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Blooming Marvellous – Croydon Represents London in Britain in Bloom Competition Page 8 YourCroydon ISSUE 15 - MARCH 2008 Three-star Croydon is “improving well” Page 6 Council tax again kept below 4% Page 10 Borough’s bars vie for top spot Page 19 Blooming marvellous – Croydon represents London in Britain in Bloom competition Page 8 71313 - Your_Croydon_iss15.indd 1 13/2/08 08:23:52 TAKE advantage OF OUR COMPETITIVE contents ADVERTISING RATES FULL page from £839 7 £80m contract signed 188 x 258mm The council and Tesco ink the deal that will see New Addington transformed HALF page from £368 into 21st-century district centre. Horizontal - 188 x 131mm QUARTER page from £184 12 How to avoid parking tickets Vertical - 92 x 131mm If you want your car to remain a PCN- free zone, read our quick guide to the If you would like your business to benefit from dos and don’ts of parking in Croydon. advertising in one of the country’s leading community magazines and would like more information, a copy of our rate card or a 15 The big London vote booking form, please call: Who you will be voting for when you go Paula Howell % 020 8760 5644 to the polls on 1 May 16 Out of the sewers The rat population is growing and modern lifestyles contribute to that growth – how you can help deal with the problem. This magazine is printed on environmentally friendly, TCF (Totally Chlorine Free) paper, 17 Easy travel guide produced from a sustainable source. When New publication aims to help elderly you have finished with this magazine please and those with disabilities to travel recycle it. around Croydon. To contact Croydon Council Taberner House, Park Lane, Croydon, CR9 3JS email: [email protected] Telephone: 020 8726 6000 Council website: www.croydon.gov.uk Community website: www.croydononline.org Do you have what it takes to work for your local authority? Croydon Council is always keen to To contact the editor recruit the best staff across a wide Taberner House, Park Lane, Croydon, CR9 3JS range of disciplines. email: [email protected] If you’re looking for a new challenge, Telephone: pay a visit to www.croydon.gov.uk 020 8760 5644 It could be the best day’s work your The next edition of Your Croydon will be published on Wednesday 26 March 2008. mouse has ever done. Commercial advertising is welcome, but inclusion of an advertisement does not indicate council endorsement of any products or services mentioned. 2 YOURCROYDON ISSUE 15 - MARCH 2008 Designed by croydondesign the in-house business within Croydon Council [email protected] 71313/150M/10 LEADING LINES Controlling planning is vital for Croydon’s future With house prices still sky high, many young people – and their parents – will be wondering how on Earth they will ever manage to get a place of their own in Croydon. That’s why it’s so important that the council continues We believe the planning committee has been entirely to meet housing targets for the borough. With more right in putting the interests of local people first. This units of affordable housing, at least there’s a chance is not nimbyism; it’s about protecting residents from for some youngsters to remain living close to the family aggressive developers who are being encouraged to home. But this house building should not be at the prey on our borough and change its characteristics. expense of the character of our much-prized suburban Development of rear gardens is a national issue and the character. That’s why we consider it so important solution rests with the Government giving councils more that locally-elected representatives should have a effective tools to support residents who regard this trend major say when local people seek their support over as harming traditional community qualities. National planning proposals. planning policy doesn’t go far enough in discouraging Last year, Croydon Council refused about 420 housing the development of back-garden and backland applications – well over half of those submitted. sites. New housing should be assessed in relation to Unfortunately, that often allowed powerful applicants the character of residential areas, the amenities of to lodge appeals which, increasingly, are being adjoining occupiers and the excessive strain yet more allowed by Government-appointed planning inspectors. unsuitably located housing places on public services During 2007, applications involving almost 300 new including schools, hospitals, GP surgeries, road usage, homes, which the council originally refused, were later as well as energy consumption, water supplies and permitted on appeal. So, even when local representatives sewage capacity. take account of local circumstances when deciding Where we’re not in direct conflict with national a local planning issue, they can be overturned by a planning regulations and policies we refuse speculative largely anonymous bureaucrat with no knowledge applications that we consider inappropriate or will result of our borough – a worrying erosion of the in unsustainable pressures. But that risks costs being democratic principle. awarded against the council. That’s the background to a very important debate that It’s no wonder voters feel disenchanted and don’t go took place in the Town Hall recently. Here’s what the out to vote. They feel that local democracy doesn’t motion said: work. That’s why we feel so strongly that local “This council is dismayed that the Government’s Planning planning matters should be left in the hands of locally Inspectorate and the Mayor of London continue to elected people who know the area and have a overturn decisions made by the locally-elected members democratic mandate. of the planning committee. Neither the Planning Inspectorate nor the Mayor offer any right of appeal or understand the needs and desires of our local community. Accordingly, we call upon the Government to uphold the democratic decisions made by the elected members of Croydon’s planning committee.” If this issue affects you, you can see the whole debate Mike Fisher for yourself on our webcast. Leader of the council 3 YOURCROYDON ISSUE 6 - APriL 2007 3 News Council’s boost to Serious money spent on play recycling spend Major playground refurbishment programme launched £4.75m impetus for Croydon’s ambitious green programmes An average of £50,000 is being spent on each of nine playgrounds across the borough in a major refurbishment programme. Residents recently gave their views on a number of options put forward for each of the playgrounds undergoing work. As a result of that consultation, the planned improvements will include installing new play equipment, Nowhere in the country is investing as much fencing and seating. as Croydon to improve recycling services for The nine playgrounds to benefit will be: residents. • Ashburton Playing Field Croydon Council believes that the extra • King George’s Field On the whole, playgrounds were found to be in a satisfactory condition but it was felt that £4.75m it has earmarked for environmental • Milne Park investment in 2008/09 is unmatched by any some needed particular attention. • Norbury Park other local authority. • Rowdown Fields The aim of the refurbishment programme has The biggest part of the additional spending, been to highlight and prioritise those areas in • South Croydon Recreation Ground £3m, will meet the higher running costs most need of attention, and to take action to for the expanded and upgraded services, • Thornton Heath Recreation Ground improve facilities across the borough. • Waddon Ponds while the remaining £1.75m will be spent on Further Big Lottery funding has been secured providing new plant and equipment. • Selsdon Recreation Ground to improve two other playgrounds in the The additional steps are designed to make Work is expected to begin in March with borough. South Norwood Country Park and it easier than ever for Croydon residents to completion by the school holidays in April. Coulsdon Memorial Ground are both set to recycle, and the council has set its short-term undergo extensive works this summer. The start of refurbishment works coincides sights on achieving a recycling rate of 30% in with a review of Croydon’s playgrounds, Last autumn, playgrounds at Rotary Field and the next year. which recommends management and Purley Way Playing Field (pictured above) Environmental initiatives introduced last year upkeep improvements to 28 of the borough’s were refurbished and a new play area was have seen the volume of recycled waste in 55 children’s playgrounds. installed at Higher Drive Recreation Ground. the borough already climbing toward an expected 23% in 2007/08. Just two years ago the rate was 16.1% – one of the lowest in London. Alsop effect still being felt Now, the council is planning to give recycling Council’s steps to maintain and efforts are focused on ensuring the fresh impetus by extending kerbside momentum of architect’s vision council’s presence at the event is maximised. collection services of plastic, cardboard Will Alsop’s Vision for Croydon has sparked Later in the year, the council plans to boost and green waste, as well as upgrading the even further the media profile by holding an borough’s neighbourhood recycling centres levels of interest in the borough that have not been seen for many years. event at the New London Architecture (NLA) and developing estates’ recycling service. centre, focusing on recent development In addition, it will continue to trial kitchen- Back in December, Your Croydon featured proposals for the town. waste collections to 2,500 households. aspects of the internationally renowned architect’s futuristic designs for the town The locale of the NLA, just off central London’s These improvements will help Croydon centre which saw, among a raft of far-sighted Tottenham Court Road, will make it easier meet an ambitious target of at least 40% proposals, extensive use of the Wandle as a to attract participants from development of household waste being recycled or focus for leisure.
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