Creating a new community hub for Cranford

Many thanks to the 189 local people and stakeholders who shared their thoughts and ideas about our proposed community hub at the Meadowbank Centre, including the 96 people who took part in our survey.

Those who responded showed broad support for the hub, with most people expressing positive or neutral feelings about it.

All the feedback we gathered was shared with our Cabinet team on Tuesday, 12 November 2024 and they agreed to progress the development of the hub. A link on this page will take you to our Cabinet team’s views, a report on the survey and feedback from local people and stakeholders. The information gathered is now helping shape the services that will be offered at the new hub.

Moving forward, we will be sharing more opportunities for local people to get involved with developing the hub, on this page.

Thank you!

We're grateful to everyone who took part in our survey about the new community hub. Look out for more opportunities to help shape this project as it develops. This survey has now closed

Hounslow Council is creating a new Community Hub at the Meadowbank Adult and Community Education Centre in Cranford. To inform this work we have been asking people who live, work and study in Cranford about what they want from their new Community Hub.

What is a Community Hub?

Community hubs bring a range of resources together for residents in places that are suitable for their community. These resources could include: financial support, information on keeping healthy, skills and employment, mental health support and help for more complex issues. A community hub draws together the Council's Community Solutions team along with the local voluntary, community and social enterprise sector together to provide this service, close to where people live.

The new Cranford Community Hub will be based at:

Meadowbank Centre, Community Close (just off the Bath Road), North Cranford

The Meadowbank Centre is already home to the Adult and Community Education Service. As the main community hub for Cranford, it will also become the new home for Cranford Library - a move agreed by the Council's Cabinet in May 2024. The hub will provide a new, improved space for a full library service, as well as improving library users' access to other support on issues such as housing, finances and welfare advice, health and wellbeing services, and employment and skills development. The Meadowbank Centre is just a few minutes walk away from the current Cranford Library site. The intention is to open this full hub service in 2025.

Finding the Meadowbank Centre

In addition to Meadowbank, there is already a Community Hub up and running at Beavers Children Centre and library in South Cranford. Since June 2024 local residents have been able to get support from the Council and services including the Department of Work and Pension and local voluntary sector organisations. Residents are able to visit this Community Hub from 10.30am to 2.30pm every Wednesday.

If you live in the Redwood Estate area you may be aware that the Council has been working over the summer alongside housing association, A2Dominion, and Cranford Community College to pilot a Community Hub alongside the holiday activity programme for children. Additional support for residents has also been provided by agencies including Citizen's Advice Hounslow and Golden Opportunities Skills and Development. A Community Hub will be developed in this part of Cranford building on the programme offered over the summer.