Monthly Archives: September 2019

Tuesday 1 October. 10am. Council Passenger Transport Liaison Panel Trams: current works in progress (Including A232 Addiscombe Road); Phipps Bridge London Trams derailment (appeal for information) Buses: bus services in the Town Centre;  Liveable Neighbourhood Bid (Buses to serve Old Town); Advance … Continue reading →

New items: Local Plan Review Up-date; Purley Way Masterplan; Kenley Community Plan; London Road Corridor & Brick by Brick Submits Plans for five-building mixed-use development for 421 new homes near Fairfield Halls Paul Scott Attacks His Planning Critics Paul Scott, … Continue reading →

The BME presence in British politics 1750-1850 The Open University has an AHRC funded PhD studentship through the Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP consortium in association with the History of Parliament. Anyone interested in applying should follow the link to the consortium https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/collaborative-doctoral-awards. … Continue reading →

Tuesday 24 September. 6.30pm. Council Scrutiny & Social Care Sub-committee Inc. scrutiny of the work to deliver closer alignment between the Croydon Health Service NHT Trust (CHS) and the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). For detail see below. To 12 October. … Continue reading →

Contents: Council Cabinet 19 September; Climate March 20 September;  Museum family activities; Pathetic Black History Month programme; Local History Fair; Petitions to preserve Green Spaces for the Community; Violent mayhem incidents in Croydon; The Green Croydon Fund; Citizens Assembly for … Continue reading →

Eighteenth-Century Political Participation and Electoral Culture (ECPPEC) ECPPEC is a £933,750 three-year project funded by the AHRC, running from January 2020 to December 2022. It is led by Professor Matthew Grenby (School of English, Newcastle University), with Co-Investigators Professor Elaine Chalus (Dept. … Continue reading →

Saturday 19 October. 11am. Newcastle & North Shields – their role in the abolition of slavery movement Talk by Brian Ward (author of Martin Luther King in Newcastle) £3 and is free to members. Friday  1 & Saturday 2 November. 7.30pm. Breaking Chains … Continue reading →

Institute of Historical Research Seminars The Institute has redesigned its website. It no longer has a day by day diary facility which makes checking what seminars of interest for inclusion in this blog much more time consuming. From today the … Continue reading →

‘It has been absolute chaos for fly-tips across the borough of croydon this weekend.’  – James Cridge, Veolia’s Environmental Manager message to a  Norbury Street Champion this week. Ruskin House events 23 Coombe Rd/Park Lane Thurs 12 September. 7.30pm. General … Continue reading →

The  panel of Councillors and the independent chair responsible for delivering the  Council’s Governance Review are seeking views on whether the Council effectively listens to residents and if more should be done to ensure local people can participate in and … Continue reading →