Category Archives: Park Hill Recreation Ground

Volunteers wanted for Park Hill community garden on Sundays

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Community gardening, Park Hill Park, Fridays and Sundays

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Only one of Croydon’s 120 parks achieves Green Flag status

This, in case you didn’t already know, is Love Parks Week. In Croydon under Conservative Mayor Jason Perry, it seems, we don’t love our parks very much. Croydon has more than 120 parks and open spaces within its boundaries, ranging … Continue reading

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Arson, vandalism, neglect: our parks abandoned to their fate

The ill-informed and tiresome calls from the borough’s third-rate politicians of “cut the grass” ignores modern and ecologically sound approaches to the maintenance of our parks and public open spaces. “No mow May” is a thing, and has been shown … Continue reading

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Community gardening dates, Park Hill Recreation Ground

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Stroller Group walks, every Tues, Park Hill Recreation Ground

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Special school offers its stones to plug gaps in park’s walls

Croydon Council officials have given Cressey College a free pass over the “disappearing” rocks from ornamental walls around Park Hill Recreation Ground, assuring residents and friends’ groups that the stones used by the private special school’s builders over the Easter … Continue reading

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Cressey College looks to be on the rocks over park and Ofsted

Residents’ anger over the disappearance of large pieces of masonry in Park Hill Park over Easter weekend has forced the owners of a struggling special school business to issue a series of conflicting statements. By our Town Hall reporter, KEN … Continue reading

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Faiths Together Jubilee Summer Picnic, Park Hill Rec, Jun 3

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