Canning & Clyde To the Occupier Road Residents Association

www.canni..net 8 April 2017 Contact us: Gordon Thompson Have you seen that envelope? edition Chairman 020 8656 4941 gordon.thompson@ Have you seen an envelope through your door addressed ‘To the addiscombe.net Occupier’? See page 2 Anne Bridge Secretary 020 8656 6707 annebridge175@ Quiz Night for All—thank you gmail.com A VERY BIG thank you to everyone who came along to the Robert King Treasurer Quiz Night for All and helped to make it such a fun evening. 020 8654 7420 Thanks too for your generosity. We raised £302 for chitchatforum@ Woodside Bereavement Service. aol.com

Neighbourhood Watch Coming up this Summer …. Co-ordinators Pete Langdon 07502 560762 Big Lunch Sunday 18 June pete.langdon@ yahoo.co.uk Here’s a great way to meet up with neighbours and friends. We are again organising a Big Lunch with our neighbours at St Mary Magdalene, Fathima Zara [email protected] Canning Road. Last year some residents said they thought it was a church event. In fact it’s a joint event where people of all faiths and none are warmly Local Police welcome. (non emergency) 101 Addiscombe.snt@ Expect a relaxed, happy atmosphere, things for people of all ages to do. If the met.police Ward Panel site weather is nice, it’ll be outside in front of the church. If it’s wet, we can shelter www.asntpanel.org.uk inside. More details nearer the time.

Our Councillors Sean Fitzsimons Addiscombe Summer Fair Saturday 15 July 12.00 to 3.00 pm Patricia Hay-Justice Mark Watson One or two local residents groups along with St Mary Magdalene are Town Hall organising another Summer Fair. There will be stalls, food, music and Katharine Street entertainment. If you have good quality items to sell (crafts / bric a brac / CR0 1NX 1stname.surname@ almost anything) – tables will be £5. Please contact Anne croydon.gov.uk ([email protected]; Flat 3, 42 Canning Road). 020 8819 5597 If you know of any children’s or adults’ groups (eg dance or song) who would Our GLA Member like to entertain us, please could you let Anne know? Steve O’Connell GLA, City Hall Please could anyone from Canning and Clyde Roads give up an hour to help The Queen's Walk with the barbecuing? Thanks SE1 2AA 020 7983 4353 steve.o'connell@ london.gov.uk

Our MP House of Commons London SW1A 0AA 020 86638741 gavin.barwell.mp@ Parliament.uk Ward boundaries – deadline for comments 8 May 2017

The Local Government Boundary Commission is proposing changes to Council wards in the London Borough of Croydon to even up the number of people in each ward. We live in a relatively high density area. Addiscombe

The Commission is proposing that West & Park Canning Rd Canning Canning and Clyde Roads be in a Hill ClydeRd new and Park Hill

Ward. This would stretch west-east

from the railway line to Elgin Road and north-south from Stretton Road East Croydon to Coombe Road. The neighbouring Station proposed ward would stretch west- east from Havelock Road to Shirley Road and would be called . The question the Local Government Boundary Commission ask is – where do you most identify? If it is more with East and Central Croydon, then their proposal of being in Addiscombe West and Park Hill might suit you. If it is more with Addiscombe and Map from website of the Local Government Shirley, then the proposed Boundary Commission neighbouring ward might suit you.

To find out more and / or express your views, please see information at local libraries or at https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/8775. If you do have views, please could you let us know so we can gain an accurate picture? Thanks.

Have you seen the envelope addressed to the Occupier? Deadline 12 May

In January 2016, Croydon Council made Lebanon Road no entry from Addiscombe Road. This sent an extra 1,200 cars a day down Addiscombe Court Road and created a safety hazard at Lebanon Road tram stop with some drivers passing a parked tram and turning sharply in front of the tram into Addiscombe Court Road. Canning Road has seen an increase in traffic but – so far – to a lesser degree.

The manner in which Croydon Council made the Lebanon Road one-way imposition decision has been widely criticised. Now the Council has been forced to mitigate the negative impact of that decision. As you may know, they are consulting on whether or not to make one or both of Addiscombe Court Road and Canning Road no entry from Addiscombe Road. We note that the Council has not heeded our residents’ call for them to consider other options; instead other options were briefly dismissed with no statistical evidence or traffic modelling to support their assumptions. We wonder why? We welcome the fact that the Council has heeded our and TACRA (Tunstall & Addiscombe Court Residents Association)’s call for wider consultation this time as we would not want other neighbouring roads to be treated in the same way we were with the Lebanon Road one-way.

NB – Please check envelopes addressed to the Occupier. These are not the usual similarly addressed junk mail. It’s a shame that Canning Road, which potentially stands to be most changed by what the Council decides to do, has a relatively high number of shared entrances so has a significant number of envelopes that may just end up in the recycling or other rubbish pile without being opened. If you do not receive an envelope, contact Russell Birtchnall on 020 8726 6000 (ext 62178) or [email protected] . The Council started sending them on 31 March. 2 To summarise as in our last newsletter The choice being offered by Council’s proposal to make Canning Road no entry from Addiscombe Road

If Canning Road IS made No Entry from Addiscombe Road Drivers – which includes some Canning and Clyde Roads residents— when travelling to their homes from the Chepstow Road or Park Hill area, will have to go a longer way round via inadequately functioning junctions on the Chepstow Road and both ends of Cherry Orchard Road. This would add extra journey time, sometimes considerable, and frustration.

If Canning Road is NOT made No Entry from Addiscombe Road Croydon Council will send up to 1,600+* extra cars a day along Canning Road, displaced from Addiscombe Court Road (1,200+* of which were originally from Lebanon Road). This is on top of the existing number and will lead to increased noise and pollution levels and a change in quality of life for people living in Canning Road, especially those whose flats or houses face the road. * Figures are Council’s own January 2016

For as long as the displacement of traffic from Lebanon Road continues to affect disproportionately only one or two roads – it will remain the Lebanon Road one-way imposition issue. The Council cannot use the forthcoming consultation as a way of ‘brushing it under the carpet’ and blaming residents for subsequent Council decisions. Croydon Council created this situation with the Lebanon Road one-way imposition. Whatever decision Croydon Council now makes – Croydon Council will remain solely and wholly responsible for the outcome. If they get it wrong, this story will run and run ………

Do please express your views to the Council, whatever they are. If you could let us know as well, that will help us keep up-to-date with what residents are thinking. Please either email to [email protected] or pop through the door at Flat 3, 42 Canning Road (opposite the church). Thanks.

Community Garden

Friends of Addiscombe Railway Park have a Community Garden, five minutes walk away, at the end of East India Way.

Now the evenings are longer, the garden sessions will be open again in the spring starting from 6 April 2017, with gardening sessions every Thursday evening between 6.30 and 7.30 pm. Everyone is welcome, regardless of your gardening experience. http://park.addiscombe.net/gardening.asp

Two useful local newish websites

East Croydon Cool What’s on in Croydon http://www.eastcroydoncool.co.uk/ http://www.whatsoncroydon.com/

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