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Altitude 25 looks to off-load unsold flats as short-term lets
A new planning application for the Altitude 25 development at East Croydon, seeking to allow short-term, serviced lets of some of the unsold apartments, has cast further doubts on the council’s grand plans to build a city in the sky. … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Boris Johnson, Cherry Orchard Gardens, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Fairfield, IYLO, London Assembly, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Steve O'Connell
Tagged Altitude 25, Boris Johnson, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Ken Livingstone, London, Steve O'Connell
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Tech start-ups offer better prospects than more failing retail
As property giants Hammerson and Westfield charge headlong into a £1billion battle for the rights to develop another temple to high street retailing, proud Purley resident JONNY ROSE puts forward an alternative vision for regeneration: the Silicon Valley of South … Continue reading
Posted in Allders, Business, Education, Local media, London-wide issues, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Dan Senor, Fairfield Halls, London, London Borough of Croydon, PayPal, TechHub, Whitgift Foundation
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Heathfield House staging heritage open weekend, Sep 15-16
There’s no need to travel far this weekend for your traditional English cream tea with no end of scrumptious offerings available at Heathfield House at the Green Heritage Fair on Saturday and Sunday, September 15-16. You can enjoy a baked … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Addington, Croydon Ramblers, Environment, Gardening, History, Selsdon & Ballards, Walks, Wildlife
Tagged Addington Hills, Croydon, East Croydon, East Croydon station, Heathfield, London, New Addington
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Bishop pays return visit to Addington’s ancient church
St Mary’s in Addington celebrated its patronal festival on Sunday with a visit from the Bishop of Southwark, Bishop Christopher Chessun, to preside over the Eucharist service. At nearly 1,000 years old, St Mary’s is Croydon’s oldest church and … Continue reading
Westfield swoops in early with planning application for Croydon
Anyone mention the phrase “unseemly haste”? Do images of vultures come to mind when it is reported that property developers Westfield, urged on by their mates, the multi-million-pound landowners the Whitgift Foundation, have just submitted their planning application for central … Continue reading
The council by numbers: hiding the real costs of failure
Croydon councillors are paid some of the highest allowances in the country. That does not stop them also enjoying a very long summer recess from Town Hall business, though. Next Monday, that summer break is finally over, marked by a … Continue reading
What a waste! Landfill tax forces firm to shut, with 70 jobs lost
Another 70 local workers were told today that they are to lose their jobs, as Country Waste Management, the recycling company based on Beddington Lane, opted to lay off its entire staff because of the 2,500 per cent increase in … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Environment, London-wide issues, Sutton Council, Waddon, Waste incinerator
Tagged Allders, Bank of America, Croydon, Dublin, England, Recycling, Waste, Waste management
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Fawns, flora and fauna catch the eye at Selsdon Woods
Regular arts correspondent BELLA BARTOCK has been feeling under the weather of late, but her excellent NHS GP has advised her to get out into the fresh air more often. She was duly revitalised by a trip last weekend to … Continue reading
Inspired by the Olympics? Try the race that’s too tough for Mo
Inspired by the Olympics? Want to set yourself a real challenge? There’s a very challenging – and that means a lot of hard hills – six-mile charity cross-country race on Streatham Common at the end of this month, where regular … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Activities, Athletics, Charity, Sport
Tagged Croydon, Gold medal, London, Mo Farah, Olympic, Olympic Games, Streatham Common
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Allders announces it is to close for a final time on Sep 22
10.50am UPDATE Allders is to close in two weeks’ time, the management announced to staff in a meeting just before 10am today. Administrators were called-in in June for the 150-year-old department store that is so closely associated with central Croydon. … Continue reading
Posted in Allders, Business, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Fairfield, Planning, Property, Surrey Street, West Croydon
Tagged Allders, £1 billion, Company, Croydon, Department store, Hammerson, London, Westfield
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One-third of Portas Fund being used to pay for a committee
Nearly one-third of the £100,000 “Portas Fund” promised to try to revive Croydon’s ailing Old Town shops and stalls is to be diverted to pay for the running of a council-run committee, Inside Croydon has discovered. Much was made earlier … Continue reading
Wandsworth sets up private company to run Croydon libraries
Not for the first time, developments over the privatisation of Croydon’s public library service have been reported from Wandsworth Town Hall long before our public servants in Taberner House have got around to imparting any news to the council tax-payers … Continue reading
West Side Story plays out some old tunes with a new CODA
Fancy escaping the associations of Croydon with gang violence, knife attacks and gun crime? Why not go along to the Ashcroft Theatre to see West Side Story, a musical about gang violence, knife attacks and …
Posted in Activities, Art, CODA, Come Dine With Me, Dance, Fairfield Halls, Music, Theatre
Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, CODA, Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story
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Council helps Lidl defeat batman over pub demolition
Croydon Council has given the all-clear to Lidl to demolish the Good Companions pub at Hamsey Green, leaving local residents and some Sanderstead councillors to pin their hopes on objections to the planned supermarket because it is unsuitable for a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Environment, Fairfield, Lynne Hale, Maria Gatland, Planning, Property, Pubs, Richard Ottaway MP, Sanderstead, South Croydon, Tim Pollard, Whitgift Foundation, Wildlife, Yvette Hopley
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Hamsey Green, Lidl, London, Sanderstead, Surrey, Whitgift Foundation
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Job vacancy: Strategy, Commissioning… [etc, ad nauseum]
After more than two years of some extreme cuts to public service jobs, even to front-line areas, Croydon Council continues to hire highly paid consultants. And some of these are employed in areas which are, frankly, inexplicable. Our loyal reader … Continue reading
The Batman comes to the rescue of the Good Companions
With bulldozers booked and ready to move on to the site, residents opposed to the destruction of the Good Companions at Hamsey Green have recruited the help of a bat man to save the old pub from destruction. Legal notices … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Environment, Planning, Pubs, Sanderstead, Wildlife
Tagged Bat, Conservation, Great Crested Newt, Habitats Directive, Hamsey Green, Lidl, Natural England, Species
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Public rejects any moves to undermine Upper Norwood library
89% That is the massive majority surveyed who object to any suggestion that Croydon Council could abandon the 112-year-old joint agreement for funding and management of the Upper Norwood Joint Library. Even with a council consultation which was accused of … Continue reading
