Two residents' associations working together across Beckenham on your behalf
Beckenham Green, next to St Georges Church
Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 March
This year there will be an Italian Market from 9am to 5pm, a mini fun fair for children up to the age of 10 from 11am, and more children’s entertainment throughout the day (Punch & Judy shows, balloon modelling, magic etc).
Plus local company Reptile Events will be showing their snakes and lizards.
This fun family event has been organised by our Town Centre Manager Nicola Musto (www.bromley.gov.uk).
Check out the Spring Newsletter below.
Blackfriars tube has re-opened today. A week earlier than expected.
Bromley residents have started getting ready for the long weekend. So far the Council have received 12 applications for street parties? The Copers Cope Area Residents’ Association are keen to hear of plans for street parties in Beckenham.
The Beckenham Concert Band is presenting a concert aid of St Christopher’s Hospice at St Georges Church, High Street, Beckenham on Saturday 31st March. The programme will be varied ranging from Marches to Musicals and Classics to Jazz. Admission is free with a retiring collection for the Hospice.
Further details can be found on our website: www.beckenhamconcertband.com and on the St. Christopher’s website www.stchristophers.org.uk
Check out the Bromley Police Borough Commander’s February Newsletter.
Currently Local Authorities do not have to provide public toilets and many Councils are closing the few facilities that
do exist to save money. ‘we need the loo! want Parliament to pass a law making the provision of public toilets compulsory.
As you may know the public toilets in Beckenham were earmarked for closure by Bromley Council. Thanks to much campainging by local groups (including the CCARA) and residents the closure plans have been shelved… for now.
We urge residents to support this campaign. The epetition can be found at the link below.
As part of London’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations Her Majesty and The Duke of Edinburgh will visit Bromley on 15 May 2012.
Bromley borough was selected to be part of a special tour to commemorate the Queen’s 60 years on the throne.
The Leader of Bromley Council Stephen Carr: “We are delighted and honoured that the Queen will be visiting Bromley and look forward to showcasing what our borough has to offer.”
“As one of only three south London boroughs to host a visit, we are keen to play our part and pay tribute to an extraordinary monarch.”
“This year is an exciting year for Bromley and such a special event will make it even more memorable.”
The Queen last visited our borough in 1986 during her Golden Jubilee celebrations.
Further details about the visit will be released in the coming weeks.
Report from meeting held on 09 Feb 2012
The Copers Cope Area Residents’ Association attended the working group on Thursday evening. The meeting was also attended by our local councillors, Bromley Council portfolio holders from Traffic, Renewal & Recreation, Beckenham Town Centre Manager, the Beckenham Civic Society, Central Beckenham Residents’ Association and West Beckenham Residents’ Association.
Bromley Council decided to reconvene the Beckenham Town Centre Working Group after the Town Centre bid to secure funds from the Mayor of London’s Outer London Fund was unsuccessful.
A further bid for funds may be put up by the Council later this year. The group highlighted the following improvements to Beckenham Town Centre to included in a further bid.
Every year mortality rises by 19% in the winter months in England ; amounting to an average of 27,000 excess winter deaths. Low temperatures are associated with an increase of heart attacks, strokes, respiratory disease, hypothermia and falls and injuries; where the elderly and people with existing conditions are most at risk.
Bromley Council has been successful in securing funding with the aim of protecting people’s health through the cold winter months. Help is available in the form of:
Age UK is acting as the central referral team to help residents of Bromley stay warm and healthy this winter. If you know someone who is vulnerable and in need of assistance help and advice is available through Age UK Bromley and Greenwich’s cold weather advice line on 0208 315 1878.
Police are aware that an email entitled ‘Population Census: a message to everyone – act now’ is being circulated, allegedly in the name of National Statistician, Jil Matheson. This email demands individuals provide further personal information, supposedly for the Census and threatens fines for non-compliance.
This email is a scam and a hoax. It has no connection whatsoever with the National Statistician, the 2011 Census or the Office for National Statistics.
It is believed the links in the email could download malware to any computer where the user clicks on the links. This could put your personal data, including financial information, at risk.
Anyone receiving this, or similar emails, should delete them, not open any links and certainly not provide any information.
Author, Linda MacDonald, is a part time teacher of Psychology at a Sixth Form College, living in Beckenham. Her first novel is partly set in Beckenham.
Novel Description:
‘Now 46, when Marianne finds her charming husband in the kitchen talking to the glamorous Charmaine, her childhood insecurities resurface and their once-happy marriage begins to slide. Teenage daughter Holly persuades her to join Friends Reunited, which results in both fearful and nostalgic memories of prep school as Marianne wonders what has become of the bullies and of Edward Harvey. Frantic to repair her marriage, yet rendered snappy and temperamental by her plummeting hormones, her attempts towards reconciliation fail. The answer to all her problems could lie in finding Edward again…But what would happen if she found what she seeks?
Meeting Lydia is a book about childhood bullying, midlife crises, obsession, jealousy and the ever-growing trend of internet relationships. It will appeal to fans of adult fiction and those interested in the dynamics and psychology of relationships.’
Bromley Police are reissuing their warning about a scam in which fraudsters are obtaining people’s bank cards, after numerous attempts to perpetrate this scam across the borough in the last month.
The scam works by the victim initially receiving a phone call, or number of phone calls, from someone claiming to be from their bank or credit card supplier. The caller obtains personal details from the victim before advising them that they need a new card and telling them that a courier will visit them shortly to collect their old card. A person, dressed to look like a courier, then arrives at the door to take the card.
A spokesman for Bromley Police said: “Never-ever disclose your bank details to anyone cold calling, banks will never call you asking for personal or account information as they already have these details, and neither will the Police. If there is a problem with your card and it needs to be replaced the bank will write to you advising you to cut the card up. They will never arrange for it to be collected by a courier. You should never give out bank details or other personal information over the phone, whatever the reason behind the request”.
ISG are to build nine executive homes on the site, as part of a £2.7 million scheme. Check out how the housing development will look at the link below.
The Beckenham Civic Society has produced an impressive and comprehensive report on what should happen to our High Street. We recommend all Beckenham residents and businesses read this report. Please let us know your views.
Neighbourhood and Home Watch Network’s national e-newsletter
Check out the Bromley Borough Commander’s January Newsletter.
This is The Old Nursery where consent was given after the LBB refused the application, then contested the Inspector’s decision to uphold the appeal but lost the case in the High Court. A later application that would have made it unnecessary to demolish houses on the road frontage was refused for reasons of access and pedestrian and vehicle safety. Site clearance took place during the spring of 2011 and a further revised application for some reconfiguration of the site was approved at a Council Plans Committee on 9th June. Subsequently, an application for variation of conditions related to replacement of the same number but of different trees from those that had been stipulated in the original proposal and this amendment was approved on 18th October. Since that date building has started, though some further applications for minor-material amendments have been agreed and some appear to be awaiting consent.
The next BCEF public meeting will be held on Wednesday 7 March, 7pm, Bromley Football Club (full address below) – all welcome.
This meeting will also offer the opportunity to meet the Borough Police Commander Stephanie Roberts.
The main meeting will commence at 1900 hrs but from 1830-1900 there will also be the opportunity to meet with local community groups. If your organisation would be interested in hosting a table information stand, please get in touch with me as soon as possible to discuss further.
Could members please confirm your attendance or let me have the name of your representative in advance of the meeting.
An application was recorded for a part two/three storey block to comprise two and three bedroom flats with vehicular access onto Stanley Avenue and Overbury Avenue, 13 parking spaces, detached car ports, storage, etc. These are amendments to a permitted scheme from 2007 which would allow a detached two-storey four bedroom house with integral garage and a part two/three storey terrace comprising 2 five bedroom and 4 four bedroom houses with associated access and parking. Continue reading “Site of 84-86 Overbury Avenue”
Copers Cope Area Residents' Association (CCARA) & West Beckenham Residents' Association (WBRA) 