Local Authority

A Harrow-on-the-Hill councillor accused of attempted theft has had his hearing postponed for up to 28 days by the Crown Prosecution Service.
David Gawn, of Lankers Drive, South Harrow, is accused of trying to steal £7,000 from a Dennis O'Brien on August 5, 2011 and appeared at Hendon Magistrates' Court for the third time on Thursday.

A decision on whether to grant a grocery store in Harrow On The Hill that is frequented by schoolchildren permission to sell booze has been deferred until March 6.
Harrow Council's licensing panel hearing concerning Hill Foods, which replaced Oakwoods convenience store in High Street, was adjourned from its original date of Tuesday February 14 for administrative reasons.
Applicant Mylvayanam Asokan has requested permission to sell booze 7am to 11pm Monday to Saturday and 9am to 10pm Sunday and Bank Holidays and while objectors including Harrow School's estates bursar Trevor Grey did not have an issue with the business stocking liquor, they were concerned by the extended hours sought.

MOTORISTS and shopkeepers in Harrow on the Hill warned they could suffer a 'quadruple whammy' if unpopular parking rules are brought in on safety grounds.
Car owners and businessmen and women, as well as local conservation group Harrow Hill Trust, have rallied against Harrow Council's proposals for a series of new double-yellow lines, waiting restrictions and free parking bays, with 120 people signing an objection letter to the portfolio holder Councillor Phillip O'Dell (Labour).

LATE-NIGHT Christian volunteers have committed to helping people in need on the streets in Harrow.

The first group of Street Pastors were presented at Harrow Civic Centre on Thursday, January 26, and will soon be patrolling the streets on Friday and Saturday nights, giving out bottles of water and offering assistance to people who have been drinking or who run into trouble in a bid to reduce crime and make people feel safer.

A public meeitng has been arranged for Wednesday, September 21, about 'Recycling In A Conservation Area' following concerns from residents on the Hill about difficulties in collecting trash.
It takes place at 7.30pm at Christ Church Roxeth in Roxeth Hill with speakers Alan Whiting, who is in charge of rubbish collection for Harrow Council, and ward councillor Councillor Ann Gate (Labour), who will explain where the garbage goes once it is picked up.

Harrow School seeks permission to build a new observatory on the lower roof on its Maths And Physics School in Football Lane in order to aid its teaching of astronomy.
The school said in its planning application of August 12 it wanted the observatory to be as discreet and produce as little light pollution as possible.

A SCHOOL'S plan for a multi-million pound revamp has been scuppered after Harrow Council refused planning permission for it to go ahead.
Orley Farm School, South Hill Avenue, Harrow on the Hill, had set aside £10million for extensive improvements to the building and its grounds.

A LOBBYING group for Harrow pensioners that is working with less than a quarter of the funding of its predecessors is to meet next month.
Three separated organisations with a combined subsidy of £60,000 - the Partnership with Older People panel, the Older People's Reference Group and the Harrow Pensioners' Forum - were replaced with a single body, the Harrow Older People's Assembly, and a grant of just £13,000 from Harrow Council, at the end of last year.

INTEREST from healthcare, educational and training centre firms has prompted Origin Housing to seek to change the use of the ground floor of Ambassador House in Cavendish Road in Sudbury from class B1, or business, use to class D1, or non-residential, use.
The planning application to Harrow Council seeks to only allow the 1980s office block to be more widely marketed and no physical changes are planned.

ONE of Harrow on the Hill's iconic tea rooms could be lost if plans to turn it into a family home are approved.
Tea At 3, located at 3 West Street, is currently closed and Harrow School, which owns the building, has lodged an application with Harrow Council to transform the building back into a house as it was in 1985.
The school's agent Andrew Reed told the authority in a design and access statement: "Whilst the lease does not expire until October 2013, it appears that the tea shop is unviable.
"[Conversion] will provide the school with additional masters accommodation close to the centre of the school.
"There will be no changes externally other than the removal of any signage."