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Councillor recovering after 9-day covid hospital stay
Jason Perry, the leader of the Conservative opposition at Croydon Council, is recovering at home from the effects of covid-19. Perry spent more than a week in Mayday Hospital after contracting the life-threatening illness last month. While being treated in … Continue reading
Dog owners warned thieves operating in South Croydon
Dog owners in South Croydon have been warned to be vigilant while out walking their prized pooches, after tell-tale signs suggesting that thieves may be operating in the area were found by gardeners at a local church. Plastic ties fixed … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Policing, South Croydon
Tagged Dog theft, dogs, Metropolitan Police, South Croydon
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Broad Green driver has 12 penalty notices dropped by council
A traffic adjudicator has ruled that some council signs for restricted-access streets are ‘inadequate’ A motorist who accumulated more than £845 in fines for driving into a Low Traffic Neighbourhood in Broad Green has had 12 of his 13 PCNs … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Croydon Council, Parking, South Croydon, Steve Iles
Tagged Broad Green, Broad Green LTN, Croydon Council, school streets, South Croydon, Steve Iles
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Food delivery app launches to take hungry bite of £11bn trade
A home office-based business in Croydon is taking on global brands Just Eat, Deliveroo and UberEats with its own local delivery service. Paul Sweeney and Andy Szebeni have today launched Croydon Eats, a food ordering app which is looking to … Continue reading
Church story that is full of artists, reformers and educators
By the mid-19th Century, Croydon was growing at such a rate that it needed a new church, specifically for the servants of those who formed the congregation at what we know today as the Minster. DAVID MORGAN charts the history … Continue reading
Posted in Church and religions, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, South Croydon, St Andrew's Church
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Royal Mail adds Croydon to list of covid-hit sorting offices
Post sorting offices in Croydon, South Croydon and Caterham, between them serving four different CR postcodes, have been added to the Royal Mail’s list of those areas worst-hit by the impact of covid-19. Like most postal deliveries recently, the Royal … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Health
Tagged Caterham, coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Royal Mail, South Croydon
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Binmageddon!: Veolia admits to botched leaflets delivery
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. But on Christmas Eve in Croydon, in the middle of a Tier 4 coronavirus lockdown, functionaries from Veolia, the council’s rubbish … Continue reading
New Addington block of flats dropped from planning meeting
EXCLUSIVE: With barely six hours’ notice ahead of today’s planning meeting, two controversial building schemes from Brick by Brick have been withdrawn. By STEVEN DOWNES Planning applications for two controversial schemes from Brick by Brick, the council’s loss-making house-builders, were … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Chris Clark, Colm Lacey, Martyn Evans, New Addington, Planning, South Croydon
Tagged Brick by Brick, Chris Clark, Croydon, Croydon Council, New Addington, South Croydon
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Elmhurst footballers picked to play in schools’ World Cup
Two boys from a prep school in South Croydon have been picked to play for England in one of the world’s largest football tournaments. Elmhurst School’s Javahn Woode (Year 6) and Daniel Kaminski (Year 5) were selected from 250 triallists … Continue reading
Posted in Elmhurst School for Boys, Football, Schools, South Croydon, Sport
Tagged Elmhurst School for Boys, South Croydon
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30% parking fees hike will apply even to electric-powered cars
As George Orwell never wrote, all vehicles are equal, but some are more equal than others. Using environmental policies as an excuse, the council is expected to implement a parking charge hike of one-third from January. JEREMY CLACKSON, transport correspondent, … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Broad Green, Business, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Environment, New Addington, Parking, Purley, Restaurants, Shifa Mustafa, South Croydon, South Norwood, Stuart King, Transport
Tagged Addiscombe West, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Shifa Mustafa, South Croydon, South Norwood, STUART KING
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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
Posted in Activities, History
Tagged Coulsdon, London to Brighton Veteran Car Rally, Norbury, Purley, South Croydon, Thornton Heath
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Dogged trading standards sniff out under-the-counter tobacco
Trading standards officers from Croydon Council, with essential help from a four-legged friend, have confiscated thousands of cigarettes and other tobacco products from three shops suspected of selling counterfeit and illegal goods. The trading standards officers were assisted by specialist … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Crime, Croydon Council
Tagged Croydon Council, South Croydon, Thornton Heath, West Croydon
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Covid deaths should halt Brick by Brick’s densification plan
Criticised as being an over-development that ‘will give an overall appearance of cramped, overcrowded, poor-quality dwellings’, the latest council-backed scheme could even risk future coronavirus outbreaks. Housing correspondent BARRATT HOLMES reports The deaths of residents from covid-19 when living in … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Brick by Brick, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Environment, Housing, Joy Prince, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Purley, South Croydon, Waddon
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Brick by Brick, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Joy Prince, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Purley, South Croydon, Tory, Waddon
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It is time to act to save Croydon’s precious green spaces
CROYDON COMMENTARY: While getting out and about during the covid-19 crisis, PETER UNDERWOOD, pictured left, has discovered parks and open spaces that need more care, and which are coming under increasing threat of development – from the Labour council and … Continue reading
Little Bay deserves top tips with Chancellor’s Dosh for Nosh
Vegans should probably look away now, as armed with his government eating out subsidy, KEN TOWL goes in search of a T-bone steak for little more than a tenner “To get customers back into restaurants, cafés and pubs, and protect … Continue reading
Posted in Ken Towl, Little Bay, Restaurants
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Ken Towl, Little Bay, Restaurant Quarter, South Croydon, South End
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Marathon gives £150,000 grant to new sports school for netball
Three schemes in Croydon have between them received nearly £200,000 in grants from the London Marathon’s charitable trust, it was announced today. The Socco Cheta Community Hub in South Norwood (£18,500) and Wheels For Wellbeing, which operates across several sites, … Continue reading
Pavements to be widened in South Norwood and Crystal Palace
Seven more Croydon roads, in Crystal Palace, South Norwood and Thornton Heath, are to undergo pavement widening measures next week as part of the council’s Streetspace scheme that aims to make it easier to walk or cycle during the coronavirus … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Environment, Fairfield, Parking, South Norwood, Stephen Mann, Thornton Heath, Transport
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, South Croydon, South Norwood, Stephen Mann, Thornton Heath
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Council keeps bakers shops waiting six weeks for their dough
One of the borough’s best-known food retailers, Coughlans the bakers, are demanding to know what Croydon Council has done with their dough. Coughlans is the family-run chain of shops which has its head office in Thornton Heath. All its shops … Continue reading
State of the Heart: street artist raises £3,300 with ‘Rainbow Boy’
A Croydon street artist has been busy over the past week, brightening up the borough’s streets and raising thousands of pounds to pay for vital Personal Protection Equipment – PPE – for the NHS and a local hospice. As Inside … Continue reading
Posted in Art
Tagged Addiscombe, Chris Shea, coronavirus, Covid-19, South Croydon, State of the Art
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Does your street have its very own ‘Banksy’ rainbow yet?
Posted in Art
Tagged Addiscombe, Banksy, coronavirus, Covid-19, Lloyd Park, South Croydon
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South Croydon’s BlueKit ramps up emergency supplies of PPE
A South Croydon-based provider of medical supplies to the NHS and healthcare distribution companies is ramping up supplies of PPE – Personal Protective Equipment – with support from their bank after having an increased funding package approved within 45 minutes. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, South Croydon
Tagged BlueKit Medical, coronavirus, Covid-19, Lloyds Bank, South Croydon
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Spar With A Star, Duke Box Gym South Croydon, Mar 14
Posted in Boxing, Charity, Duke McKenzie, South Croydon
Tagged Duke McKenzie, South Croydon
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The mysterious case of Rectory Park’s growing block of flats
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Among the many bad planning decisions made by the council in recent years, those taken to allow a redevelopment in Rectory Park, South Croydon, ‘must surely rate as some of the most perverse’, according to STEVE WHITESIDE, who … Continue reading
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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