Hillingdon Council is selling Mad Bess Cottage near Ruislip Woods National Nature Reserve. In February its notice covered ‘about 0.3 acres’. On 16 September it advertised its intention to sell ‘about 4 acres’. Objections close at 5pm on Thursday 22 October. The Council’s reason, passed to us by Cllr Philip Corthorne from Cabinet Member Cllr […]
Since the September notices appeared for the sale of four acres of Green Belt at Mad Bess Cottage, we have asked ward councillors, a Cabinet member and Council officers, including the Disposal Surveyor, Tom Prevezer, whose name is on the notice. None of them has given us a substantive reply. We put twelve questions to […]
The land Hillingdon Council wants to sell at Mad Bess Cottage lies beside Ruislip Woods National Nature Reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest. A member of the public asked the Council whether the field is in the reserve’s buffer zone. The Council has not said whether it is. Object by 5pm on Thursday 22 […]
The only public right of way inside the land Hillingdon Council wants to sell at Mad Bess Cottage is a byway open to all traffic. A locked Council gate across it stops vehicles. We have asked what happens to the byway, the gate and the badger hide if the land is sold. Object by 5pm […]
In February Hillingdon Council advertised the sale of about 0.3 acres at Mad Bess Cottage. We do not know what came of it. In September it advertised about 4 acres. Both notices say the Council is proposing to ask the Secretary of State for consent. Send your objection to the Council and the Secretary of […]
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:
