The latest Green Belt Newsletter is attached here: LGBC E-NEWSLETTER MAY 2020
Category: News
HS2 Works Update
HS2 Works in Eastcote Lane, South Ruislip and at Ruislip Golf Course, including some overnight works – details can be found here: https://hs2inhillingdon.commonplace.is/news/2020/05/27/hs2-works-update:-works-in-eastcote-lane,-south-ruislip-and-at-ruislip-golf-course,-including-some-overnight-works
ICE Peoples’ Choice Award
Thanks to those who voted for the ICE Awards. The Eastcote Town Centre Improvements won the Peoples’ Choice vote!.
Read the full details at eastcote-wins-ICE-peoples-choice
HS2 TBM Power Supply work has started
Work to start week beginning 18 May 2020 and last until the end of July 2020.
UK Power Networks undertook some trial holes during the late summer and autumn of 2019 along the line of the cabling route. The result of the trial holes allowed them to understand the ground condition and confirm existing utilities.
During this current Covid-19 outbreak, UKPN, in conjunction with both Harrow and Hillingdon London Boroughs, will prioritise work at road junctions due to vehicle numbers being significantly reduced in the area. This work will involve digging a trench to install ducts that will carry the power cable.
The affected road junctions will be:
TEAM ONE
Rayners Lane roundabout to Whittington Way – starting 26 May to 11 June
Whittington Way over Yeading Brook – starting 12 June to 19 June
Junction between Cannon Lane and Cannonbury Avenue – starting 22 June to 29 June
Deane Croft Road and Field End Road junction – starting 30 June to 7 July
Windmill Hill and Westholme Gardens junction – starting 8 July to 15 July
TEAM TWO
Windmill Way intersection with Manor Way – starting 18 May to 26 May
Westholme Gardens, The Ridgeway and East Way junction – starting 27 May to 3 June
Ickenham High Street, Midcroft and Ickenham Road junction – TBC
The White Bear roundabout (Ickenham Road across Sharps Lane) – TBC
These dates are subject to change and if necessary updates will be made on Commonplace: https://hs2inhillingdon.commonplace.is/schemes/proposals/tunnel-boring-machine-power-supply-route/details
Once these junctions are complete UKPN will seek to continue the work along the rest of the planned route. These works should not affect your electricity supply.
Support available
H4All is a free service provided in conjunction with Hillingdon Council and is here to help if you are self isolating. H4All can:
- pick up your shopping
- provide someone to chat to on the phone
- post your mail
- arrange prescription delivery
- walk your dog
- collect essential medical equipment
You can call H4All on 020 3949 5786 or email coronasupport@H4All.org.uk
More information is available at https://www.h4all.org.uk/ and if you would like to volunteer to engage with wider activity with the aim of supporting residents please contact: community@h4all.org.uk
Ask your council for cycle space during lockdown
The UK Government has made £250 million available to councils like yours, telling them that they’re expected to make significant changes to their road layouts and give more space to cyclists and pedestrians, to help people move around safely as the lockdown is eased.
Meanwhile, the Scottish Government has also made £10 million available to local authorities for temporary cycling and walking infrastructure with the Welsh Government similarly making funds available and inviting councils to apply.
With money now available to local authorities from governments across Britain and governments beginning to discuss plans for easing the lockdown, there’s no excuse for delay.
That’s why I’m writing to ask for your help to get your council to ask for the cash and start installing pop-up cycle lanes, widening pavements and taking other measures to help people socially distance whilst walking and cycling as lockdown restrictions start to ease.
We’ve made this really easy by creating two editable letters. If you have the time, you can edit the letters and add your own suggestions about what’s needed in your area or google search for your local cycling campaign group and see if they’ve made any suggestions you want to include.
If you want space for people to walk and cycle, and space to socially distance, please ask your council to take action now.
Thanks, as always, for your incredible support.
Duncan Dollimore,
Head of Campaigns and Advocacy
Cycling UK
Town Centre Rain Gardens
The Eastcote Town Centre rain gardens have been shortlisted for a prestigious Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) award:
https://www.ice.org.uk/about-ice/near-you/uk/london/awards/london-civil-engineering-awards
The project has been entered in the ICE London Civil Engineering Awards 2020, People’s Choice Award, which celebrates civil engineering projects transforming lives.
There is a public vote which is now open and closes at 17.00 Monday 18 May 2020 – you can vote here:
Invitation to participate in study on density
It is hard to find land in London to build on. One suggestion is to increase density – to allow more to be built on a piece of land.
To this end, my colleagues and I at the London School of Economics have put together a survey to better understand what Outer London residents think about this.
The survey can be accessed by clicking on this link and then, after having read the instructions, by clicking ‘Continue’. It consists of two parts. The first is a short questionnaire and the second contains a series of images for the participant to respond to. More detailed information, including a consent form, can be found on the survey’s introduction page. Participants are encouraged to complete the survey by May 31. If there are any technical questions or issues, please feel free to email me.
Link to the survey:
COVID-19 SMS/Text message Scams
for advice about SMS/Text message scams that criminals are using during this current crisis.
HS2 works for tunnel boring machines power supply
UKPN will be starting work on digging trenches and laying ducts that will hold the TBM power cable from the 18 May. During the Covid-19 pandemic they will prioritise road junctions due to vehicle numbers being significantly reduced, which will help to relieve causing congestion when traffic levels return to normal. This phase of the scheme should take place until July.
The affected road junctions will be Rayners Lane roundabout to Whittington Way, Whittington Way, Junction between Cannon Lane and Cannonbury Avenue, Deane Croft Road and Field End Road Junction, East Way Junction, Windmill Way Junction with Westholme Gardens, Windmill Way intersection with Manor Way, and The White Bear roundabout. Once these main junctions are complete UKPN will look to continue the work along the rest of the planned route.
Their working hours will be 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday, 8am to 1pm on Saturdays with any quiet work continuing until 4pm, and no work on Sundays, although traffic management will remain in place for the duration of the works.
This work will not affect the electricity supply in the area.
UKPN will be writing to residents along the planned power supply route next week.