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Dis-Connected Croydon and the mystery of missing contacts
Businesses and residents on Southbridge Road in South Croydon are having to deal with the disruption and inconvenience of having their road closed off at one end, for at least three weeks. The road works are part of the multi-million-pound … Continue reading
Park Hill Park meet the police session, June 27
The South Croydon Community Association is staging a “Meeting the Police” event in Park Hill Park this Friday, June 27, at 6.30pm. “As part of the ongoing work to improve Park Hill park, we are meeting with the police to … Continue reading
Dis-Connected Croydon put on the rack over cycle installation
ANDREW DICKINSON got on his bike when he saw the latest example of ill-considered spending of public money on the streets of South Croydon Don’t get me wrong. As a cyclist, I want to see more cycle lanes and secure … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Bikes, Boris Johnson, Commuting, Connected Croydon, Croydon Cycling Campaign, Cycling, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Parking, Planning, South Croydon, South Croydon Community Association, Waddon
Tagged Andrew Dickinson, Boris Bikes, Boris Johnson, Connected Croydon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Cycling, London, South Croydon, Waddon
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Competitions offer all the fun of the fayre in South Croydon
All the best village summer fayres have competitions, and the St Peter’s Village Fayre in South Croydon on Saturday June 28 is no exception. The competitions include (open to all) … Best dressed Teddy Victoria Sponge Flower arrangement in a … Continue reading
St Gertrude’s theatre makes an attack on War drama
This month sees the premier of a play written by South Croydon writer Jim de Paula Hanika when the complete with special effects, songs from the era and original film footage from World War 2. Built around a central love … Continue reading
Croydon Arts Network – initial meeting: Sat Feb 15
Following last autumn’s Croydon Arts Debate chaired by Lord Harries, a further meeting is being held at Croydon Conference Centre on Surrey Street on Saturday, February 15 at 3pm to establish an independent body which can co-ordinate activity across the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Community associations, Dance, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Fairfield Halls, Music, Riesco Collection, South Croydon Community Association, Theatre
Tagged Arts, Croydon, Croydon North, Fairfield Halls, London Borough of Croydon, SCCA, South Croydon, South Croydon Community Association
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South Croydon community hits the heritage trail: Jan 20
The South Croydon Community Association has been hard at work developing “The Weird, the Wicked and the Wonderful: Tales from South Croydon’s forgotten heritage”, a heritage trail which will be discussed at a public meeting being held on Monday evening, … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Community associations, Croydon 8/8, Education, History, Schools, South Croydon, South Croydon Community Association, Waddon, Walks
Tagged Archbishop of Canterbury, Croham Hurst, Croydon, Croydon South, Haling Manor, South Croydon, South Croydon, Swan and Sugarloaf, Waddon
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Croydon’s rubbish policy lays waste across the borough
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Rubbish on our streets and fly tipping is a borough-wide issue that is being ignored by Croydon Council, says CHARLOTTE DAVIES, the chair of the South Croydon Community Association At any meeting of residents across the borough, fly … Continue reading
Council’s cultural vandalism leaves borough short-changed
102,440,000 That’s how much Croydon Council raised from the auction in Hong Kong this morning of 24 pieces of the borough’s priceless Riesco Collection of Chinese porcelain. Unfortunately for the likes of florid-faced Mike Fisher and his cronies Dudley Mead … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Community associations, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Fairfield Halls, Mike Fisher, Museum of Croydon, Riesco Collection, South Croydon Community Association, Tim Pollard
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Hall, Hong Kong, London, Mike Fisher, Museums Association, Tony Newman
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Costs force campaign to abandon Riesco legal case
The battle to stop what is widely believed to be the unlawful sale of some of the most valuable pieces from the Riesco Collection by Croydon Council is over. In a statement issued by local campaigners, Charlotte Davies, chair of … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Art, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Fairfield Halls, History, Museum of Croydon, Riesco Collection, South Croydon Community Association, Steve O'Connell, Tim Pollard
Tagged Arts Council, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Hong Kong, London, Riesco collection
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Please join us in the fight to save Croydon’s arts and heritage
CHARLOTTE DAVIES, pictured right, has started legal proceedings to stop Croydon Council selling the most valuable pieces of the publicly owned Riesco Collection of Chinese procelain. The case has the support of the Museums Association, the Croydon Natural History and … Continue reading
Residents demand High Court review of Riesco china sale
Having already been told that they have behaved unethically, Croydon Council and senior councillors such as Steve O’Connell, Dudley Mead and Tim Pollard now look set to have a High Court judge rule on whether they have acted unlawfully over … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Art, Community associations, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Dudley Mead, Education, Fairfield Halls, History, Inside Croydon, Museum of Croydon, Riesco Collection, South Croydon Community Association, Steve O'Connell, Tim Pollard
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Judicial Review, London Borough of Croydon, Museum of Croydon, Museums Association, Riesco collection, Steve O'Connell
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Debate the future of arts in Croydon: Oct 10
The South Croydon Community Association is to stage a local arts debate at the Croydon Unitarian Church on October 10. “Croydon is London’s largest borough with the highest number of young people,” Charlotte Davies, SCCA chair, said. “Its demographic is … Continue reading
Croham promises that arrive full of sleight of fact
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Noticed any leaflets pushed through your letterbox lately that are offering you much, much more that free delivery on pizza? There must be an election coming, writes DAVID CALLAM They say truth is the first casualty of war. … Continue reading
Waddon to stage enterprise festival on August 31
The South Croydon Community Association is staging a Waddon Enterprise Festival on Saturday, August 31. The event will be a table sale, to be staged in Layton Crescent from 10.30am to 2.30pm. SCCA wants locals to come together for the … Continue reading
Croydon’s secret tax on car parking that divides the borough
CROYDON COMMENTARY: For a town that has built itself around the demands of the motor car, parking the vehicles is an ever-growing problem, and Croydon Council has yet to find the right, or fair, way of dealing with it, CHARLOTTE … Continue reading
Digging in to plant seeds of new community feeling
The borough is to get another community garden, this time in Birdhurst Avenue off Coombe Road in South Croydon. Ahead of the celebrity official opening on Saturday, HILARY GEE outlines the neighbours’ hard work This time last year, the green … Continue reading
Follow the suffragettes’ footsteps on the Walk for Women
Croydon will be joining the Walk For Women march to Hyde Park on July 26, with a walk to central London to help mark a century of fighting for equal rights. “All who are committed to equality for women are … Continue reading
Community group stages Park Hill Park meeting: June 20
The South Croydon Community Association is staging a public meeting, open to all, to discuss Park Hill Park. The meeting will take place from 7pm on June 20 at St Peter’s Church House, Heathfield Road (behind Arundel House, just down … Continue reading
A future for the Fairfield Halls? Public meeting tonight
Interesting times for Croydon’s major arts centre, the Fairfield Halls, with the Conservatives who control the council pushing through a £27 million capital works project and announcing this week that they effectively want to “re-nationalise” the struggling centre. Tonight, the … 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
Posted in Business, Community associations, Maria Gatland, Planning, Property, Pubs, Sanderstead, South Croydon, South Croydon Community Association, Steve O'Connell, Tim Pollard, Yvette Hopley
Tagged Brighton Road, London, Maria Gatland, Morrison, Red Deer, South Croydon, Steve O'Connell, Tesco
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