You can report Anti-social Behaviour online at the following link: https://www.met.police.uk/ro/report/asb/asb/report-antisocial-behaviour/
For local policing matters in Hatch End:
email: hatchend.SNT@met.police.uk
phone: 07920 233 723
HOW TO AVOID BURGLARIES
Burglaries take place at different times during daylight hours and after the hours of darkness. Methods of entry to properties are varied from forcing open a front door, a rear or side ground floor window or rear patio doors. Access to the side or rear of a property is often gained by climbing over low gates using unsecured bins in driveways. When the clocks go back with dark early evenings, it can be easier for burglars to identify if a house is unoccupied. Burglars often knock or ring at the door first, before making efforts to enter the property. So, however you feel safest responding to an unexpected visitor at your door, please do answer it as your presence could be enough of a deterrent. For those of you who don’t want to answer the door to unwanted cold callers, consider purchasing a ring.com video doorbell that detects movement outside your home, improves its security and allows you to answer the doorbell remotely. Please take some time to read the attached burglary prevention advice leaflet and consider what, if any, security vulnerabilities need to be addressed at your home.
Lee O’Brien PCSO 7562QA, Pinner / Pinner South SNT
020 8721 2991 or PinnerSouth.snt@met.police.uk
The Northwood & Pinner Cottage Hospital was bought and run by local public donation as a memorial to the dead of WW1 from 1920 until 1948 when it came under the auspices of the National Health Service. The site is now owned by NHS Property Services Ltd which is under pressure to sell the site. However, on its closure in 2008 Hillingdon PCT promised it would continue to serve local people. Residents in the area are concerned that the site will not continue to be a community health resource. An online petition to Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health, has started. If feel you’d like to sign the petition, please visit the link below.
To find what’s on at Harrow Arts Centre, visit
https://harrowarts.com/whats-on/
JANUARY 2016
Harrow Council has made changes to its new brown bin collection service which will start at the beginning of April 2016.
They are:
1. Full annual service – 25 fortnightly collections of garden waste between April 2016 and March 2017.
2. Six-month summer service – 13 fortnightly collections of garden waste between May 2016 and October 2016.
3. Flexi service – sign up for either of the above at any point in the year and pay a reduced rate that covers the remaining months of collection. There will be a period of notice of at least two weeks before the collection starts.
4. Share a bin – sign up for either of the above options and split the cost with your neighbour
5. Home compost – composting is easy and provides you with a ready source of garden goodness. We’ve negotiated some great deals on composting bins with get composting.
6. Civic amenity site – take your garden waste in a car, free of charge to the civic amenity site (rubbish tip). There are charges for vans bringing waste to the site. For green waste it is £68 per tonne with a minimum charge of £20.
If none of the above suit you and you feel strongly against the proposed changes and charges, you can sign a petetion. The link is here.
https://www.change.org/p/harrow-council-drop-plans-for-75-brown-bin-charge-2
Harrow Council is proposing changes to the garden waste recycling collection ie the brown bin collection. Its website states the following:
“The proposal is to alter the current garden waste recycling collection to a chargeable service. Garden waste will be collected fortnightly. Households which subscribe to the service will receive 25 collections per year using the current 240ltr brown bin at a price of £75 per year, which equates to £3 per collection.
Concessionary rates are provided to residents on means tested benefits as follows:
Residents of working age £25 (1/3 of the full price)
Residents with disability £10
Pensioners Free
Examples of means tested benefits include:
Council Tax support scheme/Pension credit/Income Support/Employment & Support Allowance.
For the start of the scheme we are offering an introductory offer – £75 to cover the period between 1 October 2015 and 31 March 2017.”
If you disagree with these proposals, there is a petition at Change.org that you can sign. See the link below.
www.change.org/p/harrow-council-drop-plans-for-75-brown-bin-charge-2
It has been reported in the press that residents living near schools in Harrow, including Grimdyke and Hatch End High, have been experiencing irresponsible parking during school drop off and collection periods. This usually involves cars being parked across driveways. If anyone experiences this they can contact Harrow Parking Control on 020 8424 1858 and a warden should arrive. On weekends and after hours, the number to call is 020 8863 5611.
We apologise for a mistake in the Spring Bulletin. Under Planning, on page 8, Para 1 – it should read “Also an Appeal, against the refusal of permission to demolish the Letchford Arms for six townhouses , was allowed.
Anne Swinson
The residents in Hatch End and Harrow are beginning to benefit from the improved services from the NHS. If you are over 75 you will have been notified by your practice the name of the doctor responsible for you. More surgeries are providing a seven-day service, open to all, near you and with the use of the improved 111 service and the 24/7 Urgent Care Centre (UCC) at Northwick Park there is little need to attend A&E except in the case of real emergency situations. There are now special carers’ services at your local surgery provided they know you are a carer. Please ensure you are registered as a carer at your practice to benefit from this service. The availability of your Summary Care Record is spreading as the practices prepare them. These records are enabling authorised clinicians to access them when you are away from your home practice. So with all these and more extra services coming on stream keep in touch through the CCG (Clinical Commissioning Group) website (see below) which is about to be refreshed, making it more user friendly.
This autumn there are also improvements of facilities at our local major hospital, Northwick Park. The new additional operating theatres are open which will reduce the number of elective (planned not emergency) operations which have to be cancelled on the day. In addition, refurbishment of others is underway. The new A&E and UCC departments are opening at the back of the hospital near the operating theatres and specialty support wards which will prevent urgent cases having to be trolleyed from front to back of the hospital and we hope will reduce waiting times. Planning work is beginning for additional wards in a few years’ time. The merger with Ealing Hospital Trust, completed on 1 October, is initially more a change in administration than change in services. The Trust will be called London Northwest Healthcare NHS Trust (no doubt reduced to LNWHT) and will manage Northwick Park, Central Middlesex and Ealing Hospitals as well as providing community services.
Looking wider to Northwest London the CCGs (PCT replacements) and hospitals are working together to improve services on a regional basis. Preparation and pilot projects are in hand for providing treatment nearer home for patients, joint working between the NHS and local authorities on health and social care as well as improved emergency care and maternity services by 2017/18 with a start being made at Ealing in spring 2015. The first sign locally is the upgraded UCC replacing the 12/7 A&E at Central Middlesex Hospital.
Improving healthcare on tight finances is a mammoth task and will take years to achieve which means we will all need patience. I know that getting an appointment with your preferred GP can be difficult but be assured that the local NHS is working very hard to give you the best services, near your home and in good time.
Some contacts for more information:
NHS Harrow CCG www.harrowccg.nhs.uk
NHS England www.england.nhs.uk
HealthWatch Harrow www.healthwatchharrow.co.uk/
HealthWatch England www.healthwatch.co.uk/
London Borough of Harrow http://harrow.gov.uk/
Northwick Hospital www.nwlh.nhs.uk/
Elliot Hall Medical Centre www.ehmc.co.uk/
Hatch End Medical Centre www.hatchendmc.co.uk/