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Crapita! Thousands of ex-Civil Servants left to wait for pensions
There are more than 6,000 civil servants who work in Croydon today, many of them in the Home Office or Revenue and Customs buildings in Ruskin Square. The borough is also home to thousands more retired civil servants – some … Continue reading
Selsdon hotel’s new owners clear Croydon planning hurdle
Planning consent for the £30million refurbishment project for the Selsdon Park Hotel has been rubber-stamped by Croydon Council. What is little more than administrative approval by the planning authority – works have been underway at the locally listed hotel since … Continue reading
Perry challenge to Khan: ‘Croydon’s Green Belt is sacrosanct’
Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed Mayor, has put himself on a collision course with Lord Sadiq Khan and City Hall over proposals in the draft London Plan to build hundreds of homes on the borough’s Green Belt. “Whilst I am Mayor, … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Addington Hills, Addiscombe West, Andrew Pelling, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, East Croydon, Environment, Housing, Lloyd Park, London Councils, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, New Addington North, New Addington South, Park Hill and Whitgift, Park Hill Recreation Ground, Planning, Sadiq Khan, Selsdon and Addington Village, South Croydon, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Addington Hills, Addiscombe, Andrew Pelling, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon, East Croydon tram stop, Green Belt, Housing, Labour, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, London Mayor, Lord Sadiq Khan, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor Sadiq Khan, New Addington, South Croydon, The Local Plan, The London Plan, Tory
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‘Woeful’ Thames Water hits 10 million with hosepipe ban
A trades unions today described water monopoly Thames Water as “woeful”, as the debt-laden company imposed a hosepipe ban on more than 10million households across London and south-east England. The GMB Union points to Thames Water’s annual report, which admits … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Thames Water
Tagged Cliff Roney, Drought, GMB, GMB Union, heatwave, Hosepipe ban, Thames Water
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Call Drainage and Plumbing Ltd for your drain unblocking
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Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Business
Tagged Advertisement, Bromley, Croydon, Drainage and Pulmbing Ltd, Sutton
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The Whybrew family trade that really put a feather in your cap
CROYDON CHRONICLES: Trades and professions come and go with the passing years, as fashions ebb and flow. Using the Minster’s archive records, DAVID MORGAN discovers another skill, common in Victorian times and used by a local family firm, but which … Continue reading
London’s ‘Lord Mayor’ puts Croydon Green Belt in his plan
Any green space within one mile of a tram stop or railway station might be available for housing development according to Mayor Khan’s draft London Plan. ANDREW PELLING takes a look at the new proposals London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Addington Hills, Addiscombe West, Andrew Pelling, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, East Croydon, Environment, Housing, Lloyd Park, London Councils, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, New Addington North, New Addington South, Park Hill and Whitgift, Park Hill Recreation Ground, Planning, Sadiq Khan, Selsdon and Addington Village, South Croydon, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Addington Hills, Addiscombe, Andrew Pelling, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon, East Croydon tram stop, Green Belt, Housing, Labour, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, London Mayor, Lord Sadiq Khan, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor Sadiq Khan, New Addington, South Croydon, The Local Plan, The London Plan, Tory
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Fast. Professional. Reliable: Drainage and Plumbing Ltd
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Tagged Advertisement, Bromley, Croydon, Drainage and Pulmbing Ltd, Sutton
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Songbird Showcase Night, The Oval Tavern, Sat July 18, 8pm
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Posted in Addiscombe West, Advertisement, Advertisement features, Art, Business, Music, The Oval Tavern
Tagged Addiscombe, Croydon, Music, The Oval Tavern
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Blues at the Oval, Sunday nights in July from 6pm, entry free
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Posted in Addiscombe West, Advertisement, Advertisement features, Art, Business, Music, The Oval Tavern
Tagged Addiscombe, Croydon, Music, The Oval Tavern
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Croydon BID fails to inform co-directors of Perry’s resignation
Business ‘improvement’ district has received hundreds of thousands of pounds of public cash while Tory Mayor was one of its directors Jason Perry, Croydon’s £86,000 per year part-time Mayor, has quit as a director of Croydon BID. Piss-poor Perry’s resignation … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boxpark, Business, Centrale, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Mott MacDonald, Policing, Stiles Harold Williams, Surrey Street, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Coughlans, Croydon, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, giraffes, Hammersfield, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, Matthew Sims, Mayor Jason Perry, Stiles Harold Williams, Tony Newman, Tory, Town Centre, Town centre security, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Blues at the Oval, Sunday nights in July from 6pm, entry free
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Posted in Addiscombe West, Advertisement, Advertisement features, Art, Business, Music, The Oval Tavern
Tagged Addiscombe, Croydon, Music, The Oval Tavern
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Coughlan’s directors moved £9m out of bakery firm since 2023
EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Romesh Ranganathan stands to lose up to £400,000 Staff were only informed of business’s closure by text message Since 2023, directors transferred £5.7m property assets to another company while £2.9m was also taken out of the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Coughlan's
Tagged Addiscombe, Assets, Banstead, Coughlans, Coulsdon, Croydon, Epsom, Forestdale, Horsham, Labour, Old Coulsdon, Purley, Romesh Ranganathan, Sean Coughlan, Smitham Lodge, Smitham Lodge Estates Ltd, South Croydon, Thornton Heath, Virginia Coughlan, Wallington, Warlingham
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Burnham’s challenge is to rebalance Britain yet cherish London
What would a ‘No10 in the North’ under a Prime Minister Burnham mean for London? Is it possible to devolve power, and spread wealth, across the country without undermining the economic engine of the nation? ANDREW FISHER sifts through some … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Fisher, Business
Tagged 007, Andrew Fisher, Andy Burnham, Christopher Ecclestone, Croydon, Daniel Craig, Doctor Who, Downing Street, James Bond, Labour, London, London Standard, Manchester, Mayor of London, Mayor of Manchester, Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan, No10, No10 Downing Street, No10 of the North, Our Friends In The North, Prime Minister, Sadiq Khan, Sir Sadiq Khan, The Andrew Fisher Column, Westminster, Whitehall
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Croydon bakers firm Coughlan’s closes blaming Labour NI hike
175 jobs to go across south London, Surrey and Sussex as family-run bakery based in Thornton Heath goes into voluntary liquidation Coughlan’s bakers, their daily bread a staple of Croydon’s high streets for almost 90 years, has ceased trading. The … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Coughlan's
Tagged Addiscombe, Banstead, Coughlans, Coulsdon, Croydon, Epsom, Forestdale, Horsham, Labour, Old Coulsdon, Purley, Romesh Ranganathan, Sean Coughlan, South Croydon, Thornton Heath, Wallington, Warlingham
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Google and Gatwick among employers attending MPs’ jobs fair
MPs Sarah Jones and Natasha Irons are jointly hosting a jobs fair for young people in the borough. Intended for those aged 16 and over, the fair brings together major industry players including Google, EY Foundation, the NHS, Transport for … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Business, Croydon Commitment, Croydon East, Croydon West, Gatwick Airport, Natasha Irons, Sarah Jones MP
Tagged Croydon, Croydon East, Croydon West, Department of Work and Pensions, DWP, Gatwick Airport, Google, Natasha Irons MP, NHS, Sarah Jones MP, TfL, Transport for London
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Charity lost £2m last year over closure of Old Palace School
The Whitgift Foundation’s ‘Impact Report’ for last year shows its two boys’ fee-paying schools among the country’s top 10% of independents, as the costs of closing its girls’ school will continue until 2028. By STEVEN DOWNES The closure of Old … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, CPO, Education, Fiona Fletcher Smith, Old Palace, Roisha Hughes, Schools, Serenity special school, Trinity School, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Archbishop John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, Croydon, Fiona Fletcher-Smith, Hammersfield, Knight Frank, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Palace School, Old Town, Roisha Hughes, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Five escape fryer blaze unhurt at Brigstock Road takeaway
Five people escaped the flames as a takeaway in Thornton Heath was destroyed by fire. Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters attended a fire on Brigstock Road, Thornton Heath, in the early hours of Wednesday morning. There were no … Continue reading
Posted in Business, London Fire Brigade, Restaurants, Thornton Heath
Tagged Brigstock Road, LFB, London Fire Brigade, Takeaway, Thornton Heath
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150 years after the last round-up for the Croydon Wool Fair
CROYDON CHRONICLES: For much of the Victorian era, Croydon was a trading centre for Surrey farmers trading one of the products on which the nation’s economy had depended for centuries. But by 1876, all that was about to change. DAVID … Continue reading
Croydon Park to reopen in 2027 as ‘The Canopy’ apart-hotel
A year later than promised, with little more than half the homes proposed in the planning application, and with no sign of the 39- and 36-storey towers that council planners had insisted upon, there are plans for the Croydon Park … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Botanical House, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Housing, Nicola Townsend, Planning, Property, The Canopy
Tagged Addiscombe West, Altyre Road, Amro, Botanical House, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, East Croydon station, Labour, Simon Hall, The Canopy, Tony Newman
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