Trawling around looking for a definitive Green Belt map for Ickenham (here’s a clue), I noticed this description of Ickenham in Hidden London. We are, apparently, “A genteel residential suburb situated between Uxbridge and Ruislip.”
Hidden London claims to take, “an informative, historically inclined look at a variety of the capital’s more obscure attractions, curiosities, districts and localities.”
Because of the extended Easter weekend, just a few updates this week. See Planning Applications map
Every Monday, we receive planning updates. We then see how quickly we can get the live applications (i.e. undecided) online. Not very quickly, this week. But they’re all there now.
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.
If you’re curious about where the Conservation Area is in Ickenham, the new map will give you a general idea. A link on the page takes you to LBH’s version.
Here’s a preview:
Get to know your Ickenham Residents’ Association Committee members – the last mini-bio arrived a few minutes ago.
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!
You can find Neena Bedi’s profile, along with most of the others, on the Committee Members page. Just waiting for one or two more and we’ll have the full set.
We hope you enjoy ‘meeting’ us and look forward to meeting you in real life.
As each newsletter is published and delivered to Association members by our wonderful street stewards, we upload the previous one to the website. This means that the Spring one has either arrived or will drop through your letter box soon.
You can find the Winter 2015 one here.
If you’re familiar with the Ickenham Residents’ Association website, this page might come as a bit of a shock. Don’t worry, you’re in the right place. You’ll find everything that’s in the old site, and more.
Click on the tabs of interest and, if you want to dig deeper, you’ll find some of them have a subsidiary menu. Just point and click your way to the things that interest you.
Feel free to make comments – they won’t appear immediately, because we have to keep a bit of an eye on them. We don’t want electronic graffiti.
This Update page is where Ickenham-related news will appear. You can also search for stuff, roam the archives or, after a while, watch the ‘category cloud’ words which grow as the number of mentions grows. The smallest size means the word hasn’t been selected yet – give it time.
Thank you for visiting, we hope we’ll see you again soon.
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