Category Archives: Jon Rouse

Council’s £140m offices are to become a glorified Job Centre

Posted on July 17, 2017 by

WALTER CRONXITE on how the local council has been forced to take in more lodgers in its “prestige” £140m office building Tonight’s council cabinet meeting at the Town Hall is unlikely to uncover quite how the costs of building the … Continue reading →

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Cost of New Addington Leisure Centre hiked by £8m in a year

Posted on July 15, 2017 by

WALTER CRONXITE reports on a worrying 50 per cent inflation rate on one key council building project The cost of building the new swimming pool and leisure centre in New Addington has gone up by £8million in less than 12 … Continue reading →

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Croydon’s silly season stats which do not stand up to scrutiny

Posted on September 3, 2016 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The infamous maxim that if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth has flourished in Croydon this week. STEVEN DOWNES is just glad the silly season is over Thank goodness it’s September. I wouldn’t usually … Continue reading →

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Staff to move out of two more floors of £140m Council HQ

Posted on August 5, 2016 by

BARRATT HOLMES, our development correspondent, has discovered that by taking in corporate ‘lodgers’, the purpose-built local authority offices won’t be able to provide desks for 40% of the council’s staff Fisher’s Folly, the purpose-built local authority “hub” which was built … Continue reading →

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Council was paying £110,000 per year to ‘despicable’ legal firm

Posted on June 23, 2016 by

Parents of children with special educational needs who have been forced to fight stressful and demanding legal cases to seek proper support from Croydon Council have won a small victory by getting the Town Hall to cancel arrangements for legal … Continue reading →

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Chief executive Elvery has quit £180,000 Croydon Council job

Posted on March 30, 2016 by

The council’s CEO is the third senior executive to announce their departure from Croydon so far this year. WALTER CRONXITE reports Ambitious for Croydon? Hmm, maybe the allure of the £1 billion Hammersfield development is not so attractive after all: … Continue reading →

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Coulsdon supermarket deal collapses as CCURV fails again

Posted on January 19, 2016 by

Croydon’s reliance on retailing for its economic salvation will come under even greater scrutiny after the council’s most senior official overseeing the multi-billion-pound redevelopment schemes around the borough identified the decline of high street shopping for the collapse of a … Continue reading →

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Up to 600 Town Hall jobs at risk in latest council redundancies

Posted on November 13, 2015 by

Croydon Council yesterday launched another round of voluntary redundancies, as it tries to balance the Town Hall budget from a £3.5 million overspend. Some estimates suggest as many as 600 more council jobs may need to go. The budget short-fall … Continue reading →

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Council’s chasm of unaccountability grows wider each day

Posted on October 19, 2015 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Our borough’s elected representatives are being increasingly marginalised by a system that places huge power in the hands of a handful of unaccountable officials, writes STEVEN DOWNES Make the most of it at the Town Hall tonight. For … Continue reading →

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Boxpark loan deal turns councillors into a bunch of bankers

Posted on June 18, 2015 by

£3 million. So now we know how much tax-payers’ money it takes to bring a decent-sized business to the town centre. The Croydon Guardian reports that Croydon Council has gone into the banking business, making a £3 million loan to … Continue reading →

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