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Shaping Croydon’s light-touch exhibit offers clues to the future
An exhibition, “Shaping Croydon – Architecture and Ambition”, has opened this week at the Museum of Croydon, just in time for this weekend’s celebration of the capital’s architecture with the Open House festival. The exhibition is attractively bright and light-touch. … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Activities, Art, Croydon Council, Environment, History, Museum of Croydon, Planning, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged 1956 Croydon Corporation Act, Brutalism, Croydon, Croydon Flyover, London, Mini Manhattan, Museum of Croydon, Shaping Croydon - Architecture and Ambition, TfL, Transport for London
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Adderley suspension lifted by Greens after six-month wait
Husband of TV personality Nadia Sawalha is finally allowed to sit at Croydon Town Hall as an official Green Party councillor. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, reports Croydon Council, as of this morning, now has eight councillors from the Green Party, … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Mark Adderley, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North
Tagged antisemitism, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Daily Mail, Labour, Mark Adderley, Metro, Nadia Sawalha, Steve Reed MP, Steve Reed OBE, Streatham and Croydon North, The Green Party, Zack Polanski, Zionism
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Council bosses critical of Perry’s costly ‘transformation’ plan
Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on how even insiders have been forced to admit that the Mayor’s plan to ‘fix the finances’ has flopped The council and the government-appointed Commissioners are “concerned with transformation pace, focus and outcomes” related to … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioners, Croydon Council, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Section 114 notice, Stabilisation Plan
Tagged Boston Consulting Group, Commissioners, Conrad Hall, Conservative, Council transformation, Croydon, Croydon Council, Katherine Kerswell, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Mike Jackson, Newton, The Municipal Journal, Tory, Transformation director, Transformation plan
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MP Philp’s Green Belt petition slammed as ‘scaremongering’
‘Croydon’s Green Belt under threat!’ was the deliberately alarmist headline on a mass email from the Croydon South MP last week. Some have described it as ‘reckless scaremongering’. Others have called it ‘outright lies’. BARRATT HOLMES, housing correspondent, puts down … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Addington Hills, Addiscombe West, Business, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Croydon South, 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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Perry finally forced to admit his scheme for CALAT closure
Croydon’s failed Mayor, embarrassed by having his secret plans to axe the council’s adult education programme exposed, has issued a belated explanation to councillors. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES After months of secrecy and suspicion, Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed Mayor, has … Continue reading
That’s ACE! Gaskell the latest to join council’s growing 200 club
Cash-strapped Croydon now has at least three execs, two of them interims, being paid at rates of £200,000 per year or more. But someone in Mayor Jason Perry’s council is trying to keep the latest appointment a secret. EXCLUSIVE by … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioners, Conrad Hall, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Elaine Jackson, Jenny Rowlands, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Mike Jackson, Section 114 notice, Stephen Gaskell
Tagged Camden Council, Commissioners, Conrad Hall, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Elaine Jackson, Ged Curran, Interim assistant chief executive, Interims, Jenny Rowlands, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Mike Jackson, Tory
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After closing libraries, now Philistine Perry takes axe to CALAT
Council briefing document says Mayor wants to outsource borough’s widely admired adult education service as his latest cost-cutting wheeze. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES CALAT, the council-run Croydon Adult Learning and Training organisation, has effectively been evicted from its home in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Brigitte Graham, Business, CALAT, Croydon Council, Education, Greenwich Leisure, Libraries, Mayor Jason Perry
Tagged adult education, CALAT, Cllr Brigitte Graham, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Adult Learning and Training, Croydon Clocktower, Croydon Council, Croydon Town Hall, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry
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Perry’s ‘comedy’ video claims are leaving the joke on Croydon
The borough’s Conservative Mayor, rendered impotent by the presence of government Commissioners, has spent much of the summer conducting some personal political campaigning, all paid for by tax-payers, that is often deliberately misleading, that sometimes gaslights residents and, very often, … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Andrew Fisher, BH Group, Business, Commissioners, Council Tax, Crime, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Fly tipping, Live Facial Recognition cameras, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Planning, Policing, Refuse collection, Sadiq Khan, Selsdon Park Hotel, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Labour, Live Facial Recognition, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, Metropolitan Police, Shop lifter tagging, Tory, URW, Westfield
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Perry admits he has no idea when work will start on Purley Pool
Not for the first time, Croydon’s Mayor is out of his depth when facing the most straightforward of questions, reports PEARL LEE Five years after promising to reopen Purley Pool “immediately” as part of his original election campaign, and Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, Neil Garratt, Planning, Polaska, Polaska Assets Ltd, Property, Purley, Purley Pool
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, Polaska, Polaska Assets BVI, Polaska Assets Ltd, Purley, Purley Pool, Purley Pool Towers, Tory
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‘Crap’ council is caught taping over the cracks of listed building
Croydon Council has been accused of failing to protect and preserve one of the town centre’s heritage buildings, the Grade II-listed Segas House, on the corner of Katharine Street and Wellesley Road. The office building was given listed status in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon School of Art, Fairfield, Mayor Jason Perry, Nestle Tower, Planning, Ria Patel, Segas House, St George's Walk
Tagged Cllr Ria Patel, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Electric House, Fairfield, Fairfield ward, Grade II, Green Party, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Segas House, Tory, Town Centre
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Perry’s ‘caught on camera’ fly-tipper is following council’s rules
EXCLUSIVE: Mayor’s ‘zero tolerance’ approach to fly-tipping is to feature on local television news tonight, as council videos ‘exposes’ a local trader doing what they have been instructed to do by… the council! Jason Perry, the incompetent Mayor of Croydon, … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Haily Cluff, Litter Free Norbury, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury, Refuse collection, Tony Hooker, Veolia
Tagged Braithwaite Hall, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Graham Mitchell, Haily Cluff, Litter Free Norbury, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury, Residents' Association Forums, Thornton Heath, Tony Hooker, Tory, Town Hall
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Study shows that ULEZ helps improve children’s lung health
Latest scientific report on the adverse effects of vehicle emissions on the health of young children is timely in Croydon, writes our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION ULEZ – the Ultra-Low Emissions Zone – improves the health of children. That’s according … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Environment, Health, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Transport, ULEZ, ULEZ expansion
Tagged Anti-ULEZ, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon say no to ULEZ expansion, London, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of Londpn, Oxford University, Professor Chris Griffiths, Queen Mary University London, Sadiq Khan, Tory, ULEZ, ULEZ expansion
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Petty Perry blocks residents’ groups from RA rubbish meeting
EXCLUSIVE: Croydon’s answer to Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s Supreme Leader, is making a public appearance tonight where only residents’ associations who meet his approval are allowed to attend. By KEN LEE, our Town Hall correspondent Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed … Continue reading
Posted in Alasdair Stewart, Community associations, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Haily Cluff, Litter Free Norbury, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury, Ola Kolade, Refuse collection, Robert Ward, Tony Hooker, Veolia
Tagged Braithwaite Hall, Cllr Alasdair Stewart, Cllr Robert Ward, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Graham Mitchell, Haily Cluff, Jeet Bains, Katharine Street, Litter Free Norbury, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury, Ola Kolade, Residents' Association Forums, Thornton Heath, Tony Hooker, Tory, Town Hall
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Exposed: New CEO’s role in Norfolk’s £30m incinerator scandal
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Did Mayor Perry’s appointments committee bother to conduct a full background check into the employment record of the man they have just handed the council’s top job and £1,500 per day pay? A big Croydon welcome to … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioners, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Elaine Jackson, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Mike Jackson, Section 114 notice
Tagged Bernard Weatherill House, Chief executive officer, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Elaine Jackson, Fisher's Folly, incinerator, Interiim chief executive, Katherine Kerswell, Kings Lynn, Kings Lynn incinerator, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Jackson, Norfolk, Norfolk County Council, Tory
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Council agrees to take closer look at Grange Road speedsters
Transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON on a small victory for residents of Upper Norwood after more than a decade of lobbying their council Steve Reed is claiming his first success in his newly restored role as a backbench MP. The Labour … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Mayor Jason Perry, Policing, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon East, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Grange Road, Labour, Labour Together, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Spa Hill, Steve Reed OBE, Streatham and Croydon North, Tory
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Sawalha threatens legal action against ITV over Loose Women
Forthright and opinionated actress says she was told she was dropped from the panel show because ‘It’s all a bit noisy out there for us’ Nadia Sawalha has threatened legal action against her erstwhile employers, ITV, after she was “cancelled” … Continue reading
New £5,000 fines for fly-tipping – but will Perry catch offenders?
Where there’s muck, there’s brass, as the old saying goes, and someone in government may have stumbled across a sure-fire way of Croydon Council paying off some of its debts. Whitehall has approved hiking fines for fly-tipping to a new … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Refuse collection, Veolia
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, DEFRA, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, fly-tip, Fly-tipping, Litter Free Norbury, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Tory
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Perry drives a black cab through council’s consultation rules
The Croydon Mayor’s latest Trumpian edict, to ingratiate himself with London taxi drivers, is not quite what it seems, as our Town Hall correspondent, KEN LEE, reports Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed Mayor, is now pandering to black cab drivers, allowing … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Schools
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Healthy School Streets, Highways Dept, Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association, London, London Borough of Croydon, LTDA, LTNs, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, PCNs, Penalty Charge Notices, school streets, TfL, Tory, Transport for London
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Children’s home firm based in New Addington fined £100,000
A care company based in New Addington has become the first to be successfully prosecuted and fined for running unregistered children’s homes. Catalyst Care Ltd and its directors, Davidson Lynch-Shyllon and Miriam Ekathor, pleaded guilty to 10 charges at Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Children's Services, Crime
Tagged Catalyst Care Ltd, Children's homes, Davidson Lynch-Shyllon, Medway Council, Miriam Ekathor, Ofsted
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Complaints against Perry’s council soar by 51% in two years
Croydon, under its Tory Mayor, is getting worse, not better, judging by the number of complaints upheld by the Local Government Ombudsman in the last year. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Croydon continues to be among the country’s most rotten boroughs, … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Bromley Council, Children's Services, Croydon Council, Housing, Katherine Kerswell, Lambeth Council, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, SEND, Surrey, Sutton Council
Tagged Bromley, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Katherine Kerswell, Lambeth, League tables, Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman, Local Government Ombudsman, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Rotten Boroughs, Rotten boroughs league tables 2025-2026, Sutton, Tory
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Public outcry helps save Triangle trees from death by tarmac
Our environment correspondent PAUL LUSHION reports on the latest piece of sheer stupidity from Jason Perry’s council, carried out in the middle of a drought during the climate crisis, and while damaging a cherished conservation area As the latest example … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Environment, Mark Adderley, Natalie Vestey, Tom Bowell
Tagged Cllr Alasdair Stewart, Cllr Mark Adderley, Cllr Natalie Vestey, Cllr Tom Bowell, Conservative, Conway, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Triangle, Geen Party, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Tarmaced trees
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Ansari’s £90m property empire in collapse as receivers move in
In the latest sign of difficulties for businesses in Croydon, one of the borough’s biggest developers and landlords – a political donor to Sadiq Khan and Yvette Cooper in the past – is being forced to sell several properties. EXCLUSIVE … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Leslie Arms, Planning, Property, Pubs
Tagged AA Homes, Addiscombe, Addiscombe West, Anwar Ansari, Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, Croydon Council, Dogs attack, Dr Anwar Ansari, English Heritage, Kangal, Labour, Landlord licensing, Leslie Arms, Lloyd Park, Lower Addiscombe Road, The Victorian Society, Turkish Kangal
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After a month with no rain, London on new Amber health alert
Croydon Council echoes 1970s advice to ‘bath with a friend’ to save water, as drought in the capital enters its third month An Amber health alert has come into force today, with temperatures expected to head above 30C again. This … Continue reading
Councillor Adderley still left waiting for Green Party’s decision
WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, reports on the delayed internal party disciplinary process which has taken longer than it took the Daily Mail to capitulate into issuing its own apology and pay ‘substantial’ damages Mark Adderley, the newly elected Croydon councillor … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Mark Adderley, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North
Tagged antisemitism, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Daily Mail, Labour, Mark Adderley, Metro, Nadia Sawalha, Steve Reed MP, Steve Reed OBE, The Green Party, Zionism
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Council’s ‘no barbecues’ plea after wildfires hit New Addington
Croydon Council has issued a “no barbecues” appeal for the borough’s parks and open spaces ahead of the weekend, after two more wildfires in the borough were among the hundreds of call-outs for the London Fire Brigade on its busiest … Continue reading
