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Category Archives: Purley BID
Purley firm unveils £500,000 house for youngsters leaving care
Property company Andrews this week unveiled a £500,000 home purchased in Purley as part of an innovative social housing project, called Establish, to help youngsters from Croydon adjust to independent life after living in care. The Andrews estate agency business, … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Children's Services, Property, Purley, Purley BID
Tagged Andrews estate agents, Purley
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Brokenshire faces court battle over ‘Purley Skyscraper’ ruling
A London-based property developer has launched a legal challenge against the decision announced by a Conservative Government minister to block plans to build 220 flats plus community facilities at Purley Cross. The scheme, which includes a 17-story tower block dubbed … Continue reading
Snap up this chance to picture Purley in all its glory
Purley’s Business Improvement District team is holding a Take Notice of Purley photography competition, with categories for all ages, open to “everyone who is passionate about Purley and would like to share the best of the town we live in … Continue reading
Bingo! Join Purley BID as it celebrates its first birthday, Feb 23
Purley BID is celebrating its first birthday next Thursday with a Networking Bingo event. “Have a drink some nibbles as well as meeting some new contact with our networking bingo,” they say. The event is at the Pear Tree, 908-912 … Continue reading
Nasty Party goes to war over church’s Purley tower block
A nasty war of words has broken out in Purley over the local baptist church’s development of a 17-storey tower overlooking the ugly gyratory road system. So unpleasant is the behaviour that Purley has revealed itself as no longer the … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Chris Wright, Church and religions, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Donald Speakman, Environment, Luke Clancy, Parking, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Purley, Purley BID, Richard Chatterjee, Sue Winborn, Transport
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Chris Wright, Conservative, Croydon Council, Donald Speakman, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Purley, Purley Baptist Church, Tory
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Purple Purley in the pink after doubling charity fund-raising
Local shops, businesses, organisations and schools managed to raise more than £5,000 for a cancer charity in less than seven days of Paint Purley Purple. Wayne Trakas-Lawlor, the Mayor of Croydon, visited the South East Cancer Help Centre yesterday to … Continue reading
Live Well in Purley event, with Purley BID, Oct 29
Posted in Community associations, Health, Purley, Purley BID
Tagged Purley, Purley BID
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Tory MP threatened Tesco with shoppers’ strike over BID bid
Croydon South’s new Conservative MP has admitted that he threatened the local branch of the country’s biggest retailers with a shoppers’ strike if they did not support a business scheme he was backing. Tory Chris Philp told Tesco in Purley … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Chris Philp MP, Croydon South, Parking, Purley, Purley BID
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon South, Purley, Purley BID, Tesco, Tory
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Purley business district scheme gets green light from council
Purley’s hopes of having a Business Improvement District – BID – and get a six-figure sum towards the upkeep of the town centre’s high street took an important step forward this week when Croydon Council agreed to back the proposal. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Kenley, Purley, Purley BID, Steve O'Connell, Toni Letts
Tagged BID, Chris Philp MP, Croydon South, Purley BID, Steve O'Connell, Toni Letts
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