PWRA - Working for Purley's future
The PWRA is run by Purley Residents and for Purley residents. Please join up and take part. We are always looking to get more members and new, fresh ideas to help improve Purley and Woodcote. We want to improve the character and amenities that make Purley great, while helping to retain the unique character of our wonderful town. If you're interested, or would just like to find out more, please contact our chairman Tony Smith. All our contact details are on the Contact Us page.
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Purley Baptist Church Planning Application
Purley Baptist Church has finally made its application for planning permission on its island site to cover the building of a new, larger church, community facilities and over 200 private and affordable housing units. You can view and comment on this application on: http://publicaccess.croydon.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=_CROYD_DCAPR_153254
Asking for Residents’ views on the Purley Oaks Recycling Centre
“Once again, without any publicity – and at short notice – the council has put an important matter on its web site for residents’ comments. This time the council is asking for residents’ views on the Purley Oaks Recycling Centre. The survey closes on July 1, so if you have…
Councillor Simon Brew writes …
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
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…
PWRA AGM Notice – June 16 2016
URGENT – LET THE COUNCIL KNOW YOUR VIEW ON THE LIBRARY SERVICE
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…
Green waste collections to continue – if you pay
Croydon Council’s green waste collections are to become a paid-for service from April after 10,000 local residents voted for it to continue in that form, rather than being discontinued altogether.
According to a Council statement, the service is currently funded by all 147,000 Croydon households but used by less than a quarter. Making the service paid-for will save Croydon taxpayers £1.5m per year amid growing budget pressures and reduced Government funding, it added.
The council will update residents in the coming weeks on how the new service will work and how to pay.
Householders can register through their login for My Account from this Friday (29 January) by visiting www.croydon.gov.uk. Those without a computer can either register at their local library or with help from council staff at Access Croydon.
Once you have paid for the new service you will receive a garden waste wheeled bin and will be able to view your collection day online in My Account.
Photos wanted! Send us your images of Purley
Do you have a beautiful photo of any part of Purley or Woodcote? If so, please send images of Purley to michaelvessey@yahoo.co.uk, with an email subject Purley Photo. It could be a landscape, a garden, the high street, Purley festival… Anything at all. Ideally it is recognisably a Purley image, so…
PWRA website relaunch
Back in December 2015 we were unfortunate to be hit with a nasty virus which disabled the old PWRA website. Since then we have rebuilt the website bottom up on a new platform. At the same time we’ve taken the opportunity to redesign the website to make it more interactive,…
PWRA Newsletter
November 2015 Welcome to the first PWRA Newsletter, which will complement the quarterly PWRA Journal. Now that the Association’s website is up and running, it is intended that the Newsletter will be an additional and more immediate way of keeping local residents up to date with local matters. It is…