News

The magazine for Hillingdon residents, with community news from the council, is delivered to homes across the borough every two months.

Hillingdon Council has announced plans to expand the reach of its music service to give more children the opportunity to participate in music.

The Mayor of Hillingdon, Cllr David Yarrow, launched his Charity Appeal for 2019/20 at an event at the Civic Centre, Uxbridge on Wednesday 10 July.

Children aged from four to 11 are being encouraged to go on an out-of-this-world adventure this summer, with the annual Summer Reading Challenge returning to Hillingdon from Saturday 6 July.

Hillingdon Council's Hayes Community Family Fun Day returns this weekend.

Hillingdon Council has won the top award for innovation in children's services at the Municipal Journal (MJ) achievement awards.

Hillingdon Council's Trading Standards team is celebrating after winning a national award for its work to prevent unsafe consumer products entering the retail market via Heathrow Airport.

A special ceremony at the Polish Air Force Memorial in South Ruislip unveiled two interpretation boards in the remembrance garden.

The director of The Wine Cellar in Station Road, West Drayton, was found guilty at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court on Monday 17 June of selling alcohol to a person under 18.

The former owner of Chixy's takeaway in Botwell Lane Hayes has been ordered to undertake 120 hours of unpaid work after admitting several breaches of food hygiene regulations.

Hillingdon Council's waste and recycling team donated around 1,000 duvets to a local animal charity to recycle as bedding this week, as part of an annual joint initiative.

More drinking fountains are being installed in Hillingdon's parks and open spaces in a bid to reduce plastic waste.

Hillingdon Council's annual Bikespiration event, which celebrates all things cycling, has returned for 2019 with a new format.

Hillingdon Council opened a new sports centre in South Ruislip on Tuesday 4 June

Hillingdon Council's summer activity programme, Fiesta, will return in July offering a variety of activities for children and young people across the borough.

The council's Battle of Britain Bunker Exhibition and Visitor Centre in Uxbridge will host a four-day programme of events, exhibitions, tours, specialist lectures, a film screening and more to mark 75 years since D-Day and the historic Normandy Landings.

The independent Local Government Boundary Commission for England has published its final recommendations for new electoral arrangements for Hillingdon.

To mark this year's Dementia Action Week (Monday 20 to Sunday 26 May 2019), Hillingdon Council organised a varied roster of activities, engaging with businesses and residents alike in the borough last week.

Hillingdon Council revealed further details about proposals for a new high quality state-of-the art sports and leisure facility in the Yiewsley and West Drayton area at a Cabinet meeting on Thursday 30 May.

HS2 Ltd has postponed the eight-week closure of Breakspear Road South until the end of the summer term.

Following this year's Foster Care Fortnight campaign (13 - 26 May 2019), Hillingdon Council is on a mission to dispel 10 of the common myths surrounding fostering.

Hillingdon Council is taking legal action to reclaim land next to Hillingdon Court Park in Uxbridge.

Hillingdon Council is celebrating after its Battle of Britain Bunker Exhibition and Visitor Centre in Uxbridge won the Tourism and Leisure category in the South East Region finals for this year's Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) awards.

Hillingdon Council has expressed grave concerns about High Speed Two (HS2) Limited's ill-advised plans to close Breakspear Road South in Harefield for a fourth time later this month.

Hillingdon Council delivered its most successful child car seat safety campaign last month.

Culture Bite, Hillingdon Council's annual arts and culture festival, has returned for 2019 with a new format.

Cllr David Yarrow was elected as the new Mayor of Hillingdon at the council's Annual General Meeting last night (9 May), replacing retiring Mayor Cllr John Morgan.

Following the Divisional Court's decision on 1 May 2019 to dismiss the legal challenge brought by Hillingdon Council and others, expert legal opinion has been sought by them in relation to whether there are any grounds to appeal this decision.

Hillingdon Council officially launched its annual Hillingdon in Bloom competition on Tuesday 30 April at the Rural Activities Garden Centre, Hillingdon.

Councils are disappointed in the High Court's failure to quash the government's Airport National Policy Statement (ANPS), regarding Heathrow expansion. Councils argue this could bring long-term damage to the health of millions of Londoners.

A west London nail bar director who admitted a string of licensing offences has been ordered to pay more than £15,000 in fines and legal costs.

Hillingdon Council has successfully won funding from Public Health England (PHE) for a series of measures aimed at helping residents with alcohol problems.

Anyone caught fly-tipping in Hillingdon will now be fined £400 rather than £100.

Hillingdon Council has successfully applied for a High Court injunction that prohibits illegal encampments on more than 350 sites across the borough and makes it easier to remove people who ignore it.

Hillingdon Council has expressed its disappointment with London Motor Museum of Hayes, which has failed to pay more than £600,000 in business rates over the past 12 years.

The future of 46 cats and dogs that were taken into care by Hillingdon Council last year is set to be decided at Ealing Magistrates' Court on 20 May.

Hillingdon Council has denied claims that it has agreed a master plan with Meyer Homes for the vacant Master Brewer site near the A40.

Hillingdon Carers - a charity part-funded by Hillingdon Council that provides information, advice and a range of health and wellbeing support services to unpaid carers - has recently been awarded a Level Two Quality Mark by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO).

Lawyers representing a coalition of local authorities opposed to Heathrow expansion will make the case in the High Court today (Monday 11 March) that the government's Airport National Policy Statement (ANPS) backing Heathrow expansion should be quashed.

Hillingdon Council has once again ensured that every child in the borough has a secondary school place, according to school admissions results issued on Friday 1 March.

Councils in boroughs facing blanket noise misery from an expanded Heathrow are calling on the airport to spell out the real price communities will have to pay to satisfy its demand for growth.

Hillingdon Council has introduced a new Dementia Friends group for residents with younger-onset dementia.

Hillingdon Council approved its budget for 2019/20 at its meeting last night (Thursday 21 February), confirming that Hillingdon will not levy a social care precept and that council tax will once again be frozen for over-65s.

Hillingdon Council is calling on residents with artistic talent to get involved in a special design project for this year's Summer Reading Challenge.

Hillingdon is the only London borough to make the top 10 list of best places to buy a house in the country, taking into account house prices and low crime rates, property platform OkayLah.co.uk has found.

A ceremony was held on Harmondsworth Village Green on Thursday 14 February to celebrate the site's new Centenary Field in Trust status.

Hillingdon Council has been selected to work with the The What Works Centre to help reduce the need for children to go into care.

An archive of news releases by Hillingdon Council during the last year.