January 2012 Archives

A PLANNED move of West Drayton post office will go ahead.

The office will move just 150 yards, from number 17 to number 43 Station Road.

Post Office spokesman Alan Ridoutt said: "We are confident that the new service is suitably located and will meet the needs of our customers in the local community.

A VIOLENT and prolific burglar who assaulted a homeowner with an iron bar has been jailed for 11 and a half years.

Aaron North, 22, of West Road, West Drayton, was sentenced at Harrow Crown Court on Friday to one of the longest jail sentences doled out to any borough burglar in recent years.

North had denied aggravated burglary in Grange Way, Iver, in November 2010.

Along with his accomplice Reece Owen, 23, of Barra Hall Way, Hayes, he broke into the house but was confronted by one of the occupants.

A FRAUDSTER who lied about her family members being involved in a car accident to trick good samaritans out of cash has been jailed.

Sukhvinder Dhillon, 38, of Bath Road, West Drayton, was sentenced to 12 months behind bars after being found in possession of a coat she also took from one of her victims.

On four separate occasions Dhillon knocked on doors, pretending to be in trouble and asking residents for emergency cash.

A JAILED carjacker has been convicted again - this time for attempting to deal drugs.

Dev Sandhu, 22, was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years last summer for his involvement in a gang which robbed a motorist in West Drayton at gunpoint, then burgled a house nearby on the same night back in 2010.

But while on trial last April at Harrow Crown Court for the Lavender Rise and Mulberry Crescent offences, two people - one of them a prison officer - were caught attempting to smuggle heroin to Sandhu.
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A DATE for a proposed Sipson Fete has been pushed back to May 5.

Heathrow Villages community development worker, Kate Birch, has been planning the fete with residents for the past month.

The aim is to inject some cheer and community spirit into an area which suffered the blight of the third runway for more than eight years.

The date was originally pencilled in for March, but because of weather worries and funding concerns it has been moved back to May 5.

Anybody wishing to get involved and help with stalls or entertainment can email kate.birch@groundwork.org.uk.

A PUB which closed last year is the latest to be lined up to become housing, after its new owners lodged a planning application to build 25 flats in its place.

The Swan in Swan Road, West Drayton, called time at about the same time as The Fox and Pheasant in nearby Station Road. It is destined to become a Tesco Express.

But The Swan was promptly bought by Inland Homes, developer of the 775-home Drayton Garden Village site in Porters Way, on the old National Air Traffic Service site.

The pub would be demolished, if Hillingdon Council approves the planning application.

In its planning statement, Inland Homes cites the Heathrow Opportunity Area, which includes West Drayton, as an area where new housing and growth should be supported.

The company adds: "The existing public house was poorly performing in business terms and the loss of this facility is not considered to result in harm to economic activity in the borough.

"The proposal would introduce employment through on-site careers. In the short term the proposal would generate construction jobs in the borough."

The flats would all be 'affordable' and supported living units: properties for people with disabilities or mental health problems.