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Kent council-owned property agents awarded £500,000 contract
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Appointment of property management company could signal the start of a sell-off of council assets. By BARRATT HOLMES, housing correspondent Croydon’s bankrupt council – which is in the middle of a spending ban – has awarded a … Continue reading
Croydon’s Negrini, the £20m superyacht, and left over beer
KEN LEE, our spending-four-days-on-the-lash-at-public-expense correspondent, detected waning interest among the world’s property developers in Croydon’s tired message at this year’s MIPIM Apparently, it’s happening. “It’s happening!” was the latest lame slogan for Croydon this week at the booze and hookerfest … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Heather Cheesbrough, Jo Negrini, Shifa Mustafa, Stiles Harold Williams, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Heather Cheesbrough, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, MIPIM, Shifa Mustafa, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Boozepark applies to extend bar opening times until 1am
KEN LEE, our Town Hall correspondent, has found some interesting documents on the council’s planning site Within nine months of opening, and Boxpark has been applying to Croydon Council to drop some of the conditions linked to its planning permission … Continue reading
Free beer on the council! Croydon goes on the piss at MIPIM
Croydon Council’s desperation to suck-up to multi-billion-pound property speculators in order to pimp out large swathes of the borough sees them offering free beer to anyone and everyone at next month’s “booze and hooker fest” that is the annual MIPIM … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Brick by Brick, Business, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Rise Gallery, Stiles Harold Williams, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, MIPIM, Tony Newman, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Negrini heads council team to MIPIM’s ‘booze and hooker fest’
The PR flunkies putting together Croydon Council’s delegation to next month’s “booze and hooker fest” in the South of France are refusing to say who is paying for the junket. WALTER CRONXITE reports Croydon will be one of 16 London … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Niall Bolger, Planning, Property, Rise Gallery, Stiles Harold Williams, Sutton Council, Taberner House, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, London Borough of Croydon, MIPIM, Taberner House, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Westfield confirms another five years of blight in town centre
Croydon Council has spent more public money on a new slogan, two years after the last one. But as WALTER CRONXITE reports, there are risks involved when senior councillors claim to be ‘Delivering for Croydon’ and a £1.4bn flagship development … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Alison Butler, Business, Centrale, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, John Burton, Planning, Stiles Harold Williams, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, Tony Newman, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Council says it can’t afford leaflets to publicise Cruise ban
The dangerous Croydon Cruise staged along Imperial Way is now subject to a High Court injunction, with those breaking the legal ruling facing unlimited fines, two years in prison, or both. But yesterday’s application nearly failed thanks to the lawyers … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Business, Ikea, Purley Way, Stiles Harold Williams, Waddon
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Croydon Cruise, Imperial Way, Labour, Purley Way, Waddon
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Disconnected Croydon to add lick of paint to Thornton Heath
Shop fronts and walls in Thornton Heath are to get a lick of paint as the latest part of the multi-mllion-pound Disconnected Croydon exercise in superficiality run by our council. Together with the You&Me firm of architects, the council is … Continue reading
BANNED: What has the Grey Label conference got to hide?
By Steven Downes, Editor, Inside Croydon Grey Label, the PR agency of choice of Croydon Council, has banned Inside Croydon from attending the property speculators love-in that they are “organising” at the Fairfield Halls today. This will be the sixth … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boxpark, Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Mayor of London, Planning, Property, Stiles Harold Williams, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Develop Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Grey Label, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Richard Plant, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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High Court judge rejects legal challenge to landlord licensing
The legal challenge against Croydon Council’s landlord licensing scheme, a flagship manifesto policy which helped get Labour elected last year, has been rejected by a High Court judge, a decision greeted by one senior council figure as, “A great day … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Alison Butler, Business, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Environment, Housing, Jo Negrini, Planning, Property, Stiles Harold Williams, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Landlord scheme court case may turn on Plant’s spot
Whatever the outcome of the court case over Croydon’s proposed landlord licensing scheme, which had an application for a Judicial Review heard by Mr Justice Silber at the High Court this week, the role played by Richard Plant could prove … Continue reading
High street’s failings are becoming something to bank on
And so while the local council bungs a few thousand quid (of our money) at a futile and probably fruitless one-day jamboree – though the bar takings for some members of the South Croydon Business Association might benefit – the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Community associations, Connected Croydon, Croydon Council, Environment, Fairfield, Planning, Property, Pubs, Restaurants, South Croydon, South Croydon Community Association, Stiles Harold Williams, Tony Newman, Waddon, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Croydon, Hammersfield, Hammerson, SCCA, South Croydon, South Croydon Business Association, South Croydon Community Association, Tony Newman, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Developers’ PR company announces the #CroydonTakeover
The Croydon Flyover. The Croydon Facelift. Now we have the Croydon Takeover. Or #CroydonTakeover, as the council’s favouritest PR bunglers, Grey Label, managed to hashtag it when they were off on the jolly to the South of France for the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, CPO, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Planning, Stiles Harold Williams, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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This is what £8,000 of public money buys at MIPIM (Part 3)
It’s been busy, busy, busy for the Croydon delegation at MIPIM, the property developers’ “junket” (© council leader Tony Newman) held in Cannes in the south of France this week. Croydon Council has spent £8,000 of Council Tax-payers’ money in … Continue reading
