Information for Residents

Information for Residents

If you are looking to buy in Welcomes or Uplands Road (or their spur roads) please email us at welcomesanduplandsroad@gmail.com and we will happily answer any questions you may have.

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Road Levy

Payable Annually from 1st April no later than 30th June each year. The current rates are below with the 2025 rates shown in brackets:

Band C£63 (from 1st April 2025 £70)
Band D£72 (from 1st April 2025 £80)
Band E£88 (from 1st April 2025 £97)
Band F£104 (from 1st April 2025 £114)
Band G£119 (from 1st April 2025 £131)
Band H£143 (from 1st April 2025 £157)

Rates are adjusted every 3 years for inflation. Spur roads generally 50% of the rate with some exceptions.

If you want to pay by standing order or bank transfer please use the following details:
Payee: Welcomes and Uplands Road Association
Sort code : 30-91-72 (Lloyds Bank)
Account number : 02400865

If you cannot pay by standing order (levy due April each year) a cheque or cash is fine. Please use the WURA reference from your road levy invoice when making a bank transfer or standing order.

Note: Arrears of road levy need to be declared on Form TA6 when you sell your house. If you are in arrears with the Association you are legally required to disclose this information to your buyers and/or their solicitors when you complete form TA6.

If you live in a spur road and have to use Welcomes or Uplands Roads for access then the legal precedent of ‘benefit and burden’ applies. In other words you need to share the cost of maintaining WURA roads which are un-adopted private roads.

Members are always liable for the cost of maintaining our two roads should funding from normal sources not be sufficient to cover costs.
In addition in terms of the Highways Act 1980 (Section 230)  the cost of any repairs to our unadopted roads deemed necessary and carried out by the Council will be charged to frontagers by the Council

Thank you all those who continue paying the road levy on time avoiding the need for us to send chasers!

Council Contact Details and Other Useful Email Addresses and Contact Numbers

Councillors:

  • Gayle Gander: email gayle.gander@croydon.gov.uk
  • Ola Kolade: email ola.kolade@croydon.gov.uk

Highways and traffic:

  • Highways improvements: email highwayimprovements@croydon.gov.uk
  • Roadworks: email trafficmanagement@croydon.gov.uk
  • Traffic management: email trafficmanagement@croydon.gov.uk
  • New road lining requests: email ParkingDesign2@croydon.gov.uk
  • Street events: email specialevents@croydon.gov.uk
  • Street cleaning: email administrationwasteservices@croydon.gov.uk
  • Traffic lights: email customerservice@tfl.gov.uk or call 0343 222 1234. Transport for London (TfL) covers the maintenance of all traffic lights within the borough.
  • Lamp columns, sign posts and signs attached to columns that are both illuminated and non-illuminated : email bcz00428@milestoneinfra.co.uk. Also go to Council web site.

Green space and environment:

  • Parks and green spaces including grass verges : email parks@croydon.gov.uk
  • Trees : email treesandwoodlands@croydon.gov.uk
  • Fly tipping on the highways (public roads) : email administrationwasteservices@croydon.gov.uk
  • Fly tipping : email flytip@croydon.gov.uk or call 0208 726 6000
  • Overgrown vegetation on private property, antisocial behaviour, abandoned vehicles, fly tipping on private property, litter on private property, street trading or vehicle trading, illegal encampments, trade waste, graffiti : email public.safety@croydon.gov.uk
  • Blockage or leaking from a private property onto the highways (public roads) : email public.safety@croydon.gov.uk and the Environmental Enforcement team at environmentalenforcement@croydon.gov.uk and / or the relevant water board (SES)
  • Leaking or foul smells from roadside drains : website https://corporate.thameswater.co.uk/Contact-Us
  • Advice on management of verges : website https://www.oss.org.uk/need-to-know-more/information-hub/highway-verges-some-practical-points/

Buses:

  • Bus stops : email customerservice@tfl.gov.uk or call 0343 222 1234. Transport for London (TfL) covers the maintenance of all bus stops within the borough
  • Red Routes : email customerservice@tfl.gov.uk or call 0343 222 1234. Transport for London (TfL) covers maintenance of all red routes within the borough. See the full list of TfL maintained roads on TfL web site.

Planning and development:

  • Vehicle crossover (dropped kerb) applications: If you have any queries regarding applications, please email HighwaysMaintenance@croydon.gov.uk with your name and full address.
  • Highway enforcement (developers/builders etc) : email HighwaysEnforcement@croydon.gov.uk or call 0208 726 7100. Emergencies only.
  • Planning Enforcement Officer : email Michael.Amadi-Wuche@croydon.gov.uk
  • Geoff James KENDRA Planning : email planning@kenleyra.org.uk

Crime:

Neighbour complaints:

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