Author: News Team

Harrow Council Civic Centre to close at end of January 2023.

From the end of January 2023 Harrow Civic Centre will close.

With 99% of “customer interactions” now online or over the phone, everyday in-person transactions from the end of January will move to Greenhill Library, off College Road. Staff there will offer residents help to do things digitally, including setting up cashless payments for rent, fines, Council Tax and more.

Complex and urgent in-person enquiries for housing and social care will move to a new customer reception, on Gayton Road in the town centre. Offices next door will become the new home of Citizens Advice Harrow.

From Spring 2023, registering of births, deaths and marriages will move to ‘The Pavilion’ – offices next door to Greenhill Library. Civil marriage and citizenship ceremonies will also be performed at The Pavilion.

The Mayors Parlour will relocate to Harrow Arts Centre and Council and committee meetings have already been relocated to new venues.

Most Council staff, including those who manage the thousands of digital interactions from residents, now use an office building at the Council’s depot on Forward Drive as their base.

For further information go to:  https://www.harrow.gov.uk/council/closing-harrow-civic-centre 

Moss Lane and North Way telecom mast “Prior Approval” planning applications refused.

The Pinner Association, and a great many local residents, wrote objection letters regarding two “Prior Approval” planning applications for the installation of new telecom masts and associated equipment cabinets on sites in North Way Pinner and Moss Lane Pinner.

We can now report that both these applications have been refused by Harrow Council’s Planning Officers, on the grounds of “The proposed telecommunications mast by reason of its siting and excessive height and prominent location would be visually obtrusive in the streetscene, to the detriment of the character and appearance of the area,” and “The proposed telecoms cabinets, by reason of quantity, height and siting would result in visual clutter and be visually obtrusive in the streetscene, to the detriment of the character and appearance of the area,”

The Pinner Association has sent an objection letter to the current “Prior Approval” planning application for the installation of new telecom mast and associated equipment cabinets on a site in Albury Drive on a designated open space within the Pinnerwood Park Conservation Area.

Planning application for a new telecom mast in Albury Drive.

The Pinner Association is aware of the planning application for new a new 20 metre high 5G telecom mast and three accompanying cabinets on the grass verge alongside the green open space in Albury Drive.  We are examining this “prior approval” application and will submit our comments to the Harrow Planning Services department.

Link t:o the Harrow Council Planning webpage for this application:

https://planningsearch.harrow.gov.uk/planning/search-applications#VIEW?RefType=GFPlanning&KeyNo=988492&KeyText=Subject

 

Annual Canvass for Electoral Role – emails being sent out by Harrow Council

Harrow Council’s Electoral Services are conducting the Annual Canvass of households to update the electoral role of voters.  As part of the Annual Canvass they are currently emailing residential properties in the borough where they hold an email address for an occupant.

The title of the email is:   Harrow Electoral Register 2022 – Action Required

and it is sent from Harrow@householdresponse.com email address.

Some residents may be concerned to receive an unsolicited email asking them to click on a link, but this is a genuine email sent out on behalf of the Council and is not spam.

If a resident has any queries they can email Harrow Council at elections@harrow.gov.uk

 

The Pinner Association Chair shortlisted for a Harrow Heroes Award.

Julie Waller, Chair of The Pinner Association, has been shortlisted for a Harrow Heroes Award in the category of “Bringing People Together”.

Everyone who has met Julie will know that this is very well deserved as she has done so much, and continues to do, to include people from our many diverse Pinner communities in all the events organised by The Pinner Association and in our work for all who live and work in Pinner and Pinner South.

Well done Julie!

Beware – card scammers operating in the Chapel Lane car park!

PADCA, the charity which runs The Pinner Village Hall, has brought to our attention that scammers are targeting those who pay for parking in the Chapel Lane Car Park using their credit/debit card.  Scammers may appear like other motorists waiting to pay.  The machines are retaining credit/debit cards, whilst the scammers are attempting to obtain the PIN number.

Please see this article in the March 25th 2022 News at Harrow Online:  Scammers target Harrow motorists that visit Chapel Lane car park in Pinner – Harrow Online

Please stay vigilant and where possible pay by cash or using the PayByPhone App:  Parking mobile app & payment solution | PayByPhone

Cynthia Wells RIP

It is with great regret that we must inform you that Cynthia Wells, our Hon. Editor of The Villager magazine, and a past Chairman and Hon. Secretary of The Pinner Association, has died. 

Thanks to the support of medical staff and carers, and her family and friends, Cynthia was able to be at home with her husband Jack until the end and our thoughts are with him in his bereavement.

Jack has asked us to thank all those who sent Cynthia cards and messages congratulating her on the award of the BEM in the New Year’s Honours.  This recognition of the love and respect in which she was held by so many in Pinner had helped them through her final days.

A full obituary will be published in the March The Villager magazine.

 

The Pinner Association Committee.

20th January 2022.