Audited accounts for 2021/22
We are pleased to publish our audited accounts for 2021/22. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
New Lion Green car park open
Lion Green Car Park opened on Monday 15 March, with 116 parking bays including long (white) and short term (red) spaces.
It is free until the ticket machines are connected and calibrated.
Information from the developer about the Lion Green Road site is available on: https://liongreenroad.commonplace.is/
BrickbyBrick projects in Coulsdon
I am sure that you are aware that Croydon Council has financial difficulties and one of the causes is loans and non-payment of dividends by BrickbyBrick to the Council. The Council has now reviewed the remaining and ongoing BrickbyBrick projects. This review has resulted in all existing BrickbyBrick projects that have been started will continue. All the remaining projects will be put on hold while they are reviewed and this could mean abandoning, selling the sites, transferring them back to the council.
As there are a lot of rumours floating around about the BrickbyBrick sites, suggesting the existing Community centre in Barrie Close was about to be sold. ECRA has been in discussions with Croydon council to establish where we are with BrickbyBrick sites in Coulsdon.
Tollers estate and Lion Green Road are continuing with BrickbyBrick. The new Lion Green car park should be completed by the end of March. There is a delay due to discussions with UK Power on how to deal with the High Voltage power cables that run under the car park. Construction of the blocks of flats will continue.
The two projects of concern to us have been the Medical Centre and the New Community Centre on the Calat site in the Town Centre and the related to this the existing Community Centre site at Barrie Close.
I am pleased to say that the council and the NHS have both agreed that a new medical centre is required in Coulsdon and the Calat site is the preferred option. The council can also see the value of moving the Community centre to the town centre and the Malcolm Road side of the Calat site. This would then allowed the Barrie Close site to be sold to another developer.
As a result, the Council will now directly take charge of the project I am pleased to say this has the backing of both the new leader of the council and the local councillors. However, there are still some hurdles to overcome. The first will be to either renew or extend the planning permission on all three sites which will run out in April 2021. The second is to finalise the design and actual needs of the NHS in line with their latest plan of Autumn 2020. Finally, to ensure the new community centre is in line with what was agreed with BrickbyBrick.
Croydon have agreed to keep both the RAs and the Community centre informed of progress.
I hope this helps clarify where things are.
Charles King
Chair East Coulsdon RA
1st March 2021
Local train services reduced
Due to the new Covid restrictions local trains services will be reduced at both Coulsdon South and Coulsdon Town stations from Monday 18th January 2021.
In general a number of early and late services will be cancelled.
At Coulsdon South the Thameslink Horsham to Peterborough service will be reduced to hourly.
The Southern Reigate trains will continue to be every 30 minutes.
At Coulsdon Town the Tattenham Corner service will be reduced to an hourly shuttle service to Purley.
There will be some additional trains in the off peak and evening to and from London Bridge all stations to Coulsdon Town.
Please check on Southern, Thameslink and National Rail web sites and apps before travelling.
The temporary timetable can be downloaded from the Southern web site: www.southernrailway.com/coronavirus-information/revised-timetable
How to get your COVID-19 vaccination, January 2021
Accessible text version:
If you are over 80 there are three ways you might be contacted to get your vaccination. Please do not try to book a vaccination if you have not received a letter.
- Using a local GP service: GP services are working together in your area to vaccinate as many people as possible. You may be contacted by a different surgery to the one you usually go to.
- Local hospital services: You might be contacted to have the vaccination as an inpatient or outpatient.
- At a vaccination centre: If you live within 30 to 45 minutes of a vaccination centre, and haven’t already been vaccinated, you have have received a letter asking you to book an appointment online at www.nhs.uk/covid-vaccination. Or if you can’t access the NHS website you can call 119 free of charge.
If you can’t travel to a vaccination centre, or there is another reason you can’t book an appointment at the nearest vaccination centre, you can choose to wait until your local GP services contact you if they haven’t already. If this is your preferred option – you don’t need to do anything now – wait for your GP service to make contact. More locations will become available through www.nhs.uk or 119 in the coming weeks so you could also try again there later.
If you receive a letter and already have an appointment booked to have your vaccination at a local service please ignore the letter. There is nothing you need to do and please attend your appointment.
If you have had your first jab, you will be contacted about getting your second.
For more information visit: www.nhs.uk/covid-vaccination.