Category Archives: Colm Lacey

Council CEO spends £20,000 on annual trip to South of France

Posted on April 11, 2019 by

Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, unravels the latest extravagance with public money by the Labour-run council’s chief executive Jo Negrini, Croydon Council’s £212,000 per year chief executive, last month spent nearly £20,000 of public money so that she and three … Continue reading →

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Excrement ‘hand-delivered’ to councillor in row over planning

Posted on April 1, 2019 by

Being a councillor is becoming an increasingly shitty proposition. Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, reports ahead of tonight’s Town Hall meeting on how ‘a council motion’ has taken on whole new meaning Tension is running high at the Town Hall, … Continue reading →

Posted in Andrew Pelling, Brick by Brick, Business, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Housing, Jo Negrini, Pat Ryan, Paul Scott, Planning, Selhurst, Stuart King, Toni Letts, Tony Newman, Waddon | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 14 Comments

Sleep Out raises £45,000, but rough sleepers were not welcome

Posted on March 26, 2019 by

STEVEN DOWNES spent Sunday night speaking to the rough sleepers in the town centre who did not have a roof over the heads It is 10.45pm, and a cold, wintry wind whips along George Street as a handful of people … Continue reading →

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Council sells off public green space to Brick by Brick for just £1

Posted on March 20, 2019 by

Croydon Council has sold at least three packages of publicly owned property – in Waddon, South Croydon and Fairfield wards – to Brick by Brick, its house-building company, for just £1 each. And last year the Labour-run council also flogged … Continue reading →

Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Fairfield, Housing, Jo Negrini, Planning, Property, South Croydon, Tony Newman, Waddon | Tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

£600,000 price tag on council-owned Brick by Brick houses

Posted on March 18, 2019 by

Roll up! Roll up! Come and get your Brick by Brick house, built on public property, using tax-payers’ money, and going on sale this week as a real bargain at nearly £600,000 for a three-bedroomed house on a ‘neat terrace’! … Continue reading →

Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Housing, Jo Negrini, Planning, Thornton Heath | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Council goes toe-to-toe with College over ‘university’

Posted on March 13, 2019 by

Croydon College and the University of Sussex have been providing degree courses in the town centre for a decade. Now the council, with its own multi-billion development plans in tatters, has decided to come up with a scheme of its … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Brick by Brick, Business, College Green, Colm Lacey, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Croydon School of Art, Education, Jo Negrini, Planning, South Bank Poly, Sussex Innovation Centre, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Negrini jets off to Cannes as Brick by Brick cover-up continues

Posted on March 11, 2019 by

WALTER CRONXITE dons his Panama hat, khaki shorts and espadrilles to track down the council’s £200,000 CEO on her annual spring break to the South of France, all funded by Croydon Council Tax-payers With Westfield delayed indefinitely, Fairfield Halls at … Continue reading →

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