CRYSTAL PALACE GETS NEW FOOD MARKET

CRYSTAL PALACE is to get a new weekly food market from Saturday May 11th. Karen Jones and Laura Marchant-Short - who are organising the market along with Rachel de Thample - told the latest meeting of Crystal Palace and Norwood Chamber of Commerce that the market - a Crystal Palace Transition Town project - will …

COUNCIL GETS TOUGH ON ILLEGAL ENCAMPMENTS

A CRACKDOWN on illegal encampments to stop sites being repeatedly used and to target those responsible is being taken to the courts by Croydon council. "Last year our officers had to deal with 83 unauthorised encampments, which in some cases required bailiffs being brought in to assist, at a cost to the taxpayer of more …

CPCA GO TO APPEAL COURT OVER PARK MASTERPLAN

Monday April 26th: CPCA have lost their High Court hearing. Reasons for the three appeal judges unanimous decision will be given at a later date.   AN APPEAL COURT hearing involving the legal challenge to the Masterplan for Crystal Palace park is due to start this week. At an oral hearing in the Royal Courts …

LIBRARY TO OPEN THREE DAYS A WEEK – Five staff lose their jobs

UPPER NORWOOD JOINT LIBRARY will only open for three days a week from Monday April 29th - and closing for lunch on two of them. Five staff will be losing their jobs - a reduction from the current complement of 10 - four other vacant positions having remained unfilled. The 40 per cent-plus cut in …

LIBRARY OPEN FOR JUST THREE DAYS A WEEK – Five staff losing their jobs

UPPER NORWOOD JOINT LIBRARY will only open for three days a week from Monday April 29th - and closing for lunch on two of them. Five staff will be losing their jobs - a reduction from the current complement of 10 - four other vacant positions having remained unfilled. The 40 per cent-plus cut in …

SUBWAY COULD BE ‘OPEN HOUSE’ IN SEPTEMBER

THE HISTORIC subway underneath Crystal Palace Parade could see public access for the first time in more than 20 years as part of September's capital-wide 'Open House London' event. Ray Sacks, a member of the Crystal Palace park community stakeholder group, says if the subway does open it will coincide with a photographic exhibition there. …

CYPRESS EXTENSION PLANS SCRAPPED

PLANS to extend Cypress primary school have been scrapped. Cllr Kathy Bee, who chairs the governing body at Cypress, told NFCP: "The governing body at Cypress primary school felt that the shortage in primary school places locally meant that we should see if we could help local families by considering whether it would be possible …

RAFT OF NEW PLANS FOR PARK

A RAFT OF NEW PLANS for Crystal Palace park have been highlighted at the first annual meeting of the park's community stakeholder group. The meeting came in the wake of announcements that surveys were being made of both the park's sphinxes and the historic subway underneath Crystal Palace parade with a view to repair work …