Category Archives: Purley

Objections? What objections? Opposition? What opposition?

Posted on May 30, 2020 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Has the council granted planning permission to a slew of sub-standard developments because the local Tories have allowed them to do so? STEVE WHITESIDE on the questions that Croydon Conservatives refuse to answer Have you ever wondered how … Continue reading →

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Water board decides to pull the plug on A22 road closures

Posted on May 23, 2020 by

SES Water has cancelled its plans for major works on the water mains that will have closed a quarter-mile stretch of the A22 Godstone Road at Purley for three months. Announcing the abandonment of the works, SES Water today said … Continue reading →

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BxB’s daylight robbery and the magic vanishing trees of Kenley

Posted on May 20, 2020 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Brick by Brick spends thousands on specialist reports to support its planning applications – if only the claims made in one set of documents they submit did not contradict the solemn statements made elsewhere. GEOFF JAMES has done … Continue reading →

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TfL issues revised bus diversions for Godstone Road closure

Posted on May 19, 2020 by

The closure of the A22 Godstone Road, originally planned to begin yesterday and to last approximately three months, as first highlighted by Inside Croydon, has now been postponed by a week. The works, being carried out around the clock while … Continue reading →

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Is Wontford Road Green the worst BxB housing scheme yet?

Posted on May 14, 2020 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Even with their very large, in-house team of  architects, council-owned builders Brick by Brick are still creating planning applications that completely fail to comply with the council’s own Local Plan, says GEOFF JAMES Brick by Brick’s planning application … Continue reading →

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Godstone Road water works bring tears to the eyes of traders

Posted on May 14, 2020 by

Residents and businesses in Purley don’t know whether to laugh or cry as, after stoically enduring nine weeks of covid-19 lockdown, they are now bracing themselves for a two-month closure of a major arterial road. Locals have found out almost … Continue reading →

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Soaring costs of unviable schemes should sound alarm bells

Posted on May 11, 2020 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Brick by Brick have been patting themselves on the back, but their high-staffing levels, low-experience levels and expensive schemes ought to be deeply concerning, according to SEBASTIAN TILLINGER Alarm bells should be ringing all over Croydon Council about … Continue reading →

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Council in cover-up over planning’s husband and wife act

Posted on April 29, 2020 by

Croydon’s planners have clearly never heard the old saying, ‘when in a hole, stop digging’, as suspicion mounts over the absence of documents to support dubious statements given to a committee, as KEN LEE reports Croydon Council has been accused … Continue reading →

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‘Our voice is being totally ignored’ say worried Purley residents

Posted on April 24, 2020 by

Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, reports on how the council, despite declaring a climate emergency, is now planning to destroy open spaces and rare wildlife habitats The council’s voracious appetite for concreting over the borough’s precious green spaces has seen … Continue reading →

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Purley cancer help centre shifts services online for pandemic

Posted on April 15, 2020 by

The country might be on lockdown, but the volunteers and specialists at the South East Cancer Help Centre in Purley are continuing to provide a wide range of counselling and activities – but they are doing it all online. With … Continue reading →

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