Croydon has the joint best recycling rate in London, at 36%, but the refuse collectors have been criticised for their rushed performance lacking quality. 1 Croydon, formerly the NLA Tower, shared with Liberata, Pegasus and the Institute of Public Finance. Councillor Jonathan Driver, who became Mayor in 2008, died unexpectedly at the close of the year, causing a by-election in highly marginal Waddon which was successfully held by the Conservatives. Full-size bicycles may be carried on some sections of the transport network during certain hours of the day. Purley Way is a major employer of people, looking for jobs as sales assistants, sales consultants and store managerial jobs. Nottingham (/ n t m / NOT-ing-m, locally / n t n m /) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England.It is located 110 miles (180 km) north-west of London, 33 miles (53 km) south-east of Sheffield and 45 miles (72 km) north-east of Birmingham.Nottingham has links to the legend of Robin Hood and to the lace-making, bicycle Broadcasting from studios in Croydon, the CBC is fully independent. It was partly due to the airport that Croydon suffered heavy bomb damage during World War II. The arms also include a sun rising in the east. [49], Two weeks after the sixth death, a protest campaign organised via social media held a die-in - modelled on the Dutch "Stop de Kindermoord" pro-cycling demonstrations of the 1970s outside the headquarters of TfL, in which over 1,000 cyclists lay silently in the road and held a vigil for cyclists and pedestrians killed by road traffic. It covers an area of 87km2 (33.6sqmi). When using Simpson's Diversity Index on 10 aggregated ethnic groups, the 2001 UK Census identified Newham as the most ethnically diverse district in England and Wales, with 9 wards in the top 15. [78] However, in the year ending April 2012, The Metropolitan Police recorded the highest rates for murder and rape throughout London in Croydon, accounting for almost 10% of all murders, and 7% of all rapes. These both run northsouth, connecting to each other in Purley. The scheme, run by Montreal-based PBSC Urban Solutions, initially covered about 17 square miles (44 square kilometres). This means that both councils fund the library and its resources, but even though Lambeth have nearly doubled their funding for the library in the past several years Croydon has kept it the same,[123] doubting the future of the library. [6] Croydon is mostly urban, though there are large suburban and rural uplands towards the south of the borough. [50], A BBC poll taken in December 2013 found that one fifth of regular cycle commuters had stopped cycling to work as a result of the recent spate of deaths. The density was 4,448 inhabitants per km2. 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Its network consists of three lines, from Elmers End to West Croydon, from Beckenham to West Croydon, and from New Addington to Wimbledon, with all three lines running via the Croydon loop on which it is centred. All major religions are represented, but of those stating a choice, 60.07% described themselves as Christian. Did you know? The Bromley Times and Bromley News Shopper publish local news in the borough. In the 2014 local elections the Labour party gained all the seats in the Ashburton and Waddon wards and gained the one seat held by the Conservatives in the New Addington ward. South Croydon railway station is also a railway station in Croydon, but it is lesser known. The Tramlink light rail system opened in 2000, serving the borough and surrounding areas. The first Ruskin House was highly successful, and there has been two more since. Newham has had a large Asian community for many decades; more than half of Newham's Upton and Kensington wards were of ethnic minority origin in 1981. Most of the population lives in the north and west of the borough, with an outlier at Biggin Hill in the far south. Croydon has a temperate climate in common with most areas of Great Britain: its Kppen climate classification is Cfb. Featuring 500+ speakers across 8 conference theatres, 220+ CPD sessions, 400+ exhibitors, exclusive free-to-attend networking events, [39] Kenley, again south of the centre, lie within the London Green Belt and features a landscape dominated by green space. Shopping areas outside the town centre include the Valley Park retail complex, Croydon Colonnades, Croydon Fiveways, and the Waddon Goods Park. [120] The percentage of pupils achieving 5 A*-C GCSEs including maths and English was above the national average in 2010. Examples of upcoming architecture featured in the expo can easily be found to the centre of the borough, in the form of the Croydon Gateway site and the Cherry Orchard Road Towers. Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}5131N 002E / 51.517N 0.033E / 51.517; 0.033, "Newham" redirects here. [22], Although not officially 'twinned', The Royal Borough of Kingston has a partner city of Oldenburg in Germany and Gwanak-gu, an administrative subdivision of Seoul, in South Korea. Updated statutory homelessness and prevention and relief live tables and tables 784, 784a and 792. Services travel via the Brighton Main Line north to London Victoria, London Bridge, London St Pancras, Luton Airport, Bedford, Cambridge, Peterborough and Milton Keynes Central, and south to Gatwick Airport, Ore, Brighton, Littlehampton, Bognor Regis, Southampton and Portsmouth. The name Newham reflects its creation and combines the compass points of the old borough names. [7], In 2011 around 2.5 per cent of all commutes to work in London were by bike,[8] though the figure was as high as 9% in Hackney. However, the borough has many railway stations served by London Overground, Thameslink, Southeastern and Southern. Its main aims are to make Croydon London's Third City and the hub of retail, business, culture and living in south London and South East England. East Croydon and West Croydon are the main stations in the borough. A 2017 report from Trust for London and the New Policy Institute found that 36% of local employees in Newham are in low paid work; the highest percentage of any London borough. Lunar House houses the Home Office building for Visas and Immigration. If it had been successful, it would have been the third local authority in Greater London to hold that status, along with the City of London and the City of Westminster. It is thought to have been built around 960. The territory was undivided at that time, A subsequent charter on 1037 describes a transfer of land which has been identified with East Ham, indicating that the division of the territory occurred between 958 and 1037. The original public library was converted into the David Lean Cinema, part of the Croydon Clocktower. The NHS Trust also provides services at Purley War Memorial Hospital, in Purley. 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