As part of the London Open House weekend, Swakeleys House will be open to the public (no charge) on Saturday 17th September 10:00 to 16:00.
It gives Ickenham residents the opportunity to publicly show their interest in this building. Please go if you can. Groups of up to 15 at a time will be admitted every 20 to 30 minutes.
Tell your friends and neighbours, we need to demonstrate our continuing interest in this historic and iconic building to its owners.
Thank you.
15 September 2016 7:30pm at St Giles Church Hall
The Ickenham Festival Team is holding its bi-annual public meeting at St Giles Hall. It’s yYour chance to meet the Festival team and ask questions or make suggestions about the future of the Festival.
It will include a short presentation of the Chairman’s report and certified accounts and the election of officers of the Festival Committee.
Light refreshments will be provided and the meeting will finish about 9.30pm.
The team looks forward to seeing you there.
This message is from A/Chief Inspector David George:
Dear Hillingdon Residents, Business Persons and Partners,
The Commissioner Bernard Hogan Howe will be holding a Road show at Hillingdon Civic Centre on Wednesday 24th August between 1830 to 1930.
The aim of the event is to address the community and finish with a Questions & Answer session. The Commissioner will be joined by the Hillingdon Borough Leadership Team to answer questions from the audience.
Local community policing team officers along with other victim support services provided by the police (Community Safety Unit, I Victim Support, Court Support, Safeguarding Adults, Burglary Squad, Smart water team ) will also be on hand.
There is no need to register for the event and the community are requested to just turn up on the night. Attendees will be required to attend no later than 1820 to allow time for seating.
Thank you and I hope to see you on the evening
As you know, part of the Colne Valley is in the western reaches of Ickenham. The proposed HS2 works will bisect the valley and cause considerable environmental harm. The following documents tell you all you need to know about a planned action day on July 17th:
We received a pic from South Swakeleys Neighbourhood Watch of its Queen’s birthday celebration. This made us wonder whether to share it and your own pix here. With the Festival Week closely following the Royal celebration, June seems like a perfect month to try the idea out. Here’s the SSNW pic:
Thanks to Diana May for this one.
We welcome good quality pix, ideally 500px wide. (It keeps the mail attachment reasonably small.) We won’t accept anything overtly commercial (but a collection of people seated outside, say, Maison du Soleil would be okay). As long as there’s a community-interest aspect to it.
You obviously need to own the rights to any image used and give us permission to use them.
Start rummaging and snapping. For simplicity, send them to ickpic@tebbo.com
We look forward to hearing from you!
This Saturday (18th) is Gala Day in the Vyners School grounds, from 1pm to 5pm. It’s always a lot of fun with interesting stands, demonstrations and funfair attractions. It also gives you a great chance to mingle with your fellow villagers (and, no doubt, outsiders too).
If you get a moment, why not drop by the Ickenham Residents’ Association stand? We’d be delighted to meet you, answer your questions and hear your views on what we should and shouldn’t be doing.
We look forward to seeing you on Saturday.
Just found this in my inbox:
The 12th June will see (some) Ickenham residents out in force to celebrate Her Majesty’s birthday with street parties. Please avoid these areas at these times (unless you’ve been invited):
| Road | From | To | Which bit? |
| Ivy House Rd. | 11:00 | 21:00 | 9 to 59 |
| Austins Lane | 14:00 | 19:00 | Church Place to junction with St Giles Ave. |
| Rectory Way | 11:00 | 20:00 | 16/26 to dead end |
| Almond Ave. | 10:00 | 23:00 | Whole road |
Thank you.
Much more to come, no doubt, from Ickenham Plan but about 100 people attended the debut meeting today at the Village Hall. At the end they decided that it would be a good idea to create a Neighbourhood Plan to help preserve and improve Ickenham as a wonderful place to live.
Well done Ickenham Residents’ Association Committee member, Chris Mountain, for his hard work today, at the festive evening and on many occasions in between to start the ball rolling.
The intention is for the Neighbourhood Plan to have its own organisers, independent of the Ickenham Residents’ Association, although some Committee members might want to join in as private individuals. The truth is that the Committee has plenty on its plate already and might not be able to give the new plan the attention it clearly deserves.
The meeting is about a neighbourhood plan for Ickenham – to discuss the comments that have already been received by the Residents’ Association on the subject and to decide whether to formally apply to the Council (LBH) for permission to start the process.
More information about the Ickenham Village Meeting can be found on the Ickenham Plan website
Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you’d like more information.
AGENDA
2.30 Exhibition opens. Six different local theme tables, documenting views already gathered and collecting more.
2.45 Welcome and introduction (Chris Mountain – Residents’ Association)
2.50 What difference a neighbourhood plan would make (James Gleave – LBH)
3.00 Question & Answers (Chris Mountain & James Gleave)
3.15 Show of hands on the question:
“Should we set up a Neighbourhood Forum and have a go at writing a Neighbourhood Plan for Ickenham?”
If there is interest, Chris will invite attendees to formally sign up as Forum Members. He’ll also ask if anyone is interesting in chairing the Forum, and will ask for volunteers to lead on the different emerging topics: Business, Green Spaces, Heritage and Housing.
3.20 Signing up and further collection of local views on theme tables.
3.30 Finish
We look forward to seeing you there!
Ickenham Residents' Association 