{"id":349796,"date":"2026-01-03T10:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T10:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349796\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T10:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T10:53:08","slug":"legal-action-planned-over-hillingdon-garden-centre-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349796\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal action planned over Hillingdon garden centre status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The centre was laid and landscaped by residents from the borough to provide horticultural therapy and until July sold plants grown there to local residents. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/clyv097l753o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">closed by Hillingdon Council<\/a> in July 2025, citing running costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Sital Punja, deputy leader of Hillingdon Labour, said she was &#8220;truly saddened&#8221; that the Conservative-led council had so far &#8220;chosen to ignore&#8221; the ACV application.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the council&#8217;s deputy leader, Jonathan Bianco, told a September meeting that the FRAGC would have an answer within two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Now a cash-strapped council, begging the Labour government to bail out their financial mismanagement, will end up in court because they cannot meet statutory deadlines for processing an application for Asset of Community Value,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The centre was laid and landscaped by residents from the borough to provide horticultural therapy and until July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-349796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}