Category Archives: Coulsdon West

Croydon’s leadership may be resigned to change at the top

Posted on September 19, 2017 by

WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, on last night’s potentially defining meeting of the council The body language spoke volumes. There, sitting behind council leader Tony Newman, the Labour councillors’ heads were down, the arms folded. Facing unremitting questioning after Ofsted … Continue reading →

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Pollard’s candidate list ignores five wards in Croydon North

Posted on September 13, 2017 by

WALTER CRONXITE on another bungled announcement by Croydon Conservatives No matter how hard they try to make it look as if they do give a toss about the north of the borough, Croydon’s Tories really don’t give a shit. And … Continue reading →

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Coulsdon councillor Bains gets bumped in Tory selections

Posted on September 7, 2017 by

WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, reports that in the latest Croydon game of musical chairs, the music hasn’t stopped yet Jeet Bains, the subterraneanly low-profile Conservative councillor for Coulsdon West, looks to be the first casualty of the enforced re-selections … Continue reading →

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Optivo fail to tell Coulsdon cottage tenants of change of plan

Posted on August 11, 2017 by

A housing association which failed to consult local residents and never bothered informing its own tenants that it wanted to bulldoze their historic home has now added insult to that injury by failing to advise the residents of Well Cottages … Continue reading →

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Optivo abandons plan to bulldoze historic Coulsdon cottages

Posted on August 9, 2017 by

BARRATT HOLMES reports on a sudden climb down by one of the country’s largest housing associations Under pressure from mounting public outrage and an MP’s petition, following reports on Inside Croydon, Optivo, the giant housing association, has today announced that … Continue reading →

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Ex-planning chair: council broke law over Coulsdon cottages

Posted on August 8, 2017 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: A borough alderman and former chair of the council planning committee, ADRIAN DENNIS, pictured right, suggests that the council may have failed to follow the letter of the law in the planning notification for Well Cottages Apart from … Continue reading →

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Croydon Tories’ leadership abandon hope with their B listers

Posted on August 7, 2017 by

Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, has obtained a copy of a Croydon Conservatives internal document which shows their north-south divide of the borough when it comes to picking candidates for next year’s council elections Whoever Croydon Conservatives select to contest … Continue reading →

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