Category Archives: Issues

The House of Lords starts work on HS2

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Here’s a note from Brian Adams, Committee member and one of our leading HS2 petitioners, about the second reading of the High Speed Rail (London-West Midlands) bill on April 14th:

“It is good to see that some Lords understand the disenchantment of the communities and many of the issues.”

“Note the comment that they should start first with petitions from London and AFTER the summer recess.”

http://stophs2.org/news/15414-lords-say-to-petition

If you don’t want to take Stop HS2’s word for it, or want to explore the context more deeply, take a look at the Hansard transcript.

Your HS2 Compensation questions answered

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Many Ickenham residents are confused and worried about HS2’s plans for compensation (Assuming we don’t get the tunnel). In January, it published some maps and explanations of the various types of compensations on offer. We’ve extracted the Ickenham-relevant parts and put them on a new HS2 Compensation maps page. This links to three downloadable maps in .pdf format which you can browse at leisure (and zoom into to see the detail).

While researching HS2 compensation in general, we found a link to good plain english explanations by property consultants Roger Hannah & Co – well worth a look.

 

Reducing HS2 HGV movements and spoil dumping

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HS2, LBH and TfL have been working on ways to reduce the likely impacts of HS2 development in our locality. The full report is due in May, but an interim report shows the seven shortlisted initiatives related to HGV movements and spoil dumping.

Here’s an overview map. One of the most interesting ‘sustainable placement’ initiatives is unnumbered.

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Police contact points

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Please don’t abuse these contacts. 101 is great for non-emergencies and 999 for genuine emergencies. Here are all the local contact points:

If you have a local issue, contact your Safer Neighbourhood Team sergeant by email:

  • Sgt David Peaks | Ickenham and Harefield | david.j.peaks@met.police.uk
  • Or phone your local Safer Neighbourhood Ward Officer:
    • Ickenham 020 8721 2543
    • If they are off duty, their phone will divert to voicemail that will be answered within 24-hours

Phone 999: Emergencies

Phone 101: Non urgent

And then there is always Inspector Rob Bryan, Hillingdon North Safer Neighbourhoods | Hillingdon Borough

Result! (Ickenham plan)

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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.