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Category Archives: Environment
Saved for the nation, Selsdon Wood conserved by its Friends
THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR: This year’s annual residents’ fair was where KEN TOWL found out more about the need for volunteers Jim Dunning is the first of the Friends of Selsdon Wood that I meet at one of their … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Community associations, Croydon parks, Environment, Friends of Selsdon Woods, History, Ken Towl, Selsdon and Addington Village, Selsdon Residents' Association, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale, South Croydon, Walks
Tagged Friends of Selsdon Wood, Ken Towl, Selsdon, Selsdon Park Hotel, Selsdon Wood, Walks
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Shaping Croydon’s light-touch exhibit offers clues to the future
An exhibition, “Shaping Croydon – Architecture and Ambition”, has opened this week at the Museum of Croydon, just in time for this weekend’s celebration of the capital’s architecture with the Open House festival. The exhibition is attractively bright and light-touch. … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Activities, Art, Croydon Council, Environment, History, Museum of Croydon, Planning, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged 1956 Croydon Corporation Act, Brutalism, Croydon, Croydon Flyover, London, Mini Manhattan, Museum of Croydon, Shaping Croydon - Architecture and Ambition, TfL, Transport for London
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Climate documentary lays out full horror of our catastrophe
The Everyman cinema in Crystal Palace last night screened People’s Emergency Briefing, a shocking new documentary that emphasises the reality and urgency of the climate crisis, at which a group called the Penge Climate Collective added their voices to a … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Crisis Commission, Community associations, Croydon Friends of the Earth, Croydon parks, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Environment
Tagged Chris Packham, Climate Crisis, Climate emergency, Crystal Palace, Everyman Cinema, floods, Food emergency, Friends of Love Lane, Glacier collapse, Himalayas, Jennifer Saunders, Nepal, Penge Climate Collective, People's Emergency Briefing, Tibet
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MP Philp’s Green Belt petition slammed as ‘scaremongering’
‘Croydon’s Green Belt under threat!’ was the deliberately alarmist headline on a mass email from the Croydon South MP last week. Some have described it as ‘reckless scaremongering’. Others have called it ‘outright lies’. BARRATT HOLMES, housing correspondent, puts down … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Addington Hills, Addiscombe West, Business, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Croydon South, East Croydon, Environment, Housing, Lloyd Park, London Councils, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, New Addington North, New Addington South, Park Hill and Whitgift, Park Hill Recreation Ground, Planning, Sadiq Khan, Selsdon and Addington Village, South Croydon, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Addington Hills, Addiscombe, Andrew Pelling, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon, East Croydon tram stop, Green Belt, Housing, Labour, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, London Mayor, Lord Sadiq Khan, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor Sadiq Khan, New Addington, South Croydon, The Local Plan, The London Plan, Tory
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20th anniversary Apple Day, Addiscombe Railway Park, Sep 12
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20th anniversary Apple Day, Addiscombe Railway Park, Sep 12
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Friends of Grangewood Park Picnic in the Park, Sun Sep 20
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Pampisford Road Allotments annual Open Day, Sun Sep 6
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Perry’s ‘comedy’ video claims are leaving the joke on Croydon
The borough’s Conservative Mayor, rendered impotent by the presence of government Commissioners, has spent much of the summer conducting some personal political campaigning, all paid for by tax-payers, that is often deliberately misleading, that sometimes gaslights residents and, very often, … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Andrew Fisher, BH Group, Business, Commissioners, Council Tax, Crime, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Fly tipping, Live Facial Recognition cameras, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Planning, Policing, Refuse collection, Sadiq Khan, Selsdon Park Hotel, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Labour, Live Facial Recognition, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, Metropolitan Police, Shop lifter tagging, Tory, URW, Westfield
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Woodland wonderland that’s hidden behind Selsdon’s suburbia
THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR: For his latest visit to a group of hard-working conservationists and volunteers, KEN TOWL retraces his steps from one of his LOOP walks to discover ‘Selsdon’s secret wood’ You know that look you get when … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Community associations, Croydon parks, Environment, Friends of Littleheath Woods, History, Ken Towl, Selsdon and Addington Village, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale, South Croydon, Walks
Tagged Friends of Littleheath Woods, Ken Towl, Littleheath Woods, London Outer Orbital Path, LOOP, Monks Hill, Selsdon, Vanguard Way, Walks
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Pampisford Road Allotments annual Open Day, Sun Sep 6
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Study shows that ULEZ helps improve children’s lung health
Latest scientific report on the adverse effects of vehicle emissions on the health of young children is timely in Croydon, writes our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION ULEZ – the Ultra-Low Emissions Zone – improves the health of children. That’s according … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Environment, Health, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Transport, ULEZ, ULEZ expansion
Tagged Anti-ULEZ, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon say no to ULEZ expansion, London, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of Londpn, Oxford University, Professor Chris Griffiths, Queen Mary University London, Sadiq Khan, Tory, ULEZ, ULEZ expansion
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Free: People’s Emergency Briefing, South Norwood, Sep 13
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Thanks to the magic of Merlin there’s more to see in the woods
THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR: This week, seeking pudding-like rock, a Bronze Age barrow and one of the highest viewpoints in Croydon without taking a lift in a tower block, KEN TOWL has been to Croham Hurst, where he may … Continue reading
£2,000 reward offered to find New Addington’s cruel fox killer
A wildlife charity is offering a £2,000 reward after the “hearbreaking” and “disturbing” discovery of a fox who had been shot with “multiple pellets” from an air rifle, leaving her paralysed in fear and agony. The vixen was found suffering … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Crime, Environment, New Addington North, New Addington South, Wildlife
Tagged Air rifle, Fox, New Addington, Pellets, The Fox Project, Urban fox
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Mini Beast Hunt with Roger Hawkins, Selsdon Wood, Aug 12
C O M M U N I T Y A D V E R T I S E M E N T For more information about this and other events, visit the Friends of Selsdon Wood website by clicking here
Gardening bargains, MHA The Wilderness, Shirley, Mon-Fri
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Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Care Homes, Gardening, Shirley North, Shirley South, Wildlife
Tagged Croydon, Gardening, MHA, MHA Hall Grange, MHA The Wilderness
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Hedgehog conservation talk at Grangewood Park, Aug 14
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Going with a bang! Government consults on quieter fireworks
PETER UNDERWOOD reports on the latest exercise to control the impact of a £500m retail business that keeps our firefighters and paramedics busy throughout the year There are numerous rules, regulations, even laws, to prohibit the sale of dangerous weapons, … Continue reading
Mini Beast Hunt with Roger Hawkins, Selsdon Wood, Aug 12
C O M M U N I T Y A D V E R T I S E M E N T For more information about this and other events, visit the Friends of Selsdon Wood website by clicking here
Public outcry helps save Triangle trees from death by tarmac
Our environment correspondent PAUL LUSHION reports on the latest piece of sheer stupidity from Jason Perry’s council, carried out in the middle of a drought during the climate crisis, and while damaging a cherished conservation area As the latest example … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Environment, Mark Adderley, Natalie Vesty, Tom Bowell
Tagged Cllr Alasdair Stewart, Cllr Mark Adderley, Cllr Natalie Vestey, Cllr Tom Bowell, Conservative, Conway, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Triangle, Geen Party, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Tarmaced trees
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After a month with no rain, London on new Amber health alert
Croydon Council echoes 1970s advice to ‘bath with a friend’ to save water, as drought in the capital enters its third month An Amber health alert has come into force today, with temperatures expected to head above 30C again. This … Continue reading
Friends of Grangewood Park Picnic in the Park, Sun Sep 20
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Council’s ‘no barbecues’ plea after wildfires hit New Addington
Croydon Council has issued a “no barbecues” appeal for the borough’s parks and open spaces ahead of the weekend, after two more wildfires in the borough were among the hundreds of call-outs for the London Fire Brigade on its busiest … Continue reading
Cabinet post puts Fahnbulleh’s climate credentials on the line
PETER UNDERWOOD on a less-heralded Croydon connection to the new Prime Minister’s Cabinet There is a lot of talk in the press about “Manchesterism”, new Prime Minister Andy Burnham bringing the ideas he developed while Mayor of Manchester to his … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Crisis Commission, Croydon Council, Environment, Peter Underwood
Tagged Andy Burnham, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Climate Crisis Commission, Croydon Council, IPPR, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Manchesterism, Mayor Jason Perry, Miatta Fahnbulleh, NEF, New Economics Foundation, Peter Underwood, Prime Minister Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Tory
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