PLEASE CAN YOU HELP!
For over 40 years people with learning disabilities and autism from all over
Hillingdon have attended the award-winning Rural Activities Garden Centre
(R.A.G.C.) in Yiewsley where they have benefited from horticultural therapy
and social support. In a hastily arranged meeting on Friday, 30th May 2025,
those with learning disabilities and autism who use the R.A.G.C. and their
families were told by the London Borough of Hillingdon that it had decided to
close the R.A.G.C.
Hillingdon Council’s press release provided immediately after the meeting
stated that it wanted to close the R.A.G.C.’s retail operations and re-locate
the R.A.G.C.’s horticultural therapy to the Civic Centre grounds. On Thursday,
26th June 2025 it was decided at the Council’s Cabinet meeting to close the
R.A.G.C.’s retail operation.
In order to protect the R.A.G.C. in June 2025 the Friends of R.A.G.C.
submitted two nominations to Hillingdon Council to register the R.A.G.C. and
its adjacent land as an Asset of Community Value (A.C.V.). However, the
Council failed to meet its statutory obligations under the Localism Act 2011 to
process the Friends of R.A.G.C.’s nominations within the eight-week legal
deadline.
Visit the Rural Activity Activity Centre Action Group Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/652974616588336/ to find out more.
Ickenham Residents' Association 