The Flood Risk Assessment for Ruislip Lido has been completed and has been uploaded along with associated documents on the Ruislip Lido Enhancement Project web page as follows:

http://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/index.jsp?articleid=20538

Swan Lifeline,  who occasionally release swans from their care into the safe environment of the Lido, are scheduled to appear on Escape to the Country on Monday 23rd January BBC1 at 2.15pm.

The next meeting of the Friends is on Tuesday 10th January 2012 at 7pm  at the Kings  College Pavillion.

Please joins us for an update, chat, refreshments and a raffle.

Waters Edge, Friends of Ruislip Lido and Ruislip Lido Residents Group present “Hogmanay at the Waters Edge”
New Year’s Eve party, with Carolyn Towner accordion
Come and see the New Year in at the Waters Edge, a local pub for local people.
Admission free. Bar open until 12.30pm
Details please phone 01895 625241

Fairground rides, food and drink, presentation by the Deputy Mayor and then fireworks.

Families are invited to attend and celebrate 200 years of the Ruislip Lido Reservoir on Saturday 3 December.

A free event to mark the bicentenary of Ruislip Lido.

Ruislip Lido Reservoir was opened on 5 December 1811 as a feeder reservoir for the Grand Junction now the Grand Union Canal.

Programme:

• 17:00 – Rides and entertainment for children will be available on Willow Lawn
• 19:00 – The musical firework display.

Refreshments will be available to buy from 17:00.

I noticed the above sign at Ruislip Lido.

I’m surprised those with psychic powers at Unlimited Vision couldn’t foresee what might need to be included on future signs?

The Council has been questioned by the FoRL about the rumours regarding staffing and catering contracts, we are waiting for their reply.

1. The council plan to centralise the green spaces staff south of the borough. This, IF TRUE, would be ridiculous, in the past year the number of staff has been reduced (we all understand cuts) the hours of coverage for the Lido has been reduced. The staff now have no enforcement powers; we have lost our dedicated members of staff. Now they are not going to be based there, so travelling to and from, gets taken out of the day the most we could hope for is six hours actually at the Lido. Can you please confirm if there is any truth behind this? If they need a new base why not put it in the planned Woodlands Centre. We need staff at the Lido without them it is going to spiral into the mess it was in 2003!

2. The council have already put the Cafe out for tenure, yet we have heard nothing about the ‘improvement plans’ for months and months. If this has gone to tenure, where are the plans for the building and the woodlands centre? What sort of premises are they going to be, is it going to be a Cafe, type of food, hours of operation etc. and who has decided on this, has there been any consultation?

We along with the local residents, the railway, residents associations and Councillors attend the MAG, neither of these items have been mentioned, we have asked and asked for updates but heard nothing. The MAG has been totally side lined in every decision to date, how it can be classed as a public consultative or advisory group when no one is telling us anything or involving any of the interested parties in the decision making.

Friends, please contact the council independently and ask them about these two issues but especially to SAVE OUR STAFF

We might be losing the team who are based at the lido, we have heard that plans are a foot to just have one team of green spaces staff which will be based in Yeading, this will mean the team will be away from the Lido they look after and the equipment they need for their other sites, and they will spend more time driving than working!

Seems daft…please let us know what you think.

HILLINGDON Council has spent £42,000 on engineering consultants who have so far failed to win support from the Environment Agency for their Ruislip Lido report.

More evidence that governments, local or central, can’t be trusted with our money.

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