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Latest Addiscombe road changes are heading only one way
Croydon Council officials’ ability to set neighbour against neighbour plumbed new depths this week at the Traffic Management Advisory Committee meeting held at the Town Hall. On the agenda was the council officers’ proposal to make Canning Road and Addiscombe … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe and Shirley Park RA, Addiscombe Residents Association, Addiscombe West, Community associations, ECCO, HOME, Mark Watson, Patricia Hay-Justice, Sean Fitzsimons, TACRA
Tagged Addiscombe and Shirley Park Residents' Association, Addiscombe West, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, ECCO, HOME, Lebanon Road, Mark Watson, TACRA
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Tories agree: Labour’s Fairfield deal looking good for Croydon
WALTER CRONXITE on an outbreak of consensus and agreement for the future of the borough Tory councillors’ “opposition for opposition’s sake” approach to the £30million refurbishment of the Fairfield Halls crumbled amid commonsense, the best interests of the borough and … Continue reading
Labour worried by ‘Frankenstein monster’ boundary proposals
There’s a growing agreement at Croydon Town Hall that Paul Scott could prove to be the architect of Labour’s demise at the next local elections. The Woodside councillor, an architect by profession with a busy London practice, is one-quarter of … Continue reading
Council hands Hunt final decision over cuts to IVF treatment
The Council’s health and social care scrutiny committee has thrown a curve ball to the Tory government over cuts in NHS provision by referring the decision to end the provision of IVF fertility treatment in Croydon to Jeremy Hunt, the … Continue reading
No longer Taboo: Addiscombe gets signs of its East India past
Finally, after nearly a decade, it’s in black and white: the East India Estate Conservation Area is there for all to see on road signs in that part of Addiscombe. Special road signs were unveiled last month in the presence … Continue reading
Lebanon Road rat running starts councillor’s chicken run
Candidate selections for next year’s Town Hall elections are still a long way off, as Croydon’s political parties await the deliberations of the Boundary Commissioners on the re-drawn map of the borough’s council wards. But the “chicken run” – where … Continue reading
Council plans for ‘tatty’ Surrey Street market fail to impress
It was a long night at Tuesday’s council scrutiny meeting, but the wait for the “big reveal” of the £1million plans for the borough’s cherished market was a bit of a waste of time, as WALTER CRONXITE reports Residents living … Continue reading
Posted in Carole Bonner, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Helen Pollard, Joy Prince, Mark Watson, Planning, Sean Fitzsimons, Surrey Street
Tagged Addiscombe West, Croydon, Croydon Council, Helen Pollard, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson, Sean Fitzsimons, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Watson: There’s nothing council can do over £1.4bn Westfield
WALTER CRONXITE, who watches council meetings so that you don’t have to, on the latest Town Hall scrutiny committee meeting The council has no “leverage” to encourage Westfield and Hammerson to speed up the delivery of their £1.4billion redevelopment of … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon Council, Joy Prince, Mark Watson, Planning, Sean Fitzsimons, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Addiscombe West, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson, reeves corner, Sean Fitzsimons, West Croydon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Council gives one week’s notice of its latest Surrey St meeting
Sshhh! Don’t tell everyone, but Croydon Council is staging a meeting next week to explain how it is going to spend £1million of your money on one of the most historically important areas of the borough. The “informal” meeting, about … Continue reading
Lycra-obsessed Tories forget their support for parks and ride
Croydon is the most unsafe borough in south London for cycling, according to a senior councillor. Not that anyone was at the Town Hall meeting to register the point, as STEVEN DOWNES reports If a tree falls in a forest … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, Connected Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Cycling, Environment, Fairfield, Heathfield, Helen Pollard, Lloyd Park, Sean Fitzsimons, Stuart King, Tim Pollard, Transport, Wandle Park
Tagged Addiscombe West, Conservative, Croydon Council, Helen Pollard, Labour, Sean Fitzsimons, STUART KING, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Tory
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Marketing is not so sweet for Cherry Orchard Road flats
Developers Menta Redrow are marketing £499,000 flats from a shed alongside East Croydon Station that doesn’t have planning permission, after the cheque to pay the application fee bounced. WALTER CRONXITE reports on the development’s latest controversy An application for permission … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Cherry Orchard Gardens, Croydon Council, Housing, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Sean Fitzsimons
Tagged Addiscombe West, Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Menta Redrow, Menta Tower, Sean Fitzsimons
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Bake Off fan Reed wants to have his cake and eat it
It is probably fair to say that Steve Reed OBE, an erstwhile leading light in the Progress party-within-a-party, was not holding his breath waiting for a phone call from the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to offer him another job in … Continue reading
Council returns £250,000 pupil premium and doesn’t know why
Cash-strapped Croydon Council sent back nearly £250,000 of education funding unspent to Government last year. The cash represents almost one-quarter of Croydon’s pupil premium, intended for some of the borough’s most in-need children. And probably most worrying of all, when … Continue reading
Alas Smith and Jones: Labour members get behind Corbyn
WALTER CRONXITE reports on the latest embarrassing set-back for the Croydon clique which yearns for a return to the “good old days” of Tony Bliar The ordinary members of a Croydon Constituency Labour Party, when given a chance last night … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Rendle, Carole Bonner, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Maddie Henson, Mark Watson, Paul Scott, Sarah Jones MP, Sean Fitzsimons, Simon Hall, Stephen Mann, Steve Reed MP, Stuart Collins, Toni Letts, Tony Newman
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Sarah Jones MP, Sean Fitzsimons, Simon Hall, Tony Newman
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Newman snubbed as Labour group gives backing to Collins
After spending a couple of hours sitting in the shadow of the Clocktower nursing a half-finished pint of lukewarm Stella, WALTER CRONXITE reports on last night’s meeting which, if it wasn’t the end of the beginning, might be remembered as … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 London elections, 2018 council elections, Alison Butler, John Wentworth, Mark Watson, Pat Clouder, Patricia Hay-Justice, Paul Scott, Phil Thomas, Sean Fitzsimons, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Sadiq Khan, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman
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Newman and Labour cabinet contemplate library closures
GENE BRODIE, our education, libraries and bookish gyms correspondent, reports on private meetings held by the council leadership to consider breaking an election pledge to Croydon’s voters Croydon’s ruling Labour group is split over whether to break its manifesto commitment … Continue reading
Posted in Carillion, Croydon Council, Education, Greenwich Leisure, Hamida Ali, Libraries, Norbury, Paul Scott, Sanderstead, Sean Fitzsimons, Thornton Heath, Timothy Godfrey, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Hamida Ali, Labour, Libraries, Norbury, Paul Scott, Sanderstead, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman
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Tories demand Newman keeps promise on Fairfield report
Croydon’s Conservative opposition has renewed demands that the council leader, Labour’s Tony Newman, fulfills his public promise to release a confidential report from consultants Mott MacDonald on the multi-million pound refurbishment of the Fairfield Halls and Croydon College. The Tories … Continue reading
Planners block proposed primary school on Purley Way
Croydon Council planners have rejected proposals to build a primary school close to one of south London’s busiest road junctions on the Purley Way. In a rare example of Croydon’s planning department displaying clarity of thought and common sense, after … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Environment, Planning, Purley Way, Schools, Sean Fitzsimons, URV, Waddon
Tagged CCURV, Conservative, Croydon Council, Fiveways, Harris Federation, Oasis, Purley Way, Tory, URV, Waddon
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Is Newman trying to tunnel away from any real questioning?
Tony Newman’s Labour group faces losing control of Croydon Town Hall at the first time of asking if the latest national opinion poll, which puts the Tories 12 per cent ahead, translates locally. And yes, of course all opinion polls … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Addiscombe West, Ashburton, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Commuting, London-wide issues, Mark Watson, Mayor of London, Outside Croydon, Patricia Hay-Justice, Sean Fitzsimons, Tony Newman, Transport
Tagged Bakerloo Line, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, TfL, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield
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Croydon warns against creating “the slums of the future”
ANDREW PELLING, pictured left, reports from the Labour party conference in Manchester, where Croydon councillors are out in force lobbying for the borough With Labour eyeing a return to power at Westminster after next May’s General Election, it is of … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2015 General Election, Addiscombe West, Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, Business, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Housing, Ken Livingstone, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Sarah Jones MP, Sean Fitzsimons, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Hammerson, Mayor, Member of parliament, Paul Scott, Sean Fitzsimons, Tony Newman, Westfield
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