Category Archives: Crystal Palace Park Trust

Strike a light! Park like ‘abandoned circus’ as firm goes bust

Posted on January 18, 2023 by insidecroydon

Crystal Palace Park has been left looking like “an abandoned circus”, according to one park user, after a winter lights show was closed down when the company organising it went bust. Lightopia in the park has been plagued with problems … Continue reading →

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Park Trust gets ready for handover with Connections strategy

Posted on December 19, 2022 by insidecroydon

Bromley Council is due to hand the keys to Crystal Palace Park over to a charitable trust in April 2023, and the Crystal Palace Park Trust has released its strategy document ahead of the momentous event. The 200-acre park was … Continue reading →

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Trust’s 12-month countdown to people’s takeover of park

Posted on April 5, 2022 by insidecroydon

Bromley Council wants to hand over control of the historic Crystal Palace Park to a people’s trust by April 2023. The park has been seen as a “problem” for Bromley ever since they were “gifted” the responsibility for it when … Continue reading →

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Organisers reach out as Wireless returns to Crystal Palace

Posted on April 4, 2022 by insidecroydon

A large section of Crystal Palace Park will be fenced off from the public for around three weeks this summer, as the Wireless Festival returns at the start of July. Wireless was staged in south London for the first time … Continue reading →

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Wireless exposes disconnect between Bromley and neighbours

Posted on September 19, 2021 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The impact of the Wireless Festival in Crystal Palace Park last weekend, and its effect on residents in neighbouring boroughs has seen GLYNN McDONALD raise some serious questions of the park’s new trust The Wireless Festival staged in … Continue reading →

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Park trust forced to issue apology after raucous rap weekend

Posted on September 14, 2021 by insidecroydon

The Crystal Palace Park Trust and its new chief exec, Bill LoSasso, faced their first crisis at the weekend, as controversy engulfed the Wireless Festival, a three-night rap event drawing crowds of 50,000 per day, where one star was arrested … Continue reading →

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Month-long music festival aims to ‘reboot the Rusty Laptop’

Posted on March 11, 2021 by insidecroydon

A month-long festival of music, featuring acts from Dizzee Rascal to Supergrass to the English National Opera performing Tosca, and all taking place on a floating stage, has been announced today as the Crystal Palace Bowl seeks to re-establish itself … Continue reading →

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Park life: Shawcross has plenty of appeal in her new role

Posted on February 16, 2021 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: Val Shawcross, the former leader of Croydon Council and Deputy Mayor of London, spoke to CLARA MURRAY about her new role as chair of the Crystal Palace Park Trust and the excitement over their latest projects Crystal Palace Park … Continue reading →

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Shawcross steps up as Crystal Palace Park looks to the future

Posted on January 25, 2021 by insidecroydon

It has been a momentous week for the upkeep and improvement of one of the capital’s under-appreciated gems, writes MARTIN TEMPIA When a former head of planning at the London Borough of Bromley described Crystal Palace Park as the “unloved … Continue reading →

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