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Audsley pays price as Newman sacks him as cabinet deputy
A lapse in judgement means that Jamie Audsley will be about £10,000 out of pocket next year, as the Bensham Manor ward councillor has been sacked from Labour leader Tony Newman’s cabinet team. Or, as Tony Soprano once said, “There’s … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Bensham Manor, Humayun Kabir, Jamie Audsley, Maggie Mansell, Manju Shahul Hameed, Mark Watson, Norbury, Pat Ryan, Paul Scott, Robert Canning, Stephen Mann, Stuart King, Tony Newman, Wayne Lawlor, Woodside
Tagged Bensham Manor, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jamie Audsley, Labour, Maggie Mansell, Norbury, Paul Scott, Tony Newman, Wayne Trakas-Lawlor, Woodside
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Negrini’s ‘absurd’ response over planning conflicts of interest
BARRATT HOLMES reports on how the council CEO is trying to pretend that £250m-worth of planning applications from the council’s own housing company have anything to do with the council’s cabinet member for housing, whose husband also just happens to … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Chris Philp MP, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Housing, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning, Purley
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Chris Philp MP, Colm Lacey, Conservative, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Purley, Tory
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Negrini refuses to act on ‘conflicts of interest’ over planning
Jo Negrini, the chief executive of Croydon Council, has refused to intervene over complaints, from the public and one of the borough’s MPs, over potential conflicts of interest of senior councillors in the planning process. Croydon’s cabinet member for housing … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning
Tagged Alison Butler, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon Council, Labour, Paul Scott, Purley, Purley Oaks, Tory
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Plan rejected for primary on busy Thornton Heath road
Education correspondent GENE BRODIE reports on an important decision for the future health of generations of school children taken at last night’s planning committee Councillors on Croydon’s planning committee last night unanimously rejected a proposal to build a three-form-of-entry primary … Continue reading
Westfield set to snub CEO Negrini’s costly Place Review Panel
In an embarrassing snub for the council’s chief executive, the developers proposing the £1.4billion Westfield and Hammerson regeneration of Croydon town centre have no immediate intention to submit their plans for review by the borough’s much-touted Place Review Panel. The … Continue reading
Council recruits staff for ‘private’ company Brick by Brick
WALTER CRONXITE uncovers Croydon’s latest big spend on its supposedly ‘private’ housing company Croydon Council is recruiting four staff on publicly funded salaries of up to £50,000 a year each – to work on behalf of a private housing developer. … Continue reading
Mystery of the vanishing objections to council’s Local Plan
WALTER CRONXITE reports on the disappearance of ward councillors’ contribution to a key consultation on Croydon’s strategic planning document It might not be quite up there with the unexplained disappearance of Lord Lucan, but comments submitted by Waddon Labour councillors … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Duppas Hill Park, Education, Environment, Harris Primary Purley Way, Jo Negrini, Joy Prince, Krishna Avanti Primary, Paul Scott, Planning, Robert Canning, Schools, Waddon
Tagged Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fiveways, Jo Negrini, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Waddon
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Council gags architecture experts on costly Place Review Panel
Croydon’s Place Review Panel has been gagged, just three months since the building design body was set up, at potentially considerable public expense. Once a month, six members of the panel of high-profile architects and designers, who include the celebrity … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Centrale, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Jo Negrini, One Lansdowne Road, Paul Scott, Place Review Panel, Planning, Property, Queens Gardens, Taberner House, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, Paul Scott, Place Review Panel, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Anger at planning committee as Scott sways Purley vote
Another week, and another group of residents outraged at the way the council is overdeveloping their neighbourhood. Another week, and yet more complaints about the bombastic conduct of the chair of the council’s planning committee, Paul Scott, as he drives … Continue reading
Croydon and ‘delivery’, Part 94: East Croydon bus station
“Thank you,” states the signage seen by tens of thousands of Croydon commuters every day, “for your patience during these essential construction works.” Note that: the works are essential. Though perhaps not essential enough to get them finished in a … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Alison Butler, Commuting, Connected Croydon, Croydon Council, Cycling, East Croydon, Environment, TfL, Tramlink, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Addiscombe West, Alison Butler, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, London, London Borough of Croydon, TfL, Transport for London
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Rulebook gaffe forces Labour to lift councillor’s suspension
Confusion and suspicion surround Bensham Manor councillor Jamie Audsley’s status within the Labour group at Croydon Town Hall, after his suspension from the ruling party’s whip over a disciplinary matter was dropped within 24 hours of its being announced. Sources … Continue reading
Posted in Bensham Manor, Jamie Audsley, Oliver Lewis, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman
Tagged Bensham Manor, Jamie Audsley, Labour, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman
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Air pollution means pupils at new school will be kept indoors
WALTER CRONXITE reports on the latest example of a school development which the council concedes could put the long-term health of generations of children at risk The planning committee last night gave the go-ahead to build a school for four- … Continue reading
Bensham Manor councillor suspended by Labour group
Jamie Audsley, a deputy cabinet member and one of the councillors for Bensham Manor ward, has had the Labour Party whip at the Town Hall withdrawn, pending an investigation and hearing into his conduct following a “serious” complaint. It means … Continue reading
Labour spin doctor Ellerby accused of a £1.4m comms trick
Croydon’s Council Tax-payers could be facing hundreds of thousands of pounds of additional costs, on top of the six-figure salary for their new Blairite political spin-doctor, Julian Ellerby, if his track record at neighbouring Lambeth is anything to go by. … Continue reading
Council set to wave through £800,000 flats built on public park
The full horror of the over-tall overdevelopment of tower blocks on the site of Taberner House is beginning to be revealed, as documents with some design drawings have been published and the planning process has been opened up for public … Continue reading
Old Ashburton library to be handed over to private companies
That “ambition” thing we were told so much about in 2013 and 2014, before the last Town Hall elections? It seems that if you want to turn it into the “delivery” thing, it can take a long time and a … Continue reading
South Norwood suffers a ‘white-out’ in council publicity
For what is supposed to be among the most diverse and colourful boroughs in the country, parts of Croydon appear to be very… pale if the expensively commissioned architects’ drawings of some council schemes are anything to go by. Take … Continue reading
Watson’s moving speech homes in on a Labour weakness
WALTER CRONXITE on what could turn out to be another boost for local estate agents, unwittingly provided by Croydon Council Mark Watson is going nowhere – and that’s official. Well, at least that’s what the under-pressure Addiscombe councillor told a … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Bensham Manor, Bernadette Khan, Broad Green, Coulsdon, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Hamida Ali, Jane Avis, Manju Shahul Hameed, Mark Watson, Patricia Hay-Justice, Paul Scott, Purley, Shirley North, South Croydon, South Norwood, Steve Reed MP, Stuart Collins, Stuart King, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, Waddon, West Thornton, Woodside
Tagged Addiscombe West, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Labour, Mark Watson, Purley, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Tory, Waddon
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£2m town centre roads scheme causes weekend traffic chaos
It was 4.58pm on a February Friday evening when Croydon Council got round to issuing its public warning of a planned closure of part of one of the town’s six-lane urban motorways which was to happen later that night. So … Continue reading
Labour councillor criticised over all-white property poster
There’s always a risk when eager young politicians try to do something in which they have little or no expertise.
Parks contractor accused of paying less than the Living Wage
WALTER CRONXITE reports on a gathering crisis over the maintenance of the borough’s parks Some staff working for one of Croydon’s biggest external contractors are being paid less than the London Living Wage, according to an internal council Labour group … Continue reading
Posted in Catherine Shelley, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Croydon parks, Environment, Good Employer, Jamie Audsley, Nathan Elvery, Quadron, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, idVerde, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Parks Service, Quadron, Tony Newman, Tory
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Writing’s on the walls in Thornton Heath over £2.7m murals
The picture left shows an example of the kind of public artwork that two of the borough’s most senior councillors suggest, “will bring huge benefits to both residents and businesses in Thornton Heath”, and “continue to boost growth in the … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Art, Bensham Manor, Connected Croydon, Mark Watson, Thornton Heath
Tagged Alison Butler, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Mark Watson, Thornton Heath, Tory
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