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Category Archives: Coulsdon
Delve into owl pellets at Coulsdon Common, Oct 25
Posted in Coulsdon, Croydon parks, Education, Environment, Wildlife
Tagged City Commons, Coulsdon Common
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Brixton sewers force veteran car rally on a Croydon bypass
Our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, on a traditional event giving the borough a swerve The London to Brighton veteran car run, which has been chugging along the Brighton Road from London to the south coast for 90 years, is set … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Coulsdon, History, TfL, Thornton Heath, Transport
Tagged Coulsdon, Croydon, Norbury, Thornton Heath
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Keston PTA’s Happy Circus, Oasis Coulsdon, Sep 16
Posted in Activities, Coulsdon, Oasis Academy Coulsdon, Schools
Tagged Coulsdon, Keston, Keston Primary School
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Coulsdon councillor Bains gets bumped in Tory selections
WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, reports that in the latest Croydon game of musical chairs, the music hasn’t stopped yet Jeet Bains, the subterraneanly low-profile Conservative councillor for Coulsdon West, looks to be the first casualty of the enforced re-selections … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Ashburton, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Croydon Council, Donald Speakman, Dudley Mead, Fairfield, Heathfield, Helen Pollard, James Thompson, Jeet Bains, Luke Clancy, Margaret Mead, Mario Creatura, Purley, Selsdon & Ballards, Sue Winborn, Tony Newman, Vidhi Mohan
Tagged Addiscombe East, Addiscombe West, Ashburton, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Jeet Bains, Labour, Margaret Mead, Purley, Sue Winborn, Tory
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Our parks and open spaces deserve some dogged support
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Coulsdon residents have been outraged by council suggestions for possible future commercialisation of Happy Valley with “glamping” and caravans. LEWIS WHITE puts forward his point of view I’m all for meaningful use of parks for events, as long … Continue reading
Posted in Coulsdon, Croydon parks, Environment, Wildlife
Tagged Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Farthing Downs, Happy Valley
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UnHappy Valley: plans for glamping and festivals at beauty spot
The latest in a series of council consultations about the future of the borough’s parks and open spaces is suggesting that a noted local beauty spot could be handed over to another public body to look after, or that it … Continue reading
Station closures reducing time Coulsdon police spend on patrol
The police in Coulsdon are having to pack up and stop working before 8pm each night – at least in part because it takes them so long to get back to their nearest police station to finalise their paperwork. That’s … Continue reading
Follow Kenley’s yellow brick road for a high-flying ramble
WANDLE WANDERER: There’s a Bank Holiday coming up and our loyal reader KEN TOWL has found a rambling route of just over two miles which includes a star-gazing observatory, a yellow brick road, the ghostly swishing of gliders, and two … Continue reading
Posted in Coulsdon, Croydon parks, Environment, Kenley, Pubs, Walks, Wandle Wanderer, Wildlife
Tagged Coulsdon Common, Ken Towl, Kenley, Kenley aerodrome, Kenley Observatory
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Motorists’ body in High Court challenge to 20mph zones
Our transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON gets up to speed with the latest Judicial Review brought against Croydon Council from a fringe group that is supported by UKIP’s Godfrey “Bongo Bongo Land” Bloom Croydon faces the threat of a second High … Continue reading
Posted in Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Environment, Policing, Stuart King, Tony Newman, Transport
Tagged Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Peter Morgan, Tony Newman, Tory, UKIP
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Optivo fail to tell Coulsdon cottage tenants of change of plan
A housing association which failed to consult local residents and never bothered informing its own tenants that it wanted to bulldoze their historic home has now added insult to that injury by failing to advise the residents of Well Cottages … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Town, Croydon South, Planning
Tagged Cane Hill Hospital, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Well Cottages
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Optivo abandons plan to bulldoze historic Coulsdon cottages
BARRATT HOLMES reports on a sudden climb down by one of the country’s largest housing associations Under pressure from mounting public outrage and an MP’s petition, following reports on Inside Croydon, Optivo, the giant housing association, has today announced that … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Town, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Planning
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Ex-planning chair: council broke law over Coulsdon cottages
CROYDON COMMENTARY: A borough alderman and former chair of the council planning committee, ADRIAN DENNIS, pictured right, suggests that the council may have failed to follow the letter of the law in the planning notification for Well Cottages Apart from … Continue reading
MP slams Optivo over ‘outrageous’ plans to demolish cottages
BARRATT HOLMES reports on the shabby treatment of social housing tenants by one of the country’s largest housing associations An elderly couple who have lived in a Coulsdon cottage for almost 40 years only found out that they were to … Continue reading
Housing association applies to bulldoze Coulsdon cottages
Some of the last surviving buildings associated with Cane Hill Hospital, located in a conservation area in Coulsdon, are under threat of demolition – because a developer says that they “are not economically suited for the area”. In this instance, … Continue reading
Coulsdon Common Bug Hunt, Aug 13
Posted in Coulsdon, Croydon parks, Education, Environment, Wildlife
Tagged City Commons, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Common
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Conservation group seeks volunteers for Coulsdon bat project
Posted in Coulsdon, Croydon parks, Environment, Wildlife
Tagged City Commons, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Commons
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Barton and Biggles show Coulsdon their stiff upper lips
BELLA BARTOCK, our arts correspondent, has been let loose on the local AmDram scene for a second time in a week, and this time was blown away a little too literally Dick Barton? Remember him? Well, I do from the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Coulsdon, Music, Theatre, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon
Tagged Coulsdon, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon
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Council could face High Court challenge over traveller site
BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent, on the latest challenge to the Labour-run council’s Block by Block strategy At least one of the more controversial decisions taken recently by the council’s planning committee, egged on by eager Town Hall officials and … Continue reading
