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Important information from the West House & Heath Robinson Museum Trust about the Opening Ceremony and Museum entry The Opening Ceremony will be held outside the Museum and West House at 2pm on Saturday 15th October in Pinner Memorial Park and is free to attend. There also be other activities and entertainment in the park and West House. LIMITED Museum entry Saturday 15 October   After the formal opening, there will be some limited public entry to the Museum from 3pm-5pm.  Museum entry on that day only will be at £3, half the normal standard entry price and you will receive the coveted Golden Ticket as a memento of your visit. Refreshments Refreshments are available in Daisy’s in the Park and in the stall kindly provided by Carpentier & Co. Photographers in the park  Volunteer photographers and film makers are recording the event for us. Please let them know if you do not wish to be photographed. Social media – join in and share your experience of the day! Please share your own record of the event using the hashtag #HeathRobinson Visitor information and help   Come to the Reception Tent to ask about the building project, join our newsletter list, make a donation, find out about volunteering opportunities, talk to our Media Team or book an event. Toilets, including accessible toilet, and baby changing, are in West House on the Ground Floor.   Museum opening Sunday 16 October  On Sunday 16 October, the Museum will be open from 11am to 4pm. Opening times after this weekend Following this weekend the Museum will be open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays 11am-4pm until mid-November.  We then hope to open more days but please check the website for details. We will also send out notifications about opening times in the newsletter.

The proposed relocation of the Pinner Post Office to WHSmith has been confirmed and will take place on the 17th November.

The information about the relocation from Post Office Limited is:

Relocated Pinner Post Office information sheet: 

Date of move:  17 November 2016

Address:  WHSmith   11 Bridge Street  Pinner  HA5 3HR

Opening hours:
Mon  09:00 – 17:30
Tue   09:00 – 17:30
Wed  09:00 – 17:30
Thu   09:00 – 17:30
Fri     09:00 – 17:30
Sat    09:00 – 17:30
Sun   10:00 – 14:00

Products & Services:  The same wide range of products and services will still be available.

Serving positions:  There will be three serving positions in total; one screened and two open plan.  The total number of serving positions has been based on current and future predicted business levels.

Access & facilities:  Level access into the store with both automatic and manual entrance doors.  Low level serving counters, a low level writing desk and hearing loops will be available.

How far away is it?:  Approximately 200 metres away from the current branch, along slightly hilly terrain.

Transport & parking:
Parking:  Chapel Lane pay and display car park with 154 spaces and 5 designated disabled bays is approximately 210 metres away. Two designated disabled bays on Bridge Street, approximately 110 metres away. A designated disabled bay on Love Lane within 100 metres and also on High Street, approximately 100 metres away

Buses:  There are regular buses serving the area with a bus stop outside WHSmith and also on the opposite side of the road. There is a zebra crossing approximately 50 metres from WHSmith.

For those of you who are members of the Pinner Association, November’s issue will be delivered a little later than usual. This is to ensure that news the Heath Robinson Museum opening event can be reported in The Villager.

If you wish to join the Pinner Association so that you can receive The Villager, please visit the following tab.

“Why Join?” –>  “Membership”

or click on the link below

https://www.pinnerassociation.co.uk/why-join-the-pinner-association/membership/

As some of you may have noticed this morning, the car park is full. This is partially due to a film crew having set up home for the next 5 days but due to all the people using the car park.

Utilising this car park for Film Crew’s is a revenue stream not only for Harrow Council but all for the business & people of Pinner. No film crew parking would result in adverts and TV episodes not being filmed in and around Pinner.

On the morning of 29^th September the Mayor of Harrow, Councillor Rekha Shah, accompanied by Cllr Keith Ferry, Vice-Chairman of Harrow Heritage Trust, unveiled a new carved wooden sculpture at the Chapel Lane entrance to Pinner Memorial Park.  The sculpture, donated to the park by Harrow Heritage Trust, is an original work by Tom Harvey, who previously carved the two chain saw tree sculptures in the park.  The sculpture was inspired by the work of William Heath Robinson and is intended to guide visitors through the park to the new Heath Robinson Museum.

Last night a meeting was held in the Methodist Church Hall about the future of Waxwell Lane car park.

 To summarise, the following options were displayed and the Council’s architects thoughts are below:-

• Keep the whole car park  –  Dismissed
• Build 8 –9 dwellings with 66 parking spaces retained – under consideration
• Build 18 –20 dwellings with 46 parking spaces retained – under consideration
• Build 30 – 32 dwellings with 21 parking spaces retained – under consideration
• Build 38 – 40 dwellings with no parking spaces retained  – Dismissed

 It is now official that the Harrow Council intend to build homes for commercial rent on at least a portion the car park, but the number and type of dwellings, and possibly some office spaces or other uses, and the proportion of the site to be retained as car parking, to include disable parking spaces, is still to be decided.  A part of the Residents’ Reference Group was formed from volunteers attending last evening’s meeting and they are to be regularly consulted on what number, type and style of dwellings / buildings are to be planned for the site.

 

See the latest press release as the Heath Robinson Museum gear up for their official opening. In case you have forgotten this will be the 15th October.

Jack Wells has decided to step down from being our webmaster (editor of the website) and free his mouse and keyboard. He is one of many hidden helpers of Pinner Association.

For over 15 years Jack has helped keep Pinnerites informed about what is happening in Pinner. He helped create our website that has won the following award.

The London Forum of Civic and Amenity Societies – Walter Bor Media Award 2005

Jack will continue to make occasional posts and you can still see him around the village taking photo’s for our website.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Jack for all of his help and hard work in maintaining our website.

Having listened to feedback and had protracted discussions with Harrow Council. The following changes have been made to the policy – see below.

For existing posters advertising rolling events or existing A3 posters, some discretion will be used in the first month of the changed policy.

Thank you for your co-operation.