Some excellent news on an initiative from Harrow Council to help students who are approaching their exams across the borough. Exam time is just around the corner, and Harrow Council is arranging for extra study spaces to be available for those who will be revising during the exam period. The extra spaces for students will be …
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May 01 2013
Harrow Council’s Mutual Exchange event is big success
Harrow Council and housing association tenants looking for new homes were given vital advice during a Mutual Exchange event. The event, which proved very popular, offered Council and housing association tenants the chance to swap to smaller or larger homes. More than 130 tenants visited the drop-in session at Harrow Civic Centre on Tuesday (April 23). …
Apr 25 2013
Harrow CCTV operator commended
CCTV is not all about ‘Big Brother’ – as the commendation of one of Harrow’s crime-fighting operators has shown. Will Baron was commended by a judge for the role he played in jailing an organised gang of burglars, who were responsible for a string of burglaries in commercial properties. Will, 36, worked alongside officers from the …
Apr 23 2013
New Streetlights on the way to Harrow
The future is looking bright for the borough with Harrow Council set to replace old orange street lights with energy efficient lighting that will save taxpayers’ money and reduce carbon emissions. Harrow Council will replace the borough’s 15,500 street lights with brand new LED lighting over the next seven years which will deliver savings of …
Apr 22 2013
Harrow Council gearing pupils and staff up for cycling
Pupils and staff at colleges around Harrow will be encouraged to take to two wheels as Harrow Council is offering free Dr Bike services for Green Travel Day Stanmore and Harrow Colleges are holding a Green Travel Day to promote getting to college using more sustainable methods of transport. Students and staff will be able …
Apr 18 2013
Harrow’s 1000th affordable home
Harrow Council joined with residents, the developer and housing association to celebrate completion of the borough’s 1,000th affordable home since April 2010. The Council is committed to building more affordable housing in Harrow . This latest milestone figure has been reached by the development of 332 Northolt Road – made up of 50 new properties, …
Apr 12 2013
Harrow’s Libraries Get New Computers
We’ve lambasted Harrow Council on several occasions over the last year for the increasing high number of faulty public computers across the borough’s libraries. There was a plan to have them all completely replaced by March this year, although that took longer than planned. However, the Council – along with global IT provider Capita – …
Apr 03 2013
Harrow Council Announces Major Sports Pitch Investments
Sports pitches across the borough will be revamped over the next ten years under an investment programme of approximately £2m due for approval by Harrow Council’s Cabinet on Thursday, April 11. Harrow Council has consulted with local sports clubs and national governing bodies to review the standard of sports pitches across the borough. The review …
Mar 21 2013
Teaching Politics in Schools – Harrow’s Council Leader Pledges Support
The Leader of Harrow Council Councilllor Thaya Idaikkadar has signed letters calling for Politics to be taught as a National Curriculum subject. The letters – penned as part of the #Pol4Schools campaign which is being run by student newspaper Shout Out UK – have landed on the doormats of schools across the borough. Cllr Idaikkadar …
Mar 14 2013
School Children Help Mayor Plant Tree in Harrow
Green-fingered pupils from Norbury School in Welldon Crescent, braved the cold snap to give the Mayor of Harrow a helping hand at his annual tree planting ceremony this week. In a tradition that has been going on for 22 years, the borough’s first citizen plants a tree every spring in an area of Harrow Recreation …











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