Tag Archives: Hartley and District Residents’ Association

Purley Pool revised plan to be revealed next month, Mayor says

A new planning application for the controversial development of the site of Purley Pool is to be submitted in January. That’s according to an email to some residents’ associations from Mayor Jason Perry, who appears to be taking more than … Continue reading

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GLA rejects Polaska Purley Pool plan as ‘wholly unacceptable’

London’s deputy mayor Jules Pipe has stepped in over a project with 220 retirement flats worth an estimated £70m and not a single affordable new home. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES City Hall has rejected proposals from shady developers Polaska to … Continue reading

Posted in Business, Community associations, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, HADRA, Housing, Jules Pipe, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Parking, Planning, Polaska, Polaska Assets Ltd, Property, Purley, Purley Oaks and Riddlesdown, Purley Pool, Selsdon Residents' Association | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 20 Comments

Deadline looms for Polaska’s ‘Purley Pool’ planning application

BARRATT HOLMES, our correspondent covering shadowy-developers-based-in-off-shore-tax-havens, on the dearth of information around the massive retirement homes scheme proposed for Purley Mystery surrounds the status of the planning application to build a vast block of more than 200 retirement homes on … Continue reading

Posted in Business, Chris Philp MP, Community associations, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, HADRA, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Parking, Planning, Polaska, Polaska Assets Ltd, Property, Purley, Purley Oaks and Riddlesdown, Purley Pool, Selsdon Residents' Association | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Panicked Purley Pool developer in appeal for public support

BARRATT HOLMES, our correspondent covering shadowy wealthy-developers-based-in-off-shore-tax-havens, reports on the panic that has broken out among the company behind the massive retirement homes scheme proposed for Purley Polaska, the shadowy development firm which is ultimately owned by an even more … Continue reading

Posted in Business, Chris Philp MP, Community associations, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, HADRA, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Parking, Planning, Polaska, Polaska Assets Ltd, Property, Purley, Purley Oaks and Riddlesdown, Purley Pool, Samir Dwesar, Selsdon Residents' Association, Simon Brew | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 17 Comments

Residents’ groups reject Purley ‘pool’ plan backed by Perry

Our shadowy multi-millionaire developers based in off-shore tax havens correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, on an outbreak of common sense, and serious reservations, over proposals for a massive retirement home complex  Seven of the borough’s largest and most influential residents’ associations have … Continue reading

Posted in Business, Chris Philp MP, Community associations, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, HADRA, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Parking, Place Review Panel, Planning, Polaska, Polaska Assets Ltd, Property, Purley, Purley Oaks and Riddlesdown, Purley Pool, Selsdon Residents' Association | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 15 Comments

Hartley and District RA annual meeting, Coulsdon, May 8

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Residents’ associations join calls to save rail ticket offices

The consultation over the future of the nation’s railway station ticket offices closes on September 1, so there is still time to try to influence the government over its plans to offer only machines for the purchase of tickets. As … Continue reading

Posted in Community associations, Commuting, East Croydon, HADRA, Norwood Junction, Purley, TfL, Transport, West Croydon | Tagged , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

1850s Byron Manor house under threat in council fire sale

More than 140 acres of a parkland golf course, woodlands and adjoining hotel could be at risk from profit-hungry developers, according to the local residents’ association, as PEARL LEE reports A Victorian-era manor house, built for the Byron family, could … Continue reading

Posted in Bespoke Hotels, Business, Community associations, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Golf, HADRA, Margaret Bird, Mayor Jason Perry, Old Coulsdon, Planning, Sport | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 11 Comments

Planning Inspector rejects developer’s appeal on Hartley flats

After nearly a decade of profit-hungry developers being allowed to build too-small flats in too-large blocks in Croydon’s leafy suburbs, a government official has finally pointed out that this does nothing to help the housing crisis. By BARRATT HOLMES Residents … Continue reading

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Coulsdon RAs reject council planners’ charter for developers

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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Feeble planners allow builders to get away with (tree) murder

The council’s “light-touch” planning enforcement officials appear set to allow another piece of egregious eco-vandalism occur, this time with the wanton destruction of a mature yew tree likely to be more than 100 years old. The tree, on the junction … Continue reading

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All change at Hartley as residents’ group zooms into the future

The borough’s residents’ associations, many which have been established on the hard work of campaigning neighbours and dedicated newsletter deliverers, are having to learn and adapt to the “new normal” – with HADRA perhaps the first to announce that its … Continue reading

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Residents’ group appeals for help in handling planning process

With the council’s planning department doing nothing to deter greedy developers from buying up suburban family houses and develping them, one-by-one into blocks of flats across the borough, some groups of residents are looking at finding ways to fight back … Continue reading

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Residents hold ‘productive’ talks over Purley Tower scheme

“A very productive discussion” has been had in talks between residents’ associations and developers over the re-submission of plans for a multi-million-pound scheme by the local baptist church at Purley Cross. But while widespread agreement appears to have been reached … Continue reading

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