The Pinner Association
– The Voice of our Community
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:
The Mayor of Harrow, Cllr Janet Mote, laid a poppy wreath at the Dove of Peace War Memorial in the Peace Garden, Pinner Memorial Park, on the afternoon of 31st October 2022:
The Pinner Association has received this information from Post Office Ltd. about the currently closed Post Office branch at Pinner Green:
Pinner Green HA5 2AF – Updated Information Letter October 2022
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 [email protected] 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 [email protected]
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!
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
See: https://www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/page.php?PgID=869692&ClubID=827 for further information.
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.
The Mayor of Harrow, Cllr Ghazanfar Ali, was at the top of Pinner High Street at 4.45pm on Thursday 25th November to officially turn on the lights of the Pinner street Christmas trees in a small ceremony arranged by Cllr Norman Stevenson (Pinner Ward) to support the new “Visit Pinner” organisation which is aiming to support the independent traders in Pinner.
Photo by David Elliott, “Pinner Local” website.
The Mayor made a short speech in which he praised the community spirit in Pinner and thanked The Pinner Association for organising and sponsoring, with some assistance with the funding from Harrow Council, the festive street lights and street Christmas trees in Bridge Street and the High Street. He hoped the festive lights and Christmas trees would lift the spirits of all who see them and wished everyone in Pinner a “Happy Christmas”.
Photo by Norman Stevenson, “Visit Pinner”.
The Mayor with Tim Owen, Ruth Boff and Alison Whitehead of The Pinner Association Committee.
Photo by David Elliott, “Pinner Local” website.
The Mayor and Cllr Stevenson with a background of the High Street Festive lights.
On Wednesday 27th October 2021 the Mayor of Harrow, Cllr Ghazanfar Ali, laid a poppy wreath at the Dove of Peace War Memorial in the Peace Garden in Pinner Memorial Park in memory of all those who have fallen serving their country or as a result of conflict.
The Dove of Peace was designed in 1995 by pupils of Nower Hill School for the Peace Garden which was created in that year to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII. It is an officially registered war memorial: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/11098
The Peace Garden is an area for quiet contemplation within Pinner Memorial Park, which itself was purchased for the community by public subscription as an enduring war memorial and amenity for Pinner at the end of WWII.
