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Category Archives: Lloyd Park
Striders show the way with three routes round our parks
Last year, Striders of Croydon, the local running club, applied successfully for a grant from Croydon Council for a scheme which, in the council’s opinion, would improve and highlight Croydon’s parks and open spaces. Included in this application was the … Continue reading
Long-delayed masterplans for borough’s parks get parked
KEN LEE, our green spaces correspondent, on an expensive waste of time After a consultation process that has taken almost two years and cost Council Tax-payers approaching £100,000 in fees to consultants to produce hundreds of pages of (virtual) glossy … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Friends of Lloyd Park, Lloyd Park, Timothy Godfrey
Tagged Ashburton Park, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Happy Valley, Labour, Lloyd Park, London Borough of Croydon, Park Hill, South Norwood, Timothy Godfrey
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Take your marks… Get set… Race For Life in Lloyd Park in 2018
Women who sign up to enter this year’s Race For Life in Lloyd Park, perhaps as they kick-start their year with a fitness drive, are this month being offered 30 per cent off their entry fee for the event, which … Continue reading
Conservation Volunteers pool resources with Lottery grant
The Conservation Volunteers are celebrating the award of a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to finance its Croydon Ponds Project. This two-year project will investigate both the history and the ecology of Croydon’s public ponds.
Harriers stage women’s free running sessions in Lloyd Park
Croydon Harriers is starting its first “Couch to Parkrun” all-female running group. Parkrun is the 5-kilometre (just a little more than 3 miles) timed fun run which is staged at 9am every Saturday; in and around Croydon, there are Parkruns … Continue reading
Posted in Athletics, Croydon Harriers, Lloyd Park, Sport
Tagged Croydon Harriers, Lloyd Park, ParkRun
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Residents have 48 hours to save 70 parks and open spaces
The people of Croydon have 48 hours left to try to save more than 70 of the borough’s parks and open spaces from being put at serious risk of being handed over to developers to be built on. Alison Butler, … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Duppas Hill Park, Environment, Friends of Addiscombe Railway Park, Friends of Ashburton Park, Friends of Croham Hurst Woods, Friends of Farthing Downs, Friends of Grange Park, Friends of Grangewood Park, Friends of Haling Grove, Friends of Heavers Meadow, Friends of Marlpit Lane Bowling Green, Friends of Millers Ponds, Friends of Selsdon Woods, Friends of South Norwood Country Park, Lloyd Park, Peter Underwood, Planning, Queens Gardens
Tagged Addiscombe Railway Park, Addiscombe West, Alison Butler, Croydon Local Plan, Croydon parks, Peter Underwood, Planning, Purley, Rotary Field, Sanderstead
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Croydon Health Walks anniversary strolls, Sep 30
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Croydon Ramblers, Health, Lloyd Park, Queens Gardens, Walks
Tagged Croydon Health Walks, New Addington, Warlingham
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Croydon Town and Country Show, Lloyd Park, May 28-29
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Tagged Lloyd Park, Town and Country Show
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Croydon Festival of Dogs, Lloyd Park, May 28-29
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Pants! Runners told to keep their trousers on in park cafe
Shock, horror, and barely disguised disgust among the demure “ladies who lunch” in Selsdon and Ballards after “outrageous” behaviour – outrageous, no less – following a cross-country race in Lloyd Park a fortnight ago. There were even mutterings of refunds … Continue reading
Posted in Lloyd Park, Restaurants, Walks
Tagged Croydon Harriers, Lloyd Park, Parklife Cafe
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Run for the hills! Lloyd Park’s the toughest in all London
Lloyd Park in Croydon has the toughest Parkrun course in the whole of London – and that’s official because the Londonist website says so. Their reporter, Geoff Marshall, has surveyed all 47 courses in Greater London’s parks and open spaces … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Athletics, Croydon Harriers, Croydon parks, Lloyd Park, Sport, Striders of Croydon
Tagged Lloyd Park, Londonist, ParkRun
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Dozens of open spaces excluded from ‘premier league’ of parks
WALTER CRONXITE reports on how the council is laying the groundwork for a privatisation-by-stealth of some of the borough’s open spaces If any more proof were required that Croydon’s worthless consultations are used to justify the council going ahead and … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Friends of Grangewood Park, Jamie Audsley, Jo Negrini, Lloyd Park, Timothy Godfrey
Tagged Ashburton Park, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Friends of Grangewood Park, Grangewood Park, Jamie Audsley, Jo Negrini, Labour, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Timothy Godfrey, Tory
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Lycra-obsessed Tories forget their support for parks and ride
Croydon is the most unsafe borough in south London for cycling, according to a senior councillor. Not that anyone was at the Town Hall meeting to register the point, as STEVEN DOWNES reports If a tree falls in a forest … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, Connected Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Cycling, Environment, Fairfield, Heathfield, Helen Pollard, Lloyd Park, Sean Fitzsimons, Stuart King, Tim Pollard, Transport, Wandle Park
Tagged Addiscombe West, Conservative, Croydon Council, Helen Pollard, Labour, Sean Fitzsimons, STUART KING, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Tory
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Croydon’s on its marks for 10km road race on Oct 9
The annual Lexus Croydon 10km – one of the most popular road races held in the area – takes place a week on Sunday, October 9, when a field of 500 runners is expected on the start line. The road … Continue reading
Posted in Athletics, Croydon Harriers, Lloyd Park, Sport
Tagged Croydon 10K, Croydon Harriers, Lloyd Park
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Striders of Croydon Switchback 5, Lloyd Park, Sep 25
The Switchback 5 on Sunday September 25 is one of the highlights of Croydon Striders’ club calendar. The course is a five-mile, single-lap, off-road route around Lloyd Park and into Addington Hills. It’s a popular warm-up to the cross-country season … Continue reading
Posted in Athletics, Lloyd Park, Sport, Striders of Croydon
Tagged Lloyd Park, Striders of Croydon
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Time has come to park the ban on cycling in Croydon’s parks
Elected on a manifesto which promised a clean, green borough, Labour’s delivery on cycling in Croydon has been, at best, sub-optimal. Disappearing cycle lanes on South End and London Road might be bad enough, but the abandonment of the car-free … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, Croydon Council, Croydon Cycling Campaign, Croydon parks, Cycling, Environment, Friends of Wandle Park, Lloyd Park, TfL, Transport, Wandle Park
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Cycling Campaign, Lloyd Park, Park Hill Park, Sustrans, TfL, Transport for London, Waddon, Wandle Park
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Charity walk is our chance to make a difference, says Day
Kevin Day, the stand-up comedian, scriptwriter and football pundit, is calling on the people of Croydon to turn up in force on Sunday to help raise as much money as possible for Mind in Croydon, the local mental health charity. … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Charity, Croydon parks, Lloyd Park, Mind in Croydon
Tagged Kevin Day, Lloyd Park, Mind in Croydon
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Comedian Kevin Day takes Positive Steps for charity, Jun 26
Kevin Day, the comedian, scriptwriter and Palace fan, will be the celebrity starter of this year’s Positive Steps event on Sunday June 26 around Lloyd Park for Mind in Croydon. A sponsored walk of anything from five kilometres – a … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Lloyd Park, Mind in Croydon
Tagged Crystal Palace, Kevin Day, Lloyd Park, Mind in Croydon
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Bank Holiday fair brings a touch of the country to Lloyd Park
The Town and Country Fair was staged in Croydon’s Lloyd Park for the first time over the Bank Holiday weekend, with dog shows, motor bike displays and craft stalls. Photographer LEE TOWNSEND put together this picture essay
Posted in Activities, Education, Environment, Lloyd Park, Wildlife
Tagged Lloyd Park, Town and Country Fair
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Help to fight cancer at Croydon’s Race for Life, July 10
There is always something very poignant about the Race for Life, in which most of the thousands of women runners, joggers, pram-pushers and walkers all have a number card pinned to the backs of their pink vests and T-shirts. This … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Athletics, Charity, Croydon Harriers, Lloyd Park, Sport
Tagged Cancer Research UK, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Race for Life
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