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/
Headstone Manor Museum has been awarded £3.6million by the Heritage Lottery Fund to restore this 14th Century moated, manor house as a permanent museum of Harrow’s history. The manor sits in a quadrangle of two barns and a granary, which was moved from Pinner Park Farm in the 1980s. Currently the barns are being restored and the greater barn will be available for events when work is completed in late autumn this year. While this work is going on activities take place in The Granary. These include Tuesday Talks, which take place every other Tuesday throughout the rest of the year. The Talks begin at 2pm until 3.30pm, followed by a Q&A session and cost £3.50 each. Doors open at 2pm. For more information, visit www.harrowmuseum.org.uk.
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/
On 1 April 2013 the re-organisation of the NHS came into force. This is a change of organisation and responsibility intended to improve services to patients. The changes are expected to create improvement and change driven by local clinicians rather than central administrators.
While the changes are far reaching there should be no immediate change to the how patients engage with the NHS although the name over the door might have changed.
The following is a very brief and simplified outline of the changes and is intended as an introduction to some of the new names and responsibilities.
Before 1April 2013 the health of the people of Harrow was the responsibility of NHS Harrow, the local Primary Care Trust (PCT). The PCT was responsible for the provision of health services by providers of health services required locally, such as primary care (GPs), hospital (NWLHT) and mental health (CNWLFT). All were responsible to NHS London, the Strategic Health Authority (SHA) for London
From 1 April there is no more PCT and no more SHA. They have been replaced by NHS Clinical Commissioning Group Harrow (NHS CCG Harrow) and NHS Commissioning Board (NHS CB).
NHS CCG Harrow consists of local GPs elected by their peers to run the organisation that is responsible for the provision of health services for Harrow from providers and trusts as was PCT Harrow. The CCG is responsible to NHS CB London Division. Separately NHS CB is responsible for the provision and performance of GP practices and certain very specialist services provided nationally by the NHS.
It is intended that future updates will give descriptions of local health pathways that members will encounter and any changes and opportunities for involvement in health and social care by members.
July/August 2018
PARKING IN THE BROADWAY – PUBLIC CONSULTATION
The Council has published a Public Consultation document regarding parking and parking meters in The Broadway and is seeking residents’ and businesses’ views.
The public consultation STARTS ON 12 JULY and will run for a period of 28 days until 8 AUGUST 2018.
All responses should be received by no later than 8 August 2018.
Introducing parking controls is a two-stage process.
Stage One – is an informal consultation intended to gather information from local residents and businesses about parking problems they are experiencing and to help the council decide what measures if any are taken forward to the next stage.
Stage Two – is the Legal Notification (Statutory consultation) stage, residents and businesses are re-consulted on the proposed parking controls on roads agreed to be taken forward.
We are currently at the informal Stage One and no decisions have yet been made about whether to introduce any new parking controls.Although some people have contacted the council to explain their parking problems they would like to hear your views as well so that the council can clearly understand the level of support that exists for parking controls within your area. If there is majority support for parking controls the council will proceed to Stage Two which is the Legal Notification (statutory consultation) stage.
A potential scheme could include the following measures:
Pay and display machines (parking meters) in The Broadway service road between Anselm Road and Wellington Road and on Wellington Road (east side) opposite 2-8 Wellington Road.
A review of the existing disabled parking spaces in the service road with potential additional disabled parking on Uxbridge Road (north side) in the existing inset parking bay.
Retaining the ambulance bay outside Lutyen House in The Broadway service road and the existing waiting restrictions in Uxbridge Road.
The final design may be subject to change following the comments received from this consultation (no decisions have yet been made).
You should consider whether the parking issues that you experience justify the introduction of parking controls. The council will analyse all the responses and parking controls will only be implemented where there is clear majority support. The results of the consultation will be referred to the next available TARSAP meeting and /or Portfolio Holder for Environment for approval to proceed to the next stage which is the Legal Notification stage (Stage Two).
If the scheme progresses to this stage the council will write to you again with further information about this stage of the process.
See the PDF below called Public Consultation for a more detailed description of the proposals. There is also a Map of the Consultation (to come).
The council has prepared a questionnaire for you to complete in private (see link below). The information you provide will be analysed along with all other comments received. They would like to know what parking problems (if any) you experience while trying to access the local shops/businesses and whether you’d support the introduction of parking controls as outlined above to address these concerns. The council is encouraging the use of its online consultation portal on the Harrow council website and we would prefer you to respond on-line a. You can submit your questionnaire on-line by visiting: www.harrow.gov.uk/trafficconsultations You then click on the link for the ‘The Broadway, Hatch End Area Parking Review’ and click on ‘start survey’ to make your comments. You will be asked to register your details before completing the survey. Alternatively, you can send the questionnaire by post to:
Head of Traffic, Highways and Asset Management
Harrow Council,
PO Box 39,
HA1 2XA.
Questionaires will be available at the Post Office, Sea Pebbles and Pulver Carr for those people who do not wish to post the questionnaires. The Post office have said they will collect any questionnaires and arrange to get them in on time.
If you would like to discuss any aspect of this consultation in more detail please contact the council’s design partners Atkins: bruce.bolton@atkinsglobal.com, telephone: 0208 420 9468 or Sajjad Farid on 0208 424 1484.
Hatch End Broadway-Parking Consultation-Questionnaire
Public Consultation-Uxbridge Road
map
TARSAP meeting, 23 November 2015
It was confirmed that the Hatch End Parking Review would be going to consultation. Subsequently, Barry Philips, Traffic and Parking Design Team Leader at Harrow Council has confirmed to the HEA the following:
“The consultation leaflets are planned to be delivered in the first week of December. The consultation will run for around five weeks to allow for the Christmas period as agreed with councillors.”
Keep an eye out for the leaflets and don’t forget to let the Council know your views if you feel strongly about parking on The Broadway.
Report on Traffic Officers’ Meeting, 22 July 2015
It was confirmed that the review of the CPZ in Hatch End was planned for the late autumn, workload permitting. The review would cover parking in service roads in The Broadway.
Report on TARSAP meeting, 3 May 2015
Review of the Hatch End CPZ was confirmed as part of the Management Programme for 2015 /16.
Report on TARSAP meeting on 12 February 2015
Tony Allen and Julian Maw attended the TARSAP meeting on 12 February where the officers proposed Hatch End Parking CPZ be number 5 out of 8 on the Management Programme for review in 2015/16. Julian Maw asked for confirmation that The Broadway service roads were included. The response indicated that it would be.
The Programme was then discussed by the Panel. Despite support from Councillor Jean Lammiman, the Hatch End CPZ review was removed from the list to be discussed by officers, the Panel chair and portfolio holder.
It was a disappointing result but there is still hope for a positive result at the TARSAP meeting in May.
Report on TARSAP meeting on 10 December 2014
Tony Allen and Julian Maw of the HEA committee attended the TARSAP meeting on 10 December 2014, as promised at the Public Meeting on traffic and parking. Julian presented the following question to the chair:“Will the parking charging scheme for the Hatch End Broadway area be
reviewed in the immediate future to allow for the changed
circumstance and requirements of local businesses, residents and users
of the shops?”
The response from the chair referred to the CPZ consultation and not
the June 2012 consultation on The Broadway area and Grimsdyke car park.
Julian pointed out that the response had not answered the concern raised in
his supplementary question.
The chair responded that the concern would be considered at the
February 2015 TARSAP meeting.
At the same meeting the response to the petition organised by St Anselm’s Church regarding the CPZ in the Westfield Park area was published. See below for PDF of the extract of the meeting regarding the petition and the Council’s response .
TARSAP_Respose_St_Anslems_CPZ_Petition