2022 in Purley Part 1 Access and Safety

2022 in Purley Part 1 Access and Safety

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2022 was yet another hugely successful year for the Purley Business Improvement District (BID) supporting the business district and in turn, making Purley a better place for residents, visitors and businesses.

Purley BID generally delivers its projects to 3 core areas of benefit that are approved by the Purley BID Board. These being 1) Access and Safety, 2) Business Support 3) #DestinationPurley

Below is a high level bullet point list of some of the projects that the Purley BID Delivered with relation to:

 Access and Safety

  • Heavily lobbied for and got extra policing
  • Provided extra private security
  • Increased and targeted security patrols up to 3 a night
  • “No cash left on premises” shop stickers created and distributed
  • Many meetings with the police Safer neighbourhood team (SNT)
  • Started up regular “Coffee with a copper” engagement meetings
  • Improved direct communications with SNT team
  • Shutter subsidy created for Businesses
  • Pub Watch Group
  • Homeless management, liaising with appropriate organisations
  • Graffiti removal, commented on cleanest district centre in borough, working on the broken window principle
  • Signed up Purley to Women’s Night Charter
  • The Talk Bus visited 11 times providing support for mental health and youth issues
  • Confirmation of land handed over to TFL for Purley Kink
  • Several meetings with GLA, TFL on the “Purley Kink”, not looking hopeful
  • 5 Litter Picks
  • Rotary block application to manage submitted and approved after 6 years of application
  • Countless issues highlighted on Report it including, potholes, homeless, overgrown area, graffiti, flytipping
  • 6 lorries worth of flytipping removed
  • Attending Purley Ward Panel meetings 
  • Council liaising improvement in walkways
  • Reporting and resolving belly bin overflowing
  • Pigeon feeder fined, looking for a solution that both supports peoples appreciation of wildlife as well as preventing unhygienic mess and littering
  • Challenging impact of the Croydon Centre PSPO on Purley
  • Croydon Dementia Alliance Association CDAA, restarting after pandemic
  • Responded to ULEZ survey
  • Purley “comparatively safe” often quoted by numerous agencies
  • Crime advice passed onto businesses to report all incidents to 101 and share additional information with the crime reference in email to the local police SNT team
  • Dangerous High Street tree that was unsafe, we got removed
  • Site visit of Downland’s precinct with management company

Happy New Year and we look forward to continuing to support Purley for the years to come.

Many thanks from the Purley Businesses, The Purley BID Board and the Purley BID delivery team.