Tag Archives: South Croydon
Coulsdon residents call for more school places and new library
A Coulsdon residents’ group has called on the council to ensure that a new primary school is provided to cope with the anticipated increase in roll numbers as a result of developing nearly 700 family homes on the site of … Continue reading
Inside Croydon’s Hero of the Week: Eliza Rebeiro
In truth, Eliza Rebeiro could be Inside Croydon’s hero of every week. Since her mid-teens, this 20-year-old from South Croydon has exhibited considerable leadership, imagination and courage, establishing the inspirational Lives Not Knives campaign. Later this month, all to try … Continue reading
Earl of Eldon stages music festival: May 26
For a second year, South Croydon’s Earl of Eldon pub is staging a music festival, on Sunday May 26. Promising 12 bands in 12 hours, the South Croydon Music Festival will run from noon in the pub grounds on the … Continue reading
Portas starts to opens doors – for £1bn “Hammersfield”
LAST NIGHT’S TELLY: DAVID CALLAM, the former local newspaper business editor, reviews the opening episode of Mary Queen of the High Street, the Channel 4 series that spawned £2.7 million-worth of public grants, and poses an important question about her … Continue reading
May Day holiday gives Crown and Sceptre a festival feeling
As outlined with previous reports about the Good Companions, the Swan and Sugarloaf and the Red Deer, the pub business is under pressure. So if we want to keep our local, we need to help to support it, and this … Continue reading
Red Deer locals look north for help to rebuff Morrisons
Another landmark Croydon pub is under threat of takeover from a supermarket chain. And our local councillors’ response – where they have bothered to respond – is effectively to shrug their shoulders and say there’s nothing that they can, or … Continue reading
Council deputy leader has “serious concerns” over Lidl plans
Lidl’s latest scheme to build a steel shed on the site of the old Good Companions at Hamsey Green has been referred to Croydon Council’s planning committee by a senior Croydon councillor who says he has “serious concerns” over the … Continue reading
Council accused of broken promise to disabled children
A father from South Croydon has accused Croydon Council of acting unlawfully and immorally over the decision in 2011 to stop providing transport to disabled children attending the Purley Oaks literacy centre. The centre is run by Croydon Council and … Continue reading
Forza Forzoni! Croydon man’s marathon challenge
If ever there was an occasion when those running in Sunday’s London Marathon deserved our support to help to carry them all the way, safely, around the 26-mile 385-yard course, then it must be this year. With added security measures, … Continue reading
‘Calming our streets’: community meeting, Apr 10
South Croydon Community Association is organising a meeting next Wednesday, April 10, for the community to discuss “calming our streets”. The meeting will take place from 7pm at St George’s Church, Barrow Road, Waddon CR0 4EZ. “We are trying to … Continue reading
More plaudits for work of Lives Not Knives founder
Congratulations are due to South Croydon’s Eliza Rebeiro, who this week has had her work with the Lives Not Knives campaign recognised as an outstanding winner in national volunteering awards. Rebeiro was named as the winner by Vinspired, the national … Continue reading
RPO to perform world premiere at Whitgift School
Whitgift School is to stage a musical world premiere next week, with former pupil Tarik O’Regan‘s Fragments from a Heart of Darkness being performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. O’Regan wrote the piece for the South Croydon independent school’s chamber … Continue reading
Historical assets ought to be foundation for Croydon’s future
CROYDON COMMENTARY: A charitable foundation with assets of more than £200 million could be doing more to make the most of the borough’s historical heritage, says DAVID CALLAM The Whitgift Foundation is seeking commercial sponsors for a festival in June. … Continue reading
PR agents sign up Tesco as cut-price festival sponsors
Tesco, the unwitting purveyors of horse meat with a long-time reputation for doing things on the cheap, and now the proud owners of an “express” store in a South Croydon landmark pub despite local opposition have “generously” agreed to sponsor … Continue reading
Sign of the times tells of councils, morons and traffic wardens
Our loyal reader has been in touch again, this time after thumbing through the pages of a trade magazine. Oh yes. Things are rarely more exciting. But after pointing out the story (see below), our loyal reader makes a very … Continue reading
