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Monthly Archives: April 2019
Poetic Power comes to Shrublands, starting on May 7
Poetic Power starts on Tuesday May 7, at 6pm at the Shirley Community Centre. Well Versed will be offering poetry sessions to writers aged between 12 and 16, from Shrublands in Shirley. For more information, phone 07742935407 or email cdw@talkofftherecord.org
Posted in Activities, Poetry, Shirley North, Well Versed
Tagged Shirley, Shirley Community Centre, Shrublands
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Cut It Out 2019 football tournament, Selhurst Park, May 25
Posted in Activities, Crime, Crystal Palace FC, Football, Knife crime
Tagged Crystal Palace FC, Cut It Out 2019, Selhurst Park
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Newman: New Westfield should have a much smaller car park
Tony Newman, the leader of Croydon’s Labour-controlled council, wants the new Westfield supermall in the town centre – if it is ever built – to have “considerably less” than the 3,000 car parking spaces for which his own council has … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning, Sarah Jones MP, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged BBC Radio London, Conservative, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, Paul Scott, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Council goes to court to fight Info Commissioner ruling
A business report into Sutton’s heat network scheme is being kept secret by the LibDem-controlled council. And now they’re spending more public cash on an appeal to keep the report under wraps, as CARL SHILTON reports Ruth Dombey, the leader … Continue reading
READER OFFER: Step out on our next guided ramble, May 18
Places are now open for Inside Croydon’s latest guided walk, in and around our bit of south London, and to be held on Saturday, May 18. Ken Towl, our non-resident rambler, will again be leading the way as we explore … Continue reading
Posted in Inside Croydon, Ken Towl, Walks
Tagged Inside Croydon, Inside Croydon Guided Walk, Ken Towl
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Plan for 19 flats in Shirley pub car park returns ‘like a vampire’
The developer who wanted to build flats in the car park of what was a previously popular pub in Shirley is back, with very familiar plans. According to one of the residents involved in last year’s successful campaign to save … Continue reading
Posted in Parking, Planning, Property, Pubs, Restaurants, Shirley North
Tagged Shirley, The Sandrock
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Keep Our St Helier Hospital public meeting, Morden, Apr 24
Posted in Health, St Helier Hospital
Tagged Keep Our St Helier Hospital, KOSHH, St Helier Hospital
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Council couldn’t care less: Ombudsman upholds 7 complaints
Croydon Council had seven public complaints upheld against it by the Local Government Ombudsman in the first three months of 2019, research conducted for Inside Croydon can reveal. The rulings resulted in several apologies from the council, and hundreds of … Continue reading
Heritage building Culvers Lodge saved from bulldozers
A campaign by residents, supported by the Victorian Society and Save Britain’s Heritage, to save a 19th century building from developers’ bulldozers appears to have been successful, at least for now. Culvers Lodge in Hackbridge was built around 1875 as … Continue reading
Friends group opposes works to restore Croham Hurst after fire
Those not working this Bank Holiday Monday in the fine weather forecasted might want to take their recreation on the top of Croham Hurst, especially with the cooling tree cover on the route from the Croham valley. After the hard … Continue reading
Autographs from Laker’s legends up for sale in Mayday auction
There’s a big summer of cricket coming up, with the World Cup and Ashes series, but before it gets underway in earnest, historians of the game may be drawn to one of the lots at an antiques auction at Fairleigh … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Cricket, Selsdon & Ballards, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged Catherine Southon, Fairleigh Court
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£300,000 new book fund just a start to revive public libraries
Our bookish gyms correspondent, GENE BRODIE, on how an announcement of a 9% increase on not very much leaves a long way to go to stock the borough’s library shelves The council’s somewhat dubious practice of telling only half of … Continue reading
Posted in Carillion, Croydon Council, Libraries, Oliver Lewis
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Oliver Lewis, Tory
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Council to extend conservation area around Addington Palace
The conservation area around Addington Village is to be expanded to include Addington Palace, under proposals unveiled by Croydon Council this week. The Palace was built in the 18th Century, but has historic associations going back to a hunting lodge … Continue reading
St Helier’s new boilers take steam out of Sutton’s heat network
CARL SHILTON, our Sutton investigations editor, discovers that the council’s troubled heating network scheme has suffered a massive blow – from St Helier Hospital Council leader Ruth Dombey’s plans for a lucrative “Phase 2” of the Sutton Decentralised Energy Network … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Jayne McCoy, Planning, Ruth Dombey, St Helier Hospital, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Waste incinerator
Tagged Amanda Cherrington, Beddington Lane incinerator, Conservative, Jayne McCoy, Liberal Democrats, Ruth Dombey, SDEN, St Helier Hospital, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tory, Viridor
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Mayor finds £5m to save West Croydon and 50 ticket offices
In a rare instance where a public authority has conducted a consultation and actually listened to the responses, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has junked plans to close ticket offices 51 London Overground stations, after protests from passengers and lobbying … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged City Hall, London, London Assembly, Mayor, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Transport for London, West Croydon
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Family Fun Day fundraising event, Ruskin House, Apr 20
Ruskin House is open from noon to 5pm tomorrow, Saturday, April 20, for a Family Fun Day. The weather forecast is warm and sunny, so the garden will be a lovely place to spend the afternoon.
Charity offers free places on course to help cope with cancer
A leading cancer charity is hosting a free support course in Croydon for people with cancer and their close supporter. Penny Brohn UK’s two-day Living Well course takes place at Mayday, or Croydon University Hospital, on May 24 and 31, … Continue reading
Sunbed shop soap saga Bronzed is getting golden reviews
Stand-by for the latest YouTube sensation, starring a local actress who has co-written Bronzed, a comedy-drama set in a Croydon sunbed shop. Katherine Hurley was inspired to make Bronzed after working in South Croydon pub The Folly back in 2005. … Continue reading
Soweto Kinch gives concert to help Wadsworth campaign
Multi-award-winning musician Soweto Kinch is doing a fundraising gig on Saturday at top London music studios for a Croydon black activist expelled from the Labour Party. Anti-racism campaigner Marc Wadsworth has been doing a national speaking tour in a campaign … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Croydon North, Marc Wadsworth, Soweto Kinch, Steve Reed OBE, Thornton Heath
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Labour names Euro candidates as City Hall selection undecided
Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, reports on the glacial progress in Labour choosing its candidates for London elections which are now barely 12 months away The Labour Party thought they had sorted a major selection dilemma last night when they … Continue reading
Posted in 2019 European elections, 2021 London elections, Andrew Dismore, Fiona Twycross, Jamie Audsley, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Manju Shahul Hameed, Mayor of London, Patsy Cummings, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Jamie Audsley, Labour, London, London Assembly, Manju Shahul Hameed, Mayor, Neil Garratt, Patsy Cummings, Tony Newman, Tory
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