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Category Archives: Regina Road Residents’ Support Group
After 4 years, Croydon’s housing taken out of special measures
The ‘slum-like’ conditions of ‘dangerous squalor’ in council flats on Regina Road caused a national scandal in 2021. Only now, and £30m of spending later, is the housing regulator satisfied that council housing in the borough meets proper standards. EXCLUSIVE … Continue reading
Complacent council managers miss important housing event
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The head of an independent panel appointed to check on progress with housing following the Regina Road scandal suggests senior managers in Fisher’s Folly are not doing enough to get the borough out of special measures. EXCLUSIVE … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Housing, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, Susmita Sen
Tagged Housing, Housing Improvement Board, Housing Ombudsman, Katherine Kerswell, Lynne Hale, Martin Wheatley, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road, Social Housing Regulator
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All Hale the chief: £125,000 job ad raises laughs at Town Hall
EXCLUSIVE: Council is recruiting for director-level official to oversee the redevelopment of notorious Regina Road council flats. By our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES Cash-strapped Croydon Council is recruiting again for another six-figure-salaried director, although whoever wrote the job ad for … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Housing, London-wide issues, Lynne Hale, Planning, Property, Regina Road redevelopment, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, Susmita Sen
Tagged Conservative, Council housing, Croydon, Croydon Council, director of housing: new build and estate regeneration, GLA, Greater London Authority, London Borough of Croydon, Lynne Hale, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road, Regina Road redevelopment, Susmita Sen, Tory
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London Mayor steps in with £53.8m grant for Regina Road
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has agreed to provide £53.8million to Croydon Council towards the costs of demolishing the Regina Road estate in South Norwood and building homes to replace the notorious 1960s tower blocks. Croydon’s Mayor, Jason Perry, … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Housing, London-wide issues, Property, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, Sadiq Khan, South Norwood, South Norwood Community Kitchen, Susmita Sen, Wates
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Mayor Sadiq Khan, Regina Road, Regina Road redevelopment, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, Tom Copley
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Perry to hand key Regina Road contract to Negrini’s employers
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Having said he would begin legal proceedings to recover some of the former CEO’s £437,000 ‘Golden Handshake’, the Tory Mayor is now hiring the company that has appointed the self-acclaimed regeneration expert as a director. EXCLUSIVE by … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, Property, Regina Road redevelopment, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
Tagged 15% Council Tax hike, Arup, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road, Regina Road redevelopment, Tory
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This is council’s chance to do more than just the bare minimum
CROYDON COMMENTARY: After living in some of the worst housing conditions ever encountered, residents of Regina Road flats have voted for their estate to be demolished, on a promise from the council that at least the same number of social … Continue reading
88% Regina Road residents vote in favour of demolition
In a poll result that will surprise no one, the long-suffering residents of Regina Road in South Norwood, who have endured some of the worst housing conditions ever seen in 21st Century Britain, have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Housing, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road, South Norwood, Tory
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Regina Road residents to be balloted over estate demolition
The 100-or-so households living in council tower blocks and surrounding properties on Regina Road are to be balloted in the next month over whether the damp and mould-blighted buildings should be demolished. The decision to go-ahead with the estate ballot … Continue reading
Housing board’s report warns of ‘years of hard work’ ahead
Nearly two years since the Regina Road council homes scandal broke, an independent panel appointed to oversee the Town Hall’s housing efforts has noted the beginnings of improvement Getting Croydon’s housing service to an acceptable standard “will take several years … Continue reading
SWLLC Temporary Accommodation lunch, Socco Cheta, Dec 1
Posted in Community associations, Housing, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, Socco Cheta Community Hub, South Norwood Community Kitchen, South West London Law Centres
Tagged Regina Road Residents' Support Group, Socco Cheta, South Norwood Community Kitchen, South West London Law Centre, SWLLC, Temporary accommodation
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‘I had to put my kids on inhalers because of the black mould’
EMMA GARDINER reports that the findings of a Coroner’s court in Rochdale over the cause of death of a toddler needs to lead to profound changes in the way social housing stock is managed The shocking announcement this week from … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Health, Housing, London-wide issues, Property, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
Tagged Awaab Ishak, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Emma Gardiner, London Borough of Croydon, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, Rochdale Coroner's Court, South Norwood
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Council opts to demolish blocks at centre of squalor scandal
The South Norwood flats which were so badly maintained that they caused a national scandal ‘are no longer fit for purpose’ according to a report from the cash-strapped council. By STEVEN DOWNES Croydon Council wants to demolish the three tower … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood, Susmita Sen
Tagged Council housing, Croydon, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood, Susmita Sen
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Mayor Khan calls for ‘better, safer, fairer housing’ in London
Croydon Council could face financial penalties if it fails to keep its social housing up to higher standards, Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has warned. City Hall holds the purse strings for billions of pounds of housing development funding, … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Community associations, Croydon Council, Housing, Katherine Kerswell, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, Sadiq Khan, South Norwood, Tom Copley
Tagged Brick by Brick, City Hall, Croydon, Croydon Council, GLA, Greater London Authority, Housing, London, London Assembly, Mayor, Mayor Sadiq Khan, Sadiq Khan
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‘Listening’ council gives two hours notice of housing workshop
Part-time Mayor Jason Perry’s half-arsed commitment to “listening” to locals was exposed yet again today when the council’s propaganda unit got round to issuing a press release about housing workshops less than two hours before the first session was due … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, New Addington South, Norbury, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, Shirley North, South Norwood
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Mayor, Jason Perry, Lynne Hale, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of Croydon, Regina Road, South Norwood, Tory
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Regina Road repairs are falling short of required standards
CROYDON IN CRISIS: An estimated £100,000 has been spent so far repairing council flats in South Norwood. But tenants and their representatives are concerned about the poor standard of the works. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Nearly 18 months since the … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Les Parry, London Borough of Croydon, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood, Tenants and Leaseholders Panel, Tory
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Perry opts to keep poor performing Axis for another year
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Despite reports of ‘shocking rudeness and inhumanity’, repairs contractors implicated in a national housing scandal have been given £20m worth of work by the borough’s part-time Mayor. By STEVEN DOWNES Jason Perry, the £81,000 per year part-time … Continue reading
Select committee MPs promise swift action at Regina Road
CROYDON IN CRISIS: More than a year since the ‘appalling’ state of flats in Regina Road caused a national scandal, MPs from a Commons select committee visited South Norwood and Upper Norwood this week. They were shocked at what they … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Florence Eshalomi, Housing, Lambeth Council, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Ben Everitt MP, Bob Blackman MP, Central Hill estate, Clive Betts MP, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Darren Henry MP, Emma Gardiner, Florence Eshalomi MP, Kate Hollern MP, Labour, Lambeth council, Mohammad Yasin MP, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood, Steve Reed OBE
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Factsheet and Twitter: Gove’s answer to council housing crisis
Measures to improve the state of social housing and to guarantee tenants a decent place to live have been announced this morning by the government – 15 years after similar proposals were first agreed. Michael Gove, as the Levelling Up … Continue reading
One year on, Hamida Ali’s latest apologies on Regina Road
‘To improve the conditions in people’s homes, the tenants have to pay for it… How is that fair?’ ITV News’ DANIEL HEWITT last night broadcast a follow-up to the investigation into conditions in council flats in South Norwood which caused … Continue reading
Labour council’s ‘slumlords’ can’t face Regina Road tenants
The difference between the realities of life for council tenants in Croydon and the public statements from the Labour-controlled council demonstrate that the lessons of the Regina Road housing scandal have not been learned by those in power. By STEVEN … Continue reading
‘Council must freeze its unnecessary 4.1% rent increase’
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Ahead of a protest on Monday night, EMMA GARDINER, pictured right, calls on Town Hall leaders to abandon their proposed council rent hike until all their properties meet the habitable homes standard A long-awaited independent survey recently published … Continue reading
One year on from housing shame: ‘not enough has been done’
A report from the improvement committee appointed in the aftermath of the council homes scandal has found that Croydon’s tenants continue to be treated with ‘shocking rudeness and inhumanity’, while many in Regina Road blocks ‘are still living in very … Continue reading
Government looks to ‘professionalise’ social housing staff
The squalid and inhuman conditions that Croydon Council tenants, many with young children, were forced to endure on Regina Road, South Norwood, has forced the government to announce a wholesale review of training and qualifications for those working in social … Continue reading
Inside Croydon’s Person of the Year 2021: Fransoy Hewitt
Posted in Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Housing, Inside Croydon, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
Tagged Axis, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fransoy Hewitt, Hamida Ali, Inside Croydon, Inside Croydon Person of the Year, ITV News, Regina Road, Sarah O'Connell, Soouth Norwood, South Norwood, Steve Reed OBE
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