There are new parking restrictions in Cane Hill Park, which cover Monday to Friday.
All roads have no parking between 8.00am and 12pm (noon), with Cane Hill Drive and Lime Tree Avenue allowing no parking between 8.00am and 6.00pm. All visitors must obtain a visitors permit during these times, to use the visitor bays.
The parking fine is £100.00 by UKPC.
Parking: During July Croydon council announced that all the existing parking meters would be switched off after the 13th July 2024. From then on to park in a district centre or in a small shopping parade you would have to obtain authority to park by using the RingGo App or for those that do not have a smartphone by phoning RingGo on 020 3046 0010. To use the App you have to identify where you are and for how long you want to park and pay by bank card. There was a small warning message about RingGo App contained in the notice. “Whilst the council does not charge for using RingGo, some default settings may mean that you pay a small charge to RingGo for reminders.” To avoid the reminder charge you have to change the settings in the RingGo App to turn off SMS notifications (which can result in 20p of charges). See below for more detail on how to do this.
RingGo Set Up
To Park
For others who are unable to use the App or the phone you can obtain the authority to park at one of the PayPoint stores.
In Coulsdon they are:
In Old Coulsdon they are:
Charges: All parking in District centres and shopping parades will be the first hour free and the second period of time up to 2 hours paid for, with no return for 2 hours. However, the hours of charging have been extended by 2 hours and are now from 8.30am to 6.30pm.
Car Park Charges: Again, you will have to use the RingGo App or phone RingoGo to park in district centre car parks. The Council also intend to introduce an evening and overnight charge. ECRA have continued to object to this as it is not in the interest of the night time economy of Coulsdon or residents who need overnight off-street parking .We have also asked for a 15minute grace period before a parking ticket is issued.
ECRA have managed to get the council to increase the number of Residents Parking Bays in the CR CPZ in Downs, Fairdene and Reddown Roads. If you live in one of these roads and would like to be considered for a residents parking bay then email ECRA on .
From the 16th August until the 2nd September Coulsdon Road across Coulsdon Common will be closed.
As a result the 404 will terminate and start from Lacy Drive Old Coulsdon and will not serve Caterham.
The 466 will run 4 busses per hour terminating at Old Coulsdon Tudor Rose until 9.00pm and this will reduce to 3 busses per hour from 9.00pm until the last bus. To Caterham there will be 2 buses per hour until 9.00pm and 1 bus per hour after 9.00pm, these will run via the A23 Brighton Road Hooley, Shepherds Hill and Rook Lane, Chaldon terminating at West Way. On Return it will leave West Way, Chaldon Road, Rook Lane Chaldon, Shepherds Hill and the A23 Brighton Road Hooley.
The first common stop will be Smitham Downs Road.
The current timetable can be viewed on the TfL website.
The AGM is on Wednesday 12 June 2024, 7.30pm at The Old Coulsdon Congregational Church.
Due to the election Chris Philp will not be speaking as originally planned and Eleanor Richardson will be giving an update on Coulsdon Community Partnership instead.
Click here to download the AGM Agenda June 2024 and ECRA Accounts April 2023 – March 2024.
Click here to view the nominations for the committee to be elected as part of the AGM.
We welcome the adoption of our suggestion for district centres of 1-hour free parking and a second hour paid for at a sensible price. We also welcome that this will be standardised across the Borough. This should enable the district centres to remain viable against district centres in adjacent Boroughs.
For further detail on ECRA’s response to Croydon Council, click here to read.
East Coulsdon RA represents residents of East Coulsdon and Cane Hill. Our members use
both Coulsdon and Bradmore Green Libraries. We are of the view that both libraries provide
an important service to our residents that could not be replaced if they were closed and should
remain open.
To read more click here to view the response from ECRA to Croydon Council.
The road works on Coulsdon Common which has closed Coulsdon Road and access to Caterham is not finished and will be extended by 2 weeks and possibly up to 4 weeks.
This will mean the 466 bus will terminate at Old Coulsdon with at least 2 buses per hour continuing to serve Caterham via the A23, Hooley and Shepherds Hill.
The 404 will continue to terminate and start from Lacy Drive Old Coulsdon.
You may remember that it was published here and elsewhere (including Inside Croydon) in February 2024 that the Council had put the Calat Centre site up for sale on the open market after 8 years of struggling by Residents’ Associations, Coulsdon businesses etc. and 2 years by Chris Philp MP’s attempts in discussions with CEX of NHS South West London and Ministers to get a Health Centre for Coulsdon, only to have disappointment following disappointment. The south of the Borough only has 7 medical facilities (reduced from 9) as opposed to the 49 in the rest of the Borough, acknowledged as only 7 in the presentation from the NHS. That publicity of the sale resulted in hastily issued press releases by the Council and Chris to says that agreement has been reached by the Council and the NHS to sell the site to the NHS, including trying to blame ‘local activists’ for delaying the process.
Residents’ Association representatives met with Mathew Kershaw, CEO of Croydon NHS on the 18th March 2024 to discuss the Coulsdon Medical centre on the Calat site. Mathew assured us that the NHS had now purchased the site, NHS England had now released the funding and they were pressing ahead with the design. We asked when we could share the news. He said it should be by the end of the month – March 2024.
We received the PowerPoint presentation that also includes the design this morning. Chris Philp MP seems to have it received yesterday.
The important issues are:
The PowerPoint presentation by NHS South West London can be viewed here.
Not bad for a bunch of activists.
The change to bus stops in central Croydon took place at the beginning of February. The 60, 166 and 466 northbound now stop in St Georges Walk, while the N68 still stops in Park Lane. The 405 now terminates in Park Lane. Southbound the 60, 166, 405, 466 and N68 all leave from Park Street. Superloop SL5 from Croydon to Bromley via Shirley and Eden Park with Single deck buses started in February from St George’s Walk. It is the first time that there has been a bus direct from Croydon to Bethlem Hospital.
The postponed Sutton and Croydon changes: The main splitting of the 407 has been delayed until the existing tender runs out. It is believed that the other changes to 166, 312, 434 and 439 and withdrawal of 455 will go ahead in March 2024.
Bus Usage Stats from TfL – Coulsdon Routes for the year 2022/2023: 60 5,628,532; 466 3,458,891; 405 1,388,941; 463 1,021,321; 166 942,343; 434 218,127 404 185,277; N68 343,751 The busiest route in Croydon is the 109, 608, 923 and the 60 is 4th Busiest route and one of only three that has exceeded its pre-COVID usage. Source: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/buses-performance-data#on-this-page-3
Nonna Rosa has now reopened after refurbishment by new owners Emanuele and Wanni
Marie will also be returning soon.
