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Tag Archives: Crystal Palace Park Trust
Crystal Palace Park Trust CEO leaves weeks ahead of handover
Bill LoSasso, the chief exec of the Crystal Palace Park Trust for less than two years, has announced he is to step down from the role, just weeks before the handover from Bromley Council is due to be finally completed. … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Community associations, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Crystal Palace Park Trust, Environment, Friends of Crystal Palace Park, Martin Tempia
Tagged Bill LoSasso, Bromley Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace Park, Crystal Palace Park Trust, Joseph Paxton, Martin Tempia, Val Shawcross
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Crystal Palace Park Trust’s handover date set for September 15
Crystal Palace Park Trust will take on a 125-year lease for the management of the Grade II-listed park on September 15, it has been agreed with Bromley Council. Announcing the transfer date – which will be five months later than … Continue reading
Trust’s final shout for volunteers to help at Antiques Roadshow
The Crystal Palace Park Trust has made a final call for volunteer stewards for the visit of the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow next month. “We are very much looking forward to welcoming the BBC to Crystal Palace Park on June 4 … Continue reading
Craig David, Iggy Pop, Blondie: two months of rock in the park
Croydon might be calling itself the “Borough of Culture” this year, but Crystal Palace is looking like the park of festivals this summer, with a series of concerts planned which include Craig David, Blondie, Iggy Pop, Noel Gallagher and Primal … Continue reading
Dinosaur sculptures get help from Heritage Lottery Fund
Crystal Palace Park has received £304,000 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to help with the improvements and restoration of its “dinosaur island”. The Lottery grant is part of a wider £5million regeneration project being undertaken in the park by … Continue reading
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Tagged Bromley, Bromley Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace dinosaurs, Crystal Palace Park, Crystal Palace Park Trust, Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, National Lottery, National Lottery Heritage Fund
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Bromley’s handover of precious park delayed by six months
The handover of Crystal Palace Park from Bromley Council to the Crystal Palace Park Trust will not now be completed on April 1, as had been planned, but is to be “phased” over the course of the next six months. … Continue reading
BBC’s Antiques Roadshow heads for Crystal Palace in June
Fiona Bruce and the Antiques Roadshow team is returning to south London this summer, when the historic Crystal Palace Park will be one of the six locations for the filming of the 46th series of the celebrated BBC programme. First … Continue reading
Strike a light! Park like ‘abandoned circus’ as firm goes bust
Crystal Palace Park has been left looking like “an abandoned circus”, according to one park user, after a winter lights show was closed down when the company organising it went bust. Lightopia in the park has been plagued with problems … Continue reading
Park Trust gets ready for handover with Connections strategy
Bromley Council is due to hand the keys to Crystal Palace Park over to a charitable trust in April 2023, and the Crystal Palace Park Trust has released its strategy document ahead of the momentous event. The 200-acre park was … Continue reading
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Tagged Bromley Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Crystal Palace Park Trust
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‘Exclusion zones’ set up for public safety in Crystal Palace Park
Some parts of Crystal Palace Park remain in an “exclusion zone” three days after the park was subject to an emergency shutdown because concrete pillars that support the floodlights around the athletics stadium at the National Sports Centre were deemed … Continue reading
Posted in Athletics, Bromley Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, London-wide issues, Sport
Tagged Bromley, Bromley Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace athletics stadium, Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, Crystal Palace Park, Crystal Palace Park Trust, GLA, Greater London Authority
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Trust’s 12-month countdown to people’s takeover of park
Bromley Council wants to hand over control of the historic Crystal Palace Park to a people’s trust by April 2023. The park has been seen as a “problem” for Bromley ever since they were “gifted” the responsibility for it when … Continue reading
Organisers reach out as Wireless returns to Crystal Palace
A large section of Crystal Palace Park will be fenced off from the public for around three weeks this summer, as the Wireless Festival returns at the start of July. Wireless was staged in south London for the first time … Continue reading
Wireless exposes disconnect between Bromley and neighbours
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The impact of the Wireless Festival in Crystal Palace Park last weekend, and its effect on residents in neighbouring boroughs has seen GLYNN McDONALD raise some serious questions of the park’s new trust The Wireless Festival staged in … Continue reading
Park trust forced to issue apology after raucous rap weekend
The Crystal Palace Park Trust and its new chief exec, Bill LoSasso, faced their first crisis at the weekend, as controversy engulfed the Wireless Festival, a three-night rap event drawing crowds of 50,000 per day, where one star was arrested … Continue reading
Sundown Sessions offer free music and cinema in the park
The Crystal Palace Festival team has launched a series of free, mid-week Sundown Sessions at the Crystal Palace Bowl, in conjunction with the South Facing Festival. The South Facing Festival got underway at the weekend with packed audiences to see … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Bowl, Crystal Palace Park, London Mozart Players, Music, South Facing Festival
Tagged Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace Bowl, Crystal Palace Festival, Crystal Palace Park, Crystal Palace Park Trust, South Facing Festival, Sundown Sessions
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Month-long music festival aims to ‘reboot the Rusty Laptop’
A month-long festival of music, featuring acts from Dizzee Rascal to Supergrass to the English National Opera performing Tosca, and all taking place on a floating stage, has been announced today as the Crystal Palace Bowl seeks to re-establish itself … Continue reading
Park life: Shawcross has plenty of appeal in her new role
EXCLUSIVE: Val Shawcross, the former leader of Croydon Council and Deputy Mayor of London, spoke to CLARA MURRAY about her new role as chair of the Crystal Palace Park Trust and the excitement over their latest projects Crystal Palace Park … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Community associations, Croydon parks, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Crystal Palace Park Trust, Friends of Crystal Palace Park, History, Ken Livingstone, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Val Shawcross
Tagged Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace Bowl, Crystal Palace Park, Crystal Palace Park Trust, Sadiq Khan, Val Shawcross
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Shawcross steps up as Crystal Palace Park looks to the future
It has been a momentous week for the upkeep and improvement of one of the capital’s under-appreciated gems, writes MARTIN TEMPIA When a former head of planning at the London Borough of Bromley described Crystal Palace Park as the “unloved … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Crystal Palace Park Trust, Martin Tempia, Val Shawcross
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