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Tag Archives: Purley Way
Croydon Road’s sewer works completed ahead of schedule
Emergency road works to fix a broken sewer on the A232 Croydon Road have been completed ahead of schedule, with the major road set to re-open to all traffic as soon as tomorrow, Sunday October 20. Inside Croydon reported at … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Purley Way, Sutton Council, Thames Water
Tagged Beddington Park, Croydon Road, Purley Way, Sink hole, Sutton, Thames Water, Wallington
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Sink hole forces Thames Water to close A232 for four weeks
A main road linking the Purley Way to Wallington, past Beddington Park, is closed for emergency sewer repairs expected to last for four weeks, Thames Water has announced. Croydon Road, the A232, has been closed to traffic after a sink … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Purley Way, Sutton Council, Thames Water
Tagged Beddington Park, Croydon Road, Purley Way, Sink hole, Sutton, Thames Water, Wallington
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Purley Way Currys uses app to help customers with disabilities
Customers with disabilities at Currys’ Croydon store can benefit from a new digital tool designed to make shopping easier. The electricals retailer has expanded its trial of web app “WelcoMe” to 20 additional stores, including Croydon, Brixton, Bromley, Orpington and … Continue reading
Oxygen offers breath of fresh air with summer activity clubs
Oxygen, the kids’ trampoline park at Croydon’s Colonnades, off the Purley Way, is getting into the sporty spirit with a programme of special activities for the school holidays. Oxygen Croydon features interconnected trampolines, soft play for toddlers, a dodgeball arena … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Business, Colonnades
Tagged Colonnades, Croydon, Olympics, Oxygen, Purley Way
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Croydon’s fly-tip prosecution record is 2nd worst in all England
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Fly-tipping continues to get worse under the borough’s part-time Mayor, according to official government figures, reports our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION Three months ago, the Department for Environment and Rural Affairs (we’ll refer to them as DEFRA … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Refuse collection, Simon Fox
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, DEFRA, Fly-tipping, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Purley Way, Purley Way fly-tip, Simon Fox, Stuart Collins, Tory
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Purley Way M&S staff go the distance to help YoungMinds
By Vimal Vivegananda Staff from M&S Purley Way have completed an impressive 17-mile walk from the store all the way to Westminster, raising £700 – so far – for the YoungMinds charity. Samantha King, Camilla Harris, Kelly Woodford, Reshma Khan, … Continue reading
Mayor to introduce restrictions on six more school streets
Croydon’s pro-car Mayor, Jason Perry, has been forced to run a consultation for the past month to introduce motoring restrictions on six new school streets. “It’s so important that we do what we can to make journeys to school as … Continue reading
How TfL’s changes to 10 Croydon bus routes will affect you
There’s major changes coming to 10 bus routes serving the south of Croydon, including Purley, Coulsdon, Kenley and South Croydon, as well as Sutton and Wallington, coming into effect on Saturday March 2. Here’s TfL’s blow-by-blow breakdown of their bus … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, Croydon Council, Environment, KENDRA, Kenley, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Neil Garratt, Purley, Purley Way, Schools, South Croydon, Sutton Council, TfL, Transport, Waddon
Tagged Charles King, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Surrey Transport Committee, Kenley, Kenley Residents Association, London, London Buses, Neil Garratt, Old Coulsdon, Purley, Purley Hospital, Purley Way, Route 455, South Croydon, St Helier, Sutton, Sutton Council, TfL, Transport for London, Wallington
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Goodbye Route 455… it’s been a long, long journey. Too long
EXCLUSIVE: There’s more than a touch of an old Morecambe and Wise gag about the extensive changes to 10 bus routes in Croydon and Sutton: ‘TfL has chosen all the right routes, just not the right roads’. By JEREMY CLACKSON, … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, Croydon Council, Environment, KENDRA, Kenley, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Neil Garratt, Purley, Purley Way, Schools, South Croydon, Sutton Council, TfL, Transport, Waddon
Tagged Charles King, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Surrey Transport Committee, Kenley, Kenley Residents Association, London, London Buses, Neil Garratt, Old Coulsdon, Purley, Purley Hospital, Purley Way, Route 455, South Croydon, St Helier, Sutton, Sutton Council, TfL, Transport for London, Wallington
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Purley Way M&S joins recycling move with Refilled scheme
From tomorrow, Purley Way Marks and Spencer will be joining the successful “Refilled” scheme on its own-brand cleaning and laundry products. In partnership with Reposit, the is part of M&S’s commitment to reduce and remove plastic packaging and offer customers … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Environment, Purley Way
Tagged M&S Purley Way, Marks and Spencer, Marks and Spencer Purley Way, MS, Purley Way, Recycling, Refilled
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National five-a-side tournament offers 5-star Dubai prize
Croydon’s five-a-side footballers have a chance to take part in a national competition where the prize for the overall winners is a five-night trip for seven staying at a 5-star resort in Dubai. WOW Hydrate and Powerleague, the home of … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Football, Purley Way, Sport
Tagged Croydon, Football, Jude Bellingham, Powerleague, Purley Way
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Croydon in 2023: Murder, school closures and Westfield blight
THE YEAR IN REVIEW Part 3 – September to December It’s not like there’s ever any shortage of stories to cover in Croydon. But even by this area’s usual standards, the news that Inside Croydon reported, often exclusively, in the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Art, Business, Crime, Croydon Council, History, Inside Croydon, Knife crime, Mayor Jason Perry, Whitgift Centre
Tagged 15% Council Tax hike, Brick by Brick, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Elianne Andam, Employment Tribunal, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Katherine Kerswell, knife crime, Labour, Mayor Jason Perry, murder, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Palace School, Purley Way, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Croydon 2023: the Penn Report, dog attacks and those giraffes
THE YEAR IN REVIEW Part 2 – May to August If there was one good thing to come out of Croydon Council this year, then it must have been the Penn Report. Katherine Kerswell, the council’s chief executive, had held … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Art, Borough of Culture 2023, Business, Crime, Croydon Council, Heathfield House, History, Inside Croydon, Knife crime, Mayor Jason Perry, Sarah Jones MP, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Borough of Culture, CODA, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, David Morgan, giraffes, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Ian Hislop, Ken Towl, Labour, Mayor Jason Perry, Private Eye, Purley Way, Tory, Utah, Wastefield, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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2023 in Croydon – as told through our best-read articles
THE YEAR IN REVIEW Part 1 – January to April The parlous state of the council’s finances would remain a thorny issue throughout the year, after Tory Mayor Jason Perry issued a Section 114 notice of his own in November … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Birch (Selsdon), Business, Centrale, Crime, Croydon Council, Heathfield House, History, Inside Croydon, Knife crime, Mayor Jason Perry, Sarah Jones MP, Selsdon Park Hotel, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Anglo-Saxon England, Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Wulfred, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Marks and Spencer, Mayor Jason Perry, Purley Way, Sarah Jones MP, Tory, Wastefield, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Deliveries from Amazon go carbon-neutral with e-cargo bikes
Your Christmas presents and deliveries could have been brought to you this month by the latest, cutting-edge vehicles which have zero emissions. No, not by Santa on a sleigh hauled by magic reindeer… Electric cargo bikes are now being used … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Environment
Tagged Amazon, Christmas, Croydon, Decarbonisation, Deliveries, Net zero, Purley Way
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Colonnades sold by council for £25m under purchase price
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The Government-enforced fire sale of council assets is about to see the borough lose even more money, on a commercial property that has been making millions for the borough. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Croydon’s Mayor and Tory … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Improvement Board, Jane West, Property, Purley Way, Simon Hall, Tony McArdle, Waddon
Tagged Boxpark, Colonnades, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Improvement and Assurance Panel, Improvement Panel, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Purley Way, Waddon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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100 firefighters take six hours to get waste blaze under control
More than 100 firefighters were called out and residents living close to the Purley Way advised to keep their windows closed due to smoke, as a waste fire at commercial premises on Imperial Way blazed through the night. Fifteen fire … Continue reading
Posted in London Fire Brigade, Purley Way
Tagged Imperial Way, LFB, London Fire Brigade, Purley Way, Waddon
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First-floor flat near Wandle Park is destroyed by blaze
Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters were called to a fire at a block of flats on Cabot Close, off the Purley Way, near Wandle Park, yesterday evening. Part of a first-floor flat was destroyed by fire, according to … Continue reading
Posted in London Fire Brigade, Waddon
Tagged Cabot Close, LFB, London Fire Brigade, Purley Way, Wandle Park
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Police seek witnesses to stabbing of teenager at Colonnades
The Metropolitan Police are asking for witnesses to come forward after a 15-year-old boy was stabbed in broad daylight yesterday at a bus stop outside The Colonnades, by the busy A23 Purley Way. The victim was rushed to hospital after … Continue reading
Posted in Colonnades, Crime, Knife crime, Waddon
Tagged Colonnades, knife crime, Metropolitan Police, Purley Way, youth knife crime
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Bellway’s lido plans take a nose dive as permission is refused
Housing correspondent BARRATT HOLMES on how things have not gone swimmingly for one of the country’s biggest housebuilders as its plans for 180 homes by Purley Way playing fields have gone down the plughole Croydon Council’s professional planners, after encouraging … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Housing, Joy Prince, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Property, Purley Way, Purley Way Lido, Robert Canning, Transport, Waddon
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Bellway, Bellway Homes, Croydon, Croydon Council, Joy Prince, Planning, Purley Way, Purley Way Lido, Robert Canning, The Platform, Waddon, Waddon Way, Wyevale Garden Centre
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500 shoppers queue for 3 hours for Purley Way M&S opening
Hundreds of customers were queuing around the Purley Way Retail Park block this morning, for the first day of trading of the new Marks and Spencer store. Supposed to be the guests of honour for the official ribbon-cutting ceremony opening … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Purley Way
Tagged Croydon, Croydon FM, M&S Purley Way, Marks and Spencer, MS, Percy Pig, Purley Way, Purley Way Retail Park
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£200 ‘Golden Ticket’ offer for lucky customers at new M&S
Early bird customers who flock to the new Marks and Spencer store on the Purley Way when it opens next Thursday could win themselves a Golden Ticket worth £200 of goods from the store. The 38,000 sqft new store features … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Purley Way
Tagged Marks and Spencer, MS, Purley Way, Purley Way Retail Park
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Trampoline park bounces into a new era after £1.2m refurb
A local Croydon family, the Joys, presided over the official reopening this week of Oxygen Croydon, following a £1.23million upgrade and refurbishment. Henry Joy, 18, and his sisters, Izzy, 15, and Libby, 14, cut the ribbon at Oxygen’s launch event, … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Business, Purley Way, Waddon
Tagged Colonnades, Oxygen Croydon, Oxygen Trampolining Park, Purley Way
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