Category Archives: Shifa Mustafa

Planning approval granted for £100m Selhurst Park scheme

Posted on April 20, 2018 by

KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, on a planning committee outcome which was never in any doubt This was one fixture in the 2017-2018 season which Crystal Palace Football Club were never going to lose. Croydon Council’s planning committee last … 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 →

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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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Croydon’s Negrini, the £20m superyacht, and left over beer

Posted on March 16, 2018 by

KEN LEE, our spending-four-days-on-the-lash-at-public-expense correspondent, detected waning interest among the world’s property developers in Croydon’s tired message at this year’s MIPIM Apparently, it’s happening. “It’s happening!” was the latest lame slogan for Croydon this week at the booze and hookerfest … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Heather Cheesbrough, Jo Negrini, Shifa Mustafa, Stiles Harold Williams, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Negrini’s council spend on South of France trip soars by 25%

Posted on March 12, 2018 by

Just as households around the borough are this week receiving notification of their hike in Council Tax with a solemn message from council leader Tony Newman that, “It is more important than ever to make every penny count”, so four … Continue reading →

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Taberner House developers still don’t have building start date

Posted on February 6, 2018 by

BARRATT HOLMES on another prestigious scheme in the town centre which seems to have come to a grinding halt Five years since Taberner House was demolished and almost a year since planning permission was granted for the site – including … Continue reading →

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Has Negrini’s appointee just admitted she can’t do the job?

Posted on August 14, 2017 by

WALTER CRONXITE reports on a secretive multi-million pound deal to come out of the Town Hall At lunchtime today, one of Croydon’s most senior executive officers got a “key decision” passed, without any discussion by our elected representatives at any … Continue reading →

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