Tag Archives: Kenley

Croydon questions: Steve O’Connell, Conservatives

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

Posted in Boris Johnson, Business, Commuting, Crime, Croydon 8/8, Education, Environment, Health, Housing, Kenley, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayday Hospital, Mayor of London, Policing, Schools, Steve O'Connell, Transport, Waste incinerator | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

South Norwood police station under threat of closure

South Norwood police station looks set to be closed, the latest in a series of blows for the fabric of Croydon society. After the axing of Croydon’s art activities, the possible “out-sourcing”asset-stripping of the borough’s libraries and the closure of … Continue reading

Posted in Boris Johnson, Crime, Croydon 8/8, Croydon North, Croydon South, David Musker, Kenley, London-wide issues, Policing, Selhurst, South Norwood, Steve O'Connell, Stuart Collins, Thornton Heath, Wayne Lawlor | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Town centre police team to be cut by more than half

The police team operating in Croydon’s Town Centre is to be more than halved, from 22 to 10 officers. It is little more than six months since the 8/8 riots hit Croydon, when a thin blue line tried to hold … Continue reading

Posted in Boris Johnson, Crime, Croydon 8/8, Croydon North, David Musker, East Croydon, Fairfield, Fieldway, Kenley, London-wide issues, New Addington, Policing, West Croydon, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Kenley residents threaten Council Tax boycott over planning

Despite winning the arguments, both moral and planning, and getting a decision from the government’s Planning Inspector supporting them by refusing the development of a medium-sized hospital on a residential road in Kenley, the residents of Higher Drive feel betrayed … Continue reading

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Twitter exposes O’Connell’s priorities over £1bn incinerator

Earlier this week, Inside Croydon posed the question: where was Britain’s most overpaid local councillor, Steve O’Connell, when he absented himself from the crucial Croydon Town Hall vote on the waste incinerator? Only 10, handpicked councillors from the Conservative group … Continue reading

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Higher Drive residents celebrate victory in planning battle

Congratulations to the residents of Higher Drive in Kenley, who tonight were toasting their success in their long-running battle with John Whelan, the millionaire former video shop-owner who wanted to bulldoze his way to a money-spinning 50-bed hospital in the … Continue reading

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Woodley to ask Kenley: Is O’Connell worth £129,000?

Is Louisa Woodley, Labour’s candidate for the Croydon and Sutton London Assembly seat, being a little too bold in launching her campaign in Kenley this afternoon, right on the doorstep of incumbent Steve “I’m Worth It” O’Connell? Starting her bid … Continue reading

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Residents outraged by latest vandalism on Higher Drive

It is not just around Wild West Croydon that vandals are to be found, it seems. Overnight on Sunday, the residents’ posters and banners that line Higher Drive, in leafy, suburban Kenley, were trashed, scrawled with graffiti and thrown aside. … Continue reading

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Rouse calls inquiry into corruption allegations on Higher Drive

Jon Rouse, the chief executive of Croydon Council, has been forced to call an internal inquiry into the handling of the planning process of a controversial scheme in the south of the borough. Rouse, who has never been known to … Continue reading

Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon South, Kenley, Planning, Purley, Richard Ottaway MP, Steve O'Connell | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

People Power III: more from the Higher Drive front line

More on the battle between ordinary residents of a suburban street in Kenley, and the ruthless ambition of a millionaire developer, who is literally bulldozing his way through the planning regulations. Further to last week’s update, residents have received a … Continue reading

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