Local Authority

Plans to tackle anti-social behaviour by cracking down on street drinking in Feltham have welcomed by locals.

Hounslow Council agreed last week to launch a trial controlled drinking zone (CDZ) in Feltham town centre after police recorded recorded 305 alcohol related crimes in the west of the borough during 2007/8.

Families who love feeding the ducks down at Feltham pond may find their fun blocked by fences after it emerged the booming bird population was largely responsible for 300 fish fatalities this summer.

Suspicious residents originally blamed the environmental tragedy on hooligans dumping paint but the true cause was later revealed to be blue-green algae which shot up during the warm weather in early July and sapped oxygen levels in the popular pool, beside Feltham High Street.

A Feltham woman has become the first blue badge fraudster to be prosecuted by the council.

Donna Huddy, 26 from Cassiobury Avenue was fined £355 at Brentford Magistrate's Court on August 29 after being caught trying to get free parking by pretending she was disabled.

In January Feltham police found a vehicle displaying a blue badge parked on a yellow line. The woman in the car said the driver was at the bank and a supermarket but the police and the fraud team discovered the Blue Badge had actually been issued to a company that transports disabled people.

More than 300 potentially lethal gas cylinders that can explode into huge fireballs if accidentally heated up have been lying around in people's sheds and garages.

The scale of the danger was revealed thanks to a four-week amnesty during June that saw hundreds of residents handing in their unwanted cylinders at SpaceWaye in Feltham, Hounslow Council's recycling centre.

If your garden is looking a little neglected after the long winter, now is the time to get out your gardening gloves and set to work.

Green-fingered residents have just one month to dig and weed their way to victory as the deadline for Hounslow Homes' gardening competition approaches.

Councillor Mark Bowen
Feltham North
Conservative
Deputy Leader of the Council
2 Helen Avenue
Feltham
020 8844 0436
Mark.Bowen@hounslow.gov.uk

Councillor Gillian Hutchison
Feltham North
Conservative
71 Frank Towell Court
Glebelands Road
Feltham
020 8177 4214
gillian.hutchison@hounslow.gov.uk

Councillor Allan Wilson
Feltham North
Conservative
43 Carlton Avenue
Feltham
020 8751 5371
allan.wilson@hounslow.gov.uk

Councillor John Cooper
Feltham West
Labour
38 Ellington Road
Feltham
020 8890 4631
john.cooper@hounslow.gov.uk

Councillor Barbara Harris
Feltham West
Conservative
183 Rochester Avenue
Feltham
020 8384 1484
barbara.harris@hounslow.gov.uk

Councillor Peter Pitt
Feltham West
Conservative
6 Hillside Avenue
Widley
Purbrook
Hants
07983 117 317
peter.pitt@hounslow.gov.uk

A decision to close Feltham People's Centre in just three weeks without finding a new home for the charity based there has sparked outrage.

The decision spells the end of the line for both Feltham Community Association (FCA) and the High Street building, which will probably be razed to make way for a new learning centre run by West Thames College.