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Why do all roads lead to Hammersfield but not the costs?
CROYDON COMMENTARY: In response to TfL proposals to build a flyover to the Croydon Flyover, DAVID WICKENS asks why the town centre’s £1bn shopping mall developers are not required to contribute more towards improving the borough’s transport network I believe … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boris Johnson, Business, Centrale, Commuting, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, East Croydon, Environment, Jo Negrini, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Purley Way, Tramlink, Transport, Waddon, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Hammerson, Labour, Tory, Waddon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Woodside residents given fortnight to review Oasis plans
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Residents in Woodside have just received a special Christmas present – more than 2,000 pages of planning proposals for the Oasis Arena Academy, all to be reviewed and commented on by December 25. Not surprising that FRANCES FEARON … Continue reading
Posted in Ashburton, Croydon Council, Croydon FC, Croydon Harriers, Education, Environment, Hamida Ali, London-wide issues, Oasis Academy, Paul Scott, Planning, Ryelands Primary and Nursery, Schools, South Norwood, Sport, Tony Newman, Tramlink, Transport, Wildlife, Woodside
Tagged Addiscombe West, Conservative, Croydon Arena, Hamida Ali, Labour, Oasis Academy, Paul Scott, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Tory, Woodside
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Boris aides make a meal of London Mayor’s Chinese giveaway
London Mayor Boris Johnson’s cosily close links to China’s ZhongRong Group, to whom he wants to hand over a large chunk of publicly owned Crystal Palace Park, have been further exposed today, in the latest edition of the scurrilous satirical … Continue reading
Purley Pool to close as council Budget cuts begin to bite
Croydon Council is to close Purley Pool in a cost-cutting exercise aimed at avoiding having to spend at least £780,000 on urgently required repairs and renovations to the much-neglected swimming facility. Purley’s swimming pools’ fate was sealed once the council … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon South, Fusion, Leisure services, Nathan Elvery, Planning, Property, Purley, Purley Pool, Sport, Swimming
Tagged Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Labour, Purley, Purley Pool, Tory
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Arena trams ‘most congested part of network’ says Bee
Croydon Council’s planning committee meets next month to consider the application to build a massive secondary academy on Metropolitan Open Land next to Croydon Sports Arena. But the Labour-run council’s cabinet member for transport has already suggested that public transport … Continue reading
Posted in Ashburton, Boris Johnson, Commuting, Croydon Council, Education, Environment, Kathy Bee, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Oasis Academy, Parking, Paul Greenhalgh, Planning, Schools, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Tramlink, Transport, Wayne Lawlor
Tagged Arena Academy, Conservative, Croydon Council, Kathy Bee, Labour, Oasis, Tony Newman, Tory, Tramlink, Trams, Wayne Lawlor
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Council can’t show Elvery got permission for private company
Croydon Council has no record of any correspondence from Nathan Elvery, now its chief executive, to show whether he ever sought or obtained permission to form a private consultancy company when he was already working full-time as the borough’s deputy … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Hannah Miller, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Labour, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman, Tory
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No evidence that Boris’s flyover will improve traffic flow
Croydon and Sutton residents whose Croydon Road and Duppas Hill homes, businesses and public park could be under threat from Boris Johnson’s multi-million-pound proposal to build a flyover to the Croydon Flyover may struggle to get any support from their … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Boris Johnson, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Croydon South, Darren Johnson, Environment, Jo Negrini, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Tony Newman, Tramlink, Transport, Waddon, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boris Johnson, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Mayor, Richard Ottaway, Tory, Waddon, Westfield, Whitgift Foundation
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Council talking shops must listen to poor and dispossessed
CROYDON COMMENTARY: While I can appreciate the perspective of almost all the parties involved in this debate, says ROD DAVIES, there is a far more serious question to pose ourselves over how a community talking shop is managed and funded … Continue reading
Now UKIP’s Winston McKenzie wants to ban Christmas
Winston McKenzie, Nigel Farage’s UKIP candidate for Croydon North at next year’s General Election, wants to stop his branch members from holding a Christmas party. Locally, McKenzie has become known as the “Chump from the Dump” since his televised remarks … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon North, Winston McKenzie
Tagged Christmas, Croydon North, UKIP, Winston McKenzie
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City Hall documents confirm Palace park schemes are linked
Attempts by one of Sebastian Coe’s companies to distance themselves from any relationship with China’s ZhongRong Group appear to be in vain after the Greater London Authority published its consultants’ brief and an interim report which demonstrate that any scheme … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Business, Croydon Greens, Croydon Harriers, Croydon North, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London-wide issues, Martyn Rooney, Mayor of London, Outside Croydon, Planning, Property, South London Harriers, Sport, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon North, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Lord Coe, Sebastian Coe, Steve Reed, Tory, ZhongRong, ZRG
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UKIP candidate given job by council-backed ‘talking shop’
The Croydon Communities [sic] Consortium, which received a £5,000 grant from the then Tory-run Croydon Council to stage “apolitical” meetings, has appointed the leader of a local branch of UKIP as its new deputy chairman. This appointment follows the previous … Continue reading
‘I was singled out and heckled. I was the only black man there’
When GLEN HART attended a meeting of what is supposed to be a council-funded community group, he was abused for daring to ask questions. But he was even more shocked when he saw that he was the only black man … Continue reading
Another supermarket to open up, but on wrong side of tracks
Clearly, we all need a new Sainsbury’s supermarket in Croydon. We don’t have enough supermarkets, or the “Local” or “Express” versions, dotted around the borough’s high streets already, sucking in as much business as they possibly can, assisted by the … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Commuting, East Croydon, ECCO, Planning, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Addiscombe West, Conservative, Croydon Central, East Croydon station, Tory
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Champ! Winston McKenzie’s fame spreads to Metroknobbers
The south London blogosphere’s regular podcast, Metroknobbers, has it all this month, with Emily “White Van” Thornberry, now the former shadow attorney general, plus UKIP’s favourite ex-boxer, Winston McKenzie, and even a guest appearance by someone best described as the … Continue reading
Eagle Improv with a touch of tinsel, Spread Eagle, Dec 17
This most spiffing comedy improv outfit presents a monthly mash-up of off-the-cuff games, daring tomfoolery and feats of extraordinary imagination at The Spread Eagle Pub and Theatre. Last Christmas I gave you my heart. This year I give you a … Continue reading
Incinerator campaign seeks justice by going to Court of Appeal
AND THE FIGHT GOES ON: The legal battle against the Viridor-operated waste incinerator to be built at Beddington took another step this week when the Stop the Incinerator Campaign lodged permission to appeal. The legal campaign is being conducted with … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Greens, Environment, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Tony Newman, Tory, Waddon
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