Local Authority

HATCH End councillor Susan Hall is to take over from Councillor David Ashton as leader of the Conservative party on Harrow Council.
Businesswoman Ms Hall is currently deputy leader and portfolio holder for the environment and community staff, and will assume the top role when Mr Ashton steps down as a councillor at the local elections on Thursday May 6.

THE former Linda Blackstone Gallery at The Old Slaughterhouse behind 13 High Street could be converted into an office if Harrow Council agrees.
Focus Environmental, a company based in Marsh Road, Pinner, has applied for permission to change the use of the vacant unit from an art gallery.

PLANS to extend and refurbished the vacant The Hare pub in Brookshill, Harrow Weald, have been submitted to Harrow Council.
The applicants say only by enlarging the dining area and improving disabled access could the Grade II Listed building become a viable commercial venture.

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 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 Bazaar is being held at Pinner Village Hall, Chapel Lane Pinner on Saturday 21st November from 10am - 2pm. Entrance 50p. Gifts, Charity cards and raffles.

"Chantecler, the French Circle of Harrow, presents a talk - in French - on Sarah Bernhardt, Queen of the French stage, by David King, whose talks are already lively.
On Saturday 14th November, from 7pm in the Parish Hall of St. Anselms Church, Westfield Park, Hatch End, HA5 4JL.

Come and join our international friendly society for it's second event for the resident's of Harrow. To be held on Tuesday 10th November from 2pm - 4pm at Harrow Arts Centre.

Are you a fan of traditional ballroom dancing, would you like to spend your afternoon dancing the waltz, tango, quickstep plus the cha cha cha.

Then look no further. Harrow Arts Centre is holding an afternoon tea dance hosted by Philip Wylie on Friday 20th November at 2pm.

For ticket information call 020 8416 8989 or email harrowartscentre@harrow.gov.uk

A 'PIONEERING' Pinner health centre where patients can see a doctor without a prior appointment was officially opened by public health minister Gillian Merron.
The Pinn Medical Centre, located in Love Lane, Pinner, is open between 8am and 8pm and hosts clinics for cardiology, dermatology and gynaecology, as well as providing X-ray and ultrasound services.
Under a network called a 'polysystem', the clinic is linked to local GP practices which can refer the ill to the medical centre to receive the kind of specialist medical attention and procedures that can normally open be obtained at hospital.
Ms Merron cut the ribbon at a ceremony on Wednesday last week (21/10) alongside the chief executive of NHS Harrow, Dr Sarah Crowther, and Labour MP for Harrow West, Gareth Thomas.
Dr Crowther said: "It is a pioneering project that has found its perfect setting in a clean, spacious, modern, comfortable and accessible building. These are the qualities that our patients have told us they want in local healthcare and that's exactly what we're delivering.
"We're taking the NHS in a new direction, which, now more than ever, is about what patients want and how they can get involved in making choices about their own care, backed by the expertise of and relationships with superb clinicians. That's what The Pinn is about."
Mr Thomas said: "I was delighted to play a small part in helping to get the Pinn Medical Centre its current location.
"I think Dr Amol Kelshiker and his staff have done a fantastic job."