Yet again, a big thank you to all the residents, the 19th Purley Scout Group and Cllr Endri Llabuti for attending the RRA spring-clean of the area. About 40 people attended and many bags of rubbish were collected from the area – mainly from the privately owned, open space land.

Also as usual, a big thank you to Tracey from Croydon Council, without whose help, with supplying of the equipment etc, these litter picks wouldn’t happen.

We also understand from Tracey that the litter picks […]

FM Conway on behalf of Croydon Council will be carrying further drainage works on Mitchley Ave outside St Edmund’s Church from Mon 7 April until Sun 27 April 2025, which are to address the ongoing flooding issues there.  The works involve the installation of 3 new gullies and a manhole chamber to capture the flow of rainwater from upstream.

Traffic on Mitchley Ave will be controlled by two-way traffic lights and is being carried out mostly during the school Easter holidays, so hopefully they will not have […]

Despite the awful and stormy weather, about 40 children, plus parents/grandparents, attended the annual RRA’s Children’s Christmas Party on 7 December.

The 40 children seemed to enjoy themselves with entertainment and a tea, and so did the adults tea, coffee, cake and some with mulled wine! And of course Father Christmas put in an appearance! As usual, special thanks need to go to all the helpers and members from the RRA Committee and in particular to the organisers Neil & Rachel Tarrant.

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A big thank you to all those residents; the beavers, cubs and scouts from the 19th Purley Scout Group; the two Purley Oaks & Riddlesdown Ward Cllrs; and some members of the RRA committee who attended the litter pick on 16 November – about 35 people in total.

Litter was collected in a number of areas, and about 30 bags of rubbish were left in two locations for Veolia to collect.

The farm field opposite the shops in Mitchley Ave was particularly bad this time and […]

The RRA AGM 2024 for the RRA took place on Wednesday 17 April 2024.

Here the annual election of Committee members took place (new Committee members are always welcome to stand for election) and residents were updated on all the happenings within the area since the last AGM. At the AGM residents can also ask questions and raise any matter or topic. The minutes for the 2024 AGM are on this link.

We still do need a few more Road Stewards to help us out and deliver the Recorder magazine and collect subs. So if any resident living in our area would be available to become a Road Steward please let us know.

We try and give each Steward about 30 properties, and if you live in that street, it is a good way of meeting your neighbours. The Recorder is issued once a year and the Summer edition will involve the collection of subs at the same time. […]

A big thank you to the 30 or so residents (including those from the 19th Purley scout group and three Ward Councillors; Hale, Redfern, & Llabutti) who turned up at the RRA litter pick on Saturday 29 April. For a change, it was a lovely day, weather wise!

And thank you as well to Tracey Bellamy from the Council for supplying all the equipment.

We collected in the region of 30 bags of rubbish, a metal safe, and a road barrier. It is quite noticeable that […]

By Nicola Hunt – a volunteer for the Sanderstead to Whyteleafe Countryside area

Spring is now well on its way and the local wildlife is getting ready for a busy breeding season. If you are walking on Sanderstead to Whyteleafe Countryside Area (or otherwise known as Riddlesdown Open Space) you should hear the joyful song of the skylark in many of the fields. Look up and you may be able to see a speck hovering high in the sky. This is the male skylark proclaiming its territory and attracting a female. Sometimes […]

Over the last six weeks or so, students in Year 7, from Riddlesdown Collegiate have been carrying out litter picking near to the Collegiate building, ably assisted by Tracey Bellamy, the Council’s Street Champion Co-Ordinator.

They have carried out litter picks, 30 students at a time, and they have litter picked for an hour, choosing to pick up litter, on the ‘White Path’, the footpath from Dunmail Drive to Grisedale Gardens, Honister Heights, the footpath to Hamsey Green on the ‘Common’ and the farm fields opposite […]

The extract below is taken from the City of London’s Newsletter July 2019

“We are thrilled to announce that the Coulsdon Commons have been declared part of a new National Nature Reserve; the South London Downs National Nature Reserve. National Nature Reserves are recognised for having nationally important habitats or species and bring greater levels of protection to conserve landscapes. The NNR will be the second biggest in London, joining Richmond Park and Ruislip Woods, and will bring together the 417 hectares of land […]