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Category Archives: City status
‘Our time is now’? Newman is having a bit of a Mayor
WALTER CRONXITE, our man in the Town Hall reception flicking through the visitors’ book, says that the council leader’s “strategy” for funding cannot be delivered unless he agrees to abandoning the patronage on which he depends for his political power … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, City status, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Mayor of London, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Council Tax, Labour, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Sanderstead, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Woodside
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Sun Lounge fails to shed much light on future of Croydon
An exhibition of architectural plans for a “New Croydon” is long on waffle and short on fresh ideas, says a disappointed CRO CRUSADER You might have expected that the grandly titled “New Croydon Architecture & Design Exhibition”, which is open … Continue reading
Posted in Allders, Business, Centrale, City status, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Environment, Fairfield Halls, Housing, Jon Rouse, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Hammerson, London, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Whitgift Centre
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Croydon’s Max Headroom leaves council piss-up pot-less
It must have been pretty gloomy at the Croydon table at the Grosvenor House Hotel last night. Well, as gloomy as it can ever get when you are a public servant out on the piss at the expense of the … Continue reading
Croydon wasted tens of thousands on failed city bid
Well thank goodness that that piece of ill-advised, delusional nonsense is over. Mind you, Croydon’s misconceived bid for city status was dead in the water the moment that the Jon Rouse-led council published its bid book riddled with laughable errors … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Centrale, City status, Croydon Council, Danny Brierley, Jon Rouse, London-wide issues
Tagged Council Tax, Croydon, London Borough of Croydon
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Croydon: connected, capable and confident. Unrecognisable?
A press release whizzes across the desk here at Inside Croydon Towers. We weren’t sent it directly, but hey ho…. The release was sent apparently on behalf of Develop Croydon, the organisation of big retailers and developers with multi-million pound … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Business, Centrale, Cherry Orchard Gardens, City status, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Central, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Jon Rouse, London-wide issues, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Steve O'Connell, URV
Tagged Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Borough of Croydon, MIPIM, Saffron Square, Steve O'Connell
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“Don’t mention the riots”: Croydon’s Fawlty tendency
The powers that be at the Town Hall look like they are making serious efforts to stifle open discussion of Croydon issues, with politically naive legal threats being bandied about in some quarters, and senior councillors from the ruling Conservative … Continue reading
Posted in City status, Croydon 8/8, David Fitze, Thornton Heath
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Fawlty Towers, London, London Borough of Croydon, Riot, Thornton Heath
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City status for Croydon? Never on a Sunday
Croydon Council’s renewed campaign for city status was recently the subject of an online poll at the Croydon Guardian, where 47 per cent of respondents are either against the proposal altogether or “couldn’t give a shit” (we think that’s what … Continue reading
