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SpringSpring 20202020 YourYour freefree newspapernewspaper fromfrom SloughSlough BoroughBorough CouncilCouncil InIn thisthis issue...issue... AwardAward winningwinning TheThe CentreCentre MeaslesMeasles vaccinationsvaccinations updateupdate CouncilCouncil TaxTax informationinformation You can also read this online at citizen.slough.gov.uk 2 NEWS www.slough.gov.uk Spring 2020 You can also read this online at http://citizen.slough.gov.uk/ Slough’s priorities We are not alone We have a new Five Year Plan, where our vision is growing a place Slough Borough Council doesn’t work alone. of opportunity and ambition. As one member of the Slough Wellbeing Board we team up with other local Our priority outcomes - putting people first agencies including the police, as well as • Our children and young people will have the best start in life and voluntary sector groups to provide local services to you and make Slough a better opportunities to give them positive lives. place to live, work and visit. • Our people will become healthier and will manage their own health, You can find out more about how we work care and support needs. with our partners on pages 7, 10 and 11. • Slough will be an attractive place where people choose to live, work and visit. MyCouncil: 01753 475111 • Our residents will have access to good quality homes. • Slough will attract, retain and grow businesses and investment to provide jobs and opportunities for our residents. Citizen is produced by Baylis and Stoke James Swindlehurst (Lab) Wayne Strutton (Con) Slough Borough Council Fiza A Matloob (Lab) 01753 532441 07580 361884 Observatory House, 07984 209529 [email protected] [email protected] 25 Windsor Road, Slough, SL1 2EL [email protected] Cippenham Meadows Anna S Wright (Con) For more information call Mohammed Nazir (Lab) Natasa Pantelic (Lab) 01628 664929 / 07706 445629 07958 794007 07745 398001 [email protected] Communications on 01753 875568 or [email protected] [email protected] Langley Kedermister email [email protected] Sunyia Sarfraz (Lab) Dilbagh Singh Parmar (Lab) Preston Brooker (Lab) While every care is taken with submitted 07593 572028 07929 115379 07791 913555 material, no responsibility can be taken for [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] material lost or damaged. The views Britwell & Northborough Satpal S Parmar (Lab) Michael J Holledge (Lab) expressed in Citizen do not necessarily Rob Anderson (Lab) 01753 535278 / 07944 843543 01628 541590 / 07795 975740 reflect official Slough Borough Council policy. 01753 531649 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Colnbrook with Poyle Harpreet K. Cheema Martin Carter (Lab) Avtar K Cheema (Lab) 07380 558258 07856 723037 07533 060322 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Langley St Mary’s Pavitar K Mann (Lab) Dexter J Smith (Con) Zaffar Ajaib (Lab) 07832 345887 01753 683542 / 07785 723764 07887 921992 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Central Elliman Harjinder Kaur Minhas (Lab) Safdar Ali (Lab) Arvind S Dhaliwal (Lab) 07455 994766 07904 963639 07920 485142 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Ted Plenty (Lab) Shafiq A Chaudhry (Lab) Sabia Hussain (Lab) 07534 682295 01753 575766 / 07855 955250 07967 822124 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Upton Christine Hulme (Lab) Naveeda Qaseem (Lab) Balvinder Singh Bains (Lab) 07563 244730 07852 404038 07723 618402 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Chalvey Farnham Jina Basra (Lab) Ruqayah Begum (Lab) Maroof Mohammad (Lab) 07305 545603 07926 080300 07539 569038 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Rajinder S Sandhu (Ind) Atiq Sandhu (Lab) Mohammed Rasib (Lab) 07956 839126 07931 797161 07877 551239 [email protected] Find your ward councillor 2019-2020 councillor ward your Find [email protected] [email protected] Wexham Lea Mohammed Sharif (Lab) Waqas Sabah (Lab) Haqeeq A Dar (Lab) 07984 260582 07846 391279 07800 587851 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Cippenham Green Foxborough Harjinder Gahir (Lab) Roger F Davis (Lab) Madhuri Bedi (Lab) 07599 551661 01628 542549 07980 493314 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Shabnum Sadiq (Lab) Nora Holledge (Lab) Haymill & Lynch Hill 07932 069484 [email protected] 01628 541590 / 07795 975730 Paul Kelly (Con) [email protected] 07947 435812 [email protected] Spring 2020 www.slough.gov.uk NEWS 3 Council leader James Swindlehurst A new year, a new edition of the update on the major project to deliver a Citizen! wetland area, with new footbridges, walkways and ponds, in Salt Hill Park. This Spring’s magazine features Slough Council’s OurFutures programme - the Information on keeping malingering plan to modernise our services, winter illnesses (and more serious processes and IT and deliver “brilliant diseases) at bay by getting vaccinated basics” in our future operations. Part of is on page 11, as well as features on our service transformation will see our other aspects of our public health customer services move from a single team’s activity. centralised location to local hubs in The work of the council’s public Slough’s various neighbourhoods to transport team, including the results make these services more local and the competition to design new road convenient to our residents (more safety posters is on page 5. You can below). also read about Bin Man Mike’s With the weather (hopefully!) warming recycling rap on page 9. With the Councillor James Swindlehurst up, pages 14 and 15 cover activities council meeting to set our 2020-21 and improvements in our parks and budget and Council Tax (featured on pages 18 and 19 show exactly what’s page 4), this is another packed edition on offer in the borough’s state-of-the- for a busy Spring. art leisure centres. There’s also an I hope you enjoy the read! Going local From the summer, you will no longer And there will be a point in the centre Joe Carter, director of transformation, need to travel into the town centre to of town for local residents as well. said: “For a long time residents have get advice from our customer service told us they would prefer to be able to Work is taking place between now and team - they will be in your local area. access the council nearer where they then to rearrange the current buildings live, from home, at a time convenient As part of our transformation, we will so we can bring our services into local to them. be moving our ‘front of house’ from the areas. centre of the borough out to local “As well as improving our online The local advice centres are part of the areas; Britwell, Cippenham, Langley service so people can help themselves council’s OurFutures transformation and Chalvey. 24-hours a day, we are moving our programme which is changing the way advice centres out of the middle of the As well as borrowing books, using the council works; putting our borough and into local areas. computers and catching up with the residents and customers at the heart of local news, you will be able to get everything we do, improving our “We will be continuously looking for benefits and council tax advice, blue processes, making it easier to work more opportunities to work closely badge information and applications, with us, placing our resources where with residents and our partners to welfare and general advice and they can do the most good and making bring local hubs into neighbourhoods.” information and more at The Britwell the borough work for everyone. Centre, Langley Library, Cippenham Library and the brand new community centre in Chalvey. 4 NEWS www.slough.gov.uk Spring 2020 Council tax Extra help with rent and explained housing costs Council Tax bills will be received This is what last years Council Tax Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) by residents by mid March for the looked like: can provide extra money if a resident is financial year 2020-21. eligible and needs extra help to meet housing costs. The bill will show how Council Tax is calculated as well as how the money is Anyone who requires more help with raised, the Council Tax bands, any housing costs and is currently claiming discounts, exemptions or Council Tax Housing Benefit or Universal Credit Support awarded to each resident. with housing costs towards rental liability, are eligible to apply. The bill payer is requested to check this information carefully and should DHP may be used to cover housing contact the council if they think they costs, such as a rent shortfall or rent in could be eligible for any discounts. The advance if you need to move home. sooner queries are made the sooner The link to download the form is here: the council can review and if possible, www.slough.gov.uk/downloads/ amend the bill. Discretionary-Housing-Payment- The bill will also indicate any arrears application-form.pdf (outstanding payments) for the It should be printed off, completed and previous period as at 21 February 2020. Payments can be returned to us by post or in person or If a payment has been made after this emailed to us at cut-off date there is no need to contact made by the [email protected] the council.