Category Archives: Transport

Subaru sports car makes British debut at Croydon showrooms

Posted on May 19, 2012 by

The only Subaru BRZ in the UK has just arrived in Croydon for its British debut. Kinghams, the South Croydon dealership, received the new model yesterday, and has it on public view for the next four days only.

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Hammerson gets green light for £50m scheme at Centrale

Posted on May 18, 2012 by

Croydon Council’s planning committee last night gave approval for Hammerson‘s £50million redevelopment scheme for their Centrale shopping mall in North End. But the approval only came after the councillors on the committee were given firm guidance – in effect a … Continue reading →

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Folly of a debate sees dour O’Connell bat out his innings

Posted on April 26, 2012 by

Croydon got its own version of the election hustings this week for its London Assembly candidates. ANDREW PELLING was one of the few who went along to Folly’s End Sixty-five assorted political activists, journalists and council officers rather rattled around … Continue reading →

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Boris has no answers for campaigning Croydon teenager

Posted on April 25, 2012 by

Last night’s London Debate on ITV means that the Mayoral candidates – or at least some of them – have now appeared in four televised hustings across various channels. You do wonder whether even the capital’s chattering classes bothered to … Continue reading →

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Croydon questions: Steve O’Connell, Conservatives

Posted on April 23, 2012 by

Steve O’Connell has been the Conservative Assembly Member for Sutton and Croydon since 2008. The former mortgage salesman is now a full-time politician, according to the Daily Mail “Britain’s best-paid councillor”, collecting £115,000 in 2011 in publicly funded allowances from … Continue reading →

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Not everyone recognises a good thing on the election trail

Posted on April 22, 2012 by

Saturday morning, what do you do? Bit of shopping, perhaps? Ken Livingstone was in the market for some more votes in his campaign to be elected as London’s Mayor on May 3 as he spent a couple of hours touring … Continue reading →

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Assembly candidate O’Connell doesn’t care who runs libraries

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

ANDREW PELLING gets some conflicting answers from candidates at Croydon and Sutton election hustings Steve O’Connell, the Conservatives’ London Assembly candidate, shocked a Croydon election hustings meeting when he told them that he does not care who runs public libraries. … Continue reading →

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Croydon questions: Gordon Ross, Green Party

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

Inside Croydon has circulated all the Sutton and Croydon candidates standing for election to the London Assembly with a set of questions. Over the coming days, we will be publishing the candidates’ responses in full, unedited, and without the artifice, … Continue reading →

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Psst. Croydon plans for the future. Quietly

Posted on April 7, 2012 by

This just in this morning, from the council’s “spatial” planning department. Undoubtedly, for anyone with any interest in the future of Croydon, as a resident or a business owner, this “framework” will be of avid interest. But does it strike … Continue reading →

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Victory for pedestrians as Waddon crossing is saved

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

Inside Croydon can claim another campaigning victory, with the decision announced this week by Transport for London to retain the pedestrian crossing on the busy Purley Way by Waddon Park Avenue and Alton Road. Proposals to remove the crossing by … Continue reading →

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