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Category Archives: Regina Road Residents’ Support Group
Croydon 2021: a tale of lockdowns, let-downs and meltdowns
DID WE HAVE NEWS FOR YOU: Croydon entered 2021 as a bankrupt borough, yet there was worse still to come. Inside Croydon has been there, reporting on every twist and turn of events around the cash-strapped council as it entered … Continue reading
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Tagged #Binmageddon, Alison Butler, coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Fransoy Hewitt, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Peter Bingle, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood, STUART KING, Terrapin Group, Tony Newman
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Nine months on and council tenants are still being ignored
CROYDON IN CRISIS: If 2020 was Croydon Council’s year of Negreedy and bankruptcy, 2021 has been the year of leaks, mould and a local authority exposed as incompetent and uncaring about those living in its properties. And there are worrying … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Alison Knight, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Housing, London-wide issues, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Daniel Hewitt, Fransoy Hewitt, Hamida Ali, ITV News, Labour, News At Ten, Regina Road, Sarah O'Connell, South Norwood, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman
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Housing director: We need a culture change at the council
“We are not very good at responding to complaints and queries.” That’s the frank judgement of the council’s new director of housing after just a few weeks in his new job. As was exclusively revealed by Inside Croydon more than … Continue reading
Wheatley is appointed as chair of housing improvement panel
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Nine months after the conditions in council flats in South Norwood caused a national scandal, and after spending £104,000 on one director who never bothered meeting the Regina Road Residents’ Support Group, the council has got around … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Housing, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood, South Norwood Community Kitchen, South Norwood Tourist Board
Tagged Alison Knight, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Labour, Martin Wheatley, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
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£800 per day council director Knight quits housing top job
CROYDON IN CRISIS: ‘Troubleshooter’ hired to fix scandalous conditions in flats in South Norwood has left cash-strapped local authority after less than six months. EXCLUSIVE By STEVEN DOWNES Alison Knight, the £800 per day director who was hired in May … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Knight, Community associations, Croydon Council, David Padfield, Housing, Katherine Kerswell, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
Tagged Alison Knight, Croydon, Croydon Council, David Padfield, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
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Council rehomes families from overcrowded Regina Road flats
EXCLUSIVE: New heaters have been promised by the middle of this month, as officials finally start to make changes for those living in ‘appalling’ conditions in South Norwood council flats. By STEVEN DOWNES Families with more than two children living … Continue reading
Posted in Clive Fraser, Community associations, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Health, Housing, Patricia Hay-Justice, Patsy Cummings, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Labour, Patricia Hay-Justice, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
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Ombudsman demands culture change after council flats ‘shock’
Croydon Council’s housing department and repairs contractors need to change their ways, following the publication of an official report into “appalling” conditions endured by council tenants, many of whom have been found to be ignored by their landlords and even … Continue reading
Asthma’s postcode lottery: ‘We all have a right to breathe’
Croydon is the worst place in London to have asthma, analysis from charity Asthma UK has shown. Yet Bromley, the borough next door to Croydon, is rated as the best place in the capital for asthmatics. The charity’s findings are … Continue reading
Council issues urgent warning over Regina Road cold callers
It took the council 24 hours after Inside Croydon published its report on the bogus cold callers who had descended on the blocks of flats in Regina Road. But yesterday, a council-produced flyer was posted in the entrance halls of … Continue reading
Residents warned to take extra care after suspicious visits
By JANE NICHOLL Worn down after months of indifference from the council, followed by a string of broken promises, residents in Regina Road are now being subjected to aggressive cold-calling tactics by suspected scammers posing as surveyors offering building repairs … Continue reading
Regina Road residents shiver as they face £2,000 heating bills
CROYDON IN CRISIS: ‘My kids suffer so badly with their breathing. I am scared for this winter.’ The words of one mother as she and other residents in the damp and mouldy flats in South Norwood face sky-high heating bills, … Continue reading
Regina Road residents angry as Knight ducks another meeting
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The blundering £800 per day bureaucrat in charge of fixing the council’s ‘appalling’ housing has cancelled a scheduled meeting with residents. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES and MICHAEL NELSON Residents of the tower blocks on Regina Road are … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Knight, Community associations, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Housing, Katherine Kerswell, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
Tagged Alison Knight, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
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£800 per day housing chief fails to show for Regina Road meet
CROYDON IN CRISIS: After waiting six months, residents of what was described as some of the worst housing in the country finally got to meet senior officials. But the council’s head of housing had gone off on holiday. EXCLUSIVE by … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Knight, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Housing, Katherine Kerswell, Patricia Hay-Justice, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
Tagged Alison Knight, Hamida Ali, Katherine Kerswell, Patricia Hay-Justice, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood, Stephen Tate
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Fire Brigade confirms ‘stay put’ is not its policy in tower blocks
Residents in a tower block on Regina Road claim that they may have been misled over fire safety procedures for their homes, after alarms failed to sound when blaze broke out last month. A senior council official sent a letter … Continue reading
Regina Road fire alarms failed to sound, council confirms
EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES A senior Croydon Council official has admitted that no alarms sounded and sprinklers failed to work when a fire broke out in one of the residential tower blocks on Regina Road, South Norwood, on Sunday. More … Continue reading
55 residents evacuated after 3am fire at Regina Road block
Fears about the safety of residents living in tall blocks of flats were made worse this morning after the London Fire Brigade was called out to a blaze in one of the council blocks on Regina Road, South Norwood. No … Continue reading
‘Croydon Council! Shame on you!’: protesters make their point
SANJANA IDNANI reports from South Norwood on the latest efforts by council tenants to secure decent living conditions for their families Residents from across the borough took to the streets of South Norwood last night for a march and rally … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Louis Carserides, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood, South Norwood Community Kitchen, South Norwood Tourist Board
Tagged Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood, South Norwood Community Kitchen, South Norwood Tourist Board
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Magic! Bodged repair gets fixed after Inside Croydon report
It was almost as if by magic. Within a couple of hours of Inside Croydon approaching senior council figures about the latest “bodged” repairs jobs carried out by contractors in the residential blocks on Regina Road, suddenly workmen appeared in … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood, South Norwood Community Kitchen, South Norwood Tourist Board, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood, Steve Reed OBE
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‘Shoddy’ botched repairs as council housing scandal deepens
CROYDON IN CRISIS: ‘Nothing has changed’: Regina Road residents are planning a protest march next week over the continuing neglect and mismanagement of their council homes. By STEVEN DOWNES Despite solemn apologies and promises made on national television by council … Continue reading
After 3-month delay, council calls in surveyors for Regina Road
Almost three months after the appalling conditions of flats in South Norwood were exposed, and the council has stuffed letters through the residents’ front doors to say that they are only now about to start doing something about it. Though … Continue reading
