Author Archives: David Tebbutt

LIDL Hillingdon proposal

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Great news that the application at the orchard Ruislip was refused by the council on 11th. However, we now have Planning consultation for 59533/APP/2025/1003   The Council has recently received a planning application relating to :- LAND AT HILLINGDON CIRCUS, CORNER OF LONG LANE AND FREEZELAND WAY HILLINGDON The application has been submitted by Lidl Great Britain Limited and proposes:- Erection of a discount foodstore (Use Class E) and storage above (Use Class B8), with car parking, landscaping and other associated works at Hillingdon Circus, Freezeland Way, London We would like to inform you that a planning application at the above site may be of interest to you.  Full details of the above application including plans can be viewed on the council’s web site(see link below).
This is not the Master Brewer site, as suggested on Facebook, but is on the opposite side on land between Hillingdon station car park and the slip road off the A40 down to the Hillingdon Circus traffic lights. Access is off the roundabout on the slip road. Comments due by 09/07/25. To view the application: https://planning.hillingdon.gov.uk/OcellaWeb/planningDetails?reference=59533/APP/2025/1003&from=planningSearch

HS2 noise barrier creation

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HS2 Works Notification: Piling and drainage installation works for noise barrier sites – 30 June 2025 to 27 March 2026

From 30 June 2025 to 27 March 2026, we will be carrying out works for the construction of the noise barriers along the HS2 route from Copthall Tunnel to West Ruislip Portal sites.

We will start by installing concrete piles to stabilise the ground, followed by the installation of drainage systems. Our working hours will be Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm and Saturday 8am to 1pm.

You may notice periods of increased noise during these works. However, noise monitoring will take place throughout the works.

For further details, please follow this link.https://www.hs2.org.uk/work-items/piling-and-drainage-installation-works-for-noise-barrier-sites/#msdynmkt_trackingcontext=26889400-a8ba-4723-931f-95b135d40200

and this  https://assets.hs2.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Piling-and-drainage-installation-works-for-noise-barrier-sites.pdf

URC news

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From URC

Forecourt Sale on Saturday!
 
The first URC forecourt sale of the summer was a great success, with lovely weather, a good crowd, a great atmosphere and £878 raised for the church and our chosen charities for the year: The Brain Tumour Charity and Sightsavers.  We’re looking for at least as good a result at our next event next Saturday 14th June, 10am to 12 Noon, admission FREE, but we can only do it if the good folk of Ickenham are as generous again in the items you give us.  As usual, we will be selling plants, bric-a-brac, books, jigsaws, toys and games, stamps and postcards, small curios and almost anything else except clothes and shoes.  We have already had some interesting books in, including Puffin Picture Books, local history, war and Indian cricket.  As usual, the sale will be accompanied by a friendly coffee morning with homemade cakes.  Donations can be brought to the church on Friday 13th June between 2pm and 6pm or ring Richard Piper on 01895 634348 for collection.  This is also the number for queries or offers of help.  See you on the 14th June, or 13th if you’re bringing us stuff!

HS2 works update

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New Harvil Road Resurfacing – Full Road Closure – Mon 11/08 to Fri 29/08 (Provisional Dates) 
The long awaited LBH resurfacing of Harvil Road between the junction with Swakeleys Road and HS2 Gate 1 Site has now been provisionally scheduled to take place from Mon 11/08 until Fri 29/08. 
This will be a Full Road Closure in place 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in order to get this large area of road completely resurfaced.  
These are provisional dates that will be confirmed in the next couple of weeks once the Contractor and LBH Highways Team are confident that the works can be completed within this specified timeframe. If these works can be delivered across 19 days it will be a big reduction on the initially quoted 4 week Full Road Closure which would mean less disruption for users of Harvil Road in getting these essential works completed. 
During the Road Closure access maintained for residents of Harvil Road only during the Road Closure and the U9 Bus will have to be on Diversion. 
The confirmed dates and the Diversion Route will follow over the next couple of weeks.  
There is also a scheduled Road Closure of Breakspear Road South from Fri 29/08 at 8pm until Sun 31/08 at 8pm but this will be dependent on LBH completing the above resurfacing works by Fri 29/08.  
 
New Breakspear Road South Road Closure – Fri 29/08 at 8pm until Sun 31/08 at 8pm 
HS2/SCS have agreed with LBH that Breakspear Road South will be closed at the Chiltern Railway Bridge from Fri 29/08 at 8pm until Sun 31/08 at 8pm while the Conveyor Bridge that oversails the Highway is removed (Conveyor Bridge shown in the photo below). 
The Conveyor Bridge carries the Conveyor system that was used to transport the TBM Spoil/Material over Breakspear Road South towards the Treatment Area at Harvil Road Gate 1. Now that both TBMs have completed their tunnelling between West Ruislip and Greenpark Way in LB Ealing the Conveyors are being removed and the Bridges that carry the Conveyor can also be removed.  
These works will involve laying Matting on the road surface to protect it, then using a Crane to lower the Bridge to ground level before dismantling and removing it. The road would then be cleared with the Matting removed before reopening to the public. 
This has been scheduled for the last weekend of the school summer holidays and also allows LBH to complete their planned LBH resurfacing works which will close Harvil Road prior to this from 11/08 to 29/08. 
I will confirm the details of the Diversion Route once confirmed with HS2/SCS but it is likely to be the usual Diversion via Swakeleys Road, Ickenham High Road, Bury Street, Breakspear Road
New Construction of Tunnel Walkways from West Ruislip Portal – May 2025 to Feb 2026 
With the tunnelling now completed on the 2 tunnels between West Ruislip Portal and Greenpark Way Vent Shaft, the next stage is to build tunnel walkways inside the tunnels. There will be 2 walkways built inside each tunnel, a narrow walkway for maintenance access and a wider walkway to be used to safely evacuate passengers in case of emergency (once the railway is operational).  
In order to be build these walkways there will be concrete deliveries by lorry 24 hours a day, 7 days a week between the end of May 2025 and Feb 2026 to the West Ruislip Portal Site off Ickenham Road. 
The lorries will deliver ready-mixed concrete to electric pumps located behind a 2 metre high wall at the tunnel entrance (see map overleaf). The concrete will be pumped through a pipe into the concrete mixer truck and taken into the tunnels. The walkways will be built along the entire length of the tunnel using a Formwork system (Formwork is a temporary structure which shapes the walkway). The concrete is poured into the Formwork until it hardens, with the Formwork system being moved along the inside of the tunnel until the walkways are completed. 
HS2/SCS do not expect that these works will be noisy above ground as they will all take place within the tunnels, but there will be concrete deliveries by lorry 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.