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[RetiredMember1]

Bromley Council has put aside a small amount of money to improve local shopping parades. There’s up to £25,000 per shopping parade available from a total pot of £250,000, but the money has to be bid for via ward councillors. It could be enough to help revitalise some of these well-used local facilities.

We have three identifiable shopping parades in the Crystal Palace ward.

• Anerley Road/Hill (CP Station end)
• Anerley Road (Town Hall end)
• Church Road

This thread is specifically for Anerley Road (Town Hall end).

See the News and Local Issues forum for the other two
(and a separate thread for Penge & Cator ward)

Not all bids will be successful, so Cllr Tom Papworth is anxious to get your ideas and firm up a bid which will go to the Portfolio Holders in the autumn. Suggestions could be about pavements, refuse, signage, lighting, gating an alleyway to avoid flytipping and misuse, or ways to engage with local businesses and landlords to help improve the appearance of their property, for instance.

There'll be three meetings for the three separate parades in Crystal Palace ward at Anerley Town Hall in early September (date tbc) - all are welcome.

We need local traders and neighbours to help us identify achievable, cost-effective improvement projects, so please post your suggestions here.

And if you live on or near this end of Anerley Road, please let Cllr Papworth know at tom.papworth@bromley.gov.uk - it needs a champion!

Edited by GillW, 25 July 2012 - 04:43 PM.

[Richie K]

My suggestion would be to add more bins to the street and use some of the money to clean the pavements of rubbish - the state of Anerley Road at that end is often revolting.

[RetiredMember1]

Thanks, Richie K. I agree. If it's anything like the other end of the road, there is a real problem with residents of flats above shops having nowhere to put their rubbish. Bromley Council collects daily, but, at the weekend, and in the early morning, the little mounds around posts and pillar boxes make it look pretty third-world - as does the chicken-shop voodoo bones. Given that the pavement is deemed too narrow for Spanish-style communal bins and another viable solution has not yet been found (creative suggestions welcome!), we should at least be able to install more small bins by key takeaway hotspots or near bus stops. I've also recently reported the accumulation of litter in the Anerley Town Hall flowerbeds. Not a great advert for the council...

Edited by GillW, 31 July 2012 - 04:09 PM.

[CllrTomPapworth]

<sub>Richie,

Street Bins is definitely one of the issues I want to see addressed - either through this initiative or through the review of street bins that is currently underway. Do you have any other ideas for how to smarten up the area around Anerley Town Hall?</sub>

[Hermit]

Not quite a shop front but I've noticed that Betts Park, next to canel now has one of those fancy outdoor gyms. Very nice! Would love to see one in Westow Park but they have recently spent loads on a childrens playground so don't think we will get one.