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Croydon schools report a strong year, with a record 98% Distinction or Merit at The BRIT School. If a grade looks wrong, the fast appeal closes on 20 August.
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Parks
Four more outdoor gyms for Croydon parks: Thornton Heath, Old Coulsdon, Addiscombe and South Norwood next in line
Croydon Council has named the next four parks to get free outdoor gyms over the coming year: Mayfield Road Playground, Grange Park, Ashburton Playing Fields and South Norwood Recreation Ground.
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Croydon Bin Collection Days: Every Bin, Every Cost
How to check your Croydon bin collection day, what goes in each bin, garden and bulky waste costs, and the rules that get bins left behind.
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Parking in Croydon: Car Parks, Tariffs, Zones and Permits
Parking in Croydon explained: the council car parks and their 2026 tariffs, why your car's CO2 sets the price, controlled zones and permit costs.
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Croydon Council Tax Bands 2026/27: Every Band, and Where It Goes
The 2026/27 charge for every one of the Croydon council tax bands A to H, how the bill splits with the GLA precept, and how to challenge or cut it.
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Croydon Planning Applications: Search, Comment and Object
How to search Croydon planning applications on the council's Planning Register, read the weekly lists, and make your comments and objections count.
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Croydon House Prices 2026: The £397,000 Average Explained
The average Croydon home sold for £396,760 in May 2026 (Land Registry). Prices by type, the priciest corners, and how the borough compares to London.
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Croydon to London Trains: 14-Minute Runs & 2026 Fares
London Bridge in 14 minutes, Victoria in 16, and trains through most of the night. Times from East and West Croydon, 2026 fares and the last train home.
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Croydon Planning News: Green Belt Fight & Whitgift Sale
Croydon is fighting the draft London Plan's 5,600 Green Belt homes and Westfield now owns the Whitgift freehold for £31.5m. Where each big scheme stands.
What's On
Things to Do in Croydon: Days Out Checked August 2026
From Farthing Downs to Boxpark, a street market trading since 1276 and a first-Sunday windmill: Croydon days out, every venue checked this month.
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Croydon Roadworks: Tram Loop Shut to 23 Aug & Live Maps
No trams between Reeves Corner and East Croydon until 23 August, and Arena to Elmers End until 30. Who runs each road, and the live maps with the answer.
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.