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Category Archives: ECCO
East Croydon Community public meeting, Mar 3
The next meeting of the East Croydon Community Organisation is next Tuesday, March 3, from 8pm to 9.30pm at Oval Primary school, 98, Cherry Orchard Road, CR0 6BA. The agenda for the meeting is; Find out how the council can … Continue reading
Strong need for our council to be more ‘open’ and ‘fair’
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The council’s Fairness Commission appears to be struggling to recruit resident volunteers. ROD DAVIES suggests it may be because the Town Hall has a widening credibility gap Having attended a number of pan-Croydon residents or community meetings and … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Community associations, Croydon Council, ECCO, Nathan Elvery
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman
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Residents’ associations mobilise to get better say with council
The peasants are revolting. They may not just yet quite be at the point of storming Fisher’s Folly with lighted torches and armed with pitchforks, but dissatisfaction with the way Croydon Council is run and the manner in which public … Continue reading
Posted in Addington Residents' Association, Addiscombe Residents Association, Addiscombe West, Community associations, Connected Croydon, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Town, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, ECCO, Fairness Commission, Lansdowne Road RA, Lebanon Road Residents' Association, Nathan Elvery, Norbury Green Residents' Association, Norbury Village Residents' Association, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Parking, Planning, Pollards Hill Residents' Association, Refuse collection, Scots Estate Residents' Association, South Croydon Community Association, Spring Park Residents' Association, Street lighting
Tagged Addiscombe West, Coulsdon, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Nathan Elvery, UKIP
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Council talking shops must listen to poor and dispossessed
CROYDON COMMENTARY: While I can appreciate the perspective of almost all the parties involved in this debate, says ROD DAVIES, there is a far more serious question to pose ourselves over how a community talking shop is managed and funded … Continue reading
Another supermarket to open up, but on wrong side of tracks
Clearly, we all need a new Sainsbury’s supermarket in Croydon. We don’t have enough supermarkets, or the “Local” or “Express” versions, dotted around the borough’s high streets already, sucking in as much business as they possibly can, assisted by the … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Commuting, East Croydon, ECCO, Planning, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Addiscombe West, Conservative, Croydon Central, East Croydon station, Tory
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East Croydon Communities meeting, Oval Tavern, Nov 10
By Rod Davies The East Croydon Community Group has renamed itself ECCO – East Croydon Communities Organisation. We held a fantastic first meeting a month ago which had around 60 people attended from the local community, and a large number … Continue reading
“Poor Doors” show how town centre subsidises suburbs
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Having worked to establish a community organisation for East Croydon, ROD DAVIES finds it disappointing to find developers planning to introduce divisive “Apartment Apartheid” locally, and suggests further inequalities in which parts of the borough fund other areas … Continue reading
