Category Archives: South Croydon

Spar With A Star, Duke Box Gym South Croydon, Mar 14

Posted on March 9, 2020 by
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The mysterious case of Rectory Park’s growing block of flats

Posted on March 7, 2020 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Among the many bad planning decisions made by the council in recent years, those taken to allow a redevelopment in Rectory Park, South Croydon, ‘must surely rate as some of the most perverse’, according to STEVE WHITESIDE, who … Continue reading →

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Scaled-down town centre development could take 10 years

Posted on March 3, 2020 by

MT WALLETTE, our unbuilt shopping malls correspondent, reports on the deep hole that Croydon has got itself into over the aborted Westfield development Croydon Council has allowed itself to be mugged by a couple of multi-national developers, and has handed … Continue reading →

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Kenley, Coulsdon, Purley and South Croydon put on flood alert

Posted on February 26, 2020 by

The Environment Agency has issued a flood alert for south-east London, including Coulsdon, Kenley, Purley and South Croydon. It is six years since the major flooding in Kenley and Purley, when emergency services had to work around the clock to … Continue reading →

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Builders go with the (over)flow in rush to finish £30m school

Posted on February 24, 2020 by

Residents in South Croydon have had their road closed off and streams of muddy water flowing down their street, as the construction of Coombe Wood School has created another flood of complaints. GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, reports “I suppose … Continue reading →

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Beetle Drive fund-raiser, St Paul’s South Croydon, Feb 29

Posted on February 1, 2020 by
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Gardeners at St Peter’s, South Croydon, 2020 meeting dates

Posted on November 29, 2019 by
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