ECCO has received a community grant of £500 from Croydon Council to improve the planted areas.   The first priority is to develop the bed on the eastern corner of Addiscombe Road and Bisenden Road.   ECCO planted a lime-tree in this bed in May in memory of local environmental campaigner, Joan Pick.

There is now a proposal to improve the bed by planting the following trees and shrubs:

• Five dogwood trees spaced evenly in the planted area:  at the back left,  back centre,  back right,  and at the front inside left and front inside right
• Underplanting of periwinkle,  cyclamen coum,  cyclamen hederifolium and narcissus tete a tete in two marked beds in the centre foreground of the planted area