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  • Addiscombe West Councillors oppose loss of Rail Ticket Offices

    • 3 September 2023
    • Posted by: Cllr Sean Fitzsimons
    • Category: Councillors, East Croydon, East Croydon Station, Ticket Offices
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    Labour Councillors at East Croydon Station campaigning on last day of ticket office closure consultation

    East Croydon Station is among the busiest railway stations in the country, with over 15 million passengers entering or exiting the station. The rail companies initially tried to rush the consultation through in July 2023, but were forced by public outrage to extend the consultation to 1 September 2023. Labour Councillors, including those in Addiscombe

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  • Still Time to Object to the proposed 28-Storey Building at East Croydon

    • 14 November 2021
    • Posted by: Cllr Sean Fitzsimons
    • Category: Affordable Housing, Application, Citylink House, Cycling, East Croydon, Planning, Tall Buildings
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    Say No to a 28-Storey Residential Tower Still time to object to a planning application that will overshadow Number One Croydon. Fifth State has amended their 2021 planning application 21/02912/FUL . This means that residents who didn’t object previously have a second chance to object to this overdevelopment of Citylink House. The formal deadline for

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  • Government force Network Rail to abandon the rebuild of East Croydon Station.

    • 21 July 2021
    • Posted by: Cllr Sean Fitzsimons
    • Category: East Croydon Station, Norwood Junction, Trains, Transport
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    Network Rail pauses its CARS programme to rebuild East Croydon Station and tackle the Croydon bottleneck on the Brighton Mainline

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  • Unblock the Croydon Bottleneck

    • 22 September 2020
    • Posted by: Cllr Sean Fitzsimons
    • Category: Buses, Consultation, Cycling, East Croydon Station, Latest News, Norwood Junction, Pedestrians, Roads, Trains, Trams, Transport
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    Let’s avoid the East Croydon Donut Addiscombe West Councillors response to Network Rail’s proposals to rebuild East Croydon Railway Station Addiscombe West Councillors: “Good but could be so much better”. Network Rail is currently consulting the public on its “Unblock the Croydon Bottleneck” proposals (Croydon Area Remodelling Scheme, CARS) to improve the reliability of the 

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  • Making Addiscombe streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists

    • 17 September 2020
    • Posted by: Cllr Sean Fitzsimons
    • Category: Buses, Latest News, Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, Roads, Transport
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    The case for Active Travel “The government expects local authorities to make significant changes to their road layouts to give more space to cyclists and pedestrians” Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Transport, May 2020. Croydon Council supports the Government new policy of promoting Active Travel across the country. The government stated its aim was

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