Simon Brew

Purley & Woodcote
Croydon Council Conservative Group Secretary
Federation Treasurer

Simon Brew has lived in Purley & Kenley for over 40 years and raised his three children here, and he now has eight grand-children. He is a motor-cycling enthusiast, and also keeps fit by cycling round Kenley Airfield, especially early in the morning; he plays Croquet at the Purley Bury Croquet club and duplicate Bridge at the Purley Sports Club. He is a strong supporter of the Purley & Woodcote Residents' Association, Purley Rotary, the  Purley Business Improvement District (BID) and he is Chair of the IT committee at the SouthEast Cancer Help Centre. He volunteers as an IT buddy at the Carer Support Centre in George Street, Croydon and with the Purley Cross Information Centre based in Purley Baptist Church. His early career was as a technical consultant for IBM for nearly 30 years, and he still enjoys tinkering with PCs.

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Samir Dwesar

Samir Dwesar

Purley & Woodcote
Deputy Cabinet Member for Children and Young People

Samir has lived in and around Purley his whole life. His family has been in Croydon for over 50 years and he attended local schools. He has been involved in local politics for a number of years and is looking forward to working to have a Council which positively delivers for residents.

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Holly Ramsey

Purley & Woodcote

Holly lives in Purley and Woodcote, and has been concerned about the increasing number of developments in the area. Her priority is making sure that Purley sees the right developments taking place that preserve the character of the area.

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Purley

The Purley area is split into two wards for Croydon Council, Purley & Woodcote and Purley Oaks & Riddlesdown.

Please use our map to find the relevant ward for you, and find out more about what we are doing in your area!

Purley & Woodcote

Simon, Samir and Holly are hard at work for you in Purley & Woodcote. We deal with about 40 casework items every month, ranging from missed bin collections and social services issues through to children's schooling and of course fighting for local people on planning issues.

News

Purley BID & panel needs YOUR ideas :-)

The Purley BID (Business Improvement District) has led a team in applying to the GLA for a large "High Streets for All" grant to improve Purley's town centre, and after much hard work and against stiff competition, they have recently learned that they have been successful :-) . 

Now a water repair is causing more traffic jams :-(

Purley is only just recovering from the 3 weeks of repair works on the Godstone Road which was caused by a series of gas leaks, and I regret to report that SESW has now closed Smitham Downs Road, and this is likely to last till the weekend. Please read on...

UPDATE on Godstone Road roadworks

I've just received a detailed briefing from SGN which I include below:

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We have done an awful lot of work on this site and we have had attendance every day and on the occasions that we can, we  have had two teams on site.

A guide to the planning process

Residents often get in touch with us to discuss planning applications in the ward and we want to help you by publishing some guidance on how best to comment, either in support of or against an application.

Croydon and the nation mourns

There was a brief and solemn half-mast flag ceremony this morning at the Town Hall to honour the passing of our illustrious monarch. 

Purley saved from another block of nine flats

I'm delighted to report that last night's planning committee decided to refuse a planning application for yet another block of nine flats in Purley, this time at 220 Brighton Road.