Here are some quotes from the standard they got at South Norwood lake yesterday:
One walker, Liam Campbell, 49, said: “It is wonderful around here and the tourist board is doing a fantastic job of promoting the area. I think the campaign is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it will get people to recognise this beautiful area and the wonderful lake. I walk around here all the time and in the summer you can’t beat it. The other lakes are very small, though — this is the main attraction.”
Another resident, Maria D’Errico, 39, said: “I come here to walk my dog all the time and it’s beautiful. It’s always been known as the Norwood Lake — it’s almost iconic. It is perhaps a silly campaign, though, and time could be spent on other things.”
Housewife Arfa Khalid, 55, said: “A lot of people don’t know the lake is even there, which is a shame. I think it deserves the name ‘The Lake District’ and the renaming could be great for the borough.”
We are also in today’s Daily Telegraph Travel Supplement.
South Norwood Tourist Board 
I have just been reading the article on the BBC website about your campaign claiming that the Lake District has only one lake & that Croydon deserves it’s title, I feel I have to make a point or two.
The Lake District in Cumbria is one of the most beautiful, dramatic, breathtaking regions on these Isles. It really is a given that most people visiting this area will take away memories of a truly wild & wonderful landscape, full of mystery & history. A landscape where they can walk amongst ancient hills, and equally ancient waters & imagine a time before mass population. A place where people can find themselves alone, with only the wind at their ears & the distant sound of birds of prey.
And then there is Croyden & it’s surrounding area, as mass of suburban estates interspersed by the annoying stretches of green belt land, coveted by property developers & home owners wishing to move up the property ladder. Oh, and the occasional stretch of water which will serve only to improve further the value of future Square Mile worker’s homes. And you wish to claim the title of Lake District?
May I respectfully request that before you lay such claims, you firstly move out of your M25 belt comfort zone & actually take in the beauty that covers much of the North of England? Because like it or not, you cannot move areas of outstanding beauty by simply renaming them. I thought I’d better point this out before you tried to claim the Scottish Highlands, The Yorkshire Pennines or The Welsh Snowdonia.
I see in the Evening Standard article that you promote Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as the literary talent from your area, (sorry forgot the name). He also believed in fairies.