Southeastern, and other operators, are confirming an extension to the consultation period on the future of ticket offices, originally announced on 5 July 2023. The consultation will now conclude on 1 September 2023. Southeastern is committed to providing information in a wider range of formats, to ensure the consultation is accessible and people and organisations responding to it can be as fully informed as possible.
If you would like to comment on these proposals contact London Travel Watch – the independent transport watchdog for London, by 1 Sept 2023 using the details below:
Bromley Council have asked Residents Associations like ours to help to raise awareness of changes being introduced to the way people vote. The Council advise:
The Elections Act has introduced, amongst other things, the requirement for people to produce certain types of photographic ID in order to vote at a polling station. Full details can be found on the Council’s webpage – www.bromley.gov.uk/VoterID.
Over the coming months further changes are due to take place, including changes to postal and proxy voting. These details can be found at www.bromley.gov.uk/ElectionsAct2022 and will be updated when details are confirmed.
This consultation specifically covers the proposed section of the Superloop between Bromley North and Croydon Town Centre. The consultation will run from 21 July until 4 September, and we hope you will take time to review our consultation material and respond to our questionnaire. You can do this by either:
Writing to us at FREEPOST TFL HAVE YOUR SAY (SL5).
Please also feel free to contact me if you have any questions regarding our proposals, the consultation or to arrange a briefing on the proposed route.
What are we proposing?
We are proposing to introduce a new express bus service, the SL5, between Bromley and Croydon Town Centre. This new express service would be a more direct route than the existing 119-bus route. We are not proposing to change the frequency of the 119-bus route.
The SL5 would run with buses every 12 minutes Monday to Saturday and buses every 15 minutes on evenings and Sundays.
The new SL5 route would provide extra bus capacity in busy locations, encourage more sustainable journeys, allow for quicker journeys and more transport options to move between key transport and town centre locations in Bromley and Croydon. However, as part of our consultation we want your feedback on whether these are the right places for a new express route to operate.
Southeastern, and other operators, are confirming an extension to the consultation period on the future of ticket offices, originally announced on 5 July 2023. The consultation will now conclude on 1 September 2023. Southeastern is committed to providing information in a wider range of formats, to ensure the consultation is accessible and people and organisations responding to it can be as fully informed as possible.
If you would like to comment on these proposals contact London Travel Watch – the independent transport watchdog for London, by 1 Sept 2023 using the details below:
Local people have until 7 August to buy personalised bricks that will surround the restored bandstand. The bricks cost £100 and will be a lasting memorial for locals who want a permanent link to this historic bandstand. While remembered for the famous performance by David Bowie in 1969, it was built in 1905 and is the last traditional bandstand in Bromley. Find out more here.
The Copers Cope Area Residents Association was one of the founding members of the Bromley Environment Network known as the BEN. The BEN brings together many community groups to share ideas on how to be more environmentally friendly. Click here for their most recent newsletter.
Southeastern has announced a consultation – to be conducted by London TravelWatch and Transport Focus – on the future of ticket offices. The purpose of the consultation is engaging with customers, staff and stakeholders on making more station staff available to assist customers face-to-face and continue rolling out popular self-service technology for buying tickets. London TravelWatch will conduct the consultation for ticket offices in the London area, whilst Transport Focus will conduct it for all others. Find out more at https://www.southeasternrailway.co.uk/ticketofficeconsultation
If you would like to comment on these proposals contact London Travel Watch – the independent transport watchdog for London, by Wednesday 26 July 2023 using the details below:
It’s the Ziggy Stardust Family Fun day TODAY, 10am to 5pm on Beckenham Green.
Street food (Greek, Mexican, wood fired pizza, Bao Buns and chicken waffles) and to wash it down, coffee, craft beers, spritz and lemonade. Foodie stalls, craft and market stalls. Free live entertainment on stage, free kids craft and big games.
Plus spot the Bowie Dolls in the High Street Trail.
As part of the Ziggy Stardust Family Funday being held on Beckenham Green between 10am and 5pm on Saturday 1st July, we have a free kids Ziggy Stardust Trail in the High Street.
Will you be able to find all the Ziggy Stardust Dolls in the shop windows along the High Street?
If you find them you can claim a prize (while stocks last) from the Copers Cope Area Residents’ Association tent on Beckenham Green. Check out what else is happening on Beckenham Green between 10am and 5pm on 1st July 2023 here.
STARTING POINT Download a trail card to print at home or pick one up from outside the first stop (starting point)) on the trail (hint – it’s where bicycles are sold).
We have a fantastic line up of entertainment on Saturday at the Ziggy Startdust Family Fun Day, see below.
Head on over to Beckenham Green to enjoy live music inspired by former Beckenham resident David Bowie. Plus fun fair, street foods, Facepainting, 30+ market stalls, free kids art activity tent, and more.
It’s our community Market on the Green and with lots of Bowie Stardust! A fabulous family Fun Day celebrating Ziggy Stardust, David Bowie’s famous alter-ego he created when living in Beckenham.
When: 10am to 5pm on Saturday 1 July 2023
Where: Beckenham Green (next to St George’s Church, Beckenham High Street, BR3 5JG, near Beckenham Junction Station and Tram link)
What: music, live performances on stage, street food, 30+ market stalls, funfair, free kids entertainment, facepainting, and much more…
Bromley Council are putting forward for consideration a Dog Control Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) and Bromley residents are being asked to share their views. Find out more here.
On Sunday 30 April2023 from 2.30pm to 5pm (and also Sunday 18 June 2023), you’ll be able to visit Myra Bright’s garden at 37 Crescent Road, Beckenham BR3 6NF. Adults £4, children free.
Myra is opening her garden to the public through the National Garden Scheme (website www.ngs.org.uk), to raise money for nursing and healthcare charities. In this short article, Myra tells us about her garden and her first experience of opening it with NGS, last year. More information on visiting this garden and others can be found at the end of the article.
“We opened the garden with NGS for the first time in June 2022 and welcomed 160 visitors over the course of the afternoon, raising a very respectable amount for NGS’ beneficiary charities. We served teas on the veranda and had a plant stall at the front. I gathered friends to help take the money, serve tea and home-made cakes, and sell plants. We were blessed with a sunny day and I loved that our visitors took such an interest in our garden. We enjoyed it so much that we are opening twice this year, on Sunday 30 April and Sunday 18 June.
Gardening for me was learnt by osmosis. My mother and my aunts were keen gardeners with large gardens, which they opened regularly for the NGS. At a young age I was coerced into weeding in the days running up to the garden being opened. My mother was always discovering new and exciting plant nurseries and I enjoyed going with her to buy plants. If there was an interesting church nearby to visit, her day was made!
When we moved to Beckenham, in 2018, I had the exciting task of working with a blank canvas: we’d inherited an overgrown, messy garden of about 50 by 60 feet, largely untouched for 30 years. My husband’s only stipulation was “no lawn” because he’d spent too many years mowing.
One day, while we walked through the gardens at Beckenham Place Park, I saw an area of planting designed like a pie chart and I had my eureka moment. I just knew this should be the main design for my garden. We now have four triangular planting beds separated by gravel paths, with a stunning large blue pot in the middle. The beds are filled with salvias, euphorbias, iris, peony, roses, knautia, seasonal bulbs and many “filler” plants, grown from seed in my potting shed. We were amazed at the speed with which everything grew.
We also put in climbing roses and a few mature trees, including a winter-flowering cherry and an Amelanchier, now in its spring bloom.
Our grandchildren love the garden and enjoy planting carrots, spinach and other vegetables. I’m keen to nurture a love of gardening in them. Our vegetable beds also have some tulips, grown for cutting, as I can’t bear to take tulips from the main garden!
Like my mother, I have become a plantaholic over the last few years, constantly trying to find unusual plants for our garden. I also still enjoy visiting the many small plant nurseries out there which have interesting plants and need our support.”
If you enjoy plants and gardens, we hope you’ll come along to 37 Crescent Road, Beckenham BR3 6NF on Sunday 30 April or Sunday 18 June, both 2.30pm to 5pm. Bring friends, enjoy the garden and treat yourself to tea and cake. Perhaps you’ll feel like making a purchase at our plant sale too. Booking isn’t essential, but to book online or find out more about NGS, use our website: www.ngs.org.uk. To find more gardens to visit, try the simple “Find a Garden” tool on the NGS website.
In Bromley we want to increase the number of women, or people with a cervix, attending their cervical screening test (smear test). We want to understand what is working well and what may need to improve.
If you live in Bromley, you are a woman or a person with a cervix and are aged 25 to 64, please complete our short survey which will take roughly 4-5 minutes. Your answers are anonymous and we will use the information we collect to review the services currently provided.
Please share your views by completing oursurveybefore the 30 April 2023.
I am seeking to engage with local people who would be interested in joining with me in seeking ways to rejuvenate the Park and facilities at Harvington.
The area is currently showing severe signs of neglect and lack of tender loving care. The ‘Friends of Parks’ is now left with just one survivor from the previous group. The playground area is in need of improvement,the pavilion/clubhouse is in the main unuseable and all is subject to vandalism etc.
The Council are falling down on any obligations they have and neither they or the Council contractors seemingly have any funds available to try and rectify or improve matters.
I have made initial contact with the local councillors, Wendy from the friends group, Cherie Langley from Langley Estate Agents and Mac from Eversley Rangers football club. The area is extensively used for activities – exercise,dog walking,sports etc., so any improvement would be in everyone’s interest.
Any future project would depend on support from the users and other interested parties willing to get together to come up with a plan.
I would be delighted if anyone who has an interest could make contact with me with a view to doing something about it.
Look forward to hearing
Keith Rodwell
Bromley Friends Forum (vice chair)
The group which oversees all Parks friends groups in Bromley
Copers Cope Area Residents' Association (CCARA) & West Beckenham Residents' Association (WBRA) 