Children’s safety is the focus of a pilot scheme that will see 20 mph zones introduced around a number of schools across the borough of Croydon. The £200,000 Croydon council project will encourage drivers to slow down on short stretches of road outside schools. The restrictions will b

A BROMLEY councillor is calling for action over a planned Watchnight service being staged by a Pentecostal church on New Year’s Eve in the former cinema building at 25 Church Road.   In strongly-worded emails to senior Bromley council officers Cllr Tom Papworth says there is a &

CAMPAIGNERS FIGHTING for a cinema in Crystal Palace have nominated the former cinema at 25 Church Road as an asset of community value. Bromley council are being asked to list the one-time Rialto under the provisions of the Community Right to Bid set out in the Localism Act. The move &

Brockwell Park is the new home for Lambeth’s annual fireworks display Lambeth’s 2013 fireworks display will take place in Brockwell Park on Tuesday November 5th  and not Clapham Common as originally planned. Lambeth council say it has confirmed Brockwell Park as the venue for the annu

A BROMLEY council planning committee is being recommended to take ‘no action’ on the use of the former cinema building at 25 Church Road tonight (Thursday) – even though an officers report ADMITS that two of the events held there were unlawful. The former cinema was

Bromley council’s executive committee have given the go-ahead for an exclusivity agreement to be granted  to the Chinese company which wants to rebuild the Crystal Palace. The exclusivity agreement, which is subject to the council’s call in procedures, will be between ZhongRong

Any large scale project for the Crystal Palace site accompanied by the loss of ‘significant amounts’ of parkland must have the support of local people, says the chairman of the Crystal Palace park community stakeholder group. “We do not want to see, as happened in th

The proposal to rebuild the Crystal Palace has already attracted some interesting and well-argued comments: Karl Richter, local architect: “Without comprehensive planning and foresight, any new building on the scale and grandeur of the Crystal Palace will at best be a white elep

Bromley council’s executive are due to consider signing a 16-month exclusivity agreement as part of  proposals to rebuild the Crystal Palace at their meeting tomorrow night (Wednesday October 16th). The report includes details of a 16-month exclusivity agreement as detailed in p

FURNITURE from Croydon council’s offices is up for grabs – and free of charge – to schools and charities in the borough.   The move follows a controversial decision by Croydon to spend £3 million in new furniture moving into a new headquarters.*   In a press release