The Hounslow South Safer Neighbourhood Team are holding a street briefing on
Tuesday 2nd August 1700-1800
and
Sunday 7th August 1300-1400
An officer from your local team will be at RIVERSIDE WALK Junction with Sussex Avenue on Tuesday and the RIVERSIDE WALK junction with WOODLAND GARDENS on Sunday
Please feel free to come along to meet the team, and ask any questions you may have. Hounslow South Safer Neighbourhood Team: 02082476167
Email: hounslowsouth.snt@met.police.uk
Results of the July draw: £30:Mr B Pett £10: Mr M Drinkwater
Congratulations to Shelagh, David and Carole, winners of the Grease Sing-a-long fancy dress competition.
Please come and join us at 10.00am on Sunday 7th August and Sunday 4th September to help tidy up the Community Garden in WERFA Park.
We will be meeting here on the first Sunday of each month for the rest of the year.
The next Working Parties are Sunday 7th August Working Party and Sunday 4th September from 9.30am onwards.
With the hotter weather arriving at last and the holiday season approaching, it’s all too easy to forget about essential security measures. If you’re out in the back garden and all the front windows and doors are open, it’s a clear invitation to a prospective intruder. When you go away on holiday, arrange for a trusted neighbour or someone to keep an eye on your home, clearing accumulated post and newspapers from your letter-box.
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More vehicle crimes occurred in our Watch area during June – theft of or from vehicles, or vandal damage; almost always to cars in the road, rarely to those on forecourts and never to those in garages.
Due to blanket silence from Hounslow Highways, despite continual requests for discussion regarding the planned tarmacing of The Woodlands Estate footways, a meeting was held on Thursday 26th May, via Councillor Tom Bruce, in the belief that residents could air their thoughts to Hounslow Highways’ Operations Director Martin Clack and discuss further how the Estates pavements could be better resurfaced.
Unfortunately the meeting was concluded before it started with Mr Clack repeatedly stating “Footways work will commence from next week”.
Resurfacing with tarmac has begun in Woodlands Road and will continue throughout the Estate in the foreseeable future despite a petition to the Mayor of 270 signatures and emails from numerous residents to MPs, Councillors and newspapers outlining their grievances and proposals for alternative solutions. Tarmac footways are coming your way.
Apologies that the meeting was Hounslow Highways way of outlining their footway agenda but thank you to all who supported the request to discuss the matter further; it highlighted what a lovely community WERFA has.
Our first family film event was very well attended with 64 people, many of whom were new to WERFA making it a great opportunity to introduce our fantastic venue to a wider local audience.
To give the children a real cinema experience, we sold individual tubs of ice-cream from Isleworth’s beloved South Street café, made fresh popcorn served in stripy paper bags, and gave each child a dinosaur sticker and a printed cinema ticket on entrance.
By investing in a large screen covering the entire back wall of the Pavilion, providing a great sound system and selling tickets from an authentic-looking ticket booth made by the talented Les McCallum, we gave the audience the full cinematic experience and received lots of wonderful comments.
One mum, Michelle Hirdle commented ‘We really enjoyed the movie. What a great idea – and it was nice not having too many people. The ice-cream was delicious and we’re looking forward to the next movie.’
The next family film event will take place on Sunday 21st August at 11am. (Great for entertaining the children during the school holidays – and on your doorstep!) Doors will be open from 10am for refreshments and there will be a chance to win the Bluray of the film following the screening. Film TBC so please check the website for updates.
To see all events currently on at WERFA Pavilion, please head to our new website: www.woodlandsevents.org.uk
The next Working Parties are Sunday 3rd July Working Party and Sunday 7th August from 9.30am onwards.
Please come and join us at 10.00am on Sunday 3rd July and Sunday 7th August to help tidy up the Community Garden in WERFA Park. We will be meeting here on the first Sunday of each month for the rest of the year.
Following Mo Aliyas’s transfer to Hounslow West Ward, we now have a new PCSO, named Vikki Kelly.
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“Criminal damage to motor vehicles” (often mindless vandalism) continues, notably along Riverside Walk. It’s a crime, so if you see it happening please call 999; if possible get a photograph of the perpetrator/s.
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Despite “everyone having one now”, mobile phone theft still happens; please try to avoid using yours or having it visible while out and about.
Results of the June draw: £30:Mr E Panter £10: Mr & Mrs Berryman
We are very pleased to announce that a resident of Woodland Gardens, Kerrie Lapworth, has agreed to take over the editing and production of the Newsletter from the October issue onwards. Kerrie can be contacted via email at werfa@hotmail.co.uk We would like to extend a grateful welcome.
On behalf of the Council, Hounslow Highways plans to replace the pavements in Woodland Gardens with tarmac by early 2017. At the WERFA AGM in April some residents said that they were against this plan. One of the councillors for our ward, Tom Bruce, has agreed to meet residents to discuss any concerns they may have. The meeting has been arranged for 5pm on Wednesday 25th May in the WERFA pavilion. This meeeting is open to all residents who would like to attend.
If residents have any queries please contact Hounslow Highways.
Results of the APRIL draw: £30: M Thorburn £10: W Morgan
