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Alison Johnson will chair the board deciding how £20m is spent around Croydon University Hospital. The plan is due at Westminster by 26 February 2027.
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Addiscombe
Croydon Night of Dance: Oval Tavern, 7pm Tuesday, Free
Morris sides gather outside the Oval Tavern in Addiscombe from about 7pm on Tuesday 8 September, then process to the Builders Arms. Free, and children welcome.
Addiscombe
Addiscombe Railway Park Apple Day, Saturday: 20 Years On
The Friends' Apple Day on Saturday 12 September marks 20 years since the council named the park. It was a working railway until the last train ran in 1997.
Community
Croydon Neighbourhood Grant: Residents Fund 26 Projects
Croydon put £240,000 to a public vote. More than 500 residents chose at six area events, and 26 community organisations will be funded out of 56 that applied.
Selsdon
Selsdon Community Fair Sunday: Wood Walk 1pm, Songs 2pm
The Selsdon Residents' Association fair is in Selsdon Wood from noon to 4pm on Sunday 6 September. Guided walk at 1pm, singing at 2pm, Rotary games at 2 and 3.
Food hygiene
Croydon Food Hygiene August 2026: 35 Fives, No Zeros
Croydon published 48 new food hygiene ratings in August. 35 were top marks, three scored one out of five, and only two places in the borough now hold a zero.
South Norwood
London Radical Bookfair Returns, Free, in South Norwood
The bookfair's first outing since 2023 is at Stanley Arts on Sunday 6 September. Free, no ticket, 11am, and it came to South Norwood because of the rent.
Planning
Ruskin Square Croydon: 268 Homes, 16 Affordable
Two blocks, 21 and 12 storeys, would bring 268 homes to the Ruskin Square car park. Sixteen would be affordable. The viability appraisal says none can be.
Planning
Brighton Road South Croydon: Flats or 91-Room Hotel
Officers back two rival schemes for the same empty plot on Brighton Road, South Croydon: 25 flats, or a six-storey hotel of up to 91 rooms. Decided 3 September.
Croydon Council
Croydon Must Repay £75,000 After Family Sold Gran's Home
The Ombudsman found Croydon charged a woman for care the law says is free. Her family sold her house to pay. It must now repay £75,000 with interest.
South Croydon
South Croydon Model Railway Show: 20 Layouts, 12 Sept
Twenty layouts, trade stalls and children's activities at St Paul's URC on Saturday 12 September, £6 adults. A Rotary hobby fair runs the same day in Selsdon.
Schools
Croydon GCSE Results 2026: What Each School Published
Woodcote's best ever, Riddlesdown 29% at grades 9-7, Trinity 44% at grade 9. Croydon's published GCSE figures, and the benchmark the council left out.
Business
Zotefoams Croydon: 100 Jobs at Risk in Vietnam Move
Zotefoams is consulting on 100-plus redundancies at its Mitcham Road factory as Nike foam moves to Vietnam. The accounts, and the union's case.
Norbury to New Addington. Crystal Palace to Coulsdon. Thornton Heath to Sanderstead. Croydon is big enough that people living at one end of it rarely have much cause to visit the other, and the tram is about the only thing that stitches the whole borough together. Most coverage of the place arrives from outside and leaves again the same afternoon.
Croydon Today stays put. We read what the council publishes, the planning register, licensing notices, committee papers and spending, plus what the police and the inspectors put out alongside it, and then set down what those documents say. Every fact links to its source. Nothing gets stretched to make a better story, and we always say which part of the borough we are talking about, because a decision in Waddon is not news in Selsdon. In between all that we keep the pages people search for at eleven at night.