Save Crystal Palace Christmas Lights!
Community shout out! We urgently need to fund 36 new festive motifs for our lamp-posts around the Triangle, or Croydon will take away this allocation. Once we lose our lamp-post allocation it will cost over £10,000 per year for lights to be installed on 36 lampposts...
Appeal to find Remembrance Sunday Wreaths
EDIT: 15th Feb 2023: Following this appeal, and remarkable community response, the stollen wreaths have been found and returned. Read here about their return. All recovered wreaths were restored to the Memorial, and secured by enhanced CCTV, security wire and...
Crystal Palace Park voted World Cup Champions of South London 2020!
We are the World Cup Champions of South London Parks! Crystal Palace Park is South London’s favourite park in the Cup of Parks tournament, after WEEKS of heats involving 32 parks and quarter finals and semi finals... Crystal Palace Park won the World Cup Finals on...
Time for change
A new local area initiative wants to hear from YOU! The Crystal Palace Town Team is a voluntary group of local traders, community groups, residents and local authority councilors that aims to promote and improve the social, economic and environmental well-being of the...
COVID-19 Support Local for Crystal Palace Area
The Crystal Palace area is cross border with FIVE boroughs (Croydon, Lambeth, Bromley, Southwark and Lewisham), and it borders multiple support and Mutual Aid groups for Covid19 help. Please see this link for access to National, Borough and local support for around...
Ponding on Crown Dale
For all those who suffer form ponding at the bottom of Central Hill and Crown Dale (near Elder Road junction), the current ponding issues have been established as principally a Lambeth street cleaning issue of the gullies there. HUGE thank you to Helen Hayes MP for...
Croydon – Call for Evidence on Local Green Spaces
Croydon are undertaking a Local Plan Partial Review and requesting evidence to support 'Local Green Spaces'. Local Green Space (LGS) designation is an extra layer of protection against development for parks and green spaces. Some green spaces already have some...
World’s first road death at Crystal Palace
The horrific collision in the grounds of the Crystal Palace is where Mrs Bridget Driscoll of Croydon was knocked down by a motor car and killed on 17th Aug 1896. She was sadly the first pedestrian motoring fatality in the world. The new motor manufacturers defended...
Be a Street Champion
There are LOTS of ways to be a local Street Champion! Most councils will support you or local groups with litter pickers, bags, hoops, brooms, gloves etc. With five boroughs all meeting at Crystal Palace, it can be tricky to know where to start! Many local groups...
Crystal Palace Remembrance Day Service 1918-2018
11th November 2018 The day the Crystal Palace community and traffic just stood still at the 11th Hour on the 11th Day, of the 11th Month 1918-2018. A day for sadness and compassion, where the few stood still for the many. For those who served in two Great Wars, for...
Highway Information in and Around Crystal Palace
Reporting Highway Issues With five boroughs all meeting at Crystal Palace, it can make reporting issues harder or delayed, especially with issues on boundary roads. Many issues can be managed with www.fixmystreet.com that automates logging of issues. Some boroughs...
Safer Crossings – Proud and Colourful!
Re-imagine the everyday experience of crossing a road, and make them safer! Popping up over Croydon and London, "street art" is taking on a new form... Selhurst school paints crossing to raise safety awareness (Groydon Guardian)... And Safe Steps for Schools launch...
Air Pollution at Crystal Palace
Five boroughs meet at Crystal Palace, and due to funding priorities changes, in 2010 our cross border automatic air pollution episode monitoring station was closed down on the Parade. This means the public in this area of London have more limited pollution episode...
Thames Water & Crystal Palace
Thames Water agrees, Crystal Palace & Upper Norwood has "above average levels of burst frequency when compared with other areas of South London", as well as having many issues from low pressure, and times of no water. This is partly from our historic old pipe...
Overground in Bloom at Crystal Palace!
Amazing… we did it! Huge thank you to students from Capel Manor College (based in Crystal Palace Park) and hugely supportive Overground Crystal Palace Station team for inspiration and help… and creating the best healthy engineering and fabulous flowering tubs for...
Crystal Palace – Find Your Elected Representative
Crystal Palace is a place where... Five London Boroughs meet (Croydon, Bromley, Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham) Five Local Authority Wards that all meet (with a total of 12 Councilors), Three separate Parliamentary constituency boundaries (for our 3 MPs) all meeting...
Friends of Gipsy Hill
Would you like to help with a new Friends of group for Gipsy Hill and its station, with potential for some kind of community 'station adoption'. Some of the ideas being suggested already to take forward... Station garden clean up! Community piano for Gipsy Hill...
Heritage Mapping Project
Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood has an amazing rich and diverse heritage. On this interactive map (click here), you can explore Nationally listed assets (by Historic England) and Locally Listed (by each of the 5 boroughs) marked with Blue and Yellow Icons. Shown too...
Quietway Q7 Statutory Consultation – Thurlow Park to Gipsy Hill
Lambeth has taken the decision to proceed with Quietway 7 from Thurlow Park to Gipsy Hill (see December 2017 decision details). This will link with Southwark's Q7 route to Crystal Palace. There is now the statutory consultation with Traffic order notices (as...
Local Police Information
Crystal Palace Area Local Police Teams and Contact Information Call 999 - Reporting all emergencies Call 101 - Reporting non-emergencies to the Police Tweet @metcc - for non emergencies and questions. Add details like a photo and if issue is ongoing (it can a public...