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Winter 2017 HounslowCommunity news from around the borough All you need to know about the services that matter to you MATTERS Heathrow Airport expansion consultation, p4 Hounslow’s new housing schemes p10-11 Improving Dukes Meadows p12-13 New garden waste collection service 2017 p14 Balancing the budget p20 Bedfont | Hanworth | Feltham | Cranford | Hounslow | Heston | Osterley | Isleworth | Brentford | Chiswick xxx 2 Welcome to the Winter edition of Hounslow Matters – February 2017 What’s inside News 4-9 Hounslow’s new housing schemes 10-11 Delivering new, improved Delivering on our Pledge Improving Dukes services and continuing to Meadows 12-13 put our residents first Hounslow Council gets tough with enforcement! 13 Despite the continuing challenges building in the heart of Hounslow The new garden waste we face through reduced funding town centre. You can read about collection service 14 from central government, we’re this on page 22. looking at 2017 as a major year Update on Space Waye 15 for delivery here at Hounslow. We Budget proposals are being made a start in November with the discussed at Borough Council on Why recycle your launch of the new recycling and 21 February – we’re in challenging food waste 16-17 waste collections service, which times and having to make further Are you a Parent Carer we moved from external contract tough decisions, but we remain of a child or young person to Recycle360, part of our wholly determined to minimise the impact with disabilities? 19 council owned company Lampton on local services and residents as 360. On page 6, you can read about much as possible. The proposals Council Tax scheme how Lampton 360 is delivering a include adopting the government’s changes 20 range of other services across the social care precept of 2% to help council too – how we’re developing protect adult social care services Balancing the Budget 20 these to deliver on our promise for from further cuts. With the 1.99 per Revenues and Benefits a better borough. cent Council Tax increase agreed in service consultation 20 principle in October, this will mean We’re starting our new garden a total Council Tax rise of 3.99% in Hounslow Council’s waste collections service 2017 2017/18. For a household in a Band new look website 21 from 3 April. The sign up period D property this means an additional Work begins on new runs from 1 February to 31 March, annual cost of £43.08. housing and council offices 22 but there is a discount of 10% for residents who sign up or re- You’ll have read in my weekly diary Changes to Benefit Cap: 23 subscribe by 28 February. Details are and in recent press releases that does it affect you? on page 14. the council’s views on Heathrow airport expansion remain as they Preserving our heritage 23 The council’s brand new website always have, that we would like to launched on 31 January and is see a better, not bigger, Heathrow. Around Hounslow 25-26 ‘putting our residents first!’ You’ll The Department for Transport has Your guide to what’s on now be able to go online to create now launched a 16 week public your own account so that you can consultation on a new northwest sign up for information on services runway at Heathrow, so that local or pay online from your phone, ipad communities can ask questions and or laptop and PC. I think the new express their views. You can see Email: [email protected] | Tel: 020 8583 4348 site looks great – it’s bright, modern more on this on page 4. To view Hounslow Matters online visit: www.hounslow.gov.uk/hounslowmatters and much easier to use. For translations or accessible format email: I urge all residents and local [email protected] On 25 January, I had the pleasure businesses to take part in the of welcoming the Deputy Mayor consultation – it’s an important Follow us on Twitter of London, James Murray, to the opportunity to ‘have your say’ and @LBofHounslow ground breaking ceremony of a there are two local events taking Find us on Facebook landmark scheme for 919 homes place in Hounslow on 27 February www.facebook.com/hounslowcouncil being built on the Hounslow Civic at the Civic Centre and 15 March at Centre site. This is an exciting Isleworth Public Hall. Send us your news development for Hounslow – and If you have a local story and pictures the first since May 2016 to deliver you’d like to see in Hounslow Matters 50 per cent affordable housing send it, with your name and daytime for local residents. Releasing the Councillor Steve Curran contact details, to [email protected] Civic Centre site for new housing Leader of Hounslow Council and maybe it’ll get into the next issue! means we gain a new, modern civic 33 Heathrow Airport Expansion Consultation News On 25 October 2016, the Government announced that its preferred option for airport expansion in the southeast was a new northwest runway at Heathrow. The Government has launched a people through the information We need to do more on these and consultation on the policy so that you available, including details on the so does Heathrow and the Mayor can tell us what you think. support offered to local communities. of London. We will continue to work with Heathrow on behalf of The 16 week consultation includes a To find out more information and our residents and businesses, many series of events in the areas around access the consultation feedback form, of whom are employed directly at Heathrow to provide the opportunity please go to: Heathrow or are part of the supply for local communities to ask questions www.gov.uk/dft/heathrow-airport- chain, to ensure the best possible and express their views. expansion outcome and to reduce any adverse effects of the government’s decision. There will be two events in Hounslow: Cllr Steve Curran, Leader of We have already achieved some Hounslow Council said: “Our local improvements, particularly Monday 27 February – position on Heathrow Airport for our schools, and this work will Hounslow Civic Centre remains as it has always been, that continue. we would like to see a better not Wednesday 15 March – bigger airport. The announcement “The government has now launched Isleworth Public Hall that government now recommends its consultation on airport capacity [the expansion at Heathrow will have a National Policy Statement] which is an Each event is open between 11am and huge impact on the residents and important step towards a final decision 8pm. They’re free to attend and open businesses of Hounslow. on a third runway at Heathrow. I urge to all. Staff from the Department for all residents and businesses to take Transport will be on hand to answer “Our main concerns remain noise, part in the consultation and make sure questions about the policy and guide pollution and additional congestion. they have their say. Double award success for apprentices Hounslow’s Mayor is Hounslow Council scored a double success at the Spark! Partnership busy as a bee… Awards (24 November) with Gurpreet Lotay (former Business Apprentice in Hounslow’s Electoral Services team) It continues to be a busy time for across the borough in November. The named Apprentice of the Year, and the the Mayor of Hounslow, Councillor Mayor then led the recognition for council winning the Apprenticeship Ajmer Grewal, who is relishing Hounslow’s foster carers at a special Company of the Year award. getting fully involved in the awards ceremony. community. This is the second consecutive year Cllr Grewal was on hand to lend that a Hounslow apprentice has won. Over the last few months, the Mayor support as local retailers and has been involved in several events companies marked Small Business For more information on the and led the way in supporting what’s Saturday. Corporate Apprenticeship important to residents across the Programme, visit www.hounslow.gov. borough. The Mayor raised more than £1,000 uk/aboutapprenticeships at a charity event she hosted at Syon Cllr Grewal joined Isleworth ward House, with all monies going towards Councillor Sue Sampson and the family her two chosen charities, Hounslow of Sahil Roy, who was tragically killed Association for the Blind and The on Ivybridge Estate in April last year, to Alzheimer’s Society. officially open a new boxing gym on the estate in October. The next fundraising event the Mayor will be holding is a dinner and dance, She then led the borough at the at the Riverside Venue, Bath Road, Armistice Day and Remembrance Hounslow, TW6 2AA on Friday 24 Sunday services which took place February. 4 Hounslow reflects Community blooms and remembers the again with boxing gym Holocaust News Hounslow Council led the commemoration for remembering those affected by the Holocaust and genocides all over the world, with a special event last month (January), following Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January). Councillor Ajmer Grewal, Mayor of Hounslow, Councillor Steve Curran, Leader of Hounslow and Maria Pedro, Deputy Lieutenant [Queen’s Representative] were joined by councillors and council staff to light candles to remember lives lost and the price paid by so many. Among the specially-invited guests was Susie Barnett, who told of her Through sheer hard work, resident George Groves and Welsh family’s life in pre-war Germany, how determination and belief, there has boxer Barry Jones all launched the new they escaped individually but the been a re-birth of a community at the gym last October, along with Sahil’s price they paid for the experience as Ivybridge Estate in Isleworth.