• Labour council tax pledge
  http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/latestnews/Labour-promises-freeze-council-tax-elected/article-1868041-detail/article.html This can only be good news for South Norwood residents. Labour's Action team member in South Norwood, Councillor Jane Avis said, 'I appreciate that people may have reservations and concerns with our proposals, but by scrapping the Tories luxury £450million HQ we can do this. The new luxury HQ is an absurd indulgence. In these economic times residents want a council that will deliver and improve public services.' Kathy Bee said, 'It was only recently that Croydon council spent £10 million plus on refurbishing Taberner House. Surely if they knew the building was not fit for purpose, as they...
  
• CROYDON TORIES SAY NO TO FREE PARKING IN THE RUN UP TO CHRISTMAS
  At tonights meeting of the Full Council, South Norwood Councillor, Jane Avis presented a petition on behalf of local traders in South Norwood of over 190 names, to suspend parking charges in the run up to Christmas. Councillor Avis described how Labour Action Team member, Wayne Lawlor, had received a penalty charge notice some months ago for purchasing a ticket from the 'wrong machine'. Speaking at the Full Council meeting, Councillor Avis called for Croydon's Tory council to share some Christmas cheer with the people of South Norwood. She described the feedback that she, Wayne Lawlor and Kathy Bee have...
  
• LABOUR BACKS UPPER NORWOOD CINEMA
  Labour's Action Team in South Norwood have been supporting local residents wishes for a new local cinema, on the site of the former Gala Bingo Hall building, in Church Road. Kingway International Christian Centre has applied to Croydon Council to for a change of use, in other words so it can be potentially converted into a place of worship. Councillor Jane Avis, Kathy Bee and Wayne Lawlor attended a public meeting at Queens Hotel on Church Road, along with Malcolm Wicks MP to support fellow local residents in demanding that City Screen, which shows independent, art-house and foreign-language films, be...
  
• Labour's Action Team campaign to get tram extension back on track
  Labour's Action Team in South Norwood have been working hard with Labour's Transport Spokesperson on the Greater London Authority, Valerie Shawcross to put pressure on London's Tory Mayor, Boris Johnson to reinstate the tram line extension to Crystal Palace, which he cancelled earlier this year. Pictured from left to right, Kathy Bee, Wayne Lawlor, Valerie Shawcross, Labour's Spokesperson for Transport on the GLA, and Councillor Jane Avis are standing in front on the bridge in Penge Road, South Norwood where the tram would have passed through. Earlier this year London's Tory Mayor, Boris Johnson, scrapped the hopes and dreams...
  
• Residents protest against 24 hour alcohol license application
  SOUTH NORWOOD IN PROTEST AT 24-HOUR ALCOHOL SALES APPLICATION South Norwood residents made their feelings very clear today as 20 local residents took to the streets in protest at the alcohol license application at the new BP garage just off South Norwood Hill. Passing cars and buses sounded their horns in a sign of support, many giving the thumbs up, some even breifly joining the demonstration. Some of the concerns raised by local residents were that anti-social behaviour in the area around Holmesdale Road and South Norwood Hill was just begining to calm, and now this application has been received for the...
  

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