Category Archives: Brick by Brick

Neighbours start legal challenge over Brick by Brick ‘bias’

Posted on April 20, 2018 by

A group of neighbours in South Norwood have started a crowd-funding appeal to raise money to pay for a legal challenge against Croydon council and planning chair Paul Scott over a Brick by Brick development which will overshadow their homes. … Continue reading →

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Negrini blocks Town Hall question on her jaunt to MIPIM

Posted on April 18, 2018 by

Jo Negrini’s sensitivities over questions about her jaunt to the South of France last month, where she attended the champagne-soaked MIPIM conference with international property developers, has seen the council’s unaccountable CEO not only refuse to answer letters from residents, … Continue reading →

Posted in Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Heather Cheesbrough, Jacqueline Harris-Baker, Jo Negrini, Shifa Mustafa | Tagged , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Newman approved council’s £17,000 trip to Cannes ‘junket’

Posted on April 16, 2018 by

WALTER CRONXITE reports on how Croydon’s unaccountable chief executive refuses to answer enquiries from Council Tax-payers, while the council leader ignores uncomfortable questions from voters The trip to the South of France last month to a property speculators’ conference taken … Continue reading →

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Negrini’s council has 20 execs paid more than £100,000

Posted on April 12, 2018 by

Jo Negrini’s empire-building at Fisher’s Folly has seen Croydon’s unaccountable chief exec increase the number of council employees paid £100,000, while her own pay package has soared to more than £200,000. The figures are based on research conducted by The … Continue reading →

Posted in Barbara Peacock, Brick by Brick, Children's Services, Colm Lacey, Council Tax, Jo Negrini | Tagged , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Pollard’s manifesto makes election a question of honesty

Posted on April 6, 2018 by

ELECTION COUNTDOWN: Four years ago, the Conservatives in Croydon demonstrated their contempt for the electorate by not even bothering with a manifesto. This time round, as political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports, what they have produced is simply not very credible … Continue reading →

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Unaccountable Negrini breaks silence over £17,000 Cannes trip

Posted on March 31, 2018 by

Jo Negrini, the council chief executive who refuses to answer questions from Croydon Council Tax-payers or elected councillors about what she might have achieved for the borough by spending a week on the beach in the South of France at … Continue reading →

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Lacey’s wooden plans only build-in problems for the future

Posted on March 31, 2018 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: A council-owned house-builder which has yet to build a single house is already talking about diversifying into other areas of the construction trade. It makes CHARLES CALVIN feel very nervous I get increasingly nervous about Brick by Brick … Continue reading →

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