Archive | Environment

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 […]

After announcing their plans to charge £70 for garden waste collections in final draft of the 2025/26 budget, London Borough of Hillingdon ran a “consultation” where they asked for residents’ views on the charge.  The consultation results have been published, considered by Councillor Eddie Lavery, and the £70 charge has been confirmed as going ahead. […]

Wednesday 21st of May saw the Mayor of Hillingdon, Cllr. Philip Corthorne, (the long serving councillor for the Ruislip ward), join with the Ruislip Residents’ Association, (RRA), to water the 20-tree Community Orchard planted on Ruislip Common to celebrate the centenary of the RRA The event is part of our Council’s campaign to encourage residents to water urban and street trees […]

London Borough of Hillingdon is running a public consultation on their proposal for a £70 annual charge for collecting green waste (garden recycling).  It is open until the end of March.  Please complete it now: doing so is anonymous, you do not need to log in, and you will not be asked for your personal […]