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Transport report for £40m school ‘mysteriously’ disappears
Residents in Belmont go to the polls in a council by-election tomorrow, where Tory candidate Neil ‘Father Jack’ Garratt is expected to win. One factor could be the growing concerns over road safety around a new secondary school. Our Sutton … Continue reading
DWP owes council more than £1m for housing, says Butler
Alison Butler, the council deputy leader who failed to declare that her son worked for an agency that was hired by the borough, has today entered the row over the chaos that is Universal Credit, calling on the Chancellor of … Continue reading
Brick by Brick’s first new homes won’t be occupied until 2019
BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent, on how the borough’s ‘award-winning’ house building company has taken nearly four years to build its first house The first homes built by Brick by Brick, Croydon Council’s loss-making house builders, won’t be available to … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Housing, Jo Negrini, London-wide issues, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Tony Newman
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MP backs Network Rail plans to unblock Croydon bottleneck
Croydon leads the way in one respect, at least: it has become the “most challenging bottleneck on Britain’s railway”. That’s according to Network Rail, and they should know. Network Rail has announced a public consultation into its multi-million-pound plans to … Continue reading
Cash machines that gobble up even more of your money
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Beware hidden banking charges, writes SHEILA ANDREWS, pictured right, as Croydon has more fee-charging cash machines than any other London borough, and has just got itself three more Sunday afternoon, and I’m on my way to The Oval … Continue reading
The Struggles of the Labour left, Ruskin House, Nov 8
The Croydon Assembly’s next meeting will discuss “The struggles of the Labour left”. The meeting, on Thursday, November 8 at 7.30pm, will be held at Ruskin House when the speaker will be author Simon Hannah. Left-wing trade unionists and socialists … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Community associations, Croydon TUC, History, Ruskin House
Tagged Croydon Assembly, Croydon TUC, Labour, Ruskin House
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Frost Fair, Honeywood Museum, Carshalton Ponds, Dec 1
Posted in Activities, Honeywood Museum
Tagged Carshalton, Friends of Honeywood Museum, Honeywood Museum
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Charity worker named winner of short story competition
A Croydon-based charity worker is one of 21 regional winners of the City of Stories writing competition, a scheme which inspired people to re-engage with libraries in record numbers. Deborah Torr, aged 24, who works for the international development charity … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Education, Libraries
Tagged Croydon Central Library, Spread the Word
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Enough to make you physically sick: Labour official Chukas up
Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, on how the stresses and strains of Brexit are showing themselves in the local Labour Party A Labour Party official who works in Croydon MP Sarah Jones’s office yesterday courted controversy and internal party division … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Central, David White, Sarah Jones MP, Tony Newman
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Central, David White, Jack Buck, Sarah Jones MP, Tony Newman
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Peace in our times? Veterans for Peace meeting, Oct 31
Sutton for Peace and Justice in association with Veterans For Peace UK are staging a public meeting: NEVER AGAIN? 1918 to 2018, 100 years of war on Wednesday October 31, 7.30pm (doors open at 7pm) Sutton Quaker Meeting House, Cedar … Continue reading
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Tagged Sutton for Peace and Justice, Veterans for Peace
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When taking to the streets offered a way out of Brexit
KEN TOWL, our non-resident rambler, went on a walk with a difference yesterday, on one of the biggest popular marches of this century, and in some very mixed company The plan was to meet up with some colleagues from work, … Continue reading
Vile Victorians, Honeywood Museum, to Oct 28
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Tagged Carshalton, Honeywood Museum
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Council’s official magazine forgets Remembrance Sunday
A former borough councillor says he is “extremely sad” that the latest edition of Your Croydon, described by Croydon Council as its “main source of community news”, has completely failed to make any mention of the centenary commemorations of the … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Wright, Community associations, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, History, Local media, Museum of Croydon, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Tony Newman
Tagged Addiscombe West, Chris Wright, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Old Coulsdon, Sanderstead, Tony Newman
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Small business given Dobson’s choice by planning committee
Another long-established small business in Croydon is being forced to close, after its landlord decided the retail property was more valuable to them if converted to flats. Dobson’s Upholstery is a family firm based in South Norwood since it was … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Paul Scott, Planning, South Norwood
Tagged Dobson's Upholstery, Paul Scott, People for Portland Road, South Norwood
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Carshalton’s studio theatre given new chance and fresh Hope
The Charles Cryer Theatre is to re-open with new operators after being ‘dark’ for more than two years. But Sutton Council still managed to mess up the announcement, as CARL SHILTON reports It has taken Sutton Council a little over … Continue reading
Trams go into Trophy game with several scores to settle
NON-LEAGUE NEWS: Crisis club Croydon FC suffered its second 5-0 drubbing in succession on Tuesday. The prospect of a trip to Tolworth to take on Corinthian Casuals, a side from the Isthmian League who had already given their strikers shooting … Continue reading
BINMAGEDDON!: One house, nine bins. Is this a record?
Someone needs to call in Ross and Norris McWhirter. Or Roy Castle. Or whoever it is that runs the Guinness Book of Records these days. Is this a record-breaker? This one house in East Croydon has NINE wheelie bins. Surely … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Veolia
Tagged #Binmageddon, #CroydonBinChaos, East Croydon, Veolia
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Councillor’s meeting lights up the vanity of the bonfires
Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, takes a look at just what some councillors are doing to improve air quality (Spoiler Alert: it’s not very much) There’s yet more proof, if proof is needed, that politicians take people for fools. Labour … Continue reading
Mayor pledges to build bridges with Addiscombe businesses
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan this morning promised to intervene personally with Transport for London in an effort to end the lengthy delays in re-opening Blackhorse Lane bridge in Addiscombe. The 120-year-old bridge, which crosses the tram tracks, had become … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Sarah Jones MP, Steve O'Connell, TfL, Transport, Woodside
Tagged Addiscombe West, Conservative, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Labour, London, London Assembly, Mayor, Sadiq Khan, Sarah Jones MP, Steve O'Connell, Tory
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Can there really be a happy ending to the Fairfield fairy tale?
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Building delays, budget-busting over-runs, the inexplicable changes of the names of long-established venues… The council’s £30million refurbishment of the borough’s largest arts complex has been a Pantomime from the start, and says DAVID WICKENS, it is Fairfield Halls’ … Continue reading
Croydon Literary Festival 2018, Oct 27
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