Local Authority

WORK on a new £715,000 club house at Hillingdon Cycle Circuit got underway last week.

The club house, in Minet Country Park, Hayes, is due to be completed in May, in time for a scheduled National Youth Series bike meet at the track.

The project will pave the way for the creation of a major school use programme, will provide changing rooms and coaching space for the youngsters who use the track and who currently have to make the long walk to the facilities at the Goals Soccer Centre, in Springfield Road. Older members are to continue using these facilities.

THE Government has announced plans for a High Speed Rail London to Birmingham route, which will run through Ruislip.

The plans - which aim to revolutionise rail in the UK - were unveiled on Thursday by Transport Secretary Lord Adonis.

A 250mph rail route aims to reduce journey times between London and Birmingham to just 46 minutes.

The London base would be at London Euston station, with a Crossrail Interchange planned for Old Oak Station in Paddington.

THREE addresses in Hayes Town that were the site of "persistent antisocial behaviour and disorder" have been ordered to shut up shop following numerous complaints from nearby residents.

The addresses, in East Avenue, were served closure notices in a joint operation by the Police and Hillingdon Council on March 1, and these were granted two days later at Uxbridge Magistrates Court, who ruled that the three sites were linked to neighbourhood disturbances.

The orders forbid entry to the premises for three months, and a breach of the orders will result in a maximum fine of £5000, imprisonment for 51 weeks, or both.

THIS year's Hayes Carnival is to take place on July 10, and residents are being asked to vote for the theme that will dominate the proceedings.

The annual summer party, staged in Barra Hall Park, will feature floats, food stalls serving local ethnic grub and comedy and musical performances on the big stage from Hillingdon-based talent.

The theme of the festivities is up for public vote and residents have a choice of five - 'Urban oasis', 'Diversity', 'All in the dance', 'Green futures' or 'Stardust'.

You can register your vote now on the council website, and the final votes will be taken on March 15. The most popular theme will be announced on March 17.

If you are interested in booking a stall or a float, or for more information, visit www.hillingdon.gov.uk.

A PUBLIC hearing will take place on March 25 on the Southall Gas Works site.

The plans for a new 'mini-town' with thousands of homes and large retail space was refused by both Hillingdon and Ealing Councils.

The decision was called in by Mayor of London Boris Johnson in December and it will be discussed in the public chamber of City Hall, with a view to him making a decision.

It will be held at 6pm and the hall has seating for 250 members of the public.

A TOTAL of 45 new flats have been approved on a site on Uxbridge Road.

The development at 505-509 Uxbridge Road, Hayes, will also provide parking spaces.
Nearly half of the flats will be affordable housing.

CONTROVERSIAL plans to build an apartment block in the middle of a vast estate have again been deferred.

Residents of Sydney Court, in Perth Avenue, Yeading, made representations against the council's plans to demolish the estate's unused garages and build another small block of flats which would house 11 two-bedroom flats and one one-bedroom flat.

A GROUP of neighbours are fuming after having double yellow lines painted along their road, making it into a "racetrack" and leaving them with nowhere to park.

Jane and Ernie Verity, of Church Road, Hayes, are amongst the residents who awoke last Friday (19) to find their road being lined, one of several traffic calming measures already in place on the heavily congested bus route.

RESIDENTS are calling for change on a gridlocked school run that descends into pandemonium each morning.

Concerns are mounting over the dangers of the heavy traffic on Judge Heath Lane, Hayes, which is home to Wood End Park Community School.

The route, which also accommodates the U4 bus route and is often the site of heated arguments between drivers, has traffic calming measures in place which only allow traffic to move in one direction at a time, but Dennis Mollard, of nearby Stuart Crescent, says that they have the opposite effect: "Every time I go down that road my blood pressure goes up, it is just a nightmare.

PROPOSALS to expand the HESA Primary Care Centre in Hayes have come to light.

Permission has been sought by NHS Hillingdon to change the retail use of the site next to the current centre in Station Road, and floor plans for the vacant 162 square-metre property - previously the old Post Office - include a corridor linking to the existing centre, 5 consultation rooms and a waiting area and reception.