If you pay for garden waste collections in Hillingdon, the service could look very different from April 2027. The Council wants to replace the reusable 90-litre sacks with 240-litre wheeliebins, collected every two weeks all year round instead of weekly for most of it. The charge would be £69 per bin. The decision is being […]
The dog waste bin on your regular walk could be gone by the end of January. The Council wants to remove all 700 of them and hasn’t asked residents what they think. Dog owners would be told to put their poo bags in ordinary litter bins, or take them home. A report dated 14 October […]
Hillingdon Council is selling Mad Bess Cottage near Ruislip Woods National Nature Reserve. In February its notice covered ‘about 0.3 acres’. On 16 September it advertised its intention to sell ‘about 4 acres’. Objections close at 5pm on Thursday 22 October. The Council’s reason, passed to us by Cllr Philip Corthorne from Cabinet Member Cllr […]
Since the September notices appeared for the sale of four acres of Green Belt at Mad Bess Cottage, we have asked ward councillors, a Cabinet member and Council officers, including the Disposal Surveyor, Tom Prevezer, whose name is on the notice. None of them has given us a substantive reply. We put twelve questions to […]
The land Hillingdon Council wants to sell at Mad Bess Cottage lies beside Ruislip Woods National Nature Reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest. A member of the public asked the Council whether the field is in the reserve’s buffer zone. The Council has not said whether it is. Object by 5pm on Thursday 22 […]
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:
