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Oi! Could the Town Hall do the Lambeth Walk under Labour?
Croydon’s Labour party looks like adopting a new approach to offer to the electorate ahead of the 2014 local elections. Labour wants to offer “a council run for the town, not the Town Hall”, according to the deputy leader of … Continue reading
Norwood Lake is having a fun day: June 8
The Lakes Playground Action Group, which wants to regenerate the South Norwood lake playground, is holding an event for all the family on Saturday, June 8, with lots of activities for children including storytelling by Little Supernovas, a bouncy castle … Continue reading
Steve Reed MP: Residents’ pockets picked by wasteful council
In his exclusive Inside Croydon column, the local Labour MP condemns the Conservative-run borough council for raising Council Tax after mismanaging the borough The country is facing a triple-dip recession. Household budgets in Croydon are under pressure with rising fuel … Continue reading
Posted in Council Tax, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon North, Eric Pickles, Labour, Lambeth, Southwark, Tory
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Reed’s regeneration record leaves Vauxhall cross
Steve Reed, Labour’s candidate for Thursday’s Croydon North by-election, wants to be judged on his record in Lambeth. SEAN CREIGHTON talks to community groups about the council leader’s job creation claims A key claim in Steve Reed’s campaign to be … Continue reading
“Never knowingly understood”? Realities of a co-op council
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Last Wednesday, while Croydon Council was handing over its libraries to Laings, up the A23 at Brixton Town Hall, Lambeth Council was making an equally significant decision. SEAN CREIGHTON looks at the work done over the borough boundary … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 by-election, Boris Johnson, Charity, Church, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Greenwich Leisure, Housing, John Laing Integrated Services, Lambeth Council, Libraries, London-wide issues, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Croydon, Croydon North, Labour, Lambeth, Lambeth London Borough Council, Malcolm Wicks, Steve Reed MP, Upper Norwood Library
Election questions: Steve Reed, Labour
The Croydon North by-election is on November 29, and Inside Croydon has put to candidates a set of questions. We will be putting the responses on the record, published without the artifice, interruptions and grandstanding of the usual hustings. We … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 by-election, Croydon North, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Labour, Lambeth, London
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Galloway to the fore for Jasper’s Respec’Savers launch
It was more showbiz than election hustings as Lee Jasper and George Galloway took to the stage at Crystals night club last night for the official Respect party launch ahead of the Croydon North by-election on November 29. And while … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 by-election, Croydon 8/8, Croydon North, Lee Jasper, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Croydon, Croydon North, Galloway, George Galloway, Jasper, Labour, Lambeth, Lee Jasper
Reed bends with the wind as he seeks selection in Croydon
Steve Reed divides opinions. He thinks he’s great. Others who have had to deal with the leader of Lambeth Council tend to disagree. “He’s more Blairite than Tony Blair,” was one of the more polite views aired when Reed announced … Continue reading
Lambeth leader Reed puts himself forward for Croydon North
Labour’s “long list” of applicants to stand as a candidate in the Croydon North by-election includes the leader of Lambeth Council, Steve Reed. Reed, a Brixton Hill councillor who lives in Streatham, has led Lambeth Council since 2006. He is … Continue reading
Public rejects any moves to undermine Upper Norwood library
89% That is the massive majority surveyed who object to any suggestion that Croydon Council could abandon the 112-year-old joint agreement for funding and management of the Upper Norwood Joint Library. Even with a council consultation which was accused of … Continue reading
Norwood councillor calls on Pollard to hold talks on library
A South Norwood councillor has described Croydon’s decision to abandon its legal agreement with Lambeth over the Upper Norwood Joint Library as “consistently wrong”, accusing Tim Pollard, the Conservatives’ deputy leader on the council, of not acting “in the interests … Continue reading
Time to stop making allowances for “basket case” council
The rejection of Ken Livingstone at the polls last month was in some ways a move away from the nostalgia for 1980s London politics. It may be time to part company with other 20th century perspectives of London local government. … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Fairfield Halls, Jon Rouse, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Margaret Mead, Mayor of London, Mike Fisher, Parking, Steve O'Connell, URV
Tagged Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Lambeth, London, London Borough of Croydon
Council cock-up stops comments on library consultation
Local library campaigners are demanding that Croydon Council explains yet another cock-up with its website, one which has undermined the already shoddily organised consultation on the future of Upper Norwood Joint Library. Croydon Council’s website was offline yesterday, “for maintenance”, … Continue reading
Rouse tells Lambeth to plan closure of library in secret
Croydon has been carrying out secret valuation work of the building and books of Upper Norwood Library, after determining to withdraw unilaterally from its operation “with a real prospect that the library will close” by the end of March, according … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Jon Rouse, Libraries, New Addington, Sara Bashford
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Central, Lambeth, New Addington, Upper Norwood, Upper Norwood Library
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