Tag Archives: Croydon parks

Plight of Norwood’s White House attracting widespread support

Posted on May 17, 2023 by insidecroydon

A magazine architecture column that was first edited by Sir John Betjeman has added its considerable clout to the campaign to save and preserve the White House, the grand, Victorian-built mansion at the top of sloping parkland at Norwood Grove. … Continue reading →

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Perry splashes the cash on publicity and mowing grass in May

Posted on May 8, 2023 by insidecroydon

Croydon’s pro-pollution Mayor has now declared war on wildlife, as he has ignored the #NoMowMay advice of none other than Sir David Attenborough. By PERCY FLAMETHROWER, our municipal horticultural correspondent So much for the sonnet’s “Darling buds of May”. Jason … Continue reading →

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Locals concerned that Perry plans to sell listed Norwood Grove

Posted on April 14, 2023 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The cash-strapped council continues to allow Listed buildings to fall into serious disrepair while attempting to flog off public property that was bought through public subscription. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Another day, another alarming report of the … Continue reading →

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Public parks are suffering effects of decades of malign neglect

Posted on May 26, 2022 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The loss of the council’s professional gardeners, as reported earlier this week, is the latest stage in a long process that has eroded a once-proud civic service, says LEWIS WHITE Council parks departments used to have area senior … Continue reading →

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Cash-strapped council bankrupt of ideas for borough’s parks

Posted on March 19, 2022 by insidecroydon

Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, on the council’s latest blatant attempt to off-load its public responsibilities The council has what it calls its “Parks and Green Spaces Renewal Strategy 2022-2025”, which they say outlines “plans to support the borough’s cherished … Continue reading →

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Borough’s open spaces and parks are facing cruellest of cuts

Posted on January 11, 2021 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The borough’s parks and open spaces have been a lifeline for many during lockdown, but they are now under a new threat as a result of council financial cuts, as ELLA HOPKINS reports The Conservation Volunteers in … Continue reading →

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Personal trainers ignore council’s parks licensing scheme

Posted on October 22, 2020 by insidecroydon

The council’s misfiring attempts to help businesses in the borough through the coronavirus pandemic reached a nadir in the summer when the Fisher’s Folly propaganda department announced that Croydon was “waiving” personal trainer licence fees – without mentioning that they … Continue reading →

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Residents have 48 hours to save 70 parks and open spaces

Posted on October 7, 2017 by insidecroydon

The people of Croydon have 48 hours left to try to save more than 70 of the borough’s parks and open spaces from being put at serious risk of being handed over to developers to be built on. Alison Butler, … Continue reading →

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Free lunch! Free boots! Free nature courses for BAMEs

Posted on September 15, 2017 by insidecroydon

We have amazing parks and woodlands all around us. How often do we get out into them? Wild in the City is running Nature Connectors, starting next week, to explore this question and get more people into nature. It’s an … Continue reading →

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Our parks and open spaces deserve some dogged support

Posted on September 3, 2017 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Coulsdon residents have been outraged by council suggestions for possible future commercialisation of Happy Valley with “glamping” and caravans. LEWIS WHITE puts forward his point of view I’m all for meaningful use of parks for events, as long … Continue reading →

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Consultants’ parks plan to ‘manage them at less or no cost’

Posted on August 17, 2017 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The borough’s parks will soon only receive funding if they manage to make money, through running private events and clubs. PERCY (not their real name*), someone with close links to the council’s parks department, offers this insider’s point … Continue reading →

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Council kills off Percy the park keeper and abandons 120 parks

Posted on August 16, 2017 by insidecroydon

CHRIS PECKHAM, our environment correspondent, on the latest shocking admission of failure at Croydon Town Hall Croydon Council is about to shut-up the park keeper’s hut in more than 120 of the borough’s open spaces, as it seems primed to … Continue reading →

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We all need to act to help to save our under-funded parks

Posted on February 8, 2017 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Landscape architect LEWIS WHITE says that our parks, public gardens and open spaces are too precious to allow to be allowed to rot for lack of money, and says that now is a time for action Parks give … Continue reading →

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Council’s parks contractor is ‘surprised that the grass grows’

Posted on June 15, 2016 by insidecroydon

A Croydon councillor has today criticised the council’s parks contractor, saying that Quadron has been “surprised that the grass grows”. Many of the borough’s parks and open spaces have not undergone a routine grass cutting over the spring. But this … Continue reading →

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