Tag Archives: Upper Norwood

Crystal Palace cinema campaigners given £5m price tag

Posted on August 15, 2017 by

An eight-year battle to re-open a landmark building in Crystal Palace as a cinema has come a step closer to success, but only if campaigners are able to match the owners’ massive hike in the property’s valuation. The building, on … Continue reading →

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Security costs force free festival organisers to appeal for help

Posted on August 6, 2017 by

Additional security measures following the terror attacks in Manchester and at London Bridge earlier this year saw the Crystal Palace Overground Festival overspend its budgets by £8,000. Now the organisers are appealing for public help to pay off its staging … Continue reading →

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Cummings selection video highlights fault-lines in local Labour

Posted on August 5, 2017 by

WALTER CRONXITE reports on the latest public arm-wrestle among the Blairites and Corbyn supporters in the party in Croydon Labour’s selection of a candidate to stand for the council vacancy in South Norwood in a by-election to be staged in … Continue reading →

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Opening night for Crystal Palace pub postponed by a week

Posted on July 30, 2017 by

The opening of the latest Antic pub, the Walker Briggs on Westow Hill at Crystal Palace, has been postponed by a week. The management issued a notice yesterday stating, “Unfortunately we’ll be unable to open on the advertised date of … Continue reading →

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Reed files objections to plans for 530-room Crystal Palace hotel

Posted on July 14, 2017 by

Steve Reed OBE, the MP for Lambeth South/Croydon North, has moved to block plans to build a mega-hotel on Church Road. The Labour MP has aired concerns that the proposals for the Queen’s Hotel on Church Road are already causing … Continue reading →

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Upper Norwood Library re-opens with funding unannounced

Posted on July 13, 2017 by

GENE BRODIE, our libraries correspondent, reports on the delayed re-opening of the Uppper Norwood Library, as doubts remain on the 116-year-old community asset’s funding arrangements from Lambeth and Croydon councils Upper Norwood Library – or the “Hub on the Hill” … Continue reading →

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£700,000 Lottery grant to save the Great North Wood

Posted on July 6, 2017 by

The Great North Wood is south London’s secret ancient nature reserve and conservation group the London Wildlife Trust has just been awarded a £700,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to help restore and preserve what remains of the woodland. … Continue reading →

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