West London Boroughs Brief

Transport Safety Updates

• 🔥 TfL Radar Speed Camera Trial: Transport for London is trialling radar-based speed cameras at sites including Brent...

• 'Lime bike leg' crisis: Gen 4 bikes' heavy central bar caused severe leg fractures in falls, dubbed by doctors and raised in House of Lords.
• New...

• TfL and Met Police trialling radar-based cameras at up to 10 sites, including Brent and Ealing on 20/30mph roads.
• New tech uses 4D radar + 4K...

Key opportunity for Harrow educators and social care staff:

• Lunch Time Learning Sessions by Social Care Academy
• Hosted by Harrow Safeguarding Partnership (HSAB & HSCP)
• Upcoming: Mon 20 Apr 2026, 13:00-14:00
  Boost child safety skills – sign up now!

Housing boost for Ealing: Council selects Vistry's Countryside Properties arm as preferred partner for 300+ new affordable homes in west London. Key progress in local planning delivery.

Public Safety Meetings

• 🔥 Denehurst Gardens Update: A multi-agency meeting was held today on drug use and anti-social behaviour in Denehurst...

Urgent flood alert for Brent: 9% of residents face current flooding risk, rising to 15% in future.

• ACE meeting details: 24 March, 6.30pm online...

• Multi-agency meeting held today tackles drug use and anti-social behaviour in Denehurst Gardens
• Ealing Council's Safer Communities Team...

Ealing Grid for Learning advises schools and communities to always use tree surveyors with at least a Level 3 arboriculture qualification and £2M public liability insurance to ensure safe maintenance and prevent accidents.

Harrow Council Corporate Plan

• 2026/7 Plan Video: Cllr Paul Osborn highlights 36 flagship actions in the corporate plan video to restore pride in...

• Four to five days of sunshine ahead after cloudy start – perfect for Harrow, Brent & Ealing events.
• Today’s Equilux brings ~12 hours daylight;...

Harrow Council unveils Corporate Plan 2026/7 to restore pride:

• Residents first priorities for local services
• Cleaner, safer borough enhancing...

• Alarming peak: Harrow hits highest TB rate in London, provisional 44.4 per 100k – one of England's top; Brent/Ealing also high (30-40).
• Resident...

Harrow's Stanburn Primary pupils boosted community engagement via a Pupil Parliament trip:

• Watched live Commons debates and questions from the...

Resident-driven tweaks make spring gardening greener and cheaper: lower annual fees (£75 standard, £50 concessions), winter pause cut to 8 weeks from...

Entry-level volunteering boosts young residents' skills—apply now before deadlines:

• Youth Volunteers (13-25) at The Wish Centre, Harrow—today's...

Swift action in Hanwell: Metropolitan Police raided an address near Hanwell Broadway and Boston Road, seizing cannabis plants and growing...

Ealing Council swiftly protected public health by closing a Southall butcher amid severe pest issues.

• Inspection findings (Oct 2024): mice droppings...

Alert for Ealing commuters: A passenger's hand was trapped in Elizabeth Line doors at Ealing Broadway, dragging them 12 metres along the platform on...

Community pushback intensifies as campaigners led by Minni Dogra and Save Ealing Children’s Centres (SECC) challenge council's closure of 10 centres,...