Category Archives: Bensham Manor

Council offers four days’ notice for Question Time event

Who dares say that Croydon Council has problems with its communications with Council Tax-payers? Who has the audacity to suggest that senior councillors from the Conservative group that runs the council are a bit slow in coming forward when it … Continue reading

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Council ignored danger warnings over deadly Mitcham Road

Ghost bikes are chilling reminders of often avoidable tragedies on our roads. KRISTIAN GREGORY, of the Croydon Cycling Campaign, outlines one of the borough’s most deadly routes, the A236, which is so dangerous that a local school has banned its pupils … Continue reading

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Labour calls for closure of “squalid” Croydon B&Bs

Croydon’s opposition Labour group has demanded the immediate closure of the Thornton Heath B&B hotel used by the council to house the borough’s homeless. Labour has also demanded an independent inquiry into how the council has failed to take proper … Continue reading

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Labour’s Newman names his team for council election build-up

The Labour group on Croydon Council is becoming a bit like the Conservatives. Well, at least in just one small, but important, way, writes ANDREW PELLING In parliament, Labour dropped the election of its shadow cabinet by its MPs, leaving … Continue reading

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Councillor complains over prejudiced parking scheme

Tuesday night’s meeting of the council’s traffic management committee looks like being a more interesting encounter than usual, as the Conservative-dominated policy group will assemble having been accused of prejudicing its latest “consultation” on ramping up the restrictions for residents, … Continue reading

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Councillors and communities oppose “flawed” parking plan

Croydon Council, having failed in its attempt to force through Draconian parking restrictions in the centre of the borough earlier this year, has today launched a second consultation which has already attracted strong criticism and complaints from local councillors and … Continue reading

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