HS2 has a website dedicated to Hillingdon. It explains the background to the project and what HS2 will be doing to ameliorate its impact on us. It invites questions from the public and will publish its responses (presumably, to the questions it wants to answer).
Category Archives: LBH
Planning updates 16-10-2017
This week’s crop of new applications are in postcodes UB10 8… then EE, SJ and LX. Map link.
Planning updates 13-10-2017
This week’s crop of new applications are in postcodes UB10 8… then AN, DB, HL, JL, NQ, NQ, NR, PE, PF, QA and TH. Map link.
The Harvil Road protest against HS2
The Green Party and fellow activists are protesting about HS2 ripping out trees in Harefield. Five of them have spent the night under a digger, to prevent further damage and an eventual environmental catastrophe for Harefield and surrounding areas.
While the Ickenham Residents’ Association avoids political positioning, we feel that this ongoing story may interest many of our members. To keep track of what’s going on please check in with Get West London.
Planning updates 02-10-2017
This week’s crop of new applications are in postcodes UB10 8… then DB, EB, FD and JJ. Map link.
Planning updates 25-09-2017
This week’s crop of new applications are in postcodes UB10 8… then QW, DB, NR, AD, JS, SJ, AJ, AN, HP and QU. Map link.
Planning updates 18-09-2017
This week’s crop of new applications are in postcodes UB10 8… then AF, BQ and TJ. Map link.
Nick Hurd MP, on HS2 in our area
Some of this overlaps with the recent announcements from LBH, but it also contains a wider perspective from the Nick Hurd perspective. The sharp-eyed among you will notice some words missing from the end; please add, “…I respect that my working assumption is that it will go ahead, and therefore we need to keep working on this agreement to give ourselves the best possible protection.”
Planning updates 11-09-2017
This week’s crop of new applications are in postcodes UB10 8… then AF, HT and TQ. The Master Brewer site comes under Hillingdon UB10 9PQ. And we have an appeal at UB10 8AW. Map link.
Hillingdon and HS2: Updates
If you ever need the Council’s public low-down on HS2 please go to:
http://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/article/23081/High-speed-rail-updates
PS (next day) If you f0llowed the above link, you’d know that the HS2/LBH Agreement was signed off on 17th August and has now been published on line.
If you didn’t follow the link, it is 79 pages in length and to summarise:
- It is now a legal agreement that both parties are obliged to implement to the best of their abilities.
- Everything we expected is included and in the circumstances, it is as good as we could have expected.
- There is a lot that is caveated by being subject to “reasonable endeavours” and that the real impacts will depend on HS2’s commitment (and the Contractors) to doing things properly rather than just cheaply or through expedience.
- There will be a lot of onus on the residents and the Council to hold HS2 to account and push them for the best implementations in the interest of the community.
- There are risks associated with the agreement on HOAC, but the Council appears to have that under control.
We have approached Nick Hurd and he has given us his whole hearted support in our need to improve the unsatisfactory situation with the HS2 Community Engagement Team (CET). He has obtained a commitment from HS2 to improve many aspects of the CET’s performance and we await the outcome of those actions.
We will keep you up to date with developments via the Ickenham Residents’ Association web site, but there is no scope for change to the Agreement now it has been signed off.
Ickenham Residents' Association 