FAMILIES living in Hatch End will benefit from a new community centre and all-weather sports pitch after councillors approved the necessary plans.
Harrow Council's planning committee granted permission for the proposal from Watford FC Community Sports and Education Trust in which the existing Cedars
Youth Centre in Chicheley Gardens will be demolished and replaced with a two-storey multi-use building and a multi-purpose football field.

A CAST of teenagers will bring to life a contemporary version of Shakespeare play 'Julius Caesar' on Sunday, February 13.
Actors from the Bearfoot School of Performing Arts, all aged between 13 and 19, aim to make the production more accessible to young people with a modern setting, language and themes.

ROTARIANS enjoyed a talk from the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Dr Vince Cable about the country's economic situation.
Dr Cable, MP for Twickenham, in south-west London, told the Rotary Club of Harrow he was a fan of the movement and an honorary Rotarian in his own area.
He said the key priorities for tackling the downturn were to have an honest public debate on the cuts which will be needed, to sort out the banks and to help Britain adjust to a different future that less reliant on financial services and more on productive manufacturing.
The meeting took place at Pinner Hill Golf Club in South View Road, Pinner, on January 21 and each guest contributed £5 from the cost of their lunch to Haste, a charity buying materials for schools in Gambia.
Members further raised £528 towards Shelterbox, a global Rotary Club initiative providing a tent for 10 people and essential supplies, while the club itself will chip in an extra £452 so that two Shelterboxes can be sent to Haiti.

SIXTHFORMERS at a Pinner secondary have become the first in the borough to earn the new A* grade at A-level.
A group of Year 13 students at Nower Hill High School, in George V Avenue, received their results for the Extended Project Qualification they completed last term - a mini dissertation on a subject of the student's choice that is worth half of an A2 level.
Seventy-seven percent of them received either an A* or A grade.
The former was introduced in September 2009 to help universities differentiate between the highest performing students since last summer more than a quarter of A-level examinations were marked as an A.
Headteacher Howard Freed said: "We are delighted with the wonderful successes and achievements of our 6th Form students.
"Having a 6th Form, as part of the Harrow 6th Form Collegiate, has added greatly to Nower Hill High School.
"Our 6th Form students are mature, conscientious and aspirational and are taught by
dedicated and talented staff - these are the key ingredients of our success."

MOVIEGOERS will finally be able to watch a film about John Lennon's teenage years that was partially shot in Pinner.
Scenes from the feature about The Beatle's early life in Liverpool, called 'Nowhere Boy', were recorded in March last year in Woodhall Gate and High Street, Pinner, and at the North Harrow Methodist Church in George V Avenue.
However, despite a nationwide release on Boxing Day, the film was not being shown at the nearest picturehouse, Vue cinema in St George's Shopping Centre, St Ann's Road, Harrow, due to "limited screen capacity".
However, the company scheduled screenings after the Observer alerted them to the missed opportunity.
The 88-minute long film, rated 15, can be seen twice a day on weekday and once a day at weekends.

GENEROUS customers at a Hatch End supermarket contributed almost £3,000 towards providing vital aid kits to quake-hit Haiti.
The collection at Morrisons in Uxbridge Road was hastily organised for last weekend by the Rotary Club of Northwick Park.
All the cash will be used to purchase and send Rotary shelter boxes to the victims of the natural disaster in the underdeveloped Caribbean country where an estimated 200,000 people may have perished.
The boxes contain a large tent, tools and survival equipment for a family of about 10 people and should provide accommodation for a year.
Rotarian Jo Mediratta said: "It was an emotional experience to see £20, £10 and £5 notes being put into the collecting buckets.
"Thank you. Your money will make a difference."

A ROAD that served as the prototype of Metro-land - the expansion of commuter suburbs in north-west London and the Home Counties - has been given special planning protection to preserve its properties.
The extension of Tookes Hill Conservation Area to include more than a hundred homes in Cecil Park means the street, constructed by Metropolitan Railway from 1902 onwards, should be spared from inappropriate and unsympathetic development along with other new additions Marsh Road and The Chase.

A NUMBER of seasonal events being hosted across the borough in the run up to Christmas.
On Wednesday December 23, the Grim's Dyke Opera Chorus and the Cassiobury Choir will join to sing carols at Grim's Dyke Hotel in Old Redding, Harrow Weald, before an audience of over 100 people, with all the proceeds going to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Centenary Christmas Coffee Morning on Saturday 28th November from 10.30am - 12.30pm at Pinner Free Church (Baptist), Paines Lane, Pinner.

A GREAT-grandmother who had a nasty fall on a bus after the driver pulled away before she had taken a seat is trying to find the two women who helped walk her home.

Dorothy Myers, of Uxbridge Road, Pinner Green, got on the H12 bus to go home after her weekly trip to Rumours hairdressers, in Marsh Road, Pinner, on October 30.