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Planning chair Scott uses election to gag objections from MP
Brick by Brick is concreting over the borough, block by block, and one senior councillor is not going to let anyone get in the way of the council’s housing company. But as BARRATT HOLMES reports, the council’s affordable homes target … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Housing, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Jo Negrini, Labour, Member of parliament, Paul Scott, Steve O'Connell, Steve Reed OBE, Tory, Upper Norwood
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Complaint filed to Ombudsman over Scott’s planning conduct
The latest round of Brick by Brick planning applications will be considered at a meeting to be chaired by a councillor who is under investigation by the Ombudsman. BARRATT HOLMES reports Paul Scott, the controversial chair of the council’s planning … Continue reading
Scott offers account of controversial Purley planning meeting
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Last week, the so-called chair of the council’s so-called planning committee responded to complaints about overdevelopment from the people he is supposed to represent by accusing them of Nimbyism and claiming that his committee is unable to do … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Chris Philp MP, Housing, Paul Scott, Planning, Purley
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Paul Scott, Planning, Purley
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Failure to listen suggests planners have something to hide
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The patronising dismissal of “Nimbys” made earlier this week by Paul Scott, the chairman of Croydon’s planning committee, has drawn widespread scorn from the people whom the councillor was elected by and is supposed to be serving. Here, … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning
Tagged Croydon, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott
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What’s the point of planning committee with Scott in charge?
CROYDON COMMENTARY: A senior councillor’s arrogant dismissal of residents who have sought to protect and defend their neighbourhoods from crass over-development is among the most-read articles on the site this week. Here, Purley resident TOM MOORHOUSE responds and provides some … Continue reading
Planning chairman: I can do nothing to stop overdevelopment
CROYDON COMMENTARY: According to Councillor PAUL SCOTT, pictured left, residents who complain about their neighbourhood being overdeveloped are just Nimbys, and there’s nothing he or the council planning department can do to avoid the over-development that is being inflicted on … Continue reading
Call for residents to band together over planning issues
CROYDON COMMENTARY: A Purley resident affected by a controversial development on Norman and Derrick Avenues, ANDREW SADDINGTON responds to our latest report on the council’s planning committee by asking others from across the borough to come together I don’t care … Continue reading
