The Pinner Association
– The Voice of our Community
Harrow Council Electoral Services are currently conducting the Annual Canvass. As part of the Annual Canvass, we will be emailing certain properties where we hold an email address this Monday 6 September 2021.
This email will be sent from [email protected]
This is a genuine email sent out on behalf of the Council and is not spam.
Any resident who receives this email sand has further queries they can email [email protected]
Applications are now open to Harrow businesses to apply for a free stall to trade at the Pinner Welcome Back Market on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th October.
Further details can be found on the council’s website via the link below:
Affinity Water are to undertake essential maintenance works on Chapel Lane between the 8th and 14th of September and Chapel Lane will be closed to through traffic during this time.
Dear Watch Member,
On the morning of Thursday 19th August an elderly gentleman was the victim of a parking ticket machine scam in Hatch End. The victim parked his vehicle in Grimsdyke Car Park (behind the shopping parade in Uxbridge Road) and paid for his parking ticket. As he walked along Uxbridge Road he was approached by a man who told him that he needed to confirm his parking ticket with a bank card. The man has then escorted the victim over to a nearby parking ticket machine, made him insert his bank card into either the change slot or ticket slot of the machine and input his PIN via the keypad used to input a vehicle’s registration number.
The man has then told the victim to wait by the ticket machine for a few moments until his bank card is released. However, the man had already stolen the victim’s bank card and withdrawn £500 from the victim’s account.
This scam has occasionally happened in Pinner but, whatever area you park in, please be wary of any helpful stranger offering to assist you with parking payment-related matters. And remember, you cannot pay for parking at any of the few cash machines left in Pinner, which is another scam previously reported to us.
Please inform elderly family members and neighbours of this scam to protect them from fraudsters.
For fraud prevention advice please on this link: www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/fa/fraud/.
If you need to reply regarding this message, tap on this email address: [email protected]
Regards,
Lee O’Brien
Pinner Safer Neighbourhood Team
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 020 8721 2775
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A huge Thank You all the volunteers who helped us to put on our 2021 season of Summer Band Concerts in Pinner Memorial Park on the last four Sundays. We carried on despite the weather and enjoyed four wonderful performances from the Harrow Steel Band, the Fats Rollini Jazz & Blues Band, the Stardust Big Band and today from Simply Gray. Our audiences obviously enjoyed these free open air concerts in the lovely surroundings of the park, as the generous donations to the West House and Heath Robinson Museum Trust charity who were collecting at the last two concerts demonstrated.
There is one person without whom none of the concerts would have happened – from obtaining the necessary permission from Harrow Council to use the park and booking all the bands to picking up litter, putting up and taking down the equipment, and litter picking before and after each concert, Julie Waller, Chair of the Pinner Association has been indefatigable and managed to keep smiling come rain or shine – so a special “Thank You” Julie from us all.
We have received the following notification from Harrow Council.
The final Concert in the Park of our series features Simply Gray. They are a six piece jump jive /rock band playing the greatest music to dance to or tap your feet.
They will be playing at Pinner Memorial Park on 15 August at 2:30pm.
Bring a chair as there will be no chair hire.
Please park in Chapel Lane Car Park.
See you there.
Dear Watch Member,
Please be aware of a fraudulent cold calling scam currently targeting residents of Hertfordshire who have had spray foam loft insulation applied in the past. The fraudsters may tell you that there are issues with the original installation company and they may frighten you by talking about fire risks associated with that insulation. They will inform you that you will be able to reclaim the cost of the installation and that they will be able to remedy the works, essentially free of charge.
None of those claims are true. What is true however, is that customer lists have fallen into the hands of scammers who are making these targeted sales calls. Once in a property, they produce a ‘report’ indicating safety problems and then arrange to carry out ‘remedial’ works themselves.
Although they say the work is free, they will need paying first, telling you to try to claim money back from your bank for the original defective works. In the absence of a genuine inspection report, this will not happen. If payment was made by cheque or bank transfer, there is no obligation for the bank to pay anything back in these circumstances anyway. It is a scam.
If you, or anyone you know, has had this work done in the past please be prepared for these calls and tell them that you are not interested. Please don’t allow the trader to enter your home.
To report a fraud to the Police, please contact Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040 or at www.actionfraud.police.uk.
If you need to reply regarding this message, tap on this email address: [email protected]
Regards,
Lee O’Brien
Pinner Safer Neighbourhood Team
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 020 8721 2775
The Stardust Big Band dodged the rain showers at Pinner Memorial Park this afternoon.
It was their first concert this decade.
A BIG thanks to the audience who ignored the weather forecast to come and listen. (The eagle eyed of you might have spotted me dancing.)
The biggest thanks must go to the people that helped pack up. It tipped it down and we got soaked.
Next week is our final concert. We will be welcoming back Simply Gray. I hope to see you there.