Our aim is to help residents in West Coulsdon, and make Coulsdon a great place to live.
We work in coordination with our sister RAs, as well as other local groups which share common interests, such as Friends of Rickman Hill Park.
To achieve our aims we need more general members as well as volunteers to join or assist the Committee.
We are stronger together.
We have invested in some hi-visibility vests, gloves, litter pickers and bag hoops. This will enable us to run some litter picking events around Coulsdon without being
reliant on the Council to provide their equipment on the day.
Contact us via the Info@ email address if you would like to organise your own community litter pick.
In conjunction with East Cousldon Residents and Coulsdon Community Partnership.
We will start at 11am in the Lion Green car park (which is free on Sundays), and finish at about noon.
at 7:30pm at The Coulsdon Community Centre, Barrie Close CR5 3BE
(off Chipstead Valley Road).
It will cover the activities of the Association for the year 2024
The guest speaker willl be Roger Packham, the Chairman of the Bourne Society.
Come and meet with your committee, our MP and Concillors.
Please see the AGM page here.
Aldi
If you park in their car park, remember to visit the terminals beyond the checkouts inside the store shortly before leaving, or you will probably get a ticket through the post.
There doesn't seem to be any check that you have purchased anything in Aldi, but new signage in the car park does state that the car park is for Aldi customers only.
Other parking
RingGo parking has replaced all of the old cash/card terminals across the borough. Use a smart phone app, or find a Pay Point shop.
Remember, Croydon do not adhere to the government guidelines, which suggests giving people a grace period of around 15 minutes to pay.
Even half or one hour free parking will need an 'electronic registering', so pay careful attention to notices.
Following requests for TFL to revert the changes - which have were ignored - we started a petition to restore the 166 bus route to serve Purley town centre, and the hospital.
This was handed over to TfL in March, and we now have a stand-off between TfL and, er, TfL! With the council looking on! What could possibly go wrong?
Changes are needed at the junction between Brighton Road (Purley) and Christchurch Road, to allow long buses to turn left into Christchurch Road.
TfL are in charge of the buses, and also in charge of all traffic signals on most main roads within the London Boroughs (including the A235, Brighton Road at Purley).
The Summer 2025 Newsletter is now available, and has been distributed to members at the beginning of June.
The newsletter is available here (opens in new page).
All previous issues are available in digital form on the newsletter page, here
Members who are not receiving newsletters, please contact us!
Admiral Minicabs,
Auto Fix,
Coulsdon Auto parts and accesories,
Des res blinds,
Express Copy,
Pristine Moments oven cleaning,
Pure NRG Nutrition Club,
Puzzle Kitchens,
Walter & Mair.
If you do use the services of any of our advertisers, please let them know that you saw their ad in the CWRA newsletter!
Help spread the Word!
We only have around 300 members - so there is 'room for improvement'!
We desperately need new road stewards, to get to know all of their neighbours, and to encourage them to sign up and join CWRA, whilst thrusting a newsletter at them!
We also need more members and committee members... and, if you would like to help without the formality of being on the committee, please let us know.
Any ideas on how to achieve this, or assistance in delivering newsletters, would be most welcome.
Planning
Sadly, the Council's planning department is in disarray: no attempt is made to verify that the building matches the plans that were submitted.
There is effectively no enforcement being undertaken at all.
If you are affected by nearby developments which aren't following the approved plans (or don't have permission at all), then I suggest writing to Jason Perry directly.
For details of recent planning decisions that CWRA has been asked to object to, and for advice on how to write objections,
including the new advice on wording ecology-based objections
see the Planning page here.
Our MP, Chris Philp.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.
Our Greater London Assembly Member, Neil Garratt.
The Executive Mayor of Croydon, Jason Perry.
Our local councillors: Luke Shortland, Mario Creatura, Ian Parker.
Croydon Council's planning department.
Council officers.
Decision makers in the NHS.
The London Green Belt Council.
Transport For London (TFL).
The East Surrey Transport Committee.
The Safer Neighbourhoods Team.
GDPR: We encourage all members who don't remember sending us a consent form
to read the statement here and send us a new consent form.
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