PARK HILL RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION
What We Do
Park Hill Residents Association seeks to represent the interests of residents of Park Hill, Croydon, on matters affecting the area such as planning applications and environmental issues like traffic and refuse. Members of the Association's Committee serve on local consultative bodies for the police and road safety and the Association is consulted by Croydon Council on various issues from time to time.
Our membership and our area
Currently over 600 households in the area are members of the Association (subscription is £3 per year). The area covered by the Association is bounded by Addiscombe Road to the north, Radcliffe Road to the east, Coombe Road to the south and the main raillway line to the west.
Keeping residents informed
The Association publishes a Newsletter three times in year (normally in April, July and December). This is distributed to 2,600 households in the area and includes paid advertising for local services as well as news and articles. If you would like to read the latest newsletters please click on the links below:
Winter 2009
Summer 2009
Spring 2009
Winter 2008
We also have a notice board with information about local activities outside the shop in Chichester Road.
CURRENT NEWS
The Association
The Association wishes all residents a happy Christmas and New Year. Our most recent Newsletter is for Winter 2009 and includes a Christmas message and a range of features including an interview with the manager of Waitrose. It is available on this site (see 'Keeping residents informed' above).
Spring Clean, Sunday 10 January 2010, 12 noon
The Association will be cleaning up the verges of Park Hill Road and other roads in the area on Sunday 10 January and would welcome helpers. The collection starts at 12 noon by the sundial at St Matthew's Church at the corner of Park Hill Road and Chichester Road and will last just an hour. You are asked to bring gloves but we will provide sacks and sticks.
Talk to a Councillor or a police officer
Councillors and police from the Safer Neighbourhood Teams are available to deal with residents' concerns at St Matthew's Church, Chichester Road on Saturday mornings between 10.00am and 12 noon. Dates in the next few months are: -
Councillors
12 December, 9 January, 23 January
Police
2 January, 30 January, 27 February, 27 March
Garden Refuse
The last collection of garden refuse will take place in the two weeks from 7 -18 December. Residents should put their garden refuse out for collection in this period on the usual day - but there will then be no further collections until the spring. .
That patch of beaten earth by the shop
The patch of beaten earth at the tip of the triangle of land at the corner of Chichester Road and Park Hil Road has long been an eyesore. Recently the Association arranged for the area to be covered with gravel and and a low wall built to separate it form the rest of the area. What do you think of this? Is it better or worse? Send an e-mail to John Ingman at:
john.ingman@blueyonder.co.uk
Coombe Cliff
The Council is consulting on new proposals to redevelop Coombe Cliff as a home for the elderly. This would involve building two extensions so that there were enough spaces to make the project viable. The Association is concerned at the continued deterioration of Coombe Cliff which is a historic house. In these circumstances it generally supports the application since it offers a prospect of repairing and renovating Coombe Cliff without further delay. We have so advised the Council but have stressed that the new project must not impinge in any way on the public areas near Coombe Cliff at the southern end of Park Hill Recreation Ground. Further information about the proposals is available on the on-line register of planning applications on the Council's website:
www.croydon.gov.uk/planning
Contact details
John Ingman (Chair): 020 8681 2355; john.ingman@blueyonder.co.uk
Andree Dyer (Advertising for Newsletters): 020 8688 5488
What we don't do
Please note that the Association is not responsible for the communal areas in developments in Park Hill. Complaints about these should be made to the appropriate management company or their agents.
