This Association represents the people living in Ruislip, a town with a long history. Ruislip was mentioned in the Domesday Book, and in its old church of St Martin of Tours and Manor Farm site it still has links with its Norman past. It is now in the London Borough of Hillingdon.
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Hillingdon Council is asking for a £150 million government bailout but it isn’t free money. It represents more than a £1400 debt for every single household in the borough, a burden we will be paying back with interest for the next 20 years—money that will service debt rather than fund local services. While the Council […]
The Budget Consultation is open until Wednesday. Unlike the Council’s own introduction to the budget consultation, where they didn’t even include a link to the budget itself, or any suggestion that there was anything to see, we encourage you to read it. Flick through and see what you can find. Let us know if […]
This series of articles brings together recent, documented failures at Hillingdon Council. Individually, each might be dismissed as an error or an oversight. Taken together, and set alongside formal audit warnings and resident complaints, they raise a more serious question about whether the Council’s systems of governance, financial control and accountability are functioning as they […]
Finally, we must ask whether the administration is listening to its own auditors. Last summer, Ernst & Young (EY) issued a rare Section 24 Recommendation, warning of “systemic weaknesses” in financial governance and “unreliable forecasts.” Crucially, this warning came after the Council had already launched its £1.8 million Finance Modernisation Programme and Governance Review in […]
To make sound decisions – whether on multi-million pound budgets or local planning applications – a Council must rely on accurate, up-to-date evidence. Yet, we are seeing a recurring pattern where significant decisions in Hillingdon are being driven by data that is demonstrably wrong, cherry-picked, or simply does not exist. This is not just a […]
Historically, Ruislip is in the hundred of Elthorne, in the county of Middlesex, but for modern administrative purposes it is part of the London Borough of Hillingdon. Answers to many questions about services in and around Ruislip can be found on Hillingdon’s website:
Areas surrounding Ruislip are covered by other Residents’ Associations, so here are links to them:
