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 […]
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After Cowley Meeting Hall: Hillingdon Rewrites the Rulebook to Move Debt Out of Sight
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 […]
Theo’s Café Update: A Missed Deadline, an ICO Investigation, and a Police Report
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 […]
Lady Bankes Primary School’s 90th. Anniversary Celebration
On Friday May 15th. Lady Bankes Primary School celebrated their amazing anniversary. The school originally opened in 1934 at Victoria Hall, which was since demolished and replaced by Ruislip Manor Library. The school then moved to the present building in 1936 and became Lady Bankes Primary School, named after a local woman Mary Hawtrey who […]
Hillingdon Council asked us to alter our ‘Million Kilos of extra rubbish’ garden waste article – See their complaint and our response
On 6th May, the Ruislip Residents’ Association published an article using Freedom of Information (FOI) data to assess the impact of Hillingdon Council’s new garden waste charge. The data showed a significant drop in kerbside green waste collections, alongside an increase in general “black bag” residual waste of approximately 1245 tonnes (or 1.2 million kilos) […]
