Capel Manor College, which runs the Farm in Crystal Palace Park and has classrooms in the Jubilee Stand, is launching a consultation on its improvement plans. The college wants to build new teaching facilities next to Crystal Palace museum in Anerley Hill, and to revive and improve the farm buildings. Read our latest newsletter for the details, and come along to our next Open Meeting on 19 September to hear about what’s happening locally. Click below to view.
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BATTLE OVER SUPER SIZE QUEENS HOTEL
A public inquiry is under way into expansion plans for the Queens Hotel in Church Road. The CPCA has opposed the hotel’s plans because of the scale of the development and the traffic impact. Read our latest newsletter for the details, and come along to our next Open Meeting on 4 April (re-arranged from 28 March) to hear about what’s happening locally. Click below to view.
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CPCA OPEN MEETING TO DISCUSS PARK PLANS
The CPCA is holding an Open Meeting at the Paxton Centre, Anerley Hill, at 7:30 pm on 11 October to discuss current developments, including Bromley Council’s plans for Crystal Palace Park. The CPCA’s latest newsletter has all the details. Click below to view.
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CRUNCH TIME FOR CRYSTAL PALACE PARK
Bromley Council is preparing plans that will change the face of Crystal Palace Park. There is much to welcome in the latest proposals, but the use of parts of the Park for new homes is controversial. And the Council’s business model for the Park assumes that running costs will be offset by money coming in from events and other sources – but is this realistic? The CPCA’s latest newsletter invites residents to contribute to our response to the plans. Click below to view.
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KNOWING BRIAN DANN FOR 45 YEARS
In July 1969 Brian had seen, in our local Norwood News, an article l had written about our Crystal Palace Triangle. Our local council was letting it slip into disrepair…l had a scheme to revive it with the creation of Family Arts Centre. This imaginative idea attracted the interest of many local people including the artist and graphic designer Mike Conrad and Brian Dann -poet! Over the years so many people gave so much of their time and talents to the Crystal Palace Community Association, which we created, but Brian and Mike were among the outstanding founder members – so many talents and such patience and kindness to me and…