Tag Archives: Godstone Road

A22 Godstone Road closure lifted one week ahead of schedule

The water board’s road works on the A22 Godstone Road at Purley Cross have finished – a week ahead of schedule. SES Water closed off the A22 at the junction close to Purley Tesco’s last month for what they described … Continue reading

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SES Water offers 20-mile diversion for Godstone Road closure

A road closure in Purley while the local water board installs new pipes could be sending some motorists on a diversion of around 20 miles, for journeys that would usually be less than a mile. SES Water will be closing … Continue reading

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SES Water works will close main A22 for six weeks from July

Japanese-owned utility company SES Water is to close the A22 Godstone Road near Purley Cross, one of the major routes into and out of Croydon, for at least six weeks this summer to conduct works on a water main. The … Continue reading

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Water board decides to pull the plug on A22 road closures

SES Water has cancelled its plans for major works on the water mains that will have closed a quarter-mile stretch of the A22 Godstone Road at Purley for three months. Announcing the abandonment of the works, SES Water today said … Continue reading

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TfL issues revised bus diversions for Godstone Road closure

The closure of the A22 Godstone Road, originally planned to begin yesterday and to last approximately three months, as first highlighted by Inside Croydon, has now been postponed by a week. The works, being carried out around the clock while … Continue reading

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Godstone Road water works bring tears to the eyes of traders

Residents and businesses in Purley don’t know whether to laugh or cry as, after stoically enduring nine weeks of covid-19 lockdown, they are now bracing themselves for a two-month closure of a major arterial road. Locals have found out almost … Continue reading

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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

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