Selsdon Vale & Forestdale

I visited Purley today with Cabinet Member Councillor Scott Roche and Council Officers talking to Purley BID. We are working our way slowly around the borough district centres seeing how a concentrated clean-up can raise the standard of our town centres.

At Lunch time on the 11th November I joined with representatives from Talawa and residents from across Croydon in the Central Library for the launch of 'Our Croydon' a multi venue exibition across Croydon that explores they ways in which different communities tell their stories from generation to

As a result of the works by Thames Water in Farley Road in Selsdon buses will be on diversion. Shown here is the information on the TFL website for the 433 route. You can find up  to date information by following this link to the tfl website.

Farley Road is blocked just to the Selsdon (Southern) side of the junction with Queenhill Road. This is due to work by contractors working for Thames Water repairing a damaged sewer. Your councillors were not warned in advance so this is presumably emergency work.

It has been another busy week as we have continued to celebrate Croydon’s Year as the Borough of Culture.

It has been another exciting period to be the Cabinet Member for Communities and Culture in Croydon. It was a great pleasure to join with the team at Croydon Drop In and Cllr. Yvette Hopley at the launch their new talk bus in North End recently.

It was a pleasure to join with Birdgang Ltd, Dance Umbrella and the local community at their rehearsals for their sell out show Family (DYS) Function which takes place this Saturday (Oct 21st) at Stanley Halls. The audience is in for a real treat.

Last week was another busy week as Croydon continued to celebrate its year as the London Borough of Culture. On Tuesday 3rd October it was a joy to join with Mayor Perry and Cllr. Kolade to celebrate the launch of Black History 365.

It was great to visit the Croydon Children’s Library last Saturday to kick off Black History Month and attend the Black British Book Festival. It was a real pleasure to meet talented author and illustrator Atinuke & Kingsley Nebechi and Author Sabine Adeyinka.

Last week it was a real pleasure to visit the ‘Choose Love Garden’ which has been transported from its award winning site at the Chelsea Flower Show to the ‘Good Food Matters’ site at Mickleham Way, New Addington.