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Payment of RRA Subscriptions for 2024


New 8/4/23 Know where to go if you need medical advice

but it’s not an emergency


Updated 28/3/24 Purley Leisure Centre complex update


New 28/3/24 Industrial Action to affect Great Northern,

Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express services

from 4 to 9 April


Updated 23/3/24 Weekly planning applications and decisions in Riddlesdown

Application for Purley Leisure Centre & Later Living Flats


Updated 23/3/24 Have your say on proposed changes to
Croydon's Library services

and Save Sanderstead Library Campaign


Updated 23/3/24 Rail engineering works affecting Riddlesdown’s trains


Updated 11/3/24 City of London Commons Newsletters; Mar 2024


Updated 7/3/24 SNT Police information & newsletters

(PO&R and Sanderstead Crime updates); The Littlebooklet of Phone Scams  Bogus callers and vehicle & home tips ;
DIY home security Survey


Updated 6/3/24 Latest Events
 Litter Pick and RRA AGM;

Croydon Camera Club Lecture; and Pilates


New 4/3/24 Off-peak Friday fares (Tube, DLR, London Overground, Elizabeth line, and some National Rail services across London and the south east)


New 23/2/24 New ‘one stop shop’ for NHS testing

at Purley Hospital


New 23/2/24 Partial closure of London (Croydon) Trams for a month (29 March to 24 April)


New 3/2/24 Photos; Children’s Christmas Party 2023


Updated 9/12/23 Recycling and Waste Dates; Copy of dates from Croydon Council to download and print off


New 9/12/23 New rail timetable from 10 December 2023


New 20/9/23 Riddlesdown Recorder; Summer 2023


New 12/7/23 RRA AGM Minutes 2023


Updated 4/6/23 More Road Stewards and Committee members required


Updated 6/5/23 RRA Litter picks; are you interested in becoming a Street Champion?; other environmental matters;

Riddlesdown Collegiate litter pick


Updated 29/3/23 Skylarks on Sanderstead to Whyteleafe

Countryside Area


New 19/1/23 Photo ID required to vote at Polling Stations

from May 2023


Updated 14/12/21 Riddlesdown Open Space (end of Riddlesdown Rd)

Car Parking Charges commenced from 25 January 2021;

Update on Ringo app and enforcement


Updated 23/7/21 Flooding and street cleaning


Updated 9/12/20 Butterfly conservation on

Riddlesdown Open Space


Updated 29/10/20 Green Belt Farm and Woodland/land in Riddlesdown


New 30/4/18 -Points to consider if a developer approaches the owner

of a house for re-development



L E S S   T O P I C A L   I S S U E S


TfL to extend the ULEZ area

to include most of the Borough of Croydon

ULEZ started 29 August 2023 - Map on link to TfL


Brighton Rd Cycle Corridor - Consultation

Consultation now closed


Consultation to Expand the Surrey Hills Area of
Outstanding Natural Beauty

Consultation now closed


The Review of Croydon Council’s Local Plan 2018


E-Scooter Use


Parking in Riddlesdown generally


Revocation of Croydon Suburban Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document (SPD2)


The Mary Finch Bench, Downs Ct Rd/Selcroft Rd


Purley Map and Heritage Trail


Fireworks and the Law


Advice on bonfires and wood burning appliances

in Riddlesdown


Purley Panel


Croydon Council introduces tougher planning rules on house conversions from 28/1/20 (HMOs)


Dog waste being dumped in Riddlesdown


Riddlesdown ‘Common’ now part of the new

‘South London Downs National Nature Reserve’ and location maps


A flyer (published March 2018), from the Croydon CCG gives good advice on Urgent Care/GP hubs/Pharmacist help


1937 - The first year of the RRA;

 Read what was happening 80 years ago!


View some fascinating photos of streets in

Riddlesdown in 1955 and also surrounding towns


Advice on disposal of surplus paint


Would you like to become a

Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinator in Riddlesdown?


Some Riddlesdown history from The Recorder


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