In July, Hillingdon’s Director of Community Safety & Enforcement, Richard Webb, told the Residents’ Services Select Committee that Pay & Display machines were under review and that proposals would need to be developed. Those proposals have now been published. A report dated 22 September 2026 to the Cabinet Member for Residents’ Services, Cllr Wayne Bridges, […]
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Fish, fire, and a fading trail of answers: what we know about the Lido this summer
Ruislip Lido has had a difficult few weeks. First an oxygen crash killed a significant number of fish. Then, while the Council and the Environment Agency worked to put that right, one of the emergency pumps caught fire, and a Council officer was taken to hospital. Since then, the information coming from Hillingdon Council has […]
New 8-Week flood mitigation project begins in Park Wood SSSI to protect Ruislip homes
Some local residents in North Ruislip on the evening of the 23rd of June 2016, when a third cloudburst in a couple of days fell on Ruislip. It is estimated that some 45mm of rain fell in around 45 minutes onto already saturated ground, causing the Pinn to overflow its banks. There was widespread flooding […]
Nearly a million visitors and no water safety plan! Council finally publishes (unfinished!) Operational Plan for Ruislip Lido
More than sixteen months after residents were promised rapid work on the “obvious risks” at Ruislip Lido, Hillingdon Council has finally published its new Operational Safety Plan. It contains some welcome improvements to emergency access, traffic management and incident reporting – but the document says that the specialist water safety plan is still to be […]
Hillingdon Council’s Deputy Leader Richard Mills has been insulting us and calling residents cowards for months, while disguised as a lemon wearing sunglasses
On 18 August, the Local Democracy Reporting Service revealed that Hillingdon Council’s Deputy Leader, Cllr Richard Mills, had spent months posting on Facebook under the name “DelightfulYuzu2877” – commenting on Council business and the conduct of residents as though he were an ordinary member of the public, while concealing that he was one of the […]
