Green Flag Award Ceremony – Pinner Memorial Park

Green Flag Award

On Friday, The Pinner memorial Park’s new Green flag was raised.  Tracey who is a key member of the Green Team for the Park was able to attend with members of The Pinner Association’s Committee.

Cllr June Baxter and Cllr Jean Lammiman also attended.

Congratulations and thank to the Green Team for all of their hard work and the volunteers who are transforming the Peace Gardens

 

Harrow Steel – Concerts in the Park

Today at our first Concert in the Park. Harrow Steel transported the audience to Jamaica.  For once the weather obliqued as it was dry, sunny and the  temperature up to 28C.

Next week we have Simply Gray playing at 2:30pm at Pinner Memorial Park 4 August 2024.

Bring a picnic and a chair.

There will be a cash collection to help offset the cost of the concerts

Thanks to William Herd for allowing us to use his video.

 

 

 

Concert In the Park 28 July

It’s that time of year, the wait is over.Harrow Steel!

Our first Concert in the Park takes place.  This is the 22nd season that The Pinner Association have put on this community event.

We are delighted to have Harrow Steel returning to play in the Pinner Memorial Park on 28  July at 2:30pm.  Hopefully the music will make you think of warmer climates!

Bring a chair and picnic.

There will be a bucket collection to help off set the cost of the concerts.

See you there

QR Code Safety

This has come from the MP of Harrow East.

Experts have revealed a rise in scams of QR code since self-ordering in restaurant became the norm during the pandemic.
 
People may think they are ordering a round of drinks/food but could actually be giving away their debit card information to fraudsters.
 
According to NordVPN around 77% of Brits use QR codes – but 72% do not check before scanning them. The security giant reported that over 3 million people have been directed to untrustworthy websites after using the QR code.
 
Worryingly, 1 in 6 (16%) fell prey to fraudsters and had their data stolen.
 
Here are a few tips to help you stay safe from scams:

  1. When you do scan a QR code, take a good look at the website it led you to being particularly vigilant for any suspicious information.
  2. Use a secure scanner app which is designed to spot malicious links before your phone opens them. It is recommended to stick to the well-known security companies. Malicious QR scanning apps designed to scrape user information have made it into the app stores in the past.
  3. Use a password manager. As with all kinds of phishing, if a QR code takes you to an especially convincing fake website, use a password manager, however this is also not a fault proof system.

 

Community Based Volunteers

OWLDear Watch Member,

Are you interested in making London a safer place? Do you want to do more for your community?

The Metropolitan Police Service are looking for people from local communities to work with their officers and staff across London.

You will be part of an excellent team, working on local community or wider London initiatives. Your local knowledge and experience is vital to help prevent crime and improve safety.

There are a wide range of activities you can take part in, at a time and location chosen by you; this can be daily, weekly, monthly or a few times a year. There is no minimum number of hours required and is flexible around your own personal circumstances.

This is a rewarding role where you can make a difference to our great city, whilst learning new skills and meeting new people.

To be eligible to apply:
• You must not be a serving police officer or existing member of police staff
• You must be over 18 (if under 18 please consider Cadets)

Community Based Volunteers (CBVs)

Being a CBV will give you a unique insight into the Metropolitan Police, there are daily opportunities across London, you will be part of a team and have the opportunity to assist with activities such as weapon sweeps, crime prevention events, night time economy patrols, bike marking, reassurance patrols, Community Road Watch initiatives, specialist teams and police training.

We will provide a wide range of training opportunities including crime prevention training, personal safety and London life savers.

Reasonable expenses are paid for travel in London, to and from deployments.

To get more information about being a CBV, click on the below link to register for the next 30-minute online insight session to be held this Saturday 27th July 2024 at 2pm.

Register for an online session

For more information on other voluntary roles available, please click on the below link:
Overview | Community based volunteers | Metropolitan Police

If you need to reply regarding this message, tap on this email address: [email protected]

Regards,
Lee O’Brien
Pinner Safer Neighbourhood Team
[email protected]
Tel: 020 8721 2775

London Travel Demand Survey for TfL

Dear Watch Member,

Transport for London (TfL) have informed us they will be carrying out a survey in and around the London area.

The attached documents provide more information regarding this survey, and an example of the interviewer’s ID card that you should request to see if it’s not initially proffered to you.

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If you need to reply regarding this message, tap on this email address: [email protected]

Regards,
Lee O’Brien
Pinner Safer Neighbourhood Team

Pinner Memorial Park keeps it’s Green Flag Award.

Pinner memorial Park - Green FlagCongratulations to the “Green Team” at Harrow Council and the Peace Garden Volunteers.  Pinner Memorial Park is one of six green flag parks in Harrow to retain it’s flag.

The other parks who keep their Green Flag status are:-

          • Headstone Manor Recreation Ground,
          • Pinner Memorial Park,
          • Harrow Recreation Ground,
          • Roxeth Recreation Ground,
          • Kenton Recreation Ground
          • Canons Park

 

 

UPDATE – Pinner Station Car Park

The following response has been submitted by The Pinner Association Executive Committee to J Sainsbury PLC following their less than satisfactory reply to our original complaint about the introduction of charges for parking at the Pinner Station Car Park which is managed by Euro Car Parks on behalf of Sainsbury’s – see previous correspondence in  “News” on this website:

Pinner Station Car Park – Pinner Association complaint about the changes to the parking fees and response from J Sainsbury PLC:

Our Committee has now had the opportunity to digest your reply of 10 June, and offer the following observations. Whilst we acknowledge that other Underground Station Car Parks in the vicinity charge at weekends, our older members have reminded us that free weekend parking was one of the promises made to our community to counter opposition to your company’s planning application for its new store. Scrutiny of your last accounts yields no pressing reason for you to change your original policy.  However, insult is added to injury when, as the result of no possibility of purchasing a weekly season ticket, plus the absence of any weekend reduction, the charge for a week’s parking is higher now than at any of the 11 Underground stations in the Borough of Harrow. At our two closest neighbouring stations, Eastcote and Rayners Lane, the cost of weekend parking is less than half that of the cost of parking in Pinner,  so fairness suggests that if an increase is necessary, which we would contest, any charge should not exceed that at neighbouring stations.

We are further informed by one of our members that the Car Park is virtually unavailable to disabled potential users because the lifts hardly ever work, and that, when they do, they are so filthy that they should bear a government health warning. We look forward, in the light of increased charges for this apology of a service, to expeditious repairs and deep cleaning.

Turning to implementation of the change, the experience of our members is far removed from your description of it. There was no information posted in the station on the new weekend charges, nor was there any information in your store or its car park that the ground level section of the Station Car Park, which had been open without any barrier or relevant signage for years to store customers, was about to become unavailable to them. Your contemptuous attitude to stakeholders is best exemplified by the fact that a conversation with our President in March was the first Information that TfL’s Director of Planning  knew of an increase implemented 4 months earlier.

You state that there was a period when warning letters were sent  rather than PCNs to those who did not pay either for weekend parking or for using the hitherto free ground level section of the Station Car Park. However, the letters were completely meaningless as they did not specify the nature of the “offence”.  One of our members, on receiving a warning letter from ECP, wrote in January asking what offence had been committed so that information could be cascaded to the community.  5 months later he is still awaiting the courtesy of a reply. The only inference we can draw from this is that, on your behalf, ECP was more interested in extorting unjustifiable penalties than in telling anybody what was going on. It was only some weeks after PCNs were issued and appeals started arriving, that a scruffy handwritten notice appeared in the Store Car Park, followed by a printed ECP one, and eventually, in March, a notice produced by the store near its entrance, presumably in response to complaints we know were made by customers.  ECP have also belatedly acknowledged their failures by cancelling some PCNs, but others were not cancelled despite being contested on essentially the same grounds.

This whole sorry episode has left a very nasty legacy in Pinner of hostility and resentment towards your company.  We continue, therefore to ask you both to remove or reduce the weekend charges for the Station Car Park, or at least introduce a weekly season ticket at a price comparable to nearby locations, and to cancel / repay those penalties levied on your customers whose offences were committed as a result of inadequate or non-existent communications on the part of your contractors or yourselves.  In the hope of a favourable response, we will resist the pressure we are under from our members to escalate the matter further into the public domain. 

UPDATE – Objection to installation of “temporary vehicle access” for the development of a part of the Tesco car park.

The application for approval of the “Construction Logistics Plan” for the development of flats on a part of the Tesco Pinner Green car park (reference PL/1276/24) has been refused by the Local Planning Authority (London Borough of Harrow) for the following reason:

“The temporary access on Cuckoo Hill has not been agreed with the Highways Department and no visibility splays have been submitted showing safe entry and exit to and from the site. Therefore the submitted details have failed to demonstrate safe access to and from the site for construction traffic contrary to Policies DM1 and DM43 of the Harrow Development Management Policies Local Plan 2013 and Policies D14 and T7 of the London Plan (2021).”