This episode features our latest Questions for the Councillor, with Cllr Esther Sutton, the Green Party’s councillor for the town centre ward of Fairfield, in the hot seat.
Our panel of Inside Croydon readers putting the questions to the councillor are our rugby correspondent, journalist Johnny Dobbyn, local disability rights campaigner Yusuf Osman, we hear from teenager Rebecca Clarke-Irons about her work with the Croydon Youth Theatre Organisation, and community worker Lee Townsend also joins the discussion.
One of our panel members reveals how they were recently the subject of a shakedown – effectively a soft-touch mugging – as they were walking near East Croydon, when what appeared to be an act of kindness was transformed into a moment of cynical begging.
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In this latest podcst, the panel discusses…
- The Eagles have landed it! Crystal Palace’s historic FA Cup victory
- Croydon’s disappearing Lollipop ladies and men – and why they will be much missed
- The latest in the saga of Old Palace School
- How complaints about the council are still on the increase – but are kept a strictly guarded Town Hall secret
- And we find out about the 60th anniversary of a Croydon hidden gem – the CYTO youth theatre
And among the other questions raised is why our cash-strapped council is still giving massive Business Rate relief to commercial traders based at Boozepark by East Croydon Station.
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