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Tag Archives: Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood
240 Virgo Fidelis pupils sent away due to unsafe buildings
Old and poorly maintained school buildings could hasten the closure of what was once a proud Catholic girls’ school. By our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE A landmark Victorian school building in Upper Norwood is “not currently safe for pupils and … Continue reading
Bromley in legal moves against Croydon over road closures
Croydon could be heading for a bitter, cross-boundary dispute with one of its neighbouring boroughs after the leader of Bromley’s Conservative-controlled council told residents that they have begun legal moves to get traffic-calming measures removed from residential streets in Crystal … Continue reading
Brick by Brick lied about using £600k house as site office
EXCLUSIVE: A family with a five-year-old child undergoing cancer treatment are among those whose house-owning dream has been turned into a nightmare. By BARRATT HOLMES, housing correspondent A young family have been delayed for more than a year from moving … Continue reading
MP takes on council and Mayor over Upper Norwood roads
Our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, on renewed calls for consultation over traffic calming measures introduced by TfL and the local council that Steve Reed has called ‘roadblocks’ Steve Reed OBE has entered the row over Upper Norwood’s Low Traffic Neighbourhood … Continue reading
Fears unfounded over Crystal Palace’s Low Traffic network
JOE PAXTON reports from Upper Norwood after the first week of controversial road closures which, despite predictions of doom and gloom, have not caused Armageddon Local social media earlier this week was debating which of the Four Horsemen of the … Continue reading
Let’s give Crystal Palace’s streets a chance to breathe again
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Even ward councillors need to check what petitions they are signing, and what their party policies are. AUSTEN COOPER sifts through some of the contradictory opposition to road closures in Upper Norwood Let’s get one thing straight. The … Continue reading
Triangle will be ‘decimated’ by road closures, warns councillor
The Labour group at the Town Hall, already riven with fault lines on a number of contentious issues, is facing another split, this time over road closures in Upper Norwood that have been introduced today under coronavirus emergency powers. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglea Wilkins, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Triangle, Labour, Pat Ryan, road closures, STUART KING
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Comedian Brigstocke added to Crystal Palace Festival line-up
With just two weeks to go, the Crystal Palace Festival has announced its special guest acts for the live-streamed show from Upper Norwood Library. Top-flight comedians Marcus Brigstocke and Rob Deering have been added to the roster of performers who … Continue reading
Library will be a TV studio for this year’s Crystal Palace Festival
The 2020 Crystal Palace Festival is going ahead next month – with live acts streaming directly to your home from Upper Norwood Library. The organisers announced overnight, “With support from the Arts Council, we are setting up a temporary television … Continue reading
‘A once in a generation opportunity to shape a new Croydon’
We’ve had red Labour. There’s been “Blue Labour”. Now, a handful of councillors from the north of the borough want to see a truly “Green” Labour in Croydon. Learning from many of the environmental benefits of the coronavirus lockdown, and … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Crisis Commission, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Cycling, Environment, Health, Jamie Audsley, Muhammad Ali, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Climate Crisis Commission, Croydon BME Forum, Croydon Council, Croydon Cycling Campaign, Croydon XR, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Transition Town, Green Recovery Plan, Jamie Audsley, Labour, Muhammad Ali
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Police investigate ‘heritage crime’ on park’s Victorian dinosaurs
Police are investigating damage to one of the 170-year-old, Grade I-listed dinosaur statues in Crystal Palace Park, believed to have been caused by acts of criminal vandalism, and which has been described as “shameful behaviour”. The Friends of Crystal Palace … Continue reading
Pavements to be widened in South Norwood and Crystal Palace
Seven more Croydon roads, in Crystal Palace, South Norwood and Thornton Heath, are to undergo pavement widening measures next week as part of the council’s Streetspace scheme that aims to make it easier to walk or cycle during the coronavirus … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Environment, Fairfield, Parking, South Norwood, Stephen Mann, Thornton Heath, Transport
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, South Croydon, South Norwood, Stephen Mann, Thornton Heath
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Town Team puts Crystal Palace Triangle on the (digital) map
The new Crystal Palace Town Team has launched an interactive map of the Crystal Palace Triangle and surrounding areas, allowing the community to find which businesses have marked themselves as “open” during the pandemic lockdown. The CP Town Team is … Continue reading
Posted in Angela Wilkins, Business, Community associations, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Crystal Palace Town Team, Nina Degrads, Pat Ryan, Stephen Mann
Tagged Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Town Team, Stephen Mann, Steve Reed OBE
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Bogus ‘consultation’ in Upper Norwood has priorities all wrong
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Late notice, poor connections and several interested residents unable to log-in for last night’s developers’ webinar for College Green. JUNO BAKER says Brick by Brick ‘are using this current crisis as a justification to drive through an extremely … Continue reading
Coronavirus being used as ‘smokescreen’ for estate demolition
It is not just in Croydon that residents’ groups have been alert to the inherent risks of placing the entire planning system into the hands of a few unelected council officials. The delegated planning powers, prompted by the coronavirus emergency, … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Housing, Jennifer Brathwaite, Lambeth Council, London-wide issues, Matthew Bennett, Mayor of London, Outside Croydon, Planning, Sadiq Khan, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Brick by Brick, Central Hill estate, coronavirus, Covid-19, Cressingham Gardens, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Gipsy Hill, Green Party, Labour, Lambeth council, London, Matthew Bennett, Pete Elliott, Tulse Hill
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Council’s house-builders give 24 hours’ notice of consultation
Brick by Brick may choose to ignore coronavirus dangers to its workers and the public as it rushes to complete work on over-running projects, but meanwhile they appear to be using the emergency as an excuse to avoid proper consultation, … Continue reading
Covid-19 lockdown could cost Palace £37m in lost revenues
The covid-19 lockdown of top-tier football may end up costing Crystal Palace more than £37million. That’s the latest estimate by a leading football finance analyst, on the day after the chairman of the FA, Greg Clarke warned a council meeting … Continue reading
Pay Your Staff: Disgusted locals send Spoons a message
No one would be foolish enough to suggest that Wetherspoons’ climbdown yesterday over paying their workers was prompted by it, but some people in Crystal Palace made what they think of the odious Tim Martin plain on Tuesday night as … Continue reading
Community housing trust awards pupils prizes for new logo
Back in the good old days – you may remember them when kids went to school, adults went down the pub, and you could buy an almost inexhaustible supply of bog roll in the shops – some people were making … Continue reading
Labour MP questions conflicts over Brick by Brick planning
Our overdevelopment correspondent BARRATT HOLMES on how the council’s loss-making home-builders are receiving criticism from an unlikely source Steve Reed, the Labour MP for Croydon North, has joined the growing number of voices critical of the council-owned, loss-making developer Brick … Continue reading
Brick by Brick plan sees high-rise objections in Upper Norwood
Public opposition to Brick by Brick schemes is mounting in Upper Norwood, where the council’s loss-making house-builder is looking at a gaggle of small sites in the ward, mostly involving garages at the end of the gardens of existing homes … Continue reading
Crystal Palace’s historic dinosaurs placed on ‘at risk’ register
Crystal Palace Park’s historic dinosaurs are in danger of becoming extinct… or at least, crumbling apart. And conservation agency Historic England has stepped in, adding the 30 Grade I-listed, life-size statues to its Heritage at Risk Register – which will … Continue reading
Sausage and mash comes with ‘jus’ in this Triangle of pubs
Crystal Palace Triangle is thriving with pubs, but it has only two types of pub, as KEN TOWL explains. Photographs: SIMON BENTLEY “You should write a piece on the pubs in the north of the borough,” said the senior local … Continue reading
