25 June a.m. Harvil Road lane closure

from HS2
On Saturday 25 June 2022, we will undertake remedial works on Harvil Road from the junction of Skip Lane, down to our Gate 1 site entrance gate. For safety reasons and to facilitate the reinstatement work, we will need to close a lane. The lane closure will be in place between 8am and 1pm.

We would like to apologise in advance for any disruption or inconvenience this may cause. Every effort is being taken to ensure that these works are carried out in the least impactful way. We will ensure that disruption is kept to a minimum

More tea vicar?

It’s back ! – come and enjoy delicious homemade cakes and coffee in St Giles’ Church Hall at the Holy Mowers’ Annual Coffee and Cake fund raising event from 10.00am- 11.30am on 14th June.

Part of Ickenham Festival Open Gardens.

All proceeds go towards maintenance and planting in your local churchyard

More Bargains at the URC!

From the URC

We got our fundraising year off to a great start at the end of April, with a wonderful attendance at the Spring Forecourt Sale and proceeds of almost £800 to the church and this year’s charities [Samaritans and CLICK Rukiga].

Now we are going to help kick start the Festival with a variety of stalls accompanied by a coffee morning with homemade cakes. The event on Saturday 11th June will run from 10am to 12 Noon, admission is FREE and you will be able to choose from plants, bric-brac, books, collectables including stamps, cigarette card and postcards, and anything else that comes in, but not clothes or shoes.

If you have items to donate please bring them to the church between 2pm and 6pm on Friday 10th June or ring Richard Piper on 01895 634348 for collection. This is also the number for any enquiries or offers of help.

The response was great last time in terms of both donations and sales so let’s try to do even better!

RICHARD PIPER

18 June Harvil Road lane closure is no more

From HS2 (didn’t know they cared)

UPDATE:
We wrote to you recently to let you know that there would be a short lane closure on Harvil Road on Saturday 18 June 2022. The lane closure was required to allow for remedial works from Harvil Road from the junction of Skip Lane, down to our Gate1 site entrance.

Due to the Ickenham Festival taking place on the same weekend, we have delayed these works and will update you as soon as we have a rescheduled date.

HS2 activity over Jubilee holiday

FROM HS2
We wanted to let you know that these works will continue throughout the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee week. We will be carrying out works at our site compounds at:

Copthall tunnel site and Northern Sustainable Placement area:
From 2 to 4 June 2022, between 8am and 5pm work will be ongoing at our sites on Harvil Road and Newyears Green Lane. We will be carrying out steel fixing work, excavation and moving material. The conveyor system will be in operation during this time.

West Ruislip portal site:
24/7 assembly works for the tunnel boring machine will continue. These works will include steel fixing and a concrete pour, lifting operations and starting the TBM assembly in the launch chamber area.

The works we will carry out on these dates will be limited to the activities mentioned above and are confined within our sites.

We would like to apologise in advance for working over the bank holiday period and for any inconvenience this may cause. Every effort is being taken to ensure that these works are carried out in the least impactful way.

We will ensure that disruption is kept to a minimum.

URC forecourt sale next Saturday

From URC

Don’t miss our first forecourt sale of 2022, on Saturday 30th April, 10am to 12 Noon, admission FREE.

Alongside a coffee morning with homemade cakes in the Oasis, we’ll have plants, bric-a-brac, books [both “high quality” at £1-£5 and general stock at 50p paper/£1 hard], toys and games, maps, stamps and pretty much anything else except clothes.

The quality books will be indoors in any case and some other items will be in the event of bad weather, so please try to get there even if there are April showers about.

Remember that the cricket season will have been going for three weeks by then!

Proceeds will be shared between the church and our external charities for the year, which are The Samaritans and CLICKRukiga.

If you have items to donate please bring them to the church on Friday 29th April between 2pm and 6pm or ring Richard Piper on 01895 634348 for collection.

This is also the number for any enquiries or offers of help.

We hope to hear from you and/or see you!

HS2 activity at West Ruislip

FROM HS2
What we are doing
We wrote to you in December to inform you about works at our sites at
West Ruislip Portal. Works are ongoing to build the two Tunnel Boring
Machines and the launch chamber area and will continue throughout the
next few months until July 2022.
We will be carrying out the following activities:
• Preassembly of Tunnel Boring Machine
• Assembly of works area
• Tunnel Boring Machine Assembly
• Gantry assembly
We will only carry out activities agreed with the London Borough of
Hillingdon and will adhere to the agreed working hours, noise and vibration
limits.
You may notice periods of increased noise during these works. To minimise
noise, acoustic screens and tents will be used.
We would like to apologise in advance for any disruption or inconvenience
this may cause. Every effort is being taken to ensure that these works are
carried out in the least impactful way. We will ensure that disruption is kept
to a minimum

Duration of works
30 April 2022 to 29 July 2022
These activities will be 24/7

What to expect
Additional staff on site outside core hours
Delivery and set up of machinery, including welding equipment,
excavators, cranes, generators, forklift trucks

What we will do
Use acoustic screens and tents wherever possible
Limit the noisiest activities to core working hours
Advise our staff to be mindful of our neighbours
more info https://assets.hs2.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Update-ANL-Notice-of-assembly-works-for-Tunnel-Boring-Machine-TBM-April-2022-1.pdf