The Council has organised four drop-in sessions to get your views on proposals to rearrange traffic movements in East Croydon, and parts of Addiscombe and Shirley.   Most residents received a letter about the drop-ins and the Council’s engagement programme.

These proposals may lead to significant changes in traffic movements in your road.  It is important that you know what the Council is considering. Please attend one of the meetings if you can.

You may recall that there were four drop-in sessions in November 2023.  Following these, representatives of residents’ groups brainstormed ideas for changes to traffic flows. Consultants have worked some of these ideas into proposals which will be presented at the upcoming drop-in sessions.

ECCO representatives in the process have focused on putting forward ideas to make our local roads safer and healthier for all our residents,  young and old,  driver,  cyclist and pedestrian.  They have wanted to put positive change in the forefront.   They do not wish this Council project to be merely an exercise in re-siphoning non-residential traffic movements from one road to another.

The Council project is funded from the Mayor of London’s Healthy Streets initiative.   The Council need to ensure that its decision-making focuses on residents’ health and wellbeing.

The four 2023 drop-in sessions were held in different locations in the potentially affected areas.  This gave us all the maximum opportunity to participate.   This time around all four sessions are being held in St Mildred’s,  Bingham Road, making attendance for some ECCO residents much more difficult.  ECCO brought this to the Council’s attention but to no avail.

A reminder about the information provided by the Council about what they have organised:

“The wider engagement will start on the 18 November and will end on the 9 December. There will be an online survey seeking to share your views alongside drop-in sessions at St Mildred’s Church on the following dates :

• Thursday 21 Nov session to start from 5pm until 8:30pm in the Small Hall
• Saturday 23 Nov session to start from 2pm until 5pm in the Pavilion
• Thursday 28 Nov session to start from 5pm until 8:30pm in the Small Hall
• Saturday 30 Nov session to start from 2pm until 5pm in the Pavilion 

The drop-in sessions will be opportunities to meet the council’s technical team, wherethey can respond to any queries you may have.  There will be a web page for the project which can be accessed via the QR code and link below from the 18 November where it will also have the link to the survey.

https://www.croydon.gov.uk/parking-streets-and-transport/streets-roads-and-pavements

If you do not have access to a computer, you can write to us requesting an information pack and you can send your comments in writing to:

Ref: Addiscombe East & West Neighbourhood Project 
Highways (Ref AB)
Sustainable Communities, Regeneration and Economic Recovery
Bernard Weatherill House
8 Mint Walk
Croydon      
CRO 1EA

Local businesses along the boundary roads of the project area will receive an information pack and questionnaire to complete if they are not able to visit the drop-in sessions.

We look forward to seeing you at the drop -in sessions and responding to any concerns you may have. In the meantime, if you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me at abu.barkatoolah@croydon.gov.uk.

Please note that comments or views about any proposals should be dealt with via the online survey and NOT sent to the email address.”