‘A Christmas gift to the Community’ Arla plan would include
supermarket, cinema, restaurants and homes
REN Gazette October 31st 2012
By Zoe Drewett
Zoe.drewitt@trinitysouth.co.uk
One person for development on Express dairies site, one
person against, one person then counters that best to get involved with process
of planning as then something can be agreed as ‘if we don’t want more traffic, it
will continue to stay derelict’
Sainsburys still want to rebuild their store so South
Ruislip gets section 106 and perhaps a new community centre centrally located
on the Arla site with construction and housing jobs and possibly a state cofe
primary school as well if pupil numbers go up in neighbouiring boroughs.
Zoe,
Here are the balanced thoughts as someone who has been on
the PCC and Deanery Synod representative for the CofE Parish
James.
The alternatives to a scout hut on the park behind St Marys
South Ruislip
When I’m not feeling so self important as a wannabe
politician on an anti porn mission and look at the nature of the historic
demographics and logistics of South Ruislip , I
examine the alternatives to a scout hut for St Marys South Ruislip and thus
literal parity with St Laurence Eastcote and St Andrews Roxbourne.
With this in Mind:
If the following is true
1)
The Garden of remembrance where the ashes of
dead parishioners are interred or scattered is full and the triangle of land
behind st marys is needed for that or bigger events in the vicarage garden.
2)
St Marys can afford through grants from the
diocese, sponsorship from the retail park central funds (such as Homebase,
Sainsburys etc), an atrium similar to St Joseph the workers Northolt (under the
tenure of the now Peter Willesden, the general secretary of Wealdstone) between
the chapel of the Holy Family, the nave of the church proper and church hall an
atrium and extension backwards of the Hall to cover the usage by scouts
instead, without losing its entire reserves form the sale of the second clergy
property in the 1970s (when the retired Bishop of Kensington was trainee clergy
living there).
3)
To counterbalance and complement football on
Queensmead school site and playground court games such as Basketball on Ruislip
High and gym based games at Vyners and Haydon, Bishop ramsey and Hockey at BR
and Douai, a rugby goal is achieved through Chrysalis funding for the park
behind the church so that children can be coached there on a Saturday similar
to Bessingby Park football teams. The goal can be of football width so can
double up if need be.
4)
The South Ruislip community centre want in conjunction
with the Scouts and the Methodist Church Boys brigade a hut on the former
derelict nursery site as a second venue or replacement one should ST Marys seek
to have a church of England primary or secondary school for the housing in
Roxeth and Roxbourne should the housing numbers of the children go up as baby boomers
go into retirement homes or the flats by the Piccadilly Line in the parish of
St Pauls Roxeth (formerly St Hildas and ST Marys Harrow Hill)
5)
The South Ruislip Evangelical Church have more
scouts / Guides / Brigades and cadet youth provision since the closure of the 1st
South Ruislip Scout Hut for housing as it was down a narrow road, a hut is
built in the field (with possible campsite to replace ones sold off recently)
at the end of Great Central Avenue (as its near sports grounds and a farm in
use so they could learn skills badges) or one by Bourne Primary on the field
between it and Mahlon Avenue, with funding by the state for the latter entirely
and the former with reference to Scout Central funds as it involves the
creation of a campsite.
6)
The St john are
getting the Phoenix day centre to train first
aid courses similar to North Harrow, Richmond , Edmonton York Road
Then I’d recommend a public consultation, land transfer of
the land behind st marys in the Jubillee year and agreement by the PCC in
conjunction with the local council as to its preferred option between second
scout hut or atrium and hall extension and the wider implications for a ward
based referendum and consultation to ammend the unitary development plan, with
reference to the future of RAF Northolt and whether that is needed for housing
like the South Ruislip Community centre site as such planning matters are the
purview of the GLA and Mayor of London, if the Express Dairies site delivers a
like for like replacement as part of its planning for sustainable development
that can be used by WEA and other adult ed provision (such as University of the
third age and Open University tutorials) not covered by Hillingdon Adult ed
which is focused on skills and employability as part of value to the taxpayer.
The atrium option could deliver a DofE award venue as well
should someone wish to run it or the youth service doesn’t want to run one in
South Ruislip Youth Centre
They would need to be allowed by a church that looks to the
Church lads and girls brigade (based on harrow hill and distinct from the more
non comformist Boys and girls brigades in the Methodist Churches) should that
be desired and not counterproductive given that teen angels and the UP series
of magazines has been produced in the vicinity of Queensmead, just like the
Score Group in the London Borough of Hillingdon.
I hope that the last paragraph point is taken up by someone
as such publications distort the perspectives of men and the contemporaries of
those who pose away from relationships.
James Ware BELA, MIDAS Asst, Dip HE, Cert (Open),
