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 […]
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A resident living near Ruislip Lido asked Cllr Lavery to consider charging non-Hillingdon residents an entry fee for Ruislip Lido
In a public question at this month’s full Council meeting, Cllr Eddie Lavery – Cabinet Member for Community & Environment, was asked: “Please consider charging an entrance fee for visitors (to the Ruislip Lido) from outside the Borough of Hillingdon. The attached article means that the Ruislip Lido will be visited by thousands of visitors, […]
LB Hillingdon does not charge visitors to Breakspear Crematorium to park
Ruislip ward councillor Cllr Peter Smallwood asked “Can the Cabinet member confirm that Hillingdon Council is not levying parking charges on those visiting Breakspear Crematorium to pay their respects to deceased relatives?” at the full Council meeting on Thursday 11th July 2025. That was a question asked to the Cabinet Member for Community & Environment, […]
Survey results after the first of the paid-for garden waste collections
In the first week of London Borough of Hillingdon’s new paid-for subscription garden waste collection service we are running a survey to ask for residents’ experiences on how things went. With Ruislip and Ruislip Manor’s first collections being on Monday and Tuesday, starting the survey on Tuesday afternoon meant that we could capture the early […]
Tonight’s full Council meeting is Cllr Corthone’s full meeting as Mayor, and features the RAGC heavily
The full Council meeting will be live on YouTube at from 19:30. The agenda is on the LBH website and the public questions, members’ questions, and Motions are summarised below the video stream, below… You’ll see that there are plenty about RAGC, garden waste subscriptions, and council finances. It will be chaired by Cllr Corthorne […]
