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Category Archives: Colm Lacey
Can there really be a happy ending to the Fairfield fairy tale?
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Building delays, budget-busting over-runs, the inexplicable changes of the names of long-established venues… The council’s £30million refurbishment of the borough’s largest arts complex has been a Pantomime from the start, and says DAVID WICKENS, it is Fairfield Halls’ … Continue reading
Conservation in Croydon, Norwood Society, Oct 18
Posted in Brick by Brick, Norwood Society, Planning, Upper Norwood
Tagged Brick by Brick, Norwood Society, Upper Norwood Library
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Public’s Town Hall questions on Binmageddon get censored
KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, sat through nearly four hours of Monday’s Town Hall meeting, so that you didn’t have to… A mere 90 days since the last full meeting of the council, and most of the borough’s councillors … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Bernadette Khan, Brick by Brick, Children's Services, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, Joy Prince, London-wide issues, Niro Sirisena, Refuse collection, Robert Canning, Simon Brew, St Andrew's, Stuart Collins, Stuart King, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Upper Norwood, Veolia, Waddon, Wandle Park, Whitgift Centre
Tagged #Binmageddon, #CroydonBinChaos, Conservative, Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Hammersfield, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tony Newman, Upper Norwood, Waddon, Westfield
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Fairfield Halls: progress being made, but still no opening date
The London Open House weekend gave Croydon residents a chance to peek inside the workings of the £30million refurbishment of the Fairfield Halls. Already months late for completion, and with suggestions that it is also running over-budget, plans for performances … Continue reading
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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