Jeet Bains, Kyle Knight and the Addiscombe East Conservatives are working hard for you, all year round. From Blackhorse Lane to Addiscombe Road, they're fighting to make your voices heard at the Town Hall.
Shadow Cabinet Member for Culture and Regeneration
Jeet Bains is your Councillor in Addiscombe East ward where he has lived for more than thirty years. Jeet has been a Councillor in Croydon since 2010 and takes a keen interest in helping local residents and businesses with any issues they have.
Kyle Knight has lived in Addiscombe East for six years, having grown up in Shirley. He has previously stood for Council in Roehampton and Putney Heath.
Addiscombe is split into two wards for elections to Croydon Council, Addiscombe East and Addiscombe West. Please see the relevant page for your ward here.
Your local Addiscombe West team are working all-year round to challenge the Labour Council and incumbents and represent the good people of Addiscombe West.
From 2002 to May 2018 each parliamentary constituency in Croydon was made up of exactly eight wards, all fully contained within it. Shortly after taking control in 2014 Croydon Labour requested a review of the local authority boundaries.
Here is an update on Croydon Council’s proposed Local Plan, in which they seek to massively increase the number of properties through “Intensification” (their own description).
Earlier this month, Cllr Jeet Bains was contacted by the HOME residents association to alert us to excessive graffiti that had appeared on the Sandilands tram stop.
Cllr Bains and I worked together to take swift action, contacting TfL and others to ensure removal.
Last Saturday I arranged a litter pick in Ashburton Park and we were joined by lots of marvellous folk who helped out. Several bags were collected and it was agreed with the Council that they would pick up those bags that same day. This is the norm with such community litter picks.
I have received a number of requests from residents about volunteering to do that which the Council no longer can or will because of their cash-strapped situation.
On Sunday I attended the HOME Residents' Association AGM on Outram Road. It was great to see everyone in the garden, eat some amazing home-made cakes, and enjoy a glass or two of summery drinks.
Are libraries important? We all have childhood memories of our local libraries. For me, I remember reading Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Hobbit for the first time.
Tonight all Croydon Councillors will be called upon to vote on a budget put forward by the Labour administration that bankrupted our town. It will be a sober moment, one that calls for calm heads and puts the people of Croydon first.
The government has provided COVID-19 funding for businesses in the form of the Local Restrictions Support Grants (LRSG) and the Additional Restrictions Grants (ARG). The LRSG grants are for those businesses with an NNDR (business rates) account in their local authority area.
