Category Archives: Colm Lacey

Residents’ anger over builders’ mess at Auckland Road

Posted on December 6, 2018 by

“Auckland Road is a mess,” residents living in a conservation area in Upper Norwood say, blaming sloppy building practices on a couple of sites, including one run that is run by Brick by Brick, the council’s house-builders. And they accuse … Continue reading →

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Scott gives support for building one-bed shacks in car parks

Posted on November 24, 2018 by

Paul Scott now wants to see hundreds of cheap, one-bed shacks built in Croydon’s car parks. That’s the latest architect-led idea to be endorsed by Scott, who was speaking at a conference held in the town centre this week. Scott … Continue reading →

Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Paul Scott | Tagged , , , , | 8 Comments

Scott in shock resignation as chair of planning committee

Posted on November 9, 2018 by

Local democracy reporter KEN LEE reports on the latest bizarre conduct in the Town Hall chamber In what must be one of the least transparent pieces of council business conducted even under this Town Hall administration, Paul Scott, the all-powerful … Continue reading →

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Croydon Council hits Labour Party donor with £32,000 fine

Posted on October 30, 2018 by

Labour-run Croydon Council has slapped more than £30,000 in fines on… one of Croydon Labour’s biggest, if not the biggest, donors. The council last week announced that two property companies, AA Homes and Housing and Anabow Services Ltd, have been … Continue reading →

Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Business, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Landlord licensing, Planning, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Shared ownership is an unaffordable joke, says Standard

Posted on October 24, 2018 by

Things must be bad when even London estate agents’ weekly booster pages identify how one of the housing market’s on-trend deals is failing to deliver. Today’s Homes and Property advertorial section in the Evening Standard (Editor: Gideon Osborne) lays into … Continue reading →

Posted in Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Evening Boris, Housing, Local media, London Assembly, London-wide issues | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

Brick by Brick’s first new homes won’t be occupied until 2019

Posted on October 23, 2018 by

BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent, on how the borough’s ‘award-winning’ house building company has taken nearly four years to build its first house The first homes built by Brick by Brick, Croydon Council’s loss-making house builders, won’t be available to … Continue reading →

Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, London-wide issues, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Tony Newman, Upper Norwood | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Can there really be a happy ending to the Fairfield fairy tale?

Posted on October 19, 2018 by

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 →

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