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Northwood Headquarters: Service of Dedication HMS Wildfire And www.eastbury-residents.org Autumn 2011 Newsletter In this Issue Northwood Headquarters: Service of Dedication Page 2 A service of dedication to mark the • Health Matters completion of the reconstruction of • Notice of AGM Northwood Headquarters in Sandy Lane was held on 17 August this year. Page 3 A sculpture funded and donated by • Chairman’s Report Carillion was unveiled at the ceremony by Adam Green, MD of Carillion UK Page 4 Construction and Writer Nathan • Crossovers and Roxburgh, Royal Navy, the youngest Driveways uniformed member of UK forces on • Did you know… site . • House Parties The sculpture is by Louise Plant who is an • Be a good associate of the Royal British Society of Picture courtesy of Mark Rawlings, Northwood neighbour! Sculptors. The sculpture called “Joining Force” is dedicated to all who served their In the final edition of Northwood HQ’s Project Page 5 country. As chairman of the ERA, I was News magazine, there is a list of the many • The Withey Beds honoured to be invited to attend the ceremony visitors to the site over the period of which fortunately took place on one of the few construction. It is pleasing to read that Eastbury Page 6 dry days of August. Residents’ Association is listed together with • Home more illustrious names which includes Her Improvements Northwood HQ is the nerve centre of UK defence operations. The redevelopment started Majesty the Queen and the Prime Minister. • Keep informed by e-mail! in October 2006 and has taken 252 weeks to Elizabeth Willetts complete at a cost of £155m. Page 7 • Environmental Matters HMS Wildfire and Brackenhill House • Eastbury Tennis HMS Wildfire is a Royal Naval Reserve unit located in Northwood, training over 100 • Road Stewards reservists. Formed on 6 May 1957 HMS Wildfire was originally named HMS Northwood and was designed to support the growing NATO Page 8 Eastern Atlantic Command at Northwood. It was the first Headquarters • Roy Underwood Unit in the RNR and was commissioned in 1959 as HMS Northwood, • Remembrance being renamed HMS Wildfire in 2000. Day at Eastbury School Housed initially within the UK’s Defence Headquarters, HMS Warrior, now Northwood Headquarters, HMS Northwood occupied a series of huts until, in • Michael Sobell 1988, the unit moved to Brackenhill House, an Edwardian mansion situated House about 250 yards from the main gate of Northwood Headquarters at the HMS Wildfire crest entrance to Oxhey Drive South. After 23 years in Brackenhill House, the Royal Page 9 Navy Reservists moved back into the Northwood Headquarters site in June this year. You may have • Rotary Club of been held up by the road closure as the 100 strong marching troops left Brackenhill House for the Ruislip- last time and marched down Sandy Lane to their new home. Northwood • Northwood Brackenhill House is now up for sale. Currently a property developer has submitted a planning Choral Society application to return Brackenhill House to a private residence and build six detached houses in the • Executive surrounding grounds. The Association has objected to the application as the proposed size of Committee building plots is not in keeping with existing dwellings nearby. This and any future planning applications will be closely monitored. Eastbury Residents’ Association Autumn 2011 Page 1 Health Matters Community Voice The AGM of Community Voice was held in May with a plea for more members and for more volunteers to come forward. Speakers at recent meetings have included Dr. Ian Goodman, a local GP, who had recently been elected to the Board of the Hillingdon GP Consortia and Dr Andreas Makris, Consultant Oncologist at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre who spoke on the subject of breast cancer. If you want to know more about Community Voice or would be interested in coming along to meetings please visit www.communityvoicehealth.org.uk or telephone 01895 636095 . West Herts Hospital Trust Jan Filochowski the Chief Executive of West Herts Hospitals NHS Trust reports that the trust is now focussing on enhancing patient recovery to help patients get better more quickly after surgery. This has been introduced in some departments at St. Albans Hospital and as a result the lengths of stay have been reduced. The next stage is to extend the programme and introduce it to Watford Hospital. A new diabetes centre is coming to Watford and the trust is tendering for a partner to build a new private patient unit at Watford. Mount Vernon Hospital Mount Vernon is now looking for Academic Partnership with the Royal Marsden as there are no research laboratories currently on site. This partnership together with the Institute of Cancer Research will produce the largest cancer centre in Europe, attracting top staff, better training and joint research. Paul Strickland Cancer Centre Dr Strickland retired after 26 years service and has been honoured with the title Founder and Honorary Life President. In 1982 he became Vice Chairman of the Appeal to obtain a CT scanner for Mount Vernon and the result of which is a world class centre which completed its 200,000th scan last year. Hillingdon Hospital The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust became a Foundation Trust on 1st April and Hillingdon Hospital has been renamed The Hillingdon Hospitals and includes Mount Vernon. Minor Injuries Unit at Mount Vernon Hospital The MIU is open from 9 am to 8 pm. Its reception desk can be reached on 01923 844201 . The unit treats minor injuries such as burns, cuts and bites. It has x-ray facilities for injuries to arms below the shoulder and for legs below the knee, but it does not x-ray children less than four years of age. Croxley Rail Link The new extension and re-rerouting of the Metropolitan Line has been agreed in principle. New stations are proposed at Ascot Road and Watford Hospital, a stop at Watford High Street Station and termination at Watford Junction. Adrienne Glicher Annual General Meeting Monday 11th June 2012 Notice is given to members that the next Annual General Meeting of Eastbury Residents’ Association will be held on Monday 11th June 2012 at 8pm at Eastbury Farm Primary School. Members are invited to put forward nominations for the Executive Committee and to submit items for the Meeting Agenda. Nominations and Agenda items should be forwarded in writing to the Secretary, Victoria Cook, 7 Bourne End Road, Northwood, HA6 3BP no later than 8 weeks prior to the AGM. (i.e. by 16th April 2012) as laid down in the Rules. However nominations and items for discussion will be welcome up to 14 days prior to the meeting. Page 2 Autumn 2011 Eastbury Residents’ Association Chairman’s Report Welcome to the Autumn 2011 edition of the Association’s newsletter. Attached are the minutes of the AGM held on 6 June. Thank you to all those residents who attended. The question and answer session with local councillors was well received and I was pleased that so many of you stayed to enjoy a glass of wine and socialise with other residents and the committee. Committee Northwood Parking Charges Since the AGM, Ken Balneaves, responsible for road issues, A petition signed by Northwood Traders objecting to the and John Servent, our secretary, have both stepped down further increases in car parking charges earlier this year has from the committee. I thank them both for their failed to persuade Hillingdon Borough Council to change contributions to the work of the Association over the last their policy. two and a half years. Northwood Traffic Lights I am pleased to report that Victoria Cook has taken over as The traffic lights at the junction of Green Lane with Station Secretary and Peter Penny will be joining the committee to Approach and Eastbury Road have been criticised by many look after roads. residents. London Borough of Hillingdon has responded by Parliamentary Boundary Changes commissioning a review of the lights and their operation by The Boundary Commission for England is proposing an independent firm of consultants. The review will be changes to our parliamentary constituency boundary. It is carried out this autumn now the schools are back from the proposed to move the council wards of Moor Park & summer break. Eastbury and South Oxhey from South West Herts to Neighbourhood Police Watford and to move the wards of Abbots Langley, Unfortunately, PC Claire Parfitt, the intended replacement Langleybury and Leavesden from Watford's constituency to for PC Sharon Hill, did not take up her appointment in June South West Herts. Watford is a marginal constituency held this year and we are still without a replacement. Sgt Luke by Richard Harrington, Conservative MP. Mitchell is looking after our area, supported by PCSO’s The initial public consultation ends on 5 December 2011. Chris Bignell and Gareth Williams. To speak to them call Your views can be made by visiting the Boundary 01923 472230 . Commission website and filling in the online form, e-mail the Boundary Commission or writing to Boundary Traffic Accidents Commission for England, 35 Great Smith Street, London, There have been several SW1P 3BQ . Public hearings are also being held in accidents along November by the Boundary Commission when there is the Batchworth Lane this opportunity for people to comment on the proposals. For year; fortunately no one more information call 020 7276 1102 or visit the has been seriously Commission website. To find the website, search on injured. One accident ‘boundary changes ’. damaged the chevron at the junction of Community Speed Watch Davenham Avenue. Herts Several residents volunteered to help with the Community Highways will be Speed Watch (CSW) scheme following the article in last repairing this shortly and spring’s Newsletter.
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