Councillor Simon Brew writes … Since Croydon Council withdrew the free kerbside green garden waste service earlier this year, the queues at all three of the borough’s recycling centres have been appalling. Whatever time you go to one, you are likely to sit in a queue for up to…
Be part of the record breaking Purley Food & Drink – Saturday, 28th May -Saturday, 04th June Purley Business Improvement District (BID) invites you to taste the best of what’s available in Purley during its inaugural Food & Drink Week. For the event week you can take advantage of many very…
A low key, under publicised council consultation on the future of the borough’s libraries ends on May 2. It would seem that the council wish to downgrade the library service and convert existing libraries into community spaces – and thus doing away with all or most of the professional…
111 Health Centre visit Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCCG) had invited the PWRA and other local residents associations to visit the 111 NHS medical call centre in Hayes and Harlington. As the new urgent care provisions for Purley Hospital would be dependent on the 111 service, this invitation was welcomed.…
It recently became apparent that Biggin Hill Airport (BHA) was proposing to change its air traffic routings, which would result in quite large jet aircraft flying over Purley at about 2500ft or less. These proposed changes were not widely promulgated, however adjoining residents’ associations (RA) had heard about them. As…
The committee heard that Tarsem Flora had provided the PWRA’s response to the proposed borough wide development plan. Chairman Phil Reed also responded on this plan specifically dealing with that which affected the PWRA area. On balance the PWRA attitude is generally positive, but has raised its concern about lack of…
