Archive | Environment

Your residents’ association attends the quarterly Thames Regional Flood & Coastal Committee to ensure we have an eye on any changes to flood risk management and the activities of statutory authorities beyond our local Council, as Lead Local Flood Authority, to include the Environment Agency and Thames Water. Consultation now open There is a current […]

At the Ruislip Residents’ Association General Meeting on September 30, 2025, the poor quality of the new compostable food waste bags was a popular topic of discussion. Residents expressed strong dissatisfaction with the new caddy liners, describing them as “dreadful” and “not fit for purpose”. The main complaints centred on the bags’ lack of durability. […]

Ruislip Woods Trust (RWT) has for many years had serious concerns over London Borough of Hillingdon’s (LBH) management of the Ruislip Woods National Nature Reserve (NNR) and especially following the retirement of The Woodland Officer in December 2023 which has left just one Woodland Ranger  to deliver both the Long Term and 5 year Plans […]

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 […]

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 […]