Old Coulsdon Residents' Association

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Old Lodge Lane Junction

Photo: Gary Watson

The Old Lodge Lane junction with the A23 Brighton Road has been closed from Saturday 15th June for junction improvement work.


Planned layout changes

The work will be carried out during the day from 08:00 to 17:00 and at night from 21:00 to 05:00. Old Lodge Lane will be closed at its junction with Brighton Road for reasons of safety and to minimise traffic congestion but the contractors have promised to open it for one way traffic southbound when possible throughout the work.

The alternative routes to the A23 will be via Marlpit Lane or Stoats Nest Road and will be signposted in advance. Temporary traffic lights at the Stoats Nest Road junction have been considered and rejected by TfL, much to the disgust of the local Residents' Associations, who wanted this to help Old Coulsdon residents get on to the A23.

A free shuttle bus service will operate on route 455 between the north side of Old Lodge Lane near Reedham station to its current terminus.

Transport for London documents are available by clicking on the links below:

More details will be published as the project continues.

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Village Fair

The highlight of summer in Old Coulsdon (if the weather co-operates!). OCRA will have a stall as usual at this event so please come and talk to us. We'll have a Photo Quiz to exercise your little grey cells while you do so.

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Cane Hill Development


Barratt Homes have created a website www.canehill.info to provide background information and an opportunity to sign up to receive newsletters as the development proceeds.

They have also produced a 13 page online brochure with more details at:

www.canehillpark.co.uk

Please visit these sites to obtain information on how Cane Hill will be transformed.

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Homefield House

The now derelict site in Homefield Road (next to Oasis Academy) is the subject of a potential housing development. The letter below has been sent to local residents by consultants Green Issues Communiqué.

Proposed new residential development on the site of Homefield House, Old Coulsdon

We would like to invite you on behalf of our clients, CCURV and Redrow Homes, to attend a public consultation event on proposals to develop the site of Homefield House. The proposals are for seven detached houses.

We wish to consult with the local community before finalising our proposals and are planning a drop-in session to give local residents an opportunity to view and comment on our initial scheme. For your information, the details of the drop in session are:

Date & Time: Tuesday 18th June 4.00 pm – 8.00 pm

Venue: Oasis Academy (Studio Classroom)

Representatives from the project team will be on hand to answer questions and there will be an opportunity to leave feedback, which CCURV and Redrow will take into consideration before submitting a planning application.

If you are interested in attending I would be grateful if you could contact me on 0118 983 9473 or email:

emma.webster@greenissuescommunique.com so that we have an idea of numbers coming to the session. If you are unable to attend the event please let me know and we can arrange an opportunity to provide you with a separate briefing.

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ALDI, Red Lion site, Coulsdon

ALDI have distributed a leaflet in Coulsdon with a questionnaire seeking views on a proposal to build a foodstore with a Regional Training Facility on the first floor and 30 car park spaces on the Red Lion site bringing 30 new jobs to the town.

Click here to see the leaflet which you can print, complete and return by Freepost.

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Coulsdon & District

Horticultural Association

The Horticultural Association are encouraging new members to join and take advantage of:

  • Bargains at the Association store

  • Plant sales at amazing prices that are only available to members

  • Free leaflets

  • Reduced price to members for admission to RHS Wisley (weekdays only)

  • Flower shows Spring & Autumn

  • Bulb sale

  • Advice on gardening problems

  • Membership just £3.00 per annum

  • Plant stall at Rotary Fair 6th July 2013

Click here for the Membership Application form.

Summer Reading Challenge

All Croydon's libraries, including Bradmore Green, will be running the Summer Reading Challenge (rather than Booktrail) this year, so will be trying to recruit volunteers. Click here for poster with details or contact the Library.

Waste Collection

The collection dates for the next month are:

Mon. 3rd June

Green week (glass) box and food waste container and up to 10 bags of green garden waste.

Mon. 10th June

Blue week (paper) box, food waste container & landfill bin

Mon. 17th June

Green week (glass) box and food waste container and up to 10 bags of green garden waste.

Mon. 24th June

Blue week (paper) box, food waste container & landfill bin

For full collection details, click here.

There is a clothes and shoes recycling box on Tudor Parade (in Placehouse Lane) but you can put textiles out for collection (in a plastic bag) any week.

City Commons

Click here for the latest report from City Commons including a link to their newsletter with details of all the activities on the Commons.

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OCRA Summer Newsletter

The Summer Newsletter has been printed and is about to be distributed to our Road Stewards who will deliver your copy if you are a paid-up OCRA member.

Please be patient as the Road Stewards do this in their spare time so may not get to everyone immediately.

Help OCRA When You Shop Online

If you click on the Amazon link above first whenever you want to buy anything at Amazon, OCRA will receive a small fee. It costs you nothing, promotes Amazon and helps OCRA's funds.

Alternatively, you can sign up and use the easyfundraising link to shop online with several different companies and again a contribution will be made to OCRA funds. Please try to remember to use our links when you shop online.

OCRA Computer Tips

Entering Website names (URLs)

Automatically Enter the www. and .com into most major browsers URL or address bars by typing the name of the page and pressing Ctrl + Enter on the keyboard. For example, if you type: diy for the B&Q website and then press Ctrl + Enter you will automatically open www.diy.com.

Quick Bookmark

Quickly bookmark any web page in all major browsers by pressing Ctrl + D on your keyboard. Pressing these two keys together will open the bookmarks or favourites for your browser and allow you to quickly place a bookmark for the page you're currently at. For example, pressing the two keys now would bookmark this page.

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OCRA Road Stewards

We now have Road Stewards – to deliver OCRA Newsletters - for every road in our area. Thank you to all our volunteers. However, we like to have others that we can call on, so please let us know if we can put your name on our 'reserve list'.

If you would like to know more or would like to become a road steward, please telephone or text Membership Secretaries Alan and Marion on 07538 792812.

OCRA on Facebook

Don't forget that you can follow OCRA on Facebook to keep up-to-date with the news and chat to other local people about issues that concern you. There are now over 100 members of the OCRA Facebook group. Just click on the logo and type OCRA in the search box.

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Updated 16/06/13

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