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Category Archives: Brick by Brick
‘Godzilla weed’ could make Brick by Brick homes unsaleable
Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, reports on how a notorious invasive plant Japanese knotweed could render flats in a Brick by Brick development unmortgageable Colm Lacey, the Croydon employee who styles himself as “CEO” of Brick by Brick, has confirmed … Continue reading
Brick by Brick gets V&A Museum to artwash housing schemes
Brick by Brick has won more vacuous awards in its three-year existence than it has built houses (current total: 0). Now, it is turning Croydon into a museum artefact, for tourists to gawp at, as BARRATT HOLMES reports Brick by … Continue reading
MP Philp: Brick by Brick places council on a financial tightrope
CROYDON COMMENTARY: With the housing market suffering a dip, rising borrowing rates and uncertainty over Brexit, there’s growing concerns over the council’s slow-progressing house-building company. Croydon South MP CHRIS PHILP, left, outlines what he sees as the risks for the … Continue reading
Housing market dips before Brick by Brick finishes first build
Brick by Brick’s gamble with millions of pounds of council-owned land and tax-payers’ money is looking like an increasingly risky punt, as estate agents and the construction industry are reporting down-turns in the housing market. Of course, if Croydon’s Labour-run … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Housing, Paul Scott, Planning
Tagged Brexit, Brick by Brick, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Paul Scott, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Residents disgusted after Scott ‘gloats’ over court ruling
Paul Scott, the controversial chair of the council’s planning committee, has angered residents close to the Woodside ward he is supposed to represent by “gloating” over the outcome of a legal challenge to one of his committee’s decisions. “Delighted but … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Paul Scott, Planning, South Norwood, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Labour, Paul Scott, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Woodside
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MP Philp slates council: ‘Kim Jong-un would blush at this’
WALTER CRONXITE reports on the latest in Croydon’s Brick by Brick nepotism scandal Local MP Chris Philp has stepped into the row over nepotism among senior figures at the Labour-controlled council, and called for the sacking of Alison Butler, the … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Paul Scott, Planning, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, The Campaign Company, Tony Newman, Tory
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College sells Annex building to thwart Cultural Quarter plan
Croydon Council has been accused of ‘incompetence’ after a building it needed as part of a multi-million-pound development has been sold to a private developer. BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent, reports Croydon College has sold part of its site to … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Brick by Brick, College Green, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning, Theatre, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Chris Philp MP, College Green, Colm Lacey, Conservative, Croydon Council, Cultural Quarter, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tony Newman
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