Norbury residents: how to follow Croydon Council meetings, agendas and questions

Norbury residents who want to keep track of borough decisions do not have to wait for a notice to arrive locally. Croydon Council publishes meeting dates, agendas, reports, minutes and webcast information online, including for council, cabinet, planning and scrutiny business.

The most direct starting point is Croydon Council’s committees, boards and meetings page. It links to the council’s meeting calendar, minutes and agendas, as well as pages for planning, scrutiny, the Health and Wellbeing Board, the Ethics Committee and council questions.

What to check

• Meeting dates and papers: use the council’s meeting calendar to find agendas, reports and minutes when they are available.
• Planning and scrutiny: these pages are useful for residents following wider borough decisions that may affect Norbury, from development control to service performance.
• Webcasts: Croydon Council says residents can access live webcasts of council and cabinet meetings and recordings of previous meetings.
• Older recordings: the council’s webcast information page points residents to archived recordings, including older material on the council’s YouTube channel.

Asking a public question

Croydon Council’s official guidance on council questions says questions can be submitted by Croydon residents, or people who work or study in the borough. The page says each council meeting has 30 minutes allocated for questions from members of the public, and that questions can be asked of any cabinet member, including the Executive Mayor.

The council provides an online form for submitting a question. Residents should check the official page before sending one, as meeting dates and procedures can change.

Watching from home

The council’s live broadcasts and recordings page says live webcasts of council and cabinet meetings are available, along with recordings of previous meetings. The Croydon webcast portal also explains that webcasts are intended to make local democratic processes accessible to people who cannot attend meetings in person.

For Norbury residents, this is a useful way to follow borough-wide decisions on housing, transport, planning, finance, public services and community issues without travelling to the town hall.

Tip for residents

If you are tracking a specific Norbury issue, search the agenda papers for terms such as “Norbury”, “London Road”, “Pollards Hill”, “Norbury Park”, “Green Lane” or a relevant street name. Agenda packs can be long, so using a browser or PDF search can save time.