Helen Redfern

The Metropolitan Police is currently running a Walk & Talk initiative.  Women working and living in London can Walk & Talk with officers to share their thoughts on safety and how to bring about positive change.

Croydon Council is offering offering a range of Free educational and recreational activities for children and young people aged 8-18 years old to have fun, meet new people and develop friendship groups.

Those clever ladies in Borrowdale Drive have done it again! This evening I spotted their latest postbox topper that depicts a couple on the beach with a palm tree and parrot!

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We discovered more about the film being made in Sanderstead this week.

We have received numerous enquiries about the filming that has already started in Sanderstead so we wanted to provide an update on what we know so far.

Yvette and I had a great time this afternoon at the Sanderstead Horticultural Society’s Summer Show in Wettern Tree Gardens this afternoon. Lovely to see all of the exhibition entries from roses to mange-tout.

I am still receiving a lot of correspondence from residents about the Brighton Road Corridor Cycle Scheme which has involved many changes between Whitgift School and Purley including the removal of pedestrian islands which are now making it more difficult for pedestrians to cross the road, the re

I was made aware via social media of a building site on Briton Hill Road which seems to have spilled out onto the pavement causing pedestrians to have to walk in the road unnecessarily. By all accounts it seems to have been an issue for quite some time.

We’ve had to put up with a lot of roadworks in our area in recent months. It often feels that we can’t get anywhere by car without having to sit at some temporary traffic lights at the moment.

I was delighted to hear this week that Brick by Brick’s planning application to build in the car park opposite Sanderstead Railway Station has finally been withdrawn, four and half years after it was originally submitted.