along with its usual work of helping the residents of Ruislip, the RRA sometimes takes on more national issues, that nevertheless have an effect on Ruislip.
At present we are dealing with the proposals for High Speed 2 (HS2), which goes through Ruislip, partly in a tunnel and partly on the surface. We are working to reduce the impact of this major national infrastructure project on Ruislip and its community.
The council’s most-used public explanation for the financial crisis is a multi-million-pound cost for supporting asylum seekers and Chagossian arrivals, which it claims the government should be funding. The council has cited a cost of £16m for asylum seekers and of £2m for Chagossians. Even if those figures are genuine and don’t get reimbursed, the […]
Hillingdon Council’s financial crisis has not happened overnight. It has unfolded through a sequence of predictable steps, starting with the drawing down of significant sums from reserves – which last December’s Cabinet report described as being in “steady decline over the last four years” and “too low for a borough of our size and complexity” to cover […]
This series of articles has been written by residents, for residents, and while the subjects covered are both nuanced and complex, we have aimed to keep the language simple and the explanations easy to understand. There are necessarily some terms that simply have to be used, so to assist the reader in following them, we […]
Hillingdon Council is facing a severe financial crisis. Its latest financial report forecasts the 2025/26 budget to be £31.6 million overspent as of the end of August.. (Note: The council’s headline figure is £30.2m, but £31.6m is the figure required to make its own sums add up). This overspend will wipe out the council’s entire General Fund reserve, which […]
There is fresh hope that the Rural Activities Garden Centre could yet be saved – the Friends of RAGC are continuing their campaign and have announced their intention to issue Hillingdon Council a pre-action letter for Judicial Review to prevent the centre’s closure. The Friends of RAGC argue that the council breached the Localism Act […]
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:
