Editing New Addington (section)

==Facilities==
[[File:Church of St. Edward King and Confessor, New Addington, CR0 - geograph.org.uk - 41210.jpg|thumb|St Edward the Confessor's Church, New Addington]]
[[File:The Good Shepherd RC church, New Addington CR0 - geograph.org.uk - 56235.jpg|thumb|Church of the Good Shepherd, New Addington]]
The [[Anglican]] parish church of New Addington is St Edward's Church<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stedwardnewaddington.org.uk/ |title=Welcome to St Edward's |publisher=St Edward New Addington |access-date=7 January 2018}}</ref> at the end of Central Parade, built in 1957. Fieldway, however, is part of Addington parish, under the 11th century [[St Mary's Church, Addington|St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church]] in Addington village. There are also a [[Baptist]] church, the Good Shepherd [[Roman Catholic]] Church, the [[Salvation Army]] and several other smaller places of worship.

Although most of the rest of Croydon has the London telephone dialling code '020', New Addington has the [[Orpington]] code for [[British Telecom|BT]] customers of '01689'. In recent years, cable telephone providers have entered the estate, using 020 for completely new customers, but existing BT customers transferring over to cable can retain the 01689 number if they so wish.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} New Addington is in the [[CR postcode area|CR0]] postal district, the largest (by population) in the country.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/business-transparency/freedom-of-information/previous-foi-requests/people--population-and-community/population-for-every-postcode-district-in-england-and-wales/index.html |title=FOI request: Population for every postcode district in England and Wales |website=The National Archives |access-date=12 October 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/business-transparency/freedom-of-information/previous-foi-requests/people--population-and-community/population-for-every-postcode-district-in-england-and-wales/index.html |archive-date=5 January 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Since the beginning of 2006, Croydon Council have started a consultation with the local community with a view to regenerating the Central Parade shopping district and bringing in a partner to develop new housing and a supermarket retail outlet.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}}