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UnFairbnb: Council has nothing to show for £200,000 spend
EXCLUSIVE: Our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, provides a reminder of another significant amount of council cash that was poorly spent – but helped line the pockets of ‘friends and family’ of the Town Hall’s Labour leadership Do you remember … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Bishop of Croydon, Business, Charity, Croydon Council, David Evans, Fairness Commission, Hannah Miller, Housing, Rowenna Davis, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Bishop Jonathan Clark, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairbnb, Fairness Commission, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Rowenna Davis, Tony Newman
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Fairness Commission report recommends Council Tax rise
Croydon’s Labour-run council should take full advantage of Tory Chancellor Gideon Osborne’s recent decision to allow a 2 per cent increase on Council Tax towards paying for adult social care. That’s a key recommendation in the final report of the … Continue reading
Posted in Bishop of Croydon, Broad Green, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon FSB, CVA, Fairness Commission, Hannah Miller, Health, Housing, New Addington
Tagged Broad Green, Croydon Council, Fairness Commission, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, New Addington, Opportunity and Fairness Commission, Selhurst, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, Tory, Waddon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Could do better: council chief gets low marks and no Marx
Tony Newman has got his bucket and spade ready for a weekend break at the seaside. As WALTER CRONXITE delivers his mid-term report on Croydon’s Labour council, he’s not expecting the Town Hall leader to bring him back a stick … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Alison Butler, Boris Johnson, Croydon Council, CVA, Fairness Commission, Fly tipping, Housing, Mark Watson, Mayor of London, Nathan Elvery, New Addington, Paul Scott, Phil Thomas, Policing, Refuse collection, Steve Reed MP, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon Council, Labour, Paul Scott, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman, Tory
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‘Interesting’: the best Newman can say of his Fairness report
Is this what fulfills the definition of “damned by faint praise”? After committing £200,000 from Croydon’s hard-pressed budgets towards the Opportunity and Fairness Commission, this is all Labour council leader Tony Newman could find to say about the Commission’s interim … Continue reading
Fairness Commission to stage Open Day, Sep 1
Croydon’s Opportunity and Fairness Commission is to stage an Open Day on Tuesday, September 1. “The Open Day will be an opportunity for members of the public to directly contribute to the Commission’s work,” they announced. The Commission, a pet … Continue reading
Fairness Commission’s youth competition gets just 10 entries
What do you get for £200,000 of public dosh? Not a lot, it seems, if the underwhelming response to Croydon’s Opportunity and Fairness Commission’s latest “youth engagement” efforts are anything to go by. Only 10 youngsters from across London’s most … Continue reading
Fairness Commission’s iPad prize struggles to get response
When the crunch comes in Croydon over Tory Chancellor Gideon Osborne’s cuts, Council Tax-payers may be less than delighted to find that the £200,000 being spent on the borough’s Opportunity and Fairness Commission is going largely on a contract with … Continue reading
Fairness Commission provides Blue Labour with opportunity
The consequences of the General Election result continue to roll out. Such as: What does Croydon’s Labour-run council do with its very Ed Miliband-esque Fairness and Opportunity Commission? “Fairness” is so redolent of the Milband era, it appears that Croydon’s … Continue reading
Democratic control is an alien concept at the Town Hall
CROYDON COMMENTARY: What powers and influence do our elected councillors really have? ROD DAVIES, a local resident and a local authority official in the past, poses the questions Croydon Town Hall’s 70 elected councillors are all dependent on professional officers, … Continue reading
Posted in Bernard Weatherill House, Croydon Council, ECCO, Fairness Commission, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman, URV
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Labour, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman, Tory
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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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Opportunity fails to knock for Commission volunteers
It’s beginning to appear as if the Croydon Opportunity and Fairness Commission is not being regarded as much of an opportunity at all. An email has flooded into Inside Croydon’s inbox this afternoon. Its subject? “One Week to make a … Continue reading
Fair’s fair, but Bishop has been given a task to test a saint
So now we know. The Croydon Opportunity and Fairness Commission (as it has now finally resolved to be snappily titled) had its first meeting last night, where it revealed the members of the commission – the “commissioners” – and its … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Bernard Weatherill House, Bishop of Croydon, Business, Charity, Church and religions, Community associations, Crime, Croydon Council, Fairness Commission, Hamida Ali, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Bishop Jonathan Clark, Bishop of Croydon, Conservative, Fairness Commission, Hamida Ali, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Nathan Elvery, Opportuntity and Fairness Commission, Tony Newman, Tory, UKIP, Whitgift Foundation
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Fairness Commission keeps public waiting before revealing all
The first public meeting of the council’s Opportunity and Fairness Commission will be staged next Wednesday, January 28, at Stanley Halls, South Norwood. Chaired by the Bishop of Croydon, the Right Reverend Jonathan Clark, the commission, which is supposed to … Continue reading
