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Category Archives: Jo Negrini
Renovations in Purley and Coulsdon deliver five new homes
Unwittingly, perhaps, but the brains trust in charge of the council’s housing policy – led by Alison “Nothing To Declare” Butler – have gone out and demonstrated quite how inadequate their over-development policy with house-builder Brick by Brick has become. … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Housing, Property, Purley
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Purley
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Labour councillor alleges planning bias for Brick by Brick
Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, on how a Town Hall veteran has broken ranks over some of the council’s inappropriate over-development It is no longer just disgruntled residents, unhappy over the way the council and their slow-motion house-builders, Brick by … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Pat Ryan, Paul Scott, Planning, Tony Newman, Upper Norwood
Tagged Alison Butler, Auckland Rise, Brick by Brick, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Pat Ryan, Paul Scott, Upper Norwood
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Croydon missing ‘affordable’ housing target by 1,400 homes
Since 2016, less than half of the number of affordable homes have been delivered by developers in Croydon than are required under the Mayor of London’s 40 per cent planning policy targets. That’s according to research carried out by Green … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Brick by Brick, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Sian Berry, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Sadiq Khan, Sian Berry, Westfield
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Butt plugs, uncontrolled sphincters and £50,000 council grants
Our arts correspondent, BELLA BARTOCK, on some perhaps surprising use of council hand-outs Cash-strapped Croydon Council teamed up with the Arts Council England this summer to hand out public-funded grants totalling more than £50,000 in cash and kind to a … Continue reading
Now Debenhams could be seeking rent break from Centrale
Our retailing correspondent, MT WALLETTE, on the latest set-back to a £1.4billion redevelopment of the town centre based on retailing Hammerson, one half of The Croydon Partnership which wants to rebuild a vast town centre shopping mall, could face the … Continue reading
Council paid £5m above asking price for Croydon Park Hotel
Under Jo “We’re Not Stupid” Negrini, Croydon Council last month paid £29.8million to buy the Croydon Park Hotel – nearly £5million more than the asking price when the property was put on the market just weeks earlier. Negrini, the council’s … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Jo Negrini, Simon Hall
Tagged Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Jo Negrini, Labour, Simon Hall
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House prices are falling just as Brick by Brick comes to market
A collapse in house prices, even in London and the south-east, could put more pressure on the Town Hall’s creaking finances, thanks to chief exec Jo “We’re Not Stupid” Negrini’s cunning plan of spending public money on building 1,000 homes … Continue reading
