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News from your council May/June 2016 Summer events Family Fishing and Hayes Carnival back for 2016 Feel PROUD How Chrysalis can Street Champions transform your Sign up to volunteer today local area WIN A TREE PARKLIFE VOLUNTEER advertisements people 25 July - 2 September Contents May/June 2016 ▸ Cover stories FIESTA 11 Become a Street Champion Hillingdon ▸ elcome to the May/June edition of summer activities Hillingdon People speaks to current volunteers to find out People. As we commence a new municipal for children and young people Book why they got involved and how they make a difference. Wyear which will see me start my 17th year as ▸ 12 Family Fishing Fun Days and Hayes Carnival Leader of the Council, during which time I have worked courses Council offers a range of summer events for your diaries. with some very good councillors and staff as well as residents' groups, it gives me cause to reflect on what from ▸ 14 Celebrating London Tree Week Free guided tree walks, competition and how the has been achieved in Hillingdon in past years and what young.hillingdon.gov.uk/fiesta 8 June council manages Hillingdon’s thousands of trees. will be achieved this year and in the years ahead. The reprovision of leisure facilities across the ▸ 16 Feel PROUD of your area borough, including the building of the first 50 with help from Chrysalis metre swimming pool in London for over 40 years; How our Chrysalis programme is making improvements rebuilding or refurbishing every one of our 17 to your community and how you can apply for funding. General libraries; providing three youth clubs; and delivering 18 New opportunities to learn the largest primary school building programme enquiries Enrol now and widen your horizons. in London. Through continued investment in 01895 19 Could you foster siblings? services, we have some of the best parks and A Hillingdon couple share their experience open spaces in the country, street lights that stay 558200 of fostering brothers and sisters together. on at night and a waste and recycling collection that is the envy of residents in other boroughs. 22 Recycling made easy Added to which, council tax has been frozen Some of the items you may forget about when recycling. young.hillingdon.gov.uk/fiesta for eight years (10 years for the over-65s). Regulars The year ahead will see us build the education 10 Older people 25 Volunteers and visitor centre above the Battle of Britain Bunker (ownership of which has now passed to the borough); 27 What’s on? 31 Contacts start work on the provision of a borough museum COVER PHOTO: RESIDENT, CHARLES FARMER USES THE NEW and a new 1,400 seat theatre in Uxbridge; the OUTDOOR GYM EQUIPMENT AT BROOKSIDE PLAYING FIELDS Are you receiving building of the first of three new youth clubs; and the delivery of a new secondary school in Northwood. As well as continuing to invest in current services, single person discount there will be new incentives to support the health and wellbeing of residents of all ages. We will also on your council tax? continue to defend our people and our environment 11 14 against the potential damage caused by infrastructure The spotlight is on you if more than projects such as HS2 and an expanded Heathrow. Looking further ahead, whilst never one adult is living at your address. underestimating the challenges that we in local government face, in Hillingdon thanks to Don’t wait for that knock on your door our delivery of sound financial management, we remain well placed to be able to continue Call us today 0300 123 1384 16 21 to deliver the services and facilities that our residents tell us are important to them. Advertising deadline for next edition: Friday 28 May. On a national note may I conclude by, on You can be prosecuted Editorial and advertising enquiries behalf of the London Borough of Hillingdon, for a false claim Emma Gilbertson 01895 250828 congratulating Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on [email protected] attaining 90 years of age and thanking her for the If you suspect someone of falsely claiming single person discount www.hillingdon.gov.uk/hillingdonpeople many years of dedicated service to this country. call 0800 389 8313 or email [email protected]. Your report will be treated in the strictest confidence After reading, please and can be given anonymously. recycle this magazine Published by London Borough of Hillingdon © 2016 Hillingdon People, 3E/07 Civic Centre, High Street, Uxbridge, UB8 1UW. Design Phil Burton 01895 250670 Printed by Warners Midlands PLC Products and services advertised in this magazine are not necessarily endorsed by the council. Cllr Ray Puddifoot MBE www.hillingdon.gov.uk For a copy in large print or as an LEADER OF THE COUNCIL audio version call 01895 250828 2 May/June 2016 May/June 2016 3 news news Council prosecutes Public Spaces Protection unhygienic sandwich Orders help to discourage producer anti-social behaviour The council is seeing some measurable success since Hillingdon prepares for imposing eight Public Spaces Protection Orders Heathrow legal challenge (PSPOs) in various areas in Harrison Grant Solicitors, Leader of the Council, Hillingdon pupils celebrate the borough in an effort to who led the council’s Cllr Ray Puddifoot, school place success A sandwich deal with specific forms of successful 2010 High Court said: "The government manufacturer anti-social behaviour (ASB). Heathrow challenge, have has made promise after Young people and their that every primary aged child in Hayes has PSPOs enable councils written a legal letter to unequivocal promise families are celebrating in the borough has a school been fined more to prohibit certain types David Cameron setting that this runway will following the recent to go to in September. The than £15,000 after the of ASB that may have a out why he cannot lawfully not be built and local announcement of primary 98 per cent of applications council found they had detrimental affect on an say yes to a third runway. people have planned and secondary places. granted to families’ preferred repeatedly breached area, cause harassment or September 2015, we have The legal letter their lives accordingly. Hillingdon topped other schools also reflects the hygiene regulations. distress, or affect the quality issued more than 350 FPNs. highlights "insurmountable There is no good reason London boroughs in offering council’s hard work and Fresh Foods (UK) Limited, of life in the community. Particular success has environmental problems" for the government to 98 per cent of primary investment in providing of Johnsons Industrial Estate, The council has put been noted in Heathrow which would make a change their minds. A school applicants a place high quality places for Hayes, was found guilty of Cllr Jonathan Bianco, orders in place to Villages, where a PSPO was Government decision third runway at Heathrow at one of their preferred children close to their homes.” four food hygiene offences Cabinet Member for combat issues such introduced to to support Heathrow would still produce schools and 86 per cent The borough also at a hearing at Isleworth Finance, Property and as harassment, crack down on expansion "irrational or unacceptable pollution their first choice. We continues to score above Crown Court on Tuesday 23 Business Services, said: "It abuse of alcohol, ASB by drivers otherwise unlawful." and noise and cause the received 4,125 applications the London average for February and made to pay is paramount that residents spitting, littering of private hire According to Harrison destruction of hundreds but thanks to our £315 secondary places, with a fine of £15,220, with further are safe in the knowledge and dog fouling. vehicles using local Grant, the Airport of homes and businesses. million school building and 91 per cent of Hillingdon costs of £5,000. Company that the food they buy Breaches are roads as waiting Commission's conclusions To go back on the expansion programme, the applicants receiving one director, Sukhwinder Singh, is hygienically produced punishable areas before pick- on air quality "were based promise would be more largest of its kind in London, of their top three schools. was personally fined £3,300. and reliably packaged. by fixed ups at Heathrow upon an error of law" and than distressing and unfair, we have been able to meet We received a record Officers visited the This guilty verdict serves penalty notices Airport. Officers proposals for reducing it is an abuse of power the demand for places. high of 3,323 applications, manufacturer between as a warning to other (FPNs) of £80. now visit the area noise impacts rely on that we are willing to In the last six years, the but offered the highest October 2014 and April producers in the borough As a result of daily and residents "mitigation measures which challenge in the courts." council has expanded percentage of first choice 2015, finding supervision to be extra vigilant, as we the introduction and businesses were speculative and have For further information and built 34 primary and top three preferences of staff to be lacking, and will find and prosecute of the PSPOs have contacted been wholly rejected by visit www.hillingdon. schools, creating more across west London. Seventy- prosecuted when advice those who are not." and enforcement the council to the industry as unworkable." gov.uk/heathrow. than 6,500 new places. one per cent of Hillingdon to improve management If you have concerns work that goes with voice their thanks. Cllr David Simmonds, children were offered their systems and standards was about the hygiene of them, ASB in these areas Leader of the Council, Cabinet Member for first choice of school.