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Category Archives: Connected Croydon
Labour council spends £148,000 for one night of cycle racing
Austerity? Government grant cuts? Front-line council jobs under threat? On yer bike! Here in Croydon, under our flip-flopping Labour-lite council, we are spending nearly £150,000 of public cash for a couple of hours of sport next month. Croydon town centre … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2012 Olympics, Activities, Boris Johnson, Business, Connected Croydon, Croydon Council, Cycling, Cycling, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, Mayor of London, Nathan Elvery, Skanska, Sport, Tony Newman, Tramlink, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Fairfield Halls, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, TfL, Tony Newman, Tory, Transport for London, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Wandle Park gets £58,000; Waddon park bulldozed with £87m
There’s something bittersweet about the announcement this week that Croydon Council has been awarded £58,800 from City Hall towards the cost of improving pedestrian and cycling access to Wandle Park. Sweet, because it is a cause that Inside Croydon’s loyal … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boris Johnson, Broad Green, Business, Connected Croydon, CPO, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Environment, Friends of Wandle Park, Kathy Bee, Mayor of London, Planning, Tony Newman, Waddon, Wandle Park, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boris Johnson, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Waddon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Vote now to help really connect Croydon at Wandle Park
Inside Croydon’s loyal reader has 24 hours left to help transform Croydon for the better. Or at least one bit of it. When the highly paid consultant PR spinners came up with the “Connected Croydon” campaign, they did so without … Continue reading
Residents’ associations mobilise to get better say with council
The peasants are revolting. They may not just yet quite be at the point of storming Fisher’s Folly with lighted torches and armed with pitchforks, but dissatisfaction with the way Croydon Council is run and the manner in which public … Continue reading
Posted in Addington Residents' Association, Addiscombe Residents Association, Addiscombe West, Community associations, Connected Croydon, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Town, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, ECCO, Fairness Commission, Lansdowne Road RA, Lebanon Road Residents' Association, Nathan Elvery, Norbury Green Residents' Association, Norbury Village Residents' Association, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Parking, Planning, Pollards Hill Residents' Association, Refuse collection, Scots Estate Residents' Association, South Croydon Community Association, Spring Park Residents' Association, Street lighting
Tagged Addiscombe West, Coulsdon, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Nathan Elvery, UKIP
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Dis-Connected Croydon is set to dig up South End again
Just the matter of a few weeks after the “improvements” to South End were (almost) completed – months later than scheduled – council contractors are going to be digging the road up again next week. An email has flooded into … Continue reading
Commuters face 18 months’ disruption as bus station closes
West Croydon Bus Station closes this weekend, with 18 months’ worth of disruption ahead for bus, tram and rail passengers as works are undertaken to reconfigure the interchange at the north end of the Whitgift Centre. Each year, eight million … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Broad Green, Centrale, Commuting, Connected Croydon, London-wide issues, Planning, Tramlink, Transport, West Croydon, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Connected Croydon, East Croydon station, Hammerson, TfL, Toni Letts, Transport for London, West Croydon, West Croydon Bus Station, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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£3m of riot fund spending in South End is “hostile” to cyclists
South End, one of the main routes into and out of the centre of Croydon, today remains a building site, reducing the amount of passing trade able to visit local bars, restaurants and other shops nearly two months after a … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Bikes, Business, Commuting, Connected Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Cycling Campaign, Cycling, Environment, Fairfield, Planning, Restaurants, South Croydon, Waddon
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Cycling Campaign, Cycling, cyclists, London Borough of Croydon, South Croydon, South Croydon, Tory, Waddon
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Get the keys to Fisher’s Folly and No 10 with Open House
Croydon, quite rightly, is taking its place alongside the majority of the capital’s boroughs, throwing open the doors of a number of public buildings for Open House London weekend on September 20-21, a free event which enables people to take … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Bernard Weatherill House, Connected Croydon, Croydon Airport, Croydon Council, Education, Environment, Fairfield Halls, History, Libraries, Nathan Elvery
Tagged Bernard Weatherill House, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fisher's Folly, London Borough of Croydon, Taberner House
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Dis-Connected Croydon and the mystery of missing contacts
Businesses and residents on Southbridge Road in South Croydon are having to deal with the disruption and inconvenience of having their road closed off at one end, for at least three weeks. The road works are part of the multi-million-pound … Continue reading
Dis-Connected Croydon put on the rack over cycle installation
ANDREW DICKINSON got on his bike when he saw the latest example of ill-considered spending of public money on the streets of South Croydon Don’t get me wrong. As a cyclist, I want to see more cycle lanes and secure … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Bikes, Boris Johnson, Commuting, Connected Croydon, Croydon Cycling Campaign, Cycling, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Parking, Planning, South Croydon, South Croydon Community Association, Waddon
Tagged Andrew Dickinson, Boris Bikes, Boris Johnson, Connected Croydon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Cycling, London, South Croydon, Waddon
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