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Groups set off for autumn walks to stride on from covid
The nights might be closing in as we head into autumn, but that doesn’t seem to have deterred the organisers of some group walks being held around the borough, with one set even encouraging participants to bring a head torch … Continue reading
Wireless exposes disconnect between Bromley and neighbours
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The impact of the Wireless Festival in Crystal Palace Park last weekend, and its effect on residents neighbouring boroughs has seen GLYNN McDONALD raise some serious questions of the park’s new trust The Wireless Festival staged in Crystal … Continue reading
Help wildlife find a home for winter in your gardens
As we enter autumn, many species of wildlife will be looking for a place to stay and hibernate as the cold months pass. Gardens across Croydon will be acting as a home and there are small things that gardeners can … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon parks, Environment, Gardening, Wildlife
Tagged Coombe Wood Gardens, Gardening
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Veolia use Brexit excuse as rubbish service goes up in smoke
Croydon Council has confirmed what residents and environmental activists have observed and warned about for years: much of the waste sorted for recycling in the borough is being sent straight to the Beddington Lane incinerator and burnt. The council, and … Continue reading
Park trust forced to issue apology after raucous rap weekend
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
Forest Bathing walks in Crystal Palace Park, Sep 17 – Oct 24
Posted in Croydon parks, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, Walks
Tagged Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace Park
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Friends hit with charges for staging party in Grangewood Park
Families, friends and neighbours from Thornton Heath, Selhurst, Upper Norwood and beyond will come together in Grangewood Park this Sunday to celebrate it becoming a public open space 120 years ago, in 1901. The 120th birthday party is being organised … Continue reading
£78,000 Lottery grant puts Crystal Palace on sculpture trail
Arts group Invisible Palace has received a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of £78,400 for their project exploring the Sculptures of Crystal Palace Park. The project is inspired by people’s responses to the remaining sculptures in the park – many … Continue reading
Verity gets council to face up to the truth on air pollution
Air pollution that is suffered by pedestrians across south London, including Croydon and Sutton, has been well above legal levels for several years. But now one environmental activist in Wallington is doing something about it, at least to draw the … Continue reading
Selhurst allotment-holders are hit by one-man crime wave
WANTED: Do you know this man? The hard-pressed gardeners and veg growers of the Selhurst and South Norwood Allotments have been seeing rather too much of this character since the start of July. They have had regular visits from this … Continue reading
The Shirley chainsaw massacre: hundreds of trees condemned
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Chop! Chop! The bankrupt council is spending £15,000 in a rush to destroy dozens of trees, many of them apparently healthy. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Cash-strapped Croydon Council is planning to fell more than 250 trees around … Continue reading
Town Hall axeman is now let loose on Shrublands’ trees
It is looking like Croydon’s Labour council’s already dubious “green” credentials have suffered another blow, in the midst of their own climate emergency, with that blow being delivered by a well-oiled and over-used chainsaw. If the council has its way, … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Shirley, Wildlife
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Sarah Jones MP, Shirley, Shrublands, Shrublands Estate
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Greenpeace are making waves over destructive supertrawlers
Greenpeace Croydon has this week helped to launch Operation Ocean Witness, which is making waves to confront destructive fishing methods and the use of supertrawlers. At campaign stalls around Croydon, locals signed a petition calling on the government to ban … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Environment, Wildlife
Tagged Croydon Greenpeace, Greenpeace, Sir David Attenborough
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Simpson feels heat from MP over SDEN ‘independent’ review
A Sutton MP has raised serious doubts whether a supposedly “independent” review into the controversial council-owned SDEN company will make any difference for the hundreds of Hackbridge residents whose homes and lives have been blighted by the expensive and unreliable … Continue reading
Posted in Elliot Colburn, London-wide issues, Nick Mattey, Outside Croydon, Richard Simpson, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Amanda Cherrington, Beddington Lane incinerator, Carshalton and Wallington, Elliot Colburn MP, Hackbridge, New Mill Quarter, Nick Mattey, NMQ, SDEN, Sutton Council, Sutton Decentralised Energy Network
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‘Wonky’ trees given a reprieve after Inside Croydon report
The “wonky” trees of a South Croydon residential street have been given a reprieve from the cash-strapped council’s chainsaw – for a while, at least, following an Inside Croydon report. Residents of Mulgrave Road, which is claimed to be “the … Continue reading
Sutton heat network director quits as fraud inquiry begins
After five years as ‘interim’ MD, Cherrington departs SDEN with less than one month’s notice, as unfortunate customers continue to endure power outages Amanda Cherrington has resigned as the managing director of Sutton’s Council’s controversial SDEN heat network, just weeks … Continue reading
Crystal Palace at risk as London squanders its Olympic legacy
Britain’s Olympic heroes and heroines had barely stepped off their homecoming flights from Tokyo than coaches and administrators were warning that the promised “sporting legacy” of greater participation and increased achievement and excellence is being squandered through neglect and lack … Continue reading
Posted in Athletics, Croydon Harriers, Crystal Palace Park, Herne Hill Harriers, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Sport, Swimming
Tagged Alex Yee, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, Crystal Palace NSC, diving, Joe Choong, John Powell, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, swimming
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Council wields the axe on wonky trees in conservation area
Residents of an historic, tree-lined South Croydon street reacted with horror this morning when they discovered that the council is intending to hack down almost all of Mulgrave Road’s plum trees. According to the council, the mature trees – some … Continue reading
