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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:
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Mon. 3rd June
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Green week
(glass) box and food waste container
and up to 10 bags of green garden
waste.
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Mon. 10th June
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Blue week
(paper) box, food waste container &
landfill bin
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Mon. 17th June
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Green week
(glass) box and food waste container
and up to 10 bags of green garden waste.
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Mon. 24th June
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Blue week
(paper) box, food waste container &
landfill bin
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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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