CROYDON IN CRISIS: After four years of record Council Tax rises and record borrowing from central government, the borough’s bungling Mayor appears to think that the new occupier of No10 Downing Street might solve his problems.
By our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE
Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed Mayor. clearly has too much time on his hands.
On £86,000 per year, piss-poor Perry has been reduced to turning up for photo-shoots with a pair of pantomime scissors to open public lavs, or to pinch a ride on a kiddies’ roundabout – jobs for which we are also paying a ceremonial mayor and deputy.
One year since the government parachuted in Commissioners because Perry and his dysfunctional council could not be trusted with the borough’s finances, and now the Mayor has so little to do, he’s taken up letter-writing.
On hearing that another local authority mayor, Andy Burnham, had managed to become Prime Minister, Perry thought it a good idea to write a begging letter to No10 Downing Street asking for yet more money. Continue reading
Graham Cluer, from CAS, tells Inside Croydon: “On Wednesday August 12 there will be a partial solar eclipse.
If you run a small business and you’ve heard the phrase “outsourced sales” thrown around, you probably have questions.
New housing developments are appearing across the area, older properties are being renovated, and more families are choosing to put down roots here because of its excellent transport links and diverse communities. But alongside all this progress comes one challenge that often goes unnoticed until it affects everyone: what happens to the things we no longer need?
Visiting our al fresco studio Under The Flyover is Toby Seth, the headmaster of Whitgift School.
Tory Perry’s Croydon is among four London councils that have been found to have used public money to pay Penalty Charge Notices and other road fines “over several years”, according to a report in the Torygraph.
CROYDON CHRONICLES: Trades and professions come and go with the passing years, as fashions ebb and flow. Using the Minster’s archive records, DAVID MORGAN discovers another skill, common in Victorian times and used by a local family firm, but which barely exists today
