Addiscombe residents have noticed an increase in illegal and dangerous driving manoeuvres around the Lebanon Road tram stop since the council’s road changes were introduced in January
A form of road rage has broken out along the usually polite residential streets of Addiscombe, in a simmering dispute between neighbours over the council’s traffic management.
Residents along Lebanon Road and Addiscombe Court Road have been the recipients of leaflets and counter-leaflets in the past fortnight, and for once this was not, at least openly, about any election.
Council leader Tony Newman, left, and Lebanon Road resident Mark Watson
The first pamphlet appeared in the letter boxes of homes along a couple of streets around May 16, with accusations of “Nimby-ism” being fired in the direction of local Labour powerbroker Mark Watson after the road he lives on – Lebanon Road – had been made into a quieter, calmer, one-way route for traffic. Councillor Watson is a member of the Croydon Council cabinet and is known to be part of council leader Tony Newman’s clique of closest colleagues.
The Lebanon Road traffic change has made neighbours on Addiscombe Court Road disgruntled, at the very least, as they claim that their road has had an unfair increase in the volume of vehicles as a result, and that the council’s latest streets scheme has prompted more dangerous driving manoeuvres around the tram tracks as traffic emerges on to Addiscombe Road.
It is nearly one month since Labour drew-up its letter to advise White of his suspension.
The Great North Wood project, run by the London Wildlife Trust, is an initiative that aims to engage local people to help protect and enhance an invaluable landscape.
Thieves have broken into a hall in South Norwood which provides lunches for the elderly and adults with learning difficulties, and stolen around £500-worth of food and equipment, much of it paid for through donations raised by the community group’s volunteers.
Philp has threatened to demand that Southern lose its franchise for the commuter “service” which it delivers, badly, to thousands of his constituents, commuters who have to travel in to London each weekday on often late-running, over-crowded trains from Coulsdon, Purley and Croydon South.
