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Coulsdon ‘dismayed’ at Barclays plan to close last bank in town

Posted on July 9, 2022 by insidecroydon

Coulsdon residents are “dismayed” and “disappointed”, after Barclays announced its intention to close its branch on Brighton Road, the last remaining bank in the town. With NatWest and Lloyds already long gone, it would leave business owners and residents in … Continue reading →

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Suspicions over secrecy surrounding Slominski’s return

Posted on March 24, 2022 by insidecroydon

Council directors are withholding information from a local MP on the date that a planning official started a new job. By STEVEN DOWNES The attempts to cover-up the close connections between Croydon Council’s planning department and some commercial developers who … Continue reading →

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Coulsdon RAs reject council planners’ charter for developers

Posted on February 15, 2022 by insidecroydon

Two of the borough’s biggest residents’ associations have joined forces to reject council proposals which would allow profit-hungry developers to build even more blocks of “overpriced executive shoeboxes” in their leafy suburban part of Croydon. The East Coulsdon RA and … Continue reading →

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Pankhurst points the way for a piece of Coulsdon history

Posted on November 24, 2021 by insidecroydon

Emmeline Pankhurst and Britain’s first public railway are the latest additions to the Coulsdon finial history and art trail, a community project designed and managed by local residents. The first three finials – small, stylised metal models – were positioned … Continue reading →

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Coulsdon councillors distance themselves from plotter Morgan

Posted on February 3, 2021 by insidecroydon

Our fringes of Surrey correspondent, PEARL LEE, on the latest developments in the intrigue and dispute around a residents’ association Coulsdon’s Tory councillors have finally called time on the illicit takeover of a residents’ association. Coulsdon Town councillors Ian Parker, … Continue reading →

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College artists help brighten the bridge over the Brighton line

Posted on November 24, 2019 by insidecroydon

A run-down, forbidding-looking rail bridge has been brightened up by work from some local college students, CHARLES KING writes The footbridge over the Brighton Line between Coulsdon Town railway station and Coulsdon Woods, which was replaced in 2006 when the … Continue reading →

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Morgan objects to Holocaust talk in his Coulsdon power play

Posted on June 13, 2017 by insidecroydon

A Coulsdon car lobbyist who has been expelled from membership of both the local Conservatives and from UKIP, for breaking the rules and being repeatedly disruptive, is making a takeover bid at a residents’ association. Peter Morgan has put in … Continue reading →

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East Coulsdon Residents’ annual meeting, Jun 14

Posted on June 6, 2017 by insidecroydon
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East Coulsdon Residents’ Association AGM, Jun 15

Posted on June 11, 2016 by insidecroydon
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Coulsdon residents determined to badger council on Cane Hill

Posted on March 15, 2014 by insidecroydon

Having withdrawn its proposals for Cane Hill just before Christmas in order to “review” traffic plans and reconsider providing a second exit from the mini-town of 677 homes that they want to build, developers Barratt have now come back with … Continue reading →

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LibDems promise to give Tories ‘bloody nose’ over Cane Hill

Posted on February 25, 2014 by insidecroydon

The Liberal Democrats standing in Coulsdon East in May’s local elections say that they want to give the incumbent Tories at the Town Hall a “bloody nose” because of what they call a “fiasco” over the mishandling of the planning … Continue reading →

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