Category Archives: Shifa Mustafa

Council staffer Pitt is recruited to board of failing Brick by Brick

Posted on May 6, 2020 by

KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, discovers that the council has been less-than-forthcoming over the latest appointment to their loss-making house-builder Brick by Brick has appointed a new company director, in a move that could signal the council-owned house-builder is … Continue reading →

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Croydon now has three employees paid £200,000+ per year

Posted on April 16, 2020 by

Our political correspondent, WALTER CRONXITE, reports on the latest startling figures coming out of the council Croydon Council had three members of staff who took home more than £200,000 in the last financial year for which figures are available. That’s … Continue reading →

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Brick by Brick losses mount as they spend £1m on ‘showroom’

Posted on September 1, 2019 by

The annual report from the council’s loss-making in-house house-builder shows ‘directors costs’ more than tripling in the past year, while spending £1million on rent and renovations to the company’s George Street base Brick by Brick, the bastard brainchild of Croydon … Continue reading →

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Newman discovers climate emergency but offers little to fix it

Posted on June 28, 2019 by

Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, was at the council’s ‘sustainability summit’ – staged in an unsustainable venue where guests were drinking from single-use cardboard cups – and found it to be full of contradictions Tony Newman, the Labour leader of … Continue reading →

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Brick by Brick gets 100%: 38 housing projects are all delayed

Posted on May 4, 2019 by

BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent, reports on how late  completion of developments by the council’s house-builders is storing up a multi-million-pound problem Brick by Brick, Croydon Council’s house-building company, could be struggling to make its sums work as delays and … Continue reading →

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Council CEO spends £20,000 on annual trip to South of France

Posted on April 11, 2019 by

Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, unravels the latest extravagance with public money by the Labour-run council’s chief executive Jo Negrini, Croydon Council’s £212,000 per year chief executive, last month spent nearly £20,000 of public money so that she and three … Continue reading →

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Scott puts forward proposals to raise parking fees by 375%

Posted on March 22, 2019 by

“The problem isn’t with cars being parked, it’s with cars being driven.” Croydon’s Labour-run council is putting forward proposals for £300 per year resident parking permits which will hit the poor and the elderly hardest, as transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON … Continue reading →

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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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