Category Archives: Croydon parks

Friends of Trumble Gardens Action Day, Brigstock Rd, Oct 1

Posted on September 24, 2022 by insidecroydon
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Apple Day at the Addiscombe Railway Park orchard, Oct 1

Posted on September 23, 2022 by insidecroydon
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Arrival of wheatears and whinchats mark the end of the summer

Posted on September 15, 2022 by insidecroydon

The weather has turned. And the City Commons Rangers have begun to notice the difference in the wild birds arriving on Farthing Downs, and noted in their latest newsletter. September signifies a change in birdlife with many species on the … Continue reading →

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River from Tory Philp’s constituency runs brown with sewage

Posted on August 26, 2022 by insidecroydon

Within a day of Thames Water imposing a hosepipe ban on London and the south-east, the company was caught pumping raw sewage into the River Wandle, and a Croydon MP wrote to the company accusing it of turning a parkland … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Central, Croydon parks, Croydon South, Environment, Health, Sarah Jones MP, South Norwood, Sutton Council, Wildlife | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Police issue apology to residents for Lloyd Park festival

Posted on August 15, 2022 by insidecroydon

Local police issued an apology on Saturday night to residents living around Lloyd Park after the first day of the weekend-long Garage Nation music festival staged in the public park. The event organisers claimed to have sold out all its … Continue reading →

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Shirley and Mitcham grass fires add to litany of call-outs

Posted on August 15, 2022 by insidecroydon

Despite a full-on media campaign last week to try to persuade the public to take special care in the capital’s tinder-dry parks and open spaces in the exceptionally hot weather, the London Fire Brigade were called out to “a large … Continue reading →

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Towering prices leave L&Q with 1,500-plus unsold homes

Posted on August 15, 2022 by insidecroydon

Brick by Brick was ahead of the trend for building unsellable, over-priced shared ownership homes. By BARRATT HOLMES, housing correspondent Croydon’s Brick by Brick is not the only housing business that appears to be struggling to off-load its stock of … Continue reading →

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Vanguards are taking a new turn to keep going the distance

Posted on August 14, 2022 by insidecroydon

JOHN JEFKINS reports on the 10th staging of one of the country’s toughest trail marathons, and how a famed route from East Croydon down to the Sussex coast has just taken a different direction The Vanguard Way is a popular … Continue reading →

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Council rejects private school’s planning scheme for Heathfield

Posted on August 13, 2022 by insidecroydon

A planning application from a private education business to make extensive alterations to Heathfield House, a listed building owned by Croydon Council, has been refused. As Inside Croydon reported in June, Cressey College has been renting the building from the … Continue reading →

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Lloyd Park locals confront council vacuum over two-day ‘rave’

Posted on August 11, 2022 by insidecroydon

For the second time this summer, Croydon Council has caused anger among the people they are meant to serve, with wide-ranging complaints from residents living in and around Lloyd Park they have had little or no information about a major … Continue reading →

Posted in Activities, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Friends of Lloyd Park, Health, Jade Appleton, Lloyd Park, Music, Park Hill and Whitgift, Policing, South Croydon, South Croydon Community Association | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 20 Comments

Hosepipe ban ‘in weeks’ as second heat health warning issued

Posted on August 9, 2022 by insidecroydon

Five more days of 30-degrees-plus temperatures, and with no sign of rain any time soon has seen Thames Water follow other companies in issuing drought notifications The summer-long drought and another heatwave with temperatures over 30 degrees for several days … Continue reading →

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Shirley’s Wilderness garden banks on help from volunteers

Posted on August 4, 2022 by insidecroydon

A Croydon care home that is surrounded by a notable and historic garden has been enjoying the benefits of some special care and attention from a big corporate team-bonding exercise. Staff from Standard Chartered Bank picked The Wilderness, a seven-acre … Continue reading →

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An evening stroll to track down one of our rarest butterflies

Posted on August 1, 2022 by insidecroydon

For our third group visit to local nature reserve Roundshaw Downs, we follow how the changing seasons and long hot summer are affecting the environment and wildlife in our midst. This is your chance to catch-up with Inside Croydon’s unique … Continue reading →

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Government ‘magic money tree’ has £85,000 for Croydon parks

Posted on August 1, 2022 by insidecroydon

Who said there’s no such thing as a “magic money tree”? Croydon is to receive £85,000 from a government fund towards improving its parks with tree planting, after the borough was determined to be among those which “rate highly on … Continue reading →

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Jane Austen’s favourite given a night out on the Wandle

Posted on July 29, 2022 by insidecroydon

DRAMA IN THE PARKS: It’s been a busy week for our veteran arts correspondent, BELLA BARTOCK, as she’s been out and about with the return of local AmDrams’ summer productions, starting with CODA’s Pride and Prejudice Anticipating that getting her … Continue reading →

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Part-time Perry and Labour in playground squabble over park

Posted on July 27, 2022 by insidecroydon

After a decade of Town Hall squabbles, the legacy of Newman and Butler’s years in charge of the council is a playground for the children of tower block half-millionaires. WALTER CRONXITE on another late, costly and incomplete town centre project … Continue reading →

Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Business, Chris Clark, Croydon Council, Environment, Housing, Lynne Hale, Mayor Jason Perry, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Queens Gardens, Taberner House, Tony Newman, URV | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Magnificent seven: City Commons celebrate Green Flag awards

Posted on July 26, 2022 by insidecroydon

Coulsdon Common, Kenley Common, Farthing Downs and Riddlesdown are among seven open space areas in and around Croydon that are managed by the City of London Corporation and which have won Green Flag status again this year. The City Commons … Continue reading →

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After decades of clean-ups, we’re still polluting precious rivers

Posted on July 22, 2022 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: After a week-long heatwave and record temperatures, LEWIS WHITE makes a case for us to cherish local rivers, such as the Wandle, bringing the water companies back into public ownership, and for an end to the concreting over … Continue reading →

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12 fire engines on call to blazes in tinder-dry Croydon hills

Posted on July 19, 2022 by insidecroydon

THE HOTTEST DAY: Fire Brigade gets wildfires at Addington Hills and Chapel View under control as London declares a major incident More than 100 firefighters were this afternoon battling to stop two potentially devastating grass fires spreading in the Addington … Continue reading →

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The day I saved 7 street trees – with the help of Inside Croydon

Posted on July 19, 2022 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Stirred into action by our report about street trees being in desperate need of some care and attention during the heatwave, loyal reader LEWIS WHITE, right, set off armed with his watering can and a handful of copies … Continue reading →

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1850s Byron Manor house under threat in council fire sale

Posted on July 18, 2022 by insidecroydon

More than 140 acres of a parkland golf course, woodlands and adjoining hotel could be at risk from profit-hungry developers, according to the local residents’ association, as PEARL LEE reports A Victorian-era manor house, built for the Byron family, could … Continue reading →

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This is £12m Fairfield ‘plaza’ that Mayor Perry wants to create

Posted on July 14, 2022 by insidecroydon

Existing designs for a public open space between the town’s major arts centre and Croydon College have been derided as ‘jokey’, ‘crass’ and ‘one gigantic hardscape of pink and grey candy stripe concrete’. By STEVEN DOWNES Mayor Jason Perry’s announcement … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, Heather Cheesbrough, Housing, Jo Negrini, Mayor Jason Perry, Place Review Panel, Planning, Queens Gardens | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 12 Comments

Conservation groups lead call to stop polluting London’s rivers

Posted on July 12, 2022 by insidecroydon

All stakeholders in London need to improve their actions on tackling pollution that ends up in the capital’s rivers and work together to promote climate-resilient river “rewilding” projects. That’s according to an alliance of conservation groups and local authorities, including … Continue reading →

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Mayor bids for £20m funding with old and failed projects

Posted on July 11, 2022 by insidecroydon

Our Town Hall correspondent, KEN LEE, on an optimistic wish list for a handful of cosmetic schemes around the town centre Part-time Mayor Jason Perry’s pitch for £20million of “levelling up” money from the Tory government is “just a re-hash … Continue reading →

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Long dry summer has transformed the downs to straw-yellow

Posted on July 11, 2022 by insidecroydon

NATURE NOTES/JULY 2022: We seem to be racing through summer at speed, with Roundshaw Downs feeling the heat. By STEVEN DOWNES We’d been walking for almost two hours. Dave Warburton, the Sutton biodiversity officer, had been enthusiastically regaling us with … Continue reading →

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