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Tuesday, 08 May 2012

Worry at Threatened Closure of Hesa Walk in Health Centre in Hayes Town Centre

I am extremely worried about the threatened closure of Hesa Walk in Health Centre.Hillingdon Health, the local PCT, has launched a consultation about the future of the Hesa Walk in Centre in Hayes town centre.The centre has been open since 2009 to provide a walk in health facility in the town centre to deal with minor injuries and aliments 365 days a year from 8am to 8pm. Hillingdon Health is now proposing to close the centre and locate all urgent care at Hillingdon Hospital.

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Friday, 27 Jan 2012

Protest Demonstration to Save Lake Farm Country Park.

I have discovered that the Council has been considering its plans to build on Lake Farm in secret. The Council has secretly commissioned and received a feasibility study on building on Lake Farm and has kept the report of the feasibility study secret. The Councillors also decided that this issue would only be considered in the secret part of its Cabinet meeting this week (Thursday) giving no opportunity for local residents to have sight of the reports to councillors, to comment on the proposal or to attend the meeting and even listen to the debate. Councillors sitting in secret to carve up local community assets isn’t democracy it is a dictatorship. Over 150 local residents attended a public meeting I convened earlier this month to protest at the Council’s proposals to build on our country park but we have heard nothing from the Council. There has been no public consultation and no discussion with local schools or the community on alternative sites for a school to avoid destroying our local green belt land. As a community we are not going to be ridden over roughshod in this way. We pay our rates that fund these councillors and we demand that decisions are in public, the feasibility study and non commercial reports are published and that local residents have their say.
Local residents are holding a protest demonstration on Botwell Common on Saturday 25th February meeting at 11am at the Skylark Statue on the Common, Botwell Lane. Come and join us in this fight to save our country park.

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