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Tag Archives: flooding
Purley and Coulsdon might be set for new Bourne adventure
It’s been 10 years since heavy rainfall and rising groundwater levels saw flooding along the valley road between Kenley and Purley. There were power cuts. The Army was mobilised to provide flood barriers. The underpass at Purley Cross was turned … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Coulsdon, Environment, Kenley, Purley
Tagged Bourne Society, Caterham Bourne, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Bourne, flooding, Kenley, Purley
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‘Important’ council flood survey that suffers from missing links
Our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, tries to navigate an error-strewn strategy document that has taken 10 years to draft Another day, another facile survey issued by Croydon Council, this time asking residents for their views on its “strategy” for … Continue reading
Let the drains take the strain: council acts to avoid flooding
Officials ask residents to report blocked gulleys to help reduce the risks of floods this winter A £162,000 flood alleviation project carried out in an area near Riddlesdown Station has been completed by the council before the worst of the … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Kenley, Muhammad Ali, Purley, Purley Oaks and Riddlesdown
Tagged Caterham Bourne, flooding, Kenley, Muhammad Ali, Purley, Riddlesdown
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Kenley, Coulsdon, Purley and South Croydon put on flood alert
The Environment Agency has issued a flood alert for south-east London, including Coulsdon, Kenley, Purley and South Croydon. It is six years since the major flooding in Kenley and Purley, when emergency services had to work around the clock to … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Kenley, Purley, South Croydon
Tagged Coulsdon, Environment Agency, flooding, Kenley, Purley, South Croydon
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Kenley, Old Coulsdon and Purley placed on flooding alert
The Government’s Flood Information Service has issued a flood alert for large parts of Croydon, including areas of Kenley and Purley which were under water for weeks in early 2014. Issued just after 10am today, the alerts for the Caterham … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Environment, Kenley, Norbury, Purley, Selhurst, Waddon
Tagged Caterham Bourne, flooding, Kenley, Norbury Brook, Purley, Selhurst, Waddon
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Croydon among worst boroughs for axing street trees
In Croydon, where hundreds of residents were forced to evacuate their homes in February due to flooding following the wettest winter since records began, the council has managed to axe 1,703 street trees in three years – about 5 per … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Health, Jenny Jones, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London
Tagged Croydon, Environment, flooding, Global warming, Jenny Jones, Street trees, Trees
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‘Woldingham Weiner’ a stop-gap to hold back future floods
There is a reason that Spring Wood at West Wickham is so called. Playing fields at Sparrows Den, just along the road from Addington, were deliberately flooded earlier this week, creating a storage pond to protect nearby homes, and showing … Continue reading
Posted in Coulsdon, Environment, Kenley, London-wide issues, Outside Croydon, Planning, Purley, Surrey
Tagged Croydon, Croydon South, flooding, floods, South Croydon, Surrey, Whyteleafe, Woldingham, Woldingham Weiner
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Army starts work on temporary dam as flooding hits Coulsdon
The worst may be over, but works continue to mop-up after the floods, and to try to reduce the threat of more flooding in the valleys to the south of Croydon. Army engineers were in action again yesterday, constructing a … Continue reading
Posted in Coulsdon, Environment, Gardening, Kenley, Purley
Tagged Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon West, Croydon, Croydon Council, flooding, floods, Kenley, London Assembly, Purley, South Croydon, Surrey, Thames Water
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Jones critical of ‘crass stupidity’ of national flood planning
What can be done to avoid the worst impact of the floods that have blighted large areas of Kenley and Purley, and closed a major A-road in the area for the best part of a month? Jenny Jones, the 2012 … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Coulsdon, Croydon Greens, Environment, Fracking, Gardening, Jenny Jones, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London
Tagged Boris Johnson, Croydon, Environment, flooding, floods, Green Party, Jenny Jones, Kenley, London, London Assembly, Purley, Tory
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Thames Water’s dismal record and their 20% water rate hike
So, apres le deluge… Two weeks since Croydon Council declared a Major Incident around Kenley water treatment works, and a week’s drier weather has enabled the mopping-up process to get underway following the floods in the south of the borough. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Kenley, London-wide issues, Purley, Roke Primary
Tagged Croydon, Croydon South, flooding, floods, Kenley, London, Purley, South Croydon, Surrey, Thames Water
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Boris returns to Kenley to thank flood emergency workers
Like a petty potentate or a minor royal, Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, was back in Kenley yesterday, doing his Young Mr Grace bit of “You’re all doing very well”, shaking hands and patting the backs of fire fighters … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Kenley, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Purley
Tagged Boris Johnson, Croydon, Croydon South, flooding, floods, Kenley, London, London Assembly, Member of parliament, Purley, Richard Ottaway, South Croydon, Tory
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How pipes and tunnels caused our ‘River of Woe’ to flood
Inside Croydon’s loyal reader, JOHN O’BRIEN is fortunate. He lives on the high and relatively dry ground of Woldingham. From there, he has seen enough to form a view that much of the flooding in the valleys of Kenley and … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Kenley, Outside Croydon, Purley, Surrey
Tagged Croydon, Croydon South, Flood, flooding, Kenley, Purley, South Croydon, Warlingham
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Croydon calls for Army help after they run out of sandbags
Croydon Council has called in the Army to help with the week-long battle against flood water in Purley and Kenley, after the borough ran out of sandbags, having claimed to have distributed 10,000 to properties in high-risk areas. In common … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Hayley Lewis, Kenley, Purley
Tagged army, Croydon, Croydon South, flooding, floods, Hayley Lewis, Kenley, London Borough of Croydon, Purley, South Croydon
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Councillors received no updates during a week of flooding
Elected councillors in Croydon and the borough’s senior staff were not sent any updates on the flooding situation for six days at the height of the crisis. Croydon councillors and officers received a situation report just after 6pm last night, … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Kenley, Purley
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, flooding, floods, Kenley, London Borough of Croydon, Purley, South Croydon
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Dale Road flood victims evacuated to stay at council HQ
Finally, Croydon Council has found a suitable purpose for Fisher’s Folly: it is being used as emergency accommodation for people displaced from their homes in Purley by the floods. And according to one local resident on Dale Road, this afternoon … Continue reading
After Purley Pond, emergency services now create Lake Roke
The Purley Pond was not enough. Despite emergency services having pumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of floodwater up from flood-threatened areas of Kenley and into the pedestrian underpass at Purley Cross since the weekend, even more “overflow capacity” has … Continue reading
Boris visits Kenley-on-Thames as Greens call for flood action
Boris Johnson, the former MP for Henley on Thames, was in his former constituency’s new, near namesake, Kenley-on-Thames, this morning, the London Mayor becoming the latest high-profile politician to visit the scene of flooding in the south of Croydon. Just … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Boris Johnson, Croydon Greens, Environment, Jenny Jones, Kenley, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Purley, Roke Primary, Steve O'Connell
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, flooding, floods, Kenley, London, London Assembly, Member of parliament, Purley, South Croydon, Steve O'Connell, Tory
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Kenley-on-Thames in pictures: how the floods hit Purley
Thanks to our loyal reader, in particular JULIE RAVAZAY VILLAR, for sending through this selection of images of the Caterham Bourne’s flooding along the Godstone Road and neighbouring areas over the weekend
Posted in Environment, Kenley, Purley
Tagged Croydon, flooding, floods, Godstone Road, Kenley, Purley, South Croydon
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Going Underground: Purley underpass used as flood overflow
Has Croydon Council hired Noah as a consultant? Nathan Elvery, the chief executive (the sometime entrepreneur seems to have discreetly dropped the “interim” part of his title from official correspondence) seems to be expecting floods of Biblical proportions, since he … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Kenley, Nathan Elvery, Purley, Roke Primary, Schools, South Croydon
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, flooding, floods, Kenley, London Borough of Croydon, Purley, Purley Cross, South Croydon, South Croydon
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Academy head’s warped priorities: A Roke by any other name?
There has been a civil emergency going on in the Kenley area of Croydon for the past week. Residents of homes in one road have faced the prospect of being flooded out. The A22 Godstone Road has been impassable because … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Roke Primary
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Education, flooding, floods, Harris Federation, Kenley, Purley, Roke Primary, schools, South Croydon, Steve O'Connell
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Flooded areas in Purley and Kenley braced for severe weather
A dry day of clear blue skies on Friday has offered little real relief from the flood-threatened areas to the south of the borough, with severe weather warnings threatening more rain and high winds over the next three days. The … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Kenley, Pubs, Purley, Roke Primary
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, flooding, floods, Kenley, Purley, Roke Primary, South Croydon
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Kenley and Purley flooding declared ‘a major incident’
The flooding in the south of Croydon has been declared “a major incident” by the council this afternoon. According to official emails, “We are now in an official multi-agency gold command situation and the borough emergency control centre (BECC) has … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Kenley, Purley, Roke Primary
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, flooding, floods, Kenley, London Borough of Croydon, Purley, Roke Primary
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Council activates emergency Gold Command over flooding
More rain, and more rain forecast, has seen Croydon’s interim chief executive, Nathan Elvery, activate local emergency procedures with the “Council Gold Command” late yesterday, in response to the continued risk of serious flooding in the south of the borough. … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon South, Environment, Kenley, Nathan Elvery, Purley, Roke Primary
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, flooding, floods, Gold Command, Kenley, Nathan Elvery, Purley, South Croydon, Whyteleafe
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