This past week brought a terrifying escalation to Ruislip Lido – one that local residents have spent years warning was inevitable. Over a 24-hour window spanning Monday 25 May and Tuesday 26 May, Reservoir Road was completely paralysed on two consecutive days by two different massive emergency responses. While the community waits in agonising suspense […]
We have received a copy of an open letter addressed to Steve Tuckwell (Leader of Hillingdon Council), Phillip Corthorne, John Riley and Peter Smallwood (Ruislip’s ward councillors) and Hillingdon Council’s Complaints department, and reproduce it in full, below: URGENT FORMAL COMPLAINT & SAFETY ESCALATION: Re – Dangerous Driving, Traffic Evasion, and Shift-Worker Sleep Deprivation […]
At a time when Hillingdon is under serious financial pressure, the Council has slashed routine financial scrutiny. Here is why residents are fighting back. At the same Annual Council meeting where Hillingdon changed the rules on sealed contracts and debt write-offs, it also changed the way financial scrutiny is organised. This may turn out to […]
From constitutional changes to closed-door decisions: how the Council reacted to a local scandal. This article is not about whether the Theo’s Café lease was lawful or unlawful. It is about what Hillingdon Council did next. At the Annual Council meeting on 14 May 2026, the newly re-elected Conservative administration approved a package of major […]
The Council has defaulted on its FOI obligations, the Information Commissioner has stepped in, and the original lease arrangement has been reported to the police. Here is what Hillingdon Council still refuses to answer. When we first exposed the Theo’s Café contradiction, the central question was straightforward: how did a Council lease that appeared to […]
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:
