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Hillingdon: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

London Borough of Hillingdon: London borough (unitary), England, London; part of the GLA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E09000017.

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The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

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Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by Hillingdon for 2026–27: £1,534.95 of a £2,045.46 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

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Environment

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Education

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Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

No school here is currently recorded as proposed to open or close.

In the last twelve months: 4 opened (2 academy free school, 2 academy converter), 5 closed (2 result of amalgamation/merger, 2 academy converter, 1 academy free school)

Grangewood School — closed; reason recorded: academy free school, 31 December 2025
Harefield Infant School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: result of amalgamation/merger, 6 April 2026
Oak Farm Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
St Bernadette Catholic Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 October 2025
Whitehall Infant School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: result of amalgamation/merger, 31 August 2026
Grand Union Village School — open; reason recorded: academy free school, 1 January 2026
Oak Farm Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026
Pinn River School — open; reason recorded: academy free school, 1 January 2026
St Bernadette Catholic Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 November 2025

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

The budget for each service, as Hillingdon reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Hillingdon: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£285.4 million
Highways and transport services	−£813,000
Children's social care	£86.7 million
Adult social care	£156.4 million
Public health	£23.6 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£43.6 million
Cultural and related services	£14.4 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£25.7 million
Planning and development services	£1.0 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£21.0 million
Other services	£2.4 million
Total service expenditure	£659.4 million

Net current expenditure: net of sales, fees and charges; spending funded by the NHS, such as through the Better Care Fund, is excluded.A minus figure means the service’s income is budgeted to be more than its spending. “None budgeted” usually means another body runs that service here. Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Revenue Account Budget 2026 to 2027, individual local authority data (part 1), updated 11 June 2026 (Open Government Licence).

Hillingdon in numbers

Official statistics for the whole council area. Each figure is the latest published, with the period it covers.

Total population: 329,185 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 36 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £25,875 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £709 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 27.6% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsPercentage of children aged under 16 living in relative low income families After Housing Costs (AHC)
Claimant Count: 4.9% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £470,875 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 12.1 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 64.7 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for females born in the given year
Male healthy life expectancy: 64.4 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for males born in the given year
Greenhouse gas emissions: 4.3 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 92.9% 1 January 2026 · OfcomPercentage of premises that have coverage from a gigabit-capable service (download speeds of 1,000 Mbps or more)
Public electric vehicle chargers: 120.9 per 100,000 population 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublicly available electric vehicle chargers at all speeds per 100,000 people
Active businesses: 16,295 number of enterprises 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with turnover or employment in current year

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

53 seats in 2026. Run by: Conservatives, with a majority. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Conservative and Unionist 30, Labour Party 16, Reform UK 4, Vacant 2, Green Party (E&W) 1.

Next scheduled council election: 2 May 2030.

All 53 councillors, by ward

Amanpreet Kaur (Labour Party) — Belmore
Jagjit Singh (Labour Party) — Belmore
Sital Punja (Labour Party) — Belmore
Archan Raval (Conservative and Unionist) — Charville
Darran Davies (Conservative and Unionist) — Charville
Adam Huddle (Conservative and Unionist) — Colham & Cowley
James Bourke (Conservative and Unionist) — Colham & Cowley
Shehryar Ahmad-Wallana (Conservative and Unionist) — Colham & Cowley
Daniel Singham (Conservative and Unionist) — Eastcote
Ian Edwards (Conservative and Unionist) — Eastcote
Nick Denys (Conservative and Unionist) — Eastcote
Tommy Balaam (Conservative and Unionist) — Harefield Village
Navnit Dhesi (Labour Party) — Hayes Town
Raju Sansarpuri (Labour Party) — Hayes Town
Stuart Mathers (Labour Party) — Hayes Town
Matthew Elder (Reform UK) — Heathrow Villages
Narinder Garg (Labour Party) — Heathrow Villages
Colleen Sullivan (Conservative and Unionist) — Hillingdon East
Kelly Martin (Conservative and Unionist) — Hillingdon East
Wayne Bridges (Conservative and Unionist) — Hillingdon East
Vacant (Vacant) — Hillingdon West
Vacant (Vacant) — Hillingdon West
Eddie Lavery (Conservative and Unionist) — Ickenham & South Harefield
Jane Palmer (Conservative and Unionist) — Ickenham & South Harefield
Kaushik Banerjee (Conservative and Unionist) — Ickenham & South Harefield
Ekta Gohil (Conservative and Unionist) — Northwood
Henry Higgins (Conservative and Unionist) — Northwood
Jonathan Bianco (Conservative and Unionist) — Northwood Hills
Ranjeet Rathore (Conservative and Unionist) — Northwood Hills
Kuldeep Lakhmana (Labour Party) — Pinkwell
Tony Eginton (Labour Party) — Pinkwell
Tony Gill (Labour Party) — Pinkwell
John Riley (Conservative and Unionist) — Ruislip
Peter Smallwood (Conservative and Unionist) — Ruislip
Philip Corthorne (Conservative and Unionist) — Ruislip
Douglas Mills (Conservative and Unionist) — Ruislip Manor
Susan O'Brien (Conservative and Unionist) — Ruislip Manor
John Garner (Conservative and Unionist) — South Ruislip
Richard Mills (Conservative and Unionist) — South Ruislip
Steve Tuckwell (Conservative and Unionist) — South Ruislip
Anil Taneja (Conservative and Unionist) — Uxbridge
Riley Russell (Conservative and Unionist) — Uxbridge
Terence Murray (Conservative and Unionist) — Uxbridge
Jan Sweeting (Labour Party) — West Drayton
Paul Capps (Reform UK) — West Drayton
Sarah Hassoun (Green Party (E&W)) — West Drayton
Elizabeth Dumergue (Labour Party) — Wood End
Gursharan Mand (Labour Party) — Wood End
Kamal Kaur (Labour Party) — Wood End
Ella Garelick (Labour Party) — Yeading
Hedson Farinha De Castro (Labour Party) — Yeading
Sophie Dror (Reform UK) — Yiewsley
Stacey Lucas (Reform UK) — Yiewsley

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

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