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Urban meadows in Upminster and Cranham

Havering Council have announced that they are to create urban meadows in various grass verges and parts of some open spaces across the borough. This is as a result of many councils, including Havering, stopping grass cutting for much of last summer due to the pandemic, and

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Motorised scooters and the law

Local councillors are regularly asked about the current trend for using motorised scooters, and whether the local authority has any powers if they are used illegally. To obtain a definitive answer, we asked Havering Council’s Neighbourhoods Department for their advice, which they have given below –  ‘The

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Friends of Hall Lane Playing Fields

Cranham Ward councillors, Gillian Ford, John Tyler and Linda Van den Hende have come together with local residents to form a new friends group for Hall Lane Playing Fields (also known as Upminster Hall Playing Fields). The aim is to preserve and improve the facilities at the

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Place Names of Havering 2021 edition

Just after the turn of the millennium, Havering Council published a guide to the place names of Havering. Now, two decades later, this has been updated with new information by Simon Donoghue, the London Borough of Havering’s Local History Librarian. To view the guide, see the Place

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Council meeting regarding Highways Contract Requisition

As previously detailed, Upminster and Cranham Residents’ Association councillors, supported by RA councillors from other parts of the borough, recently requisitioned (called-in) Havering Council’s Executive Decision to extend the current Planned Maintenance and Construction Improvement Schemes Contract by two years from 2022. This was done because of

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Safe Spaces online initiative

UK SAYS NO MORE is a national campaign to raise awareness to end domestic abuse and sexual violence across the UK. Launched in 2016, it has a network of over 1000 partners, ambassadors and parliamentarian champions across the United Kingdom. As part of the campaign, they have

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