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Covid restrictions force RAC to cancel Veteran Car Run
The London to Brighton Veteran Car Run has been cancelled due to coronavirus. It is the first time that the rally has had to be cancelled since World War II. The rally, which features around 300 museum-piece vehicles, most of … Continue reading
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Tagged Coulsdon, London to Brighton Veteran Car Rally, Norbury, Purley, South Croydon, Thornton Heath
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Cassandra Centre Art in the Park, Rookery Gardens, Aug 21
Posted in Activities, Charity, Community associations, Norbury
Tagged Cassandra Centre, Norbury, The Rookery
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Cassandra Centre kids’ summer Zoom arts classes, Aug 11-13
Please note the amended timings
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Cassandra Centre kids’ photography competition, Aug 10-17
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Brick by Brick claim building on green space is ‘sustainable’
If there was any doubt of the contempt in which the residents of this borough are held by the six-figure salaried executives at Brick by Brick and their paymasters at Croydon Council, then one need only look at the back-slapping … Continue reading
Green spaces under threat as Scott seeks to ignore covenants
Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, on the latest Brick by Brick schemes which will concrete over green space, destroy mature trees and even tear up a legal covenant that dates back to the 19th century Thursday’s virtual planning meeting will … Continue reading
Posted in Alisa Flemming, Andrew Stranack, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Environment, Housing, Norbury Park, Paul Scott, Planning, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale, Sherwan Chowdhury
Tagged Andy Stranack, Brick by Brick, Covington Way, Croydon Council, Hawthorn Crescent, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Norbury, Norbury Park, Paul Scott, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale
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Council sneaks out details of extension to planning objections
The public has been given an extra week to lodge objections to planning applications in the borough – not that Paul Scott and Croydon Council want anyone to know about it. The council’s propaganda department sneaked out its latest press … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Paul Scott
Tagged Brick by Brick, BxB, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, Norbury, Paul Scott
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Residents call for volunteers for Norbury Hall Park clean-up
The Friends of Norbury Hall Park are appealing for volunteers to join their clean-up this Saturday, February 29. The “Squirrel Park” is very popular with its community, but with a reduced amount of maintenance, it has become tired, run-down and … Continue reading
Norbury residents start fighting fund for BxB legal challenge
Residents in Norbury have launched a fighting fund a possible challenge through the courts to a Brick by Brick housing scheme which, they maintain, will build on land over which there is a legally binding covenant which forbids development. Other … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Community associations, Croydon Council, Helen Pollard, Norbury
Tagged Brick by Brick, Covington Way, Helen Pollard, Norbury
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Love Norbury Christmas Fayre, London Road, Nov 23
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More than 400 veteran cars heading for Croydon this Sunday
The clocks went back by an hour on Sunday, but this weekend they will be going back more than 125 years as hundreds of veteran cars set off from London on their annual pilgrimage to Brighton, and all of them … Continue reading
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Tagged Coulsdon, London to Brighton Veteran Car Rally, Norbury, Old Town, Purley, South Croydon, Thornton Heath
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Fanfare for the Common man, and here’s a toast to two ‘saints’
WANDLE WANDERER: Our non-resident rambler KEN TOWL is off on his travels again, but he hasn’t had to venture very far afield to discover some overlooked treasures St Reatham is not, of course, a church named after a saint, but … Continue reading
