Purley & Woodcote

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 the dozens of utterly inappropriate planning applications which continue to flood in all over the ward.  It's outrageous that Purley is currently supplying about 40% of all new homes in the whole of Croydon - what about the other 26 wards? 

Oni Oviri is standing down in May, having been elected in 2018. If you wish to contact Oni please visit her page.

We're making sure that Purley and Woodcote has very strong representation in the town hall.

We are delighted to meet residents by appointment to discuss any local issues; please contact us to make arrangements.

People
Chris Philp

Chris Philp

MP for Croydon South
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Digital Economy

Since being elected six years ago I have tried to be an active and energetic local MP, and I hope you have seen this. I aim to deliver real results for our neighbourhood, as the box on this page shows.

Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Purley & Woodcote
Group Secretary
Deputy Group Whip
Federation Treasurer

Simon Brew worked as a technical consultant for IBM for nearly 30 years, and he still enjoys tinkering with PCs.

Samir Dwesar

Samir Dwesar

Purley & Woodcote

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.

Ramsey

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.

See Also

Croydon South

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.

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 Oaks & Riddlesdown

Endri and Alasdair are working hard in Purley Oaks and Riddlesdown, listening to local residents and acting on their concerns.

News

Police Dropin tomorrow Sunday

Copied from an email from our local police:

We would like to notify residents that you can come and meet your local
officers at any of the following locations on Sunday 17th October 2021:

Kenley 14:30-15:00
Kenley station car park

465 new trees to be planted in Croydon's southern wards

A few years ago, the Council started planting lots of trees in the North & Centre of the borough, but the South was strangely omitted from the calculations, despite the large number of trees being cut down every month as a result of the reckless approval of so many entirely inappropriate plan

Crime Prevention Day @ Royal Russell School on 6 November

The Croydon Neighbourhood Watch Organisation has arranged a Crime Prevention Day at Royal Russell School on 6th November from 09:30am  to 3:00pm for only £10 including lunch . There will be lots of interesting speakers as in the flyer - sorry about its formatting!

Labour's proposal to close Purley leisure centre :-(

Labour's administration have cynically chosen to wait till after the result of the DEMOC referendum was known before announcing that they plan to close the pool and Leisure centre permanently. See here:

Purley Saturday Market officially launched today

We were blessed with sunshine for the official launch today of the Purley Saturday Market, which was attended by the Croydon Mayor, our MP Chris Philp, the Purley panel, many members of the Purley BID, and it is of course strongly supported by local businesses.

Useful guide to events this month in our parks

Here's a handy guide in pdf format to what's going on in the borough this month; the pdf is attached at the bottom of this blog

Note that Rotary Field will have a fun-fair at the end of the month