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LATEST NEWS Click here for our latest newsletter December 2013 We can now recycle waxed cartons With immediate effect we can recycle waxed cartons in the green recycling boxes or communal bins (for blocks of flats). These are the sort of cartons that may contain drinks like fruit juices or ready-made soup. Draft Conservation Area Appraisal
and Management Plan Proposed Neighbourhood Forum / Management Plan Apparently distressed Woman Cherry Orchard Road Further down Cherry Orchard Road Menta has combined
with another developer, Woodrow. They have submitted a planning application
to develop the land almost up to Cross Road with 290 one, two and three-bedroomed
flats housed in four buildings of 13, 19, 15 and 9 storeys. October 2013 CROYDON LOCAL PLAN Croydon Council is 'consulting' residents on the second phase of the Croydon Local Plan. This is largely to do with development policies and will have an impact on how central Croydon, our area and all other areas in the borough develop. If you would like to comment on the proposals, the deadline is Friday 6 December. Click here to go to the relevant page on Croydon Council's website. September 2013 FISH AND CHIP SUPPER FOR CANCER RESEARCH UK Please see our Events page for our Fish & Chip Supper with Quiz on Saturday 16 November to raise funds for Cancer Research UK. Everyone is welcome whether or not your are a Canning or Clyde Road Resident. CLYDE HALL - CALL TO PAINT BRUSHES! Clyde Hall is one of the landmarks in
our two roads. Surrey Opera members, who saved Clyde Hall from being sold
off to a developer, have been working very hard on it. The early work
was essential stuff – roof, guttering and electrics - which was not
particularly visible from the road. Surrey Opera members have removed
the false ceiling inside to reveal the wonderful timbers of the original
roof. They have also been replacing the windows at the front and the hall
is already looking more loved. All this has involved hours and hours of
very hard work from members. EAST INDIA ESTATE CONSERVATION AREA The Council has produced a Draft Conservation Area Assessment and Management Plan. They are consulting residents on this. Deadline for comments is 14 October. The Management Plan will determine what we can and cannot do with our homes and gardens so it's worth taking a look. For more information please see page 2 of our September newsletter. Comments by our residents on the Draft We have submitted the following comments to the Council. Generally our residents are not that interested in the Conservation Area. Those who commented on the draft were largely supportive of its general aims. One of the respondents felt that there is too much insistence on detail. This is a view shared by other residents. For example not being able to pave over front gardens when parking permits and charges are so high. Insistence by a former conservation officer that two garages had to be replaced by ones with expensive pitched roofs has resulted in the old dilapidated garages remaining rather than being replaced. There is one reoccurring comment from residents including those who did not make comment on the DRAFT Appraisal and Management Plan. People disagree with the insistence on using wood to replace original wooden windows. With pressure to go double-glazed, UPVC is a much cheaper and more realistic option. There are plenty of good examples of UPVC sash windows that are indistinguishable from wooden ones except to people who have the time and mindset to scrutinise at close quarters. An insistence on keeping just the original sash style (rather than wood) is far more likely to be respected; insistence on wood is not. Basically if the Council wants residents to take
note of the Management Plan, it has to be something which they can respect.
If they do not - it will be ignored.
The Neighbourhood Forum / Neighbourhood
Planning idea was introduced by the Government in the Localism Act that
came into effect in April 2012. Its stated aim is to give people an opportunity
to influence what happens in their area especially as regards planning
/ development.
July 2013 ALERT - CONWOMAN This is to alert you to the fact that there is a woman currently trying to operate a scam in our area. Last week she tried it with one of our residents. Having already been alerted to the scam through our Quick Contact Group, he and his wife refused to give her money. (If you would like to receive emails through our Quick Contact Group about essential news or forthcoming local events in between newsletters, please email Anne.) Here's the scam the woman attempts as described by our local police. Late at night and sometimes in the very early hours a young female is knocking on addresses in a panicked state. She claims to be a neighbour, and that her partner/cousin etc has been stabbed, and that she needs to get to hospital urgently but has no money to get a taxi. She also claims that she has a number of children and they need to go with her in the taxi. When offered a lift she says that she just needs about £20 for a taxi to get to hospital. Because people are being neighbourly the generally give her £20 and she says she will pay them back, but this is the last they see of her. THIS IS ALL A SCAM. The same female was doing the same thing around shburton/Addiscombe, a year ago, but has done this about 6 times we know of in the last couple of weeks. No doubt there are many more which are unreported. If any of your neighbours have been taken in by this female, can you get them to e-mail me on john.nunn@met.police.uk In the meantime if you could let residents know about this scam, and advise them that if she calls to call 999. If there are any genuine females in need out there, they will be helped by police who attend The female is described as mixed race, aged in her late 20s/early 30s. It is believed that she may well live in the Ashburton/Addiscombe area. Update - October 2013 - the lady has been jailed for 36 weeks. June 2013 OUR BBQ This year's theme was funny hats and sunglasses. Many thanks to the 50 or so Canning and Clyde Road residents who came along despite a slightly chilly day. Thanks to Pete for hosting and his excellent hospitality. For one or to pics, see our Photo Gallery. FUN DAY CHASE Residents Association along with a number of other community groups organised an excellent Fun Day on Saturday 8 June. Great fun and loads of local residents came along. Thanks to them for organising this. For more information see CHASE Residents Association website. April 2013 ADDISCOMBE IN ACTION Around 50 people from the East Croydon / Addiscombe area attended the Doing Things Ourselves event. People contributed ideas about what actions they would like to take to make our area an even better one in which to live. The emphasis was on action (not just talking). One of those ideas was to set up a Google email group so residents can connect directly with each other. The idea is to give people the tools to make it easy for them to organise events. We have looked into this and decided that for technical reasons a Google email group would not be the most practical way. So - we are developing another solution. Local resident, Richard, is building a website that will give us discussion pages. It will also have an email facility designed to avoid spam and maintain confidentiality of email addresses where people so choose. We hope to email the link out to all who attended the Doing Things Ourselves event for their comments around the end of June. Once we have received comments, the site will be finalised and publicised widely in our East Croydon / Addiscombe area. March 2013 Quick Contact Group It is not possible to produce a newsletter at short notice each time the Council carries out one of its 'consultation' exercises. Similarly we cannot produce a newsletter whenever there is one of the increasing number of excellent one-off events organised by local residents. For those who would like to know what is happening, we have established a Quick Contact Group. If you would like to be part of our Quick Contact Group please email us. Please let us know if you would like to be part of the email group or, if you are a resident of Canning or Clyde Roads, we can put a paper copy through your door, if you prefer. For more information please see our latest newsletter. Addiscombe in Action - Doing Things Ourselves Saturday 20 April, 2.15 for 2.30 pm start. Ends 4.30 pm St Mary Magdalene Hall, Canning Road (right hand entrance) Come along to help decide what local people are going to do to make East Croydon / Addiscombe even better. For more information, see our Events Page
February 2013 Click here to see the latest Addiscombe in Action event on Sunday 10 February December 2012 From 1 January 2013 - Compulsory Recycling Croydon Council is making it compulsory for many people in our two roads to recycle everything that can be recycled. The compulsory recycling will apply to people living in complete houses, houses converted into up to five flats and purpose built blocks of up to five flats. The Council says its primary aim is to educate people to recycle rather than punish them. The procedure is that the Council will give warnings to households that do not recycle then monitor the situation for nine weeks. If a household continues not to recycle, a Fixed Penalty Notice (i.e. fine) of £80 will be issued. There will be a level of discretion to ensure vulnerable, very elderly and disabled residents are not unfairly affected. In August we consulted with residents over this and residents raised some issues. Here is how the Tony Brooks, Director of Public Safety and Public Realm, has responded. What happens in conversions and blocks where some households recycle but others do not? 'We appreciate that waste and recycling arrangements are not always straightforward in converted properties and the team will be managed to ensure that where residents have legitimate barriers and problems these are looked into and a collaborative approach used in delivering solutions. Measures such as these will ensure that residents aren't unfairly penalised or held responsible for the actions of their neighbours.' 'We will be encouraging them (residents) to label their bins which will enable the team to easily identify which properties are recycling and which are not.' (TB) What happens when people walking up our road chuck their rubbish in our bins? 'We also appreciate that in some instances members of the public will deposit waste in household bins as they walk down the road, although we don't think this should affect the implementation of the policy.' (TB) What happens when people make genuine mistakes about what they can put in a recycling bin? 'We understand that residents do get confused about what to put in each box and this policy does not intend to penalise mistakes of this nature.' (TB) For more information on recycling or if you need more recycling boxes see the Council's website at www.croydon.gov.uk/environment/rrandw/ or phone 020 8726 6000. September 2012 Conservation area Croydon Council is consulting residents on DRAFT General Guidance for Conservation areas. This will affect what we can and cannot do with our homes. Please see page 2 of our latest newsletter (click here) for more information. Residents have until 28 September to make comments.
August 2012 Coming up ..... Sell or Swap Saturday 15 September. Click here for more information. Cherry Orchard Arts Festival Saturday 27 October. Click here for more information. Compulsory Recycling? We need your
views! Croydon Council is proposing to introduce compulsory recycling. It has introduced a short consultation period over the summer holidays. The deadline is 31 August. You need to express your views as soon as possible. Since the Council gives great weight to individual views - we would also strongly encourage you to contact the Council direct. The reasons for proposing the compulsion is that only 40% of households borough wide are currently recycling. The Council estimates that compelling people to recycle will save £200,000 per year in landfill costs. The cost of setting up a recycling enforcement scheme will be £60,000. If implemented, compulsory recycling will begin in January 2013. The compulsory recycling would affect people living in complete houses, houses converted into up to five flats and purpose built blocks of up to five flats. The procedure would be that the Council would give warnings to households that do not recycle then monitor the situation for nine weeks. If a household continued not to recycle, a Fixed Penalty Notice (i.e. fine) of £80 would be issued. There would be a level of discretion to ensure vulnerable, very elderly and disabled residents are not unfairly affected. In response to our enquiry about what happens in conversions and blocks where some households recycle but others do not, we have received the following reassurance from Tony Brooks, Director of Public Safety and Public Realm. 'We appreciate that waste and recycling arrangements are not always straight forward in converted properties and the team will be managed to ensure that where residents have legitimate barriers and problems these are looked into and a collaborative approach used in delivering solutions. Measures such as these will ensure that residents aren't unfairly penalised or held responsible for the actions of their neighbours. … Please be assured it is not our intention to unfairly penalise residents by introducing this policy but to increase recycling in areas where this is not currently happening and save money on the exorbitant cost of landfill. The current situation ensures that householders who do recycle subsidise households which don't recycle currently. By encouraging all households receiving the recycling box collection to make the most of the collections available to them, this disparity should be reduced, saving money for council tax payers and the council in the long term.' Please let both us (Anne's contact on Contact Us page) and the Council have your views. It is very important that you contact the Council directly yourself! To express them to the Council, you can send letters to both Tony Brooks, Director of Public Safety and Public Realm and to Councillor Phil Thomas, Cabinet Member for Highways and Environmental Services both at London Borough of Croydon, Taberner House, Park Lane, Croydon CR9 3JS or email tony.brooks@croydon.gov.uk and phil.thomas@croydon.gov.uk.
July 2012 Addiscombe in Action - Walkabout Saturday 14 July, 9.30 am - 6.00 pm This is a community activity that follows from the 'Have your Say' event on 21 April when neighbours came together and shared experiences of living in our area. This Walkabout is a next step. Join us for all or part of the day. For more information please see our Events page.
June 2012 The World in our Roads BBQ Sunday 1 July, 1.00 - 6.00 pm (come for 5 minute or 5 hours) Back garden of 42 Canning Road (bang opposite the church) All residents in Canning & Clyde Road are warmly welcome to come along to our BBQ. It's a relaxed, friendly event for people of all ages. As this is the year of the Olympics, our theme is The World in our Streets. It's free! Just bring along food from your own or another country. It could be either somethign for teh BBQ or something to put on the table. Bring what you like to drink. There will be shelter for sun or rain. Bubbles for children who always happily amuse themselves. Hope to see you there!
May 2012 Diamond Jubilee Weekend - 1-4 June Three local events are taking place during the Diamond Jubilee weekend. Friday 1 June - 6.30 - 9.00 pm - Sir Phillip Game
Community Centre Open Evening More information on each below: Friday 1 June 6.30 - 9.00 pm Sunday 3 June 11.00 am - 5.00 pm Monday 4 June 1.00 - 10.00 pm Click here and scroll down for more information on the St Mary Magdalene Church Street Party Please note - the Street Party organisers will
be shutting all or part of Canning Road during the party. They
have been knocking on people's doors about this. If you would like to
know more about the road closure, please contact Toni Suffolk of St Mary
Magdalene Church on 07786 93 55 54 or email toni.suffolk@btinternet.com April 2012 Have Your Say event Click here to see the Have Your Say flier Click here for a survey to find out what all East Croydon residents would like for their area Garden waste recycling Friends of Addiscombe Railway Park For information on news and forthcoming activities with Friends of Addiscombe Railway Park, see www.addiscombe.net Addiscombe Festival Sunday 3 June, 11am – 5pm Ashburton
Park
December 2011 Consultation on possible traffic changes This is coming up at some point. It will be important that you express your views. Sooner or later our Councillors will likely be consulting residents in the area bounded by Cherry Orchard Road, Ashburton Road, Addiscombe Road and Lower Addiscombe Road on possible changes that will affect traffic. Here's the situation. There is rat running in Lebanon Road. The road is currently two-way and being narrow there is a bottleneck towards the bottom of the road leading to jams, ill temper and bad language. Some residents there reckon a lot of the cars are making for Morland Road and South Norwood. The road system is so bad around the NLA Tower drivers avoid it. Some residents in Lebanon Road have become very angry about this and want the Council to make Lebanon Road one-way from Leslie Park Road up to Addiscombe Road. The reason for doing it that way round is because the next road along, Chisholm Road, is one-way the other way round (i.e. Addiscombe down to Leslie Park). Chisholm feeds onto Cedar Road which in turn feeds onto Lebanon Road and Cherry Orchard Road. From observation most of the rat running occurs with people from Addiscombe Road cutting down Lebanon Road to get to the Lower Addiscombe Road. If Lebanon Road were made one-way as mooted - outside
peak hours, it would mean that some of those cars would go down Canning
Road and some down other roads (eg Addiscombe Court, Elgin, Havelock,
Outram or Ashburton) depending on their destination. Councillor Patricia Hay-Justice is speaking with Council Officers to see if improvements can be made to the junction of Cherry Orchard, Lower Addiscombe and Morland Roads to encourage more drivers to use the main roads. We are told that improvements to the NLA Tower end would involve compulsory purchase and be far too expensive. At time of writing, we understand that the Councillors' consultation may include the suggestion of a 20 mph limit on all the roads in the area. Another suggestion would be to make Lebanon Road one-way. Please do let our Councillors (and us) know what you think of the different suggestions. It could have a big impact on Canning Road especially.
The new bridge Work will be taking place from Christmas Day until
27 December to remove the Royal Mail Conveyor system which runs from the
Sorting Office over the six station platforms. Sections will be lifted
out by crane. As a result the taxi rank and drop off point will be closed
to all road traffic. Southern Railway says alternate facilities will be
clearly signed. Menta skyscraper on Cherry Orchard Road We understand that Menta is still seeking finance to build the 53/55 storey residential skyscraper for which it was given planning permission in July. Ruskin Square on Dingwall Road This is the other side of the station. In July Croydon Council gave outline planning permission to Stanhope Schroder for a mixed development of offices, shops, homes and a new Warehouse Theatre. Stanhope Schroder are seeking an anchor tenant before starting to build. Addiscombe Railway Park The Friends of Addiscombe Railway Park consists of local residents of all ages who enjoy the park and would like to help make it an even better place. They were formed in August and since then have undertaken some work. This has included cutting back rampant plants, opening up the water area, planting a wild flower meadow and bulbs. The Friends will be holding monthly work days in 2012. These are on the 2nd Sunday of each month, from 2.00 pm till 4.00 pm. Meet at Dalmally Passage. Everyone is very welcome to come along either to watch or to roll up their sleeves and help. It may involve planting bulbs, cutting back vegetation, chopping up logs - and much more! Why not pitch up and find out what it's all about? Dates planned so far are: Sunday 8 January, Sunday 12 February and Sunday 11 March. Bring yourself and your ideas. For more information on the Friends of Addiscombe Railway Park, see www.addiscombe.net.
July 2011 CROYDON COUNCIL GRANTS PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE CHERRY ORCHARD ROAD MENTA SKYSCRAPER On Thursday evening (21 July) Croydon Council's Strategic Planning Committee granted planning permission to Menta to build offices, a hotel, some affordable housing on the corner of Oval Road and a 55 storey residential skyscraper of luxury apartments on Cherry Orchard Road. The voting was 6 in favour, 5 against; the split was along Party lines. It was only the skyscraper that residents objected to. RECC (Revitalising East Croydon Communities) is a resident led group of local people who campaigned against the skyscraper. Its two members who took the lead have zero party political allegiance. It will continue to exist. We would like to thank all five of our elected representatives for opposing the skyscraper: Cllr Sean Fitzsimons, Cllr Patricia Hay-Justice, Cllr Mark Watson, Gavin Barwell MP and Steve O'Connell Greater London Assembly Member. On Thursday Croydon Council's Planning Officers told us that on 21 March at 4.00 pm the skyscraper's shadow will be 880 metres long. Using the OS map we have established that it will reach as far as Elgin Road. We have written to the Council Officer responsible for this planning application asking for its length in mid December. On the one hand it is extremely disappointing when residents are asked for their views in 'consultations' and these are ignored. The East Croydon Masterplan, partly drawn up by Menta, that was quietly adopted in March as interim planning guidance, hardly changed from the draft and in no way reflected local antipathy to very tall buildings. It was a sham consultation. Similarly, it is extremely disappointing that during the planning application 'consultation' residents used two kinds of arguments against the skyscraper - those based on the Council's own planning rules and those of common sense but these were all brushed aside. The Council Officers disregarded local residents as did the six Councillors who voted to grant planning permission. On the other hand we need to try and keep engaging positively with the Council to get the best deal for local residents in this situation. We look to the support and influence of our Councillors, MP and GLA Member to make Council Officers and Councillors aware that they have to take residents seriously. Croydon Council take note Long shadow - Long memories
FRIENDS OF ADDISCOMBE RAILWAY PARK A Friends group has been started for the Addiscombe Railway Park. The aim is to let residents have a say and involvement in what happens with the park. For more information see the website at http://park.addiscombe.net/ There will be an event on Sunday 21 August. The Friends aim to undertake some conservation work in the park start at around 14:00 and work will finish around 16:00. All the family are welcome to join in.
Bring a picnic blanket and snacks.
February 2011 CROYDON COUNCIL SHELVES CHANGE IN PARKING HOURS Following immense pressure from local residents, Croydon Council has shelved its plans to increase the chargeable parking hours in our area. Please note they have only 'shelved' the plans. They may reappear at a later date. For previous news, click here.
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