The Croydon Insider proudly remains a politician-free zone – so what gets discussed here cuts through the spin and BS that you’ll hear in the Town Hall chamber or read in your MPs’ monthly virtue-signalling emails.
- In this episode, our panel of Inside Croydon readers and community activists look at the Whitgift Centre ban on a local choir raising funds for charities at Christmas – and comes up with some interesting suggestions for what the singers might do…
- In a look at the local arts scene, we hear about the small art gallery in Addiscombe and its big exhibition, and the Theatre Workshop Coulsdon‘s special stage production of It’s A Wonderful Life.
- The panel discusses the housing crisis, the council’s new six-year rule for getting on to Croydon’s housing list, and the mystery behind the planning application for the Purley Pool and more than 200 flats, without a single unit being “affordable” housing.
- And they answer the burning question – just how ‘helpful’ should questions put to our MPs ever be?
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