Land Registry – Protect your Land and Property from Fraud
More than 97pc of homeowners are at risk of their properties being sold fraudulently without their knowledge.
The number of people signing up for property alerts with the Land Registry tripled between 2020 and 2021 in response to rising levels of “title fraud”, according to a Freedom of Information request by Thirdfort, a risk management website. Title fraud occurs when a criminal steals the homeowner’s identity and changes the property title into another name.
You can take steps to protect your property from being fraudulently sold or mortgaged.
Homeowners can sign up to the Land Registry title alert service, which sends email notifications as and when activity searches and applications are made using the monitored address. You can get alerts for up to 10 properties – there’s no fee.
Users do not need to own the property themselves to set up alerts. The same property can be monitored by different people.
Property Alert is a free property monitoring service for anyone who feels a registered property could be at risk from fraud.
You can sign up to get email alerts when certain activity occurs on your monitored properties, so you can take action if needed.
Intergenerational Summer Day – 24 August 2022
MHA Communities South London and Croydon BME Forum are inviting the young people of Croydon to join us for an intergenerational summer day on Wednesday 24th August at the Wilderness garden.
The concept of our intergenerational workshop is to connect the old and young through activities, to build a bridge among the generations and also share their experience as well as recognizing and learning about the skills and insights of younger people.
Are your children aged between 6 to 13 years old?
Are they interested in getting involved in a fun learning day at the Wilderness garden?
We have an exciting programme of activities to take part in!
Join our Tales of two Tails; Games at the Outdoor Classroom; Wellbeing walks exploring the senses followed by a storytelling session.
Young and Old people will come together and join our exciting programme of activities, learn from each other and share and listen to each other experiences.
Details of our intergenerational summer day:
Cost: £2 per children; £5 per adult age 55 or over
Capacity: 20 children and 20 old people (MHA Communities South
London & Croydon BME Forum)
Time: 10am – 12.30pm
Location: The Wilderness garden, 17 Shirley Church Road,
Croydon CR9 5AL
To reserve your place by Wednesday 17th August, contact us by phone on: 07597135220 or email: southlondon@mha.org.uk .
MHA Communities South London – Kitchen Garden Project
At the beginning of May, MHA Communities South London volunteers got together to create a kitchen garden.
They started with nothing but some compost and a pack of seeds. Since then, they worked very hard to support MHA Communities South London’s aim at
becoming more sustainable and to provide a space for the community to engage with nature whilst getting involved in gardening activities.
As of today, we are growing different varieties of vegetable and herbs: squash, southern kale, trail of tears beans, spring onion, chard and more but also fennel, parsley, coriander and more.
The development of the kitchen garden led to the creation of the Gardening for Wellbeing club where we help people living with Dementia, health and mental health conditions, and stroke survivors to access the benefit of gardening. What we grow gets used to prepare a healthy lunch for our members.
We would like to expand our kitchen garden and grow more vegetables to provide a weekly affordable lunch to elderly people living in the community.
Can you help us to help our local community?
We are looking for wood, containers, a glass house, polytunnel, anything that can help us develop our kitchen garden, and generate more activities for those in need and provide support to our local community.
Contact us at: MHA Communities South London at the Wilderness, 17 Shirley Church Road, Croydon CR9 5AL
Phone: 07597135220 – Email: southlondon@mha.org.uk
Planning Report – August 2022
To find out the latest news on what is being planned in your local area, check out our latest Planning Report with up-to-date information on Planning Applications including developments in:
- Addiscombe Road
- The Glade
- Gladeside
- Land S/O Firsby Ave, E/O Verdayne Ave
- Orchard Avenue
- Orchard Rise
- Shirley Avenue
- Shirley Road
- St. George’s Church
- Woodmere Avenue and Woodmere Gardens.
With the all the latest information on the Local Planning Authority’s Residents’ Association Meeting, the Planning Advisory Peer Review that MORA has contributed towards and the latest news on the Draft Revised Croydon Local Plan.
Also, take a look at the MORA Planning App, which gives you an easy way to track all the current and recent planning applications within the MORA area. It’s simple to use and free for you to access