Small electricals and batteries to be recycled from the kerbside
SLHRA • 21 November 2019
Small electrical items and batteries can be collected from the kerbside as part of regular waste and recycling collections.
The scheme will mean that residents will be able to recycle unwanted small electrical items alongside their other recycling, food waste and textiles. The Royal Borough is the first council in Berkshire to offer this service from the kerbside.
All sorts of small electrical items including toasters, kettles, keyboards, hairdryers, electric shavers will be collected along with their leads and cables, as long as they fit inside a standard size carrier bag.
Residents should place unwanted small electrical items in any plastic bag and then leave the bag next to their bins on collection day. Household batteries (not including car batteries) will also be collected in the same way but need to left in a different bag.
All electrical items will be either reused or recycled and the various raw materials used to make new products such as the zinc in mobile phones used for galvanising railings and lamp posts and the gold found in games consoles used to make new jewellery.
Larger items, such as TVs and microwaves, will still need to be taken to the tip for recycling. A list of council recycling centres can be found here.
To provide visibility of planning applications that could affect all residents on St Leonard's Hill we publish a list on the website. Click here for the listing: We aim to update this list monthly or more frequent.
The annual maintenance has been performed on the historic gate at the entrance to St Leonard's Hill. Ian and John (SLHRA Chair and Treasurer) kindly performed the maintenance; preparing (filled and sanded), priming and painting the gate. Thank you to everyone who stopped and spoke with the Ian and John, it was great encouragement especially on those hot days! We have pictures and illustrations showing the gate as far back as 1869, see them in the Gallery click here If you have any pictures of the St Leonard's Hill then please upload here. https://slhra.org.uk/pictureupload Thank you Ian and John. Ed.
Legoland is both a neighbour and a resident of St Leonard's Hill, owning storage facilities at the farm at the top of St Leonard's Hill, where they store some of their Legoland park furniture. Some time ago, Legoland offered to sweep the hill as they had a machine that they use at the park. Unfortunately, this was delayed as the prior appliance needed to be replaced. The new appliance has arrived, you can see from the picture that it is a 21 plate! A big thank you to the Legoland team for sweeping St Leonard's Hill.
Our contractors, Falcon Surfacing Ltd, carried out the road repairs on the 6th January as voted by you the subscribers through our digital survey. All this work is only possible because of our residents’ generous contributions which, we hope they will agree, have been put to good use.
Our contractors, Falcon Surfacing Ltd, carried out the first phase of the 2020/21 road repair programme on December 15th which was aimed at remedying the worst of the potholes on the Hill. Further work will take place in January 2021 to resurface the area of the Hill adjoining the western junction of Illingworth. The drain cover at the junction of Chestnut Drive which has been depressed by an HGV will also be rebuilt. All this work is only possible because of our residents’ generous contributions which, we hope they will agree, have been put to good use.
A local resident has kindly provided the following information and message we wanted to forward to SLHRA residents relating to food delivery lists. Hi, We hope you and your families are all staying safe in these uncertain times. As it is becoming increasingly difficult to secure a supermarket delivery slot we thought it maybe useful if we pulled together a list of some local companies that are providing food delivery services or takeaways. Deliveries Milk Park View Dairy Delivery service on Tuesdays and Fridays Best to message via Facebook Messenger or email info@parkviewdairy.co.uk Eggs Fresh farm eggs with free delivery Text or call 07812 180044 www.ucsfresh.com Fresh fruit and vegetables Order online for next day deliveries, 6 days a week www.montmartre.cc Montmartre Fine Foods - online supermarket with home delivery Order online or call 01753 531200 www.floristwindsor.co.uk Flowerz Food Box - Mixed fruit and vegetable boxes for home delivery Order online for deliveries on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday www.laysfruitandvegbox.co.uk Mixed fruit and veg boxes for home delivery Order online or call/email: 07714 111277 / laysfruitandvegbox@gmail.com Claras Cocina Food Box for home delivery Food boxes include vegetables, flour, pasta/rice, dairy products, essential household items, canned or cupboard items, meat. Call: 07557 343355 or email: hola@clarascocina.com www.firstchoiceproduce.com Fruit and vegetable boxes, eggs, milk, butter, yoghurt, bread, cakes, pasta, meat, frozen products, fruit juices and oils. Order online for delivery within 1-3 days, £3.50 delivery charge www.musselman.co.uk Fresh and frozen fish, eggs and fresh meat Delivery Tuesday- Saturday Order online or email/call : info@musselman.co.uk / 07872 936610 Wildflour Bakeries Deliveries of bread, rolls, doughnuts, quiche, pies, pasties, hot cross buns. Order online at orders@wildflourbakeries.co.uk Delivers on Monday, Wednesday and Friday Priestley Bakers Deliveries of bread loaves, speciality bread, bread rolls, hot cross buns, huge variety of cakes and biscuits. Menu online at www.priestleybakers.co.uk , call to order on 01753 579900 Delivers everyday - free for orders over £10 otherwise £2.95 Collection www.thegreeneoak.co.uk The Greene Oak pub, Oakley Green, Windsor SL4 5UW Fresh vegetable, meat and fish boxes. Collection on Tuesdays and Fridays Email Paula on info@thegreeneoak.co.uk for more details and to place an order
The following contact details have been provided by Helen Price, our local councillor: Cllr Helen Price (07752 847796) : cllr.price@rbwm.gov.uk RBWM Community hub to ask for help or to volunteer (0203 5148117) : https://wamgetsrecycling.co.uk/covid-19-volunteering/ Looking after our neighbours : https://www3.rbwm.gov.uk/goodneighbour Keeping up to date (residents) : https://www3.rbwm.gov.uk/goodneighbour Keeping up to date (businesses) https://www3.rbwm.gov.uk/info/200384/news_and_information_releases/1521/covid19_resident_and_business_update_page/2 Automatic local updates : Residents https://www3.rbwm.gov.uk/info/200128/council_publications/1164/residents_newsletter Libraries : https://www3.rbwm.gov.uk/info/200197/libraries/391/library_newsletter Thames Valley Police alerts : https://www.thamesvalleyalert.co.uk/ Any scams/fraud call 101 or : Jeffrey.pick@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk Neighbourhood Watch Network : https://www.ourwatch.org.uk/join West Windsor Hub (01753 342110) : https://www.facebook.com/groups/WestWindsorHub/
Thank you to the Wooldridge team who swept and emptied the gullies on St Leonard's Hill. I'm sure you will agree that it's refreshing to have a spring clean!
If you are over 70 and live in the St Leonard's Hill community and don't have friends or help nearby then please contact us and we will reach out to our community to request assistance. Also, if you know someone who might need help who is over 70 then please also reach out to us. Click here to enter your/their contact information
A common challenge for visitors to St Leonard's Hill is the location of the houses on the hill as the properties are not numbered or listed in alphabetical order or listed on Google Maps. We have created a google mymap of the St Leonard's Hill. We will add the other parts of St Leonard's Hill for example, Dower Park. Here is the link to the map. http://bit.ly/slhramap The map is also available from the menu at the top of the website.
