#Old Coulsdon Residents&039; Association

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Coulsdon Road closure: diversions and restrictions until Sep 2

Tight fit: HGVs won’t be using Stites Hill Road as a cut-through for the next couple of weeks Road works have begun today on Coulsdon Road for essential drainage improvements and repairs to the soakaways. Following a previous abortive attempt to fix the drainage on the road, and postponed closure following residents’ lobbying over Stites Hill Road, an amended scheme of closures and diversions has…

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People power! Coulsdon road closures postponed and changed

After Tory councillor accused residents’ association of ‘scaremongering’, council performs an 11th-hour U-turn over Stites Hill Road closure. By JEREMY CLACKSON, transport correspondent Cancelled: the council has had a late change of plan over closure of Stites Hill Road during Coulsdon Road roadworks Residents in Old Coulsdon, in Caterham on the Hill and the surrounding areas were claiming a…

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Surrey council: Coulsdon road closures are down to Croydon

The simultaneous closures of Coulsdon Road for drainage works and Stites Hill Road for “traffic management” reasons, due to begin next week and last for a month, creating an “Iron Curtain” between south London and Surrey, are all a matter for Croydon Council. Siege mentality: the people of Old Coulsdon feel they are being cut off That’s according to a dismissive response from Surrey County…

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Old Coulsdon roadworks will create an 'Iron Curtain' to Surrey

Road closures in Old Coulsdon have been described by local activists as “a wholly absurd idea of creating an Iron Curtain between Surrey and Croydon”. No through road: the closure signs have gone up in Old Coulsdon The road closure of Stites Hill Road, enforced by Croydon Council for “traffic management” at the same time that Coulsdon Road is closed for drainage engineering, is set to go ahead…

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Stites Hill Road closure to cut off Old Coulsdon for a month

There’s widespread concern among residents in Old Coulsdon about a set of road closures scheduled for the end of this month, which one residents’ association predicts will cut off residents or force them to take long detours on any journeys. No through roads: the council is closing Stites Hill Road during roadworks on Coulsdon Road Croydon Council plans to close Stites Hill Road at the same time…

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Purley residents reject Purley 'pool' plan backed by Perry

Space at a premium: residents have produced evidence to back up their claims about the busy multi-storey car park. Developers misleadingly say there is no demand for parking in Purley Our shadowy multi-millionaire developers based in off-shore tax havens correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, on an outbreak of common sense, and serious reservations, over proposals for a massive retirement home…

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'Path Wars': Time to park worries about these improvements

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Not everyone shares the concern for the future of a protected public park expressed on these pages last week, as Thornton Heath resident BEN GADSBY, pictured right, explains As a resident of Thornton Heath, I am a keen reader of Inside Croydon – one of the best ways of keeping up to date with everything that’s going on across, around and affecting our area. Off track: the…

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Council sends in bulldozers to village's cherished green space

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Contractors working for the council have had the bulldozers in one of the borough’s much-loved, and much neglected, public parks. Old Coulsdon resident SALLY ANN VOAK shares her concerns Don’t dig this: Sally Ann Voak in Grange Park On Monday morning, residents in Old Coulsdon woke to the sound of heavy barriers being erected in their much-loved Grange Park, a precious public…

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More than 2,500 sign petition to save Sanderstead Library

A petition to keep Sanderstead Library open has attracted more than 2,500 signatures. Under threat: Croydon’s cash-strapped council wants to close Sanderstead Library and sell the site to developers Sanderstead is one of four libraries earmarked for closure as part of Mayor Jason Perry’s plans to “reorganise” Croydon’s library service. The petition demands that Croydon Council should “retain a…

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£51,000pa saved on library won't touch council's £1.6bn debt

Three years ago, RICHARD PACITTI, pictured left, explained how to save the borough’s libraries. With half of Croydon’s public libraries once again under threat of closure or being down-graded, he’s back to make the case for a properly funded, essential service In March 2021, when our libraries were last under threat of closure, I wrote a piece for Inside Croydon describing what a terrible,…