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ENFORCEMENT IN BRIGHTON ROAD AND SIDE ROAD WITHIN COULSDON TOWN CENTRE PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOU OBTAIN A TICKET FROM THE MACHINES AS THE PARKING POLICE ARE ISSUING PENALTY NOTICES WHICH ATTRACT FINES IF YOU DO NOT DISPLAY A 'FREE TO PARK TICKET'. BRIGHTON ROAD One hour maximum stay free parking with ticket. No return within 2 hours to the same group of bays SIDE ROADS One hour maximum stay parking. First 30 minutes free parking with ticket. Payment for additional time. |
UPDATE ON PARKING TOWN CENTRE
The 'statutory consultation' which the Council were obliged to carry out in this instance resulted in over 2000 thousand "material letters of objections" to the scheme, votes of 95% against at Neighbourhood Partnership Meetings: and the overwhelming protests at the Pulbic Meeting of the 18th September: letters of objection from all four local Residents' Association and personal pleas to the Committee. At the Public Meeting which was held on the 18th September it was made clear to the Chair of the TMCC, the one Coulsdon East Councillor who attended and the Officer who is responsible for promoting the scheme that Coulsdon residents do not want pay & display metering - all to no avail. The Committee resolved to ignore these by agreeing to install pay & display meters in the town. The Brighton Road is, for the time being at least, to have one hour free parking. - but not the side roads. However they also resolved to introduce and alter pay & display meters allowing only half an hour free in other areas of the Town. With parking meters installed, in the future the Council only have to make administrative decisions to alter charges - as they do in Chipstead Valley Road. They are to be installed in Mid December 2009. The Council agree they would review pay & display in the town a year after the decision was made. Let us hope it is to remove the meters.A Ombudsman complaint is in the process of being investigated. |
NEIGHBOURHOOD PARTNERSHIP MEETINGS
Chair - Charles King MBE Vice Chair - Elizabeth Radcliffe Justin Crombie is Road Representation (and now a Councillor) Date of Future Meeting Wednesday the 3rd November 2010. venue to be announced Click here to access Agenda and Minutes for Neighbourhood Partnership Meeting where details of venue and relevant papers can be downloaded.
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COULSDON TOWN CENTRE REGENERATION
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Update of Coulsdon Town Centre Regeneration – The works of the Coulsdon Town Centre Improvement Scheme Phase 2 began in March 2009 to widen pavements and reduce the width of the road. The works are still not completely finished but theTown should be brighter and more pleasant place to be. once it all completed. The scar left along the pavement and into the roundabout where the paving was dug up and thrown into skips!! should be repaired in August - watch this space!! There has been no progress on the Aldi (Red Lion) site, although it looks as though the site will be used as a temporary car park for the time being. Despite Sainsbury's having planning permission to build at the old pinewood site, there has been no progress and Saindbury's have given JEMCO a new 5 year lease so that there will be no supermarket there for some time - if at all. The proposed new supermarket and leisure complex at Lion Green Road Car Park seems to have come to a halt. Negotiations are ongoing with the Council |
CANE HILL CONSULTATION
English Partnership (now The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA)) consulted with residents and presented 4 options for the proposed new footprint of the development at Cane Hill the results of which came down heavily in favour of any development being link with the Town Centre. Whilst the area is Green Belt Land, developers are able to build up to the size of the footprint of the original buildings but not necessarily on the original site. The main Hospital complex, which closed in 1991, is in a dilapidated state of repair and like many buildings of its age, asbestos is present. The buildings are derelict due to the asbestos, water penetration, vandalism and fire. The state of the buildings renders refurbishment largely impractical and demolition of the buildings started in July 2008. The chapel and administration blocks will be retained as they are locally listed buildings and it is likely that the water tower will also be retained as this is a local landmark and a number of people have expressed a desire for it to be kept. We await the next stage of consultation and for building to start. As yet no planning application has been submitted. but HCA are in consultation with Croydon Council planning department, but there is no news of consultation with the public which is / was expected this summer. Once consultation starts we will put the link to the site here. The negotiations which have been taking place between Aldi and Croydon Council on a possible land swop seem to have come to nothing. For further information visit http://canehill.org.uk/home/index.html |
CANE HILL REGENERATION
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The main Hospital complex, which closed in 1991, is in a dilapidated state of repair and like many buildings of its age, asbestos is present. The buildings are derelict due to the asbestos, water penetration, vandalism and fire. The state of the buildings renders refurbishment largely impractical and demolition of the buildings started July 2008 but seems to have come to halt. We await further developments |
CHANGES TO OLD LODGE LANE / BRIGHTON ROAD JUNCTION
The scheme to improve the junction at Old Lodge Lane is progressing. There will be some localised road widening at this exceptionally busy junction and the re-design will also include increasing the length of time that the traffic lights are green, by staggering pedestrian phases. “Finally, the junction will be put under ‘SCOOT’ control, a real time computer control system which can vary the green time for vehicles to meet varying demands by using sensors planted in the carriageway. “Under a separate scheme, the two junctions on the Coulsdon by-pass will also be put under ‘SCOOT’ control and it is expected that altogether this will lead to improved traffic co-ordination along this busy road and hope that this will ease congestion and will reduce rat-running in local residential roads.” |
SOUTH LONDON WASTE PLAN
The London Boroughs of Croydon, Kingston, Merton and Sutton have joined forces to work together to find solutions to disposing of waste within the Boroughs ECRA are in favour of recycling as much waste and materials as possible and to do this locally as long as it is on the lines of Purley Oak Re-Cycling Centre. However, we have major concerns with the proposal should there be any proposal to site a waste transfer station similar to the Factory Lane Croydon site or an incinerator or a site dealing with hazardous waste plant in Ulswater Crescent, Coulsdon which is in our area and another proposal for Beddington Lane which is in the London Borough of Sutton. We await developments but click here for further information http://southlondonwasteplan.limehouse.co.uk/portal |
ECRA RULES
THE EAST COULSDON RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION : 1. The Association shall be called „THE EAST COULSDON RESIDENTS‟ ASSOCIATION‟ 2. AIMS : (a) To advance and protect the interests of the Residents and enhance the amenities of the district. (b) To ascertain the opinions of the Residents and to lay such opinions before the appropriate Authority when desirable. (c) To promote such cultural and social activities as may from time to time be deemed desirable. (d) To co-operate with other Organisations in any of these aims. 3. The Association shall be non-party and non-sectarian. 4. All adult Residents in the East Coulsdon Area (as defined by the map on the web site) shall be eligible for membership. 5. The Executive Committee has the right to refuse or revoke membership of persons who act contrary to the aims of the Association. 6. The minimum annual subscription shall be such as is recommended by the Executive Committee from time to time and approved by the Annual General Meeting, which shall cover all adult members of the same family unit resident at the same address. Subscriptions are due on 1 st April in each year and payment thereof shall constitute membership "except those excluded under rule 5".7. The Officers of the Association shall be a Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Honorary Secretary, Honorary Treasurer, and such Assistant Honorary Secretaries and/or Treasurers as may be considered necessary, all of whom shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting. 8. The Executive Committee shall consist of the Officers, together with up to fifteen other members as the Annual General Meeting shall determine; five to form a quorum. The Executive Committee shall hold meetings as required, and shall have power to co-opt members either to fill vacancies on the Committee or in a consultative capacity. 9. In the event of a vacancy arising, the Executive Committee shall have the power to co-opt members until the following Annual General Meeting. 10. The Treasurer will be responsible for the Accounts and cheque books. All cheques will require two signatures from authorised officers. 11. Any nominations for Officers, other members of the Executive Committee and Honorary Auditor made before the Annual General Meeting must be in the hands of the Honorary Secretary in writing seven clear days prior to the date of that meeting. 12. The Annual General Meeting shall be held in May or June. Further Special General Meetings shall be held whenever the Executive Committee so decide. 13. An Extra Ordinary General Meeting may be called at any time on application in writing, stating the object for which such General Meeting is desired and signed by no fewer than twenty members. No business other than that stated on the Agenda shall be dealt with at the Meeting. 14. The Audited Accounts for the previous year ended 31 st March shall be presented to the Annual General Meeting and an Honorary Auditor shall be elected at that meeting to act for the current year.15. Notice of each Annual General meeting with the Agenda and Audited Accounts shall be available to Stewards and be published on the web site at least fourteen days prior to the date of the meeting. At least seven clear days‟ notice shall be given of other General Meetings. 16. The Association shall not be dissolved except by the vote of two-thirds of the members present and voting at a General Meeting, on the Agenda of which shall appear the question of dissolution. 17. On dissolution any surplus funds shall be paid to local charities to be decided by the outgoing Executive Committee. 18. No alteration to these Rules shall be made except by a two-thirds majority of those present and voting at a General Meeting, on the Agenda of which shall appear the proposed alterations. No Rule shall be amended within twelve months of a previous decision on a proposal to amend such Rule, except upon the recommendations of the Executive Committee and all notices of suggested alterations shall be sent to the Honorary Secretary in writing at least twenty eight days prior to the AGM. 19. The Executive Committee shall have the power to discuss and act upon any matter consistent with Rules 2 and 3. 20. The Executive Committee shall have the power to appoint sub-committees as may be deemed advisable for special purposes, and if considered necessary may co-opt on such sub-committees any member or members of the Association. The Chairman and Secretary of the Association shall be ex-officio members of all sub-committees. 21. Only the Executive Committee or persons authorised by the Executive Committee have the authority to speak for or act on behalf of the Association. 22. Any person purporting to represent the Association without the Authority of the Executive Committee will have their membership revoked. 23. Decisions at General or Committee Meetings, except where otherwise provided for in these Rules, shall be taken by a simple majority vote of members present and voting. Voting shall be by show of hands unless a ballot is demanded by at least a third of the members present. Addition to paragraph 6 (9 June 1993) "The normal period in office for the Chairman and Vice-Chairman shall not be more than three consecutive years with the proviso that should the majority of the Executive Committee so recommend, this term can be extended by not more than a further year, in each case subject to the officer being nominated and re-elected at the Annual General Meeting. On the conclusion of the period in office, neither the Chairman nor the Vice-Chairman shall be re-elected to that same office within one year." Note : It was agreed at the June 2009 AGM to remove this paragraph in 2010 |
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