The hub has opened its doors to the public this morning, which is fantastic news. The Community Banker Schedule for Coulsdon is as follows and offers Personal Banking, Business Banking and Bill Payment services.
Mon: HSBC UK Tue: Santander Wed: Barclays Thu: NatWest Fri: Lloyds Bank
Opening hours are Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.
The Banking Hub is located at 152 Brighton Road, Coulsdon, CR5 2NE and the entrance is via Chipstead Valley Road.
The way you interact with OCMP is changing, and is moving to an online system which will allow triaging to help prioritise and correctly allocate appointments.
There are new parking restrictions in Cane Hill Park, which cover Monday to Friday.
All roads have no parking between 8.00am and 12pm (noon), with Cane Hill Drive and Lime Tree Avenue allowing no parking between 8.00am and 6.00pm. All visitors must obtain a visitors permit during these times, to use the visitor bays.
Parking: During July Croydon council announced that all the existing parking meters would be switched off after the 13th July 2024. From then on to park in a district centre or in a small shopping parade you would have to obtain authority to park by using the RingGo App or for those that do not have a smartphone by phoning RingGo on 020 3046 0010. To use the App you have to identify where you are and for how long you want to park and pay by bank card. There was a small warning message about RingGo App contained in the notice. “Whilst the council does not charge for using RingGo, some default settings may mean that you pay a small charge to RingGo for reminders.” To avoid the reminder charge you have to change the settings in the RingGo App to turn off SMS notifications (which can result in 20p of charges). See below for more detail on how to do this.
RingGo Set Up
Make sure you are in the correct RingGo app (with two Gs i.e., RingGo) and set up your account with the correct registration number for your vehicle
Go to the my account option at the bottom of the app
Choose my notifications
Check that ALL notifications are off (the standard notifications settings will charge you 20p for the first free hours parking) Please beware of Scam Apps and sites! If you’re not sure, ask.
To Park
Choose the correct location – if you are parked with your vehicle it should pick this automatically
Choose the one-hour free parking or the length of parking time
Confirm your booking
For others who are unable to use the App or the phone you can obtain the authority to park at one of the PayPoint stores. In Coulsdon they are:
Best Save Food & Wine 214 Brighton Road, Coulsdon, CR5 2NF
Thirsty Work Food and Wine 175 Brighton Road, Coulsdon, CR5 2NH
Esso Coulsdon 189-191 Chipstead Valley Road Coulsdon, CR5 3HR
In Old Coulsdon they are:
Old Coulsdon Village Store and Morrisons Tudor Parade Old Coulsdon, CR5 1EB
Mary Convenience Store Taunton Lane Old Coulsdon, CR5 1SG
Hooks Food and Wine and Londis Lacy Green Parade Old Coulsdon, CR5 1EN
Charges: All parking in District centres and shopping parades will be the first hour free and the second period of time up to 2 hours paid for, with no return for 2 hours. However, the hours of charging have been extended by 2 hours and are now from 8.30am to 6.30pm.
Car Park Charges: Again, you will have to use the RingGo App or phone RingoGo to park in district centre car parks. The Council also intend to introduce an evening and overnight charge. ECRA have continued to object to this as it is not in the interest of the night time economy of Coulsdon or residents who need overnight off-street parking .We have also asked for a 15minute grace period before a parking ticket is issued.
ECRA have managed to get the council to increase the number of Residents Parking Bays in the CR CPZ in Downs, Fairdene and Reddown Roads. If you live in one of these roads and would like to be considered for a residents parking bay then email ECRA on .
From the 16th August until the 2nd September Coulsdon Road across Coulsdon Common will be closed.
As a result the 404 will terminate and start from Lacy Drive Old Coulsdon and will not serve Caterham.
The 466 will run 4 busses per hour terminating at Old Coulsdon Tudor Rose until 9.00pm and this will reduce to 3 busses per hour from 9.00pm until the last bus. To Caterham there will be 2 buses per hour until 9.00pm and 1 bus per hour after 9.00pm, these will run via the A23 Brighton Road Hooley, Shepherds Hill and Rook Lane, Chaldon terminating at West Way. On Return it will leave West Way, Chaldon Road, Rook Lane Chaldon, Shepherds Hill and the A23 Brighton Road Hooley.
The first common stop will be Smitham Downs Road.
The current timetable can be viewed on the TfL website.
The AGM is on Wednesday 12 June 2024, 7.30pm at The Old Coulsdon Congregational Church.
Due to the election Chris Philp will not be speaking as originally planned and Eleanor Richardson will be giving an update on Coulsdon Community Partnership instead.
We welcome the adoption of our suggestion for district centres of 1-hour free parking and a second hour paid for at a sensible price. We also welcome that this will be standardised across the Borough. This should enable the district centres to remain viable against district centres in adjacent Boroughs.
For further detail on ECRA’s response to Croydon Council, click here to read.
East Coulsdon RA represents residents of East Coulsdon and Cane Hill. Our members use both Coulsdon and Bradmore Green Libraries. We are of the view that both libraries provide an important service to our residents that could not be replaced if they were closed and should remain open.
The road works on Coulsdon Common which has closed Coulsdon Road and access to Caterham is not finished and will be extended by 2 weeks and possibly up to 4 weeks.
This will mean the 466 bus will terminate at Old Coulsdon with at least 2 buses per hour continuing to serve Caterham via the A23, Hooley and Shepherds Hill.
The 404 will continue to terminate and start from Lacy Drive Old Coulsdon.
You may remember that it was published here and elsewhere (including Inside Croydon) in February 2024 that the Council had put the Calat Centre site up for sale on the open market after 8 years of struggling by Residents’ Associations, Coulsdon businesses etc. and 2 years by Chris Philp MP’s attempts in discussions with CEX of NHS South West London and Ministers to get a Health Centre for Coulsdon, only to have disappointment following disappointment. The south of the Borough only has 7 medical facilities (reduced from 9) as opposed to the 49 in the rest of the Borough, acknowledged as only 7 in the presentation from the NHS. That publicity of the sale resulted in hastily issued press releases by the Council and Chris to says that agreement has been reached by the Council and the NHS to sell the site to the NHS, including trying to blame ‘local activists’ for delaying the process.
Residents’ Association representatives met with Mathew Kershaw, CEO of Croydon NHS on the 18th March 2024 to discuss the Coulsdon Medical centre on the Calat site. Mathew assured us that the NHS had now purchased the site, NHS England had now released the funding and they were pressing ahead with the design. We asked when we could share the news. He said it should be by the end of the month – March 2024.
We received the PowerPoint presentation that also includes the design this morning. Chris Philp MP seems to have it received yesterday.
The important issues are:
The disabled and Ambulance access from Woodcote Grove Road has been restored (but we expect some opposition from Croydon Highways).
Pedestrian access will also be from Chipstead Valley Road and they will discuss with the Dialysis centre access from Malcolm Road.
The building will be smaller with the ability to add floors when more funding becomes available.
The building will be for one GP Practice . What we don’t know as yet if this will be an existing Coulsdon GP or it will be a new GP Practice.
They hope to submit a planning application in April. It is important that we all support the application.
If Planning is agreed quickly they hope to complete by Summer 2025.
The PowerPoint presentation by NHS South West London can be viewed here.
