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24/06/2025

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15/01/2025

This time of year we have leaf fall detrius and drains can get blocked. You can report them through here:

Report noise, dust, smoke and pollution. Report flooded drains, rivers, roads and streams. Find out what to do with asbestos. Request a land quality report and see if land is contaminated.

27/11/2024

Please pass on this information, to anyone you think it may help.

The Council’s Emergency Assistance Scheme offers quick financial help for residents who need essentials like food, heating, or basic home items.

Now expanded, it’s open to more people, including low-income households and those affected by winter fuel cuts.

Check the Havering Cost of Living hub for more information.

30/10/2024

Locations for Remembrance Sunday 10th November 2024

Residents are invited to gather at Remembrance services across the borough on Sunday 10 November to honour those who have served our country.

For details on all Remembrance services in Havering, please visit https://orlo.uk/W9UPU

29/10/2024

A Romford Councillor has launched a campaign against the Romford Masterplan, despite their own party not rejecting a Masterplan when in control. The growth of properties will be over 16 years in accordance with the existing Local Plan implemented by the Conservative Administration.

Romford has been neglected under the Conservatives, and the H.R.A are changing this by bringing life back to the market and by bringing more green spaces to the town. Please take a look at the masterplan rather than listening to the words of a local politician.

The consultation closes on the 11th November and you can see full details details including the changes we have made to the Conservative’s proposed masterplan here.

Find and participate in consultations run by London Borough of Havering Council

11/10/2024

Have your day on Food waste collection in Havering

Havering Council asks for resident;s views on food waste survey

22/09/2024

You will have heard that winter fuel payments will now be means tested. We are aware that some of our older residents are eligible for pension credit and they are not currently claiming this. If they register, this will open the door to other support opportunities.

Please support family, friends and neighbours to seek the support they deserve.

The following has been shared by the Council

Winter fuel payments
Havering Helps increase your income
Havering Council is aware of the potential impact the loss of the Winter Fuel Payment will have on our elderly residents across the borough.

Now is the best time to make sure you're claiming all of the benefits that you are entitled to, especially Pension Credit.

You can visit our website now to take a look at the benefits calculator and other cost of living measures you can take to help save money and stay warm this winter.

We are also looking for ways to provide further support to those residents that may be affected and help them through the winter months.

[https://www.havering.gov.uk/costofliving](https://www.havering.gov.uk/costofliving)

Need help with the cost of living in Havering? Whether you’re a homeowner, private tenant or council tenant, there are a number of ways Havering Council can help with your financial questions.

10/09/2024

02/08/2024

Family activities and what happening in Havering this summer
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Family activities for the summer holidays, Village Green Month continues, have your say on waste management View in a browser Friday 2 August 2024 Village Green Month continues Hitchin Green, off Taunton Road, Harold Hill, is the third much-loved open space to be officially granted village green sta...

24/07/2024

No old master paintings in Havering.
A Conservative St. Edwards Ward Councillor, has recently published that Havering Council owns 18,500 pieces of art. The information was acquired by the Tax Payers Alliance through an FOI request, towards the end of 2023.
Whilst it refers to ‘art’, the request in the FOI was much wider than that.
To clarify, the FOI request included the following:
“Artwork includes, but is not limited to, paintings, photographs, sculptures, and electronic art.”
This explains why, quite rightly, the response to the FOI by libraries included photographs etc. The likely hood is that other local authorities have referenced ‘art works’ rather than the longer list the requester asked for e.g. photographs.
All items are viewable either online via the Councils catalogue Library Links (havering.gov.uk) , through the Art UK website for oil paintings https://artuk.org/visit/collection/havering-local-studies-and-family-history-centre-1824 or by appointment if they are not on display in the Havering Museum or elsewhere. There are some watercolours in the corridor of the 1st floor of the Central Library, the murals are in Gidea Park and Upminster libraries and there are mosaics at Collier Row and Upminster libraries.
The majority of items listed are unsuitable for permanent display due to degradation through the exposure to light as in the case of photographs, which would quickly fade if exposed to continuous light. A significant number are transparencies – glass plates and lantern slides as well as 35mm slides. Among the few paintings and drawings, many are A4 or smaller. Since the beginning of lockdown, Havering Libraries page has posted hundreds of the better images in the boroughs collection, and there are a couple of permanent displays in the library as well as occasional exhibitions, most recently about Romford Football Club.
The only painting the borough that holds a little more value, is the 1891 oil painting by Louis Burleigh Bruhl of Romford Market which can be viewed by appointment and online at Art UK https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/romford-market-place-c-1891-133063/search/collectionx:havering-local-studies-and-family-history-centre-1824/page/1/view_as/grid
Councillor Gillian Ford Cabinet Member for Adults and Wellbeing which includes Culture said “It is slightly disingenuous of the Tax Payers Alliance to portray the information they collected through the FOI in the way they did, without providing the full details behind the numbers. Although photographs have no monetary value, they provide a priceless incite to societies over time and a history or our past”.

Romford Market Place, c.1891 by Louis Burleigh Bruhl (1862–1942), 19th C, from Havering Local Studies and Family History Centre