Upminster Methodist Church in Hall Lane, Upminster will once again be holding its popular Christmas Tree Festival, with a large number of individually decorated trees on view. The festival will run from Saturday 02 December to Sunday 10 December 2023 and is open from 2-6pm on weekdays,

Havering Council, through their own development company, Mercury Land Holdings, have outlined proposals to develop the council car park in Dorrington Gardens into 39 houses and flats. The proposal is in its early stages and has not yet been submitted as a planning application. They have a project

Following our previous post highlighting the regeneration of a small piece of council owned land in Brunswick Avenue, Cranham, we are pleased to confirm that the work, undertaken by Mears as part of their Social Value Projects, is now complete. Please see the before and after photos

Havering Council have launched a consultation on proposals for the 2024 budget for the borough. With council finances reaching a perilous state, some difficult decisions on cutbacks will have to be made and so it is important that members of the public give their views on what

Cllr Phil Ruck (Upminster and Cranham Residents’ Association councillor for Cranham Ward) has written the following article highlighting the reasons why Havering is currently facing financial hardship. You may have seen many articles/social media posts about Havering Council potentially going bankrupt. What has actually happened is that

Havering Council have asked the Leader of the council, Cllr Ray Morgan, to agree to apply for £650,000 of funding from National Highways, to make repairs and improvements to Upminster’s historic tithe barn. The funding is part of money allocated by the Department of Transport for projects

Congratulations go to Hall Mead School, who have retained their Outstanding rating, following a recent Ofsted inspection. Headteacher, Miss Ducker, says “As I am sure you can appreciate, after a long ten years’ wait, there has been an incredible amount of hard work behind the scenes invested

The Department for Health and Social Care has launched a fund to help fund public accessible defibrillators. Applications are now open for the £1 million Defibrillator Community Automated External Defibrillators (AED) fund. This will provide 2,000 new public access defibrillators for communities across England. Anyone can apply