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Category Archives: Shifa Mustafa
Negrini blocks Town Hall question on her jaunt to MIPIM
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
Newman approved council’s £17,000 trip to Cannes ‘junket’
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
Croydon’s Negrini, the £20m superyacht, and left over beer
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 Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Heather Cheesbrough, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, MIPIM, Shifa Mustafa, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Negrini’s council spend on South of France trip soars by 25%
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
Taberner House developers still don’t have building start date
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
Has Negrini’s appointee just admitted she can’t do the job?
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
Something stinks about council’s latest air quality plans
JEREMY CLACKSON, our motoring correspondent, reports on the inherent contradiction of the borough’s drive for growth (in cars, naturally) Croydon Council has just announced a public consultation (another one), this time over the borough’s rapidly worsening air quality. They are … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Health, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Shifa Mustafa, Stuart King, Transport, Waste incinerator
Tagged Air pollution, Croydon Council, Harris Purley Way Primary, Krishna Avanti Primary, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Shifa Mustafa, STUART KING
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Council’s U-turn creates a road block to residents’ complaints
A council report to this Wednesday’s traffic management committee at the Town Hall recommends a U-turn on the controversial one-way system on residential streets between Addiscombe Road and Cherry Orchard Road which has caused distress and dismay for hundreds of … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Community associations, Croydon Council, Lebanon Road Residents' Association, Mark Watson, Shifa Mustafa, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Addiscombe West, Croydon Council, Labour, Lebanon Road, Mark Watson, Shifa Mustafa, TACRA, Tunstall and Addiscombe Court Residents' Association
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Negrini hands £150,000 job to former Waltham Forest exec
Croydon Council appears to have found the perfect replacement for Jo Negrini for the six-figure salaried job of executive director of planning and regeneration: someone who left their previous permanent role on a London council with a hefty pay-off just … Continue reading
