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South Norwood library needs £900,000 more to be fit to open
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Mounting repair bills has seen the bankrupt council earmark five public libraries for possible closure. But they are not saying how much they might make if they sell the properties. Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, reports More … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Libraries, Old Coulsdon, Patsy Cummings, Sanderstead, Sarah Jones MP, Shirley, South Norwood
Tagged Bradmore Green, Bradmore Green Library, Brick by Brick, Broad Green, Broad Green Library, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Labour, Old Coulsdon, Oliver Lewis, Patsy Cummings, Sanderstead, Sanderstead Library, Sarah Jones MP, Shirley, Shirley Library, South Norwood, South Norwood Library
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Broad Green roads to become a Low Traffic Neighbourhood
Four streets in Broad Green, close to West Croydon Station and bus garage, are to have traffic restrictions installed at the end of this month in the latest phase of the government-funded Streetspace scheme. The council announced today that it … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Commuting, Croydon Council, Cycling, Muhammad Ali, TfL, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Broad Green, Croydon, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Low Traffic Neighbourhood, LTN, Muhammad Ali, TfL, Transport for London, West Croydon, West Croydon Bus Station, West Croydon station
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Wok fire leaves London Road restaurant badly damaged
Five fire engines and around 35 firefighters were called to a restaurant on London Road in Croydon yesterday, after oil in a wok caught fire, heating a steel extractor hood and setting light to the building’s timber frame. No one … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, London Fire Brigade, Restaurants
Tagged Broad Green, London Fire Brigade, London Road
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Five roads are to be closed under emergency covid measures
Five Croydon roads are to be closed to motor traffic from Sunday under special coronavirus emergency legislation, in efforts to make streets more pedestrian and cyclist-friendly and to open up new cycle routes for use by key workers riding bikes … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, Cycling, Stuart King, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Broad Green, Croydon Council, London Road, Mayday Hospital, Selhurst, STUART KING, West Croydon
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Councillors ‘gagged’ from questioning incinerator operators
Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, on how what is supposed to be a public meeting at Croydon Town Hall tonight has banned questions about the fire at the Beddington Lane incinerator Councillors elected to represent people living across four boroughs … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Kingston, Merton, Nick Mattey, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Veolia, Waddon, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane, Beddington Lane incinerator, Beddington North, Broad Green, Kingston, Merton, Nick Mattey, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Veolia, Viridor, Waddon
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Sutton backs scheme to route 60,000 lorries through Croydon
BELLE MONT on how the environmental vandals running Sutton Council are pushing a scheme for another industrial plant on Beddington Lane Just a matter of weeks since declaring a climate emergency, Sutton Council is tonight backing a Beddington Lane waste … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Broad Green, Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Planning, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Stuart King, Suez waste treatment plant, Sutton Council, Waddon, Waste incinerator, West Thornton
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Beddington Lane, Beddington Lane incinerator, Broad Green, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Nick Mattey, Stuart Collins, STUART KING, Suez, Sutton Council, Viridor, Waddon, West Thornton
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Scott unveils secret plan to build 12,000 flats beside Purley Way
EXCLUSIVE: Under pressure over rising housing targets, has Paul Scott found his get-out-of-jail-free card alongside the A23? KEN LEE reports Having spent the past five years excusing the overdevelopment of neighbourhoods throughout the borough by claiming that there are no … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Broad Green, Business, Colonnades, Cycling, Environment, Harris Primary Purley Way, Housing, Ikea, Joy Prince, Manju Shahul Hameed, Mayor of London, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Purley Way, Robert Canning, Stuart Collins, TfL, Transport, Waddon, Waste incinerator, Wing Yip
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Broad Green, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Joy Prince, Labour, Manju Shahul Hameed, Paul Scott, Purley Way, Robert Canning, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Waddon
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Sutton failed to consult on HGV plan, says Croydon Council
Sutton Council has been threatened with a public inquiry into their plans to redirect heavy lorry traffic into Croydon, as a senior Town Hall official has accused the neighbouring local authority of getting their figures wrong, of failing to follow … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Planning, Steve Iles, TfL, Waddon, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane, Beddington Lane incinerator, Broad Green, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London, Purley Way, Steve O'Connell, Steve Reed OBE, Sutton Council, Tory, Waddon
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Palace For Life Foundation holiday football courses, Apr – May
Posted in Broad Green, Football, New Addington, Sport
Tagged Broad Green, Crystal Palace FC, New Addington, Palace for Life Foundation
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Extra CCTV camera for Queen’s Gardens over safety concerns
Queen’s Gardens, the much-reduced open space in the town centre, soon to be made into a quasi-private park for the residents of a tower block, is to get an extra security camera to, in the words of the council, “help … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Policing, Queens Gardens
Tagged Broad Green, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Norbury, Queens Gardens, Shirley, Taberner House, Thornton Heath
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BP petrol station continues to issue £100 fines to customers
As another customer using BP’s Mitcham Road petrol station gets stung with a £100 ‘fine’, Inside Croydon suggests that drivers steer clear of BP garages Drivers of vehicles in need of fuel in the north of the borough might want … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Transport, Waddon
Tagged BP, Broad Green, Mitcham Road, Waddon
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London Road is about to be transformed into a Green Mile
West Croydon is about to get its own Green Mile, though this has nothing to do with a book by Stephen King nor the movie starring Tom Hanks. The Our Green Mile launch event on March 4 seeks to build … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Thornton Heath, West Croydon
Tagged Broad Green, Thornton Heath, West Croydon
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‘Too little, too late’ as our politicians wake up to incinerators
CROYDON COMMENTARY: With the Beddington Lane incinerator about to be fired up for trials, LEWIS WHITE, pictured left, wants to know why it has taken the powers-that-be so long to become alert to the potential threat to local air quality … Continue reading
‘Invisible’ Selva suffers knock-out blow from Muhammad Ali
Seconds out! Round four… Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on the latest twists in Labour’s selection saga Alison Butler, the deputy leader of the Labour group on Croydon Council, survived a re-selection scare when members in Bensham Manor this week duly … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Bensham Manor, Broad Green, Humayun Kabir, Jamie Audsley, Karen Jewitt, Manju Shahul Hameed, Matthew Kyeremeh, Mike Selva, Muhammad Ali, Pat Clouder, Stuart Collins, Thornton Heath
Tagged Alison Butler, Bensham Manor, Broad Green, Croydon Council, Jamie Audsley, Labour, Muhammad Ali, Thornton Heath
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Labour deputy leader Butler is under threat of de-selection
Croydon Labour’s long-delayed local election candidate selection process is beginning to look like a cross between House of Cards and Game of Thrones, as WALTER CRONXITE reports Alison Butler, the all-powerful deputy leader of the Labour group on Croydon Council, … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Addiscombe East, Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Andrew Rendle, Bensham Manor, Broad Green, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Humayun Kabir, Jamie Audsley, Jane Avis, John Wentworth, Karen Jewitt, Louisa Woodley, Maggie Mansell, Manju Shahul Hameed, Mike Selva, New Addington, Norbury, Oliver Lewis, Shafi Khan, Sherwan Chowdhury, South Norwood, Stuart Collins, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, Waddon
Tagged Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Bensham Manor, Broad Green, Cornelius Lionel, Jamie Audsley, Maggie Mansell, Mike Selva, Momementum, Norbury and Pollards Hill, Stuart Collins, Thornton Heath, Waddon
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First aid training course, London Road, Sep 9
Posted in Activities, Broad Green, Community associations, Manju Shahul Hameed
Tagged Broad Green, Manju Shahul Hameed
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Tower developers used loophole to avoid fitting sprinklers
BARRATT HOLMES reports on the half-million-pound-plus Croydon flats which are 40 storeys up but which were built without any sprinkler system The private developers who built Croydon’s tallest residential tower block used a loophole in planning laws and so avoided … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Fairfield, Housing, London-wide issues, Planning, Property, Saffron Square
Tagged Broad Green, Croydon, Croydon Central, Grenfell Tower, Saffrom Square, Wellesley Road
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Free multi-sport courses on offer for youngsters over half-term
Youngsters aged 5 to 21 in Croydon and Sutton get their chance to enjoy some great action during May half-term, when another programme of multisport and football will be on offer through the popular L&Q One Goal holiday programme of … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Athletics, Broad Green, Crystal Palace FC, Football, New Addington, Sport
Tagged Broad Green, Crystal Palace, New Addington
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