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Category Archives: Julie Belvir
Council was paying £110,000 per year to ‘despicable’ legal firm
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
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Jon Rouse, Julie Belvir, Nathan Elvery
Tagged Baker Small, Croydon Council, Education, Nathan Elvery
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Chief executive Elvery has quit £180,000 Croydon Council job
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
Council erases role of Borough Solicitor as Belvir leaves
Julie Belvir, the Borough Solicitor, is to leave her job and the post of most senior legal adviser to the council is to be abolished in a cost-cutting measure. Because it’s not like Croydon Council doesn’t need all the legal … Continue reading
Posted in Clare Hilley, Croydon Council, Julie Belvir, Riesco Collection, URV
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Mike Fisher, Tim Pollard, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Council’s chasm of unaccountability grows wider each day
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
Posted in "Hammersfield", Bernard Weatherill House, Business, Cane Hill, Chris Philp MP, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Housing, Jo Negrini, Jon Rouse, Julie Belvir, Maggie Mansell, Nathan Elvery, Norbury, Oasis Academy, Paul Scott, Planning, Pubs, Purley, South Norwood, Stuart Collins, Thornton Heath, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, URV, Whitgift Centre, Woodside
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Norbury, Purley, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Woodside
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Long overdue that councillors take charge at our councils
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Our report last week about a controversial meeting between Sutton Council’s chief executive and one of the borough’s councillors annoyed our loyal reader ARNO RABINOWITZ. But he was not surprised There’s a terrifying tendency, not only in Croydon … Continue reading
The 2015 Garbage Gallery: Have the bin men been?
SEP 19 UPDATE: There is a problem for Croydon’s Labour-run council. Having got elected to the Town Hall in 2014 on a platform that promised to clean-up the borough of the blight of fly-tipping, it’s becoming increasing clear that, however … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Julie Belvir, Nathan Elvery, Refuse collection, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, Waddon
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Garbage Gallery, Garbage Gallery 2015, Julie Belvir, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Tory, Veolia
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UKIP supporters to face demands for legal costs from council
Croydon Council has begun legal proceedings against a UKIP-dominated group which has refused to return thousands of pounds in an unspent grant. Council officials have decided to pursue the group’s committee members for the costs incurred for recovering that money. … Continue reading
Boxpark announced food plan after getting £3m council loan
Croydon Council’s £3 million loan of public cash to persuade Boxpark to set up a pop-up shopping mall alongside East Croydon Station was made in the expectation that the retail outlet would be a mixed development of trend-setting fashion stores … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Boxpark, Business, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Jo Negrini, Julie Belvir, Menta Tower, Property, Pubs, Restaurants, Ruskin Square
Tagged Boxpark, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, Tony Newman
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Croydon’s suffering Labour pains at delivering promises
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Being “Ambitious” for something is one thing, says ARNO RABINOWITZ. Actually delivering on those election promises is proving a different matter Just for fun – but then I am a closet masochist – I looked through the Labour … Continue reading
Legal case against landlord scheme comes from Bury, Lancs
The leadership of Croydon Council will be up before a High Court judge next Tuesday, August 4, at the start of a Judicial Review of its landlords licensing scheme which is being brought by a company registered in … Bury, … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Alison Butler, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, Julie Belvir, Planning, Property, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Conservative, Croydon Council, Croydon Property Forum, Jo Negrini, Labour, Landlord licensing scheme, London Borough of Croydon, Tony Newman, Tory
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Judge rejects incinerator appeal as focus turns to Viridor ‘gift’
A High Court judge this morning dismissed the latest, and possibly last, appeal under a Judicial Review by the Stop the Incinerator Campaign against Sutton Council’s decision to grant planning permission for an industrial-scale waste incineration plant to be built … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Julie Belvir, Nathan Elvery, Nick Mattey, Planning, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Tony Newman, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon, Croydon Council, incinerator, Julie Belvir, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Nathan Elvery, Stop The Incinerator Campaign, Tony Newman, Viridor, Waddon
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Council presses on with £22m academy that no one wants
As Croydon Council prepares to give the go-ahead for a school which has just 29 first-choice applications, WALTER CRONXITE turns detective to investigate the mysterious case of the disappearing demand for school places Residents living near Croydon Arena in Woodside … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Wright, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Croydon Council, Education, Hamida Ali, Julie Belvir, Oasis Academy, Oasis Academy Coulsdon, Oasis Academy Shirley Park, Paul Greenhalgh, Paul Scott, Planning, Ryelands Primary and Nursery, Schools, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Oasis Academy Coulsdon, Oasis Academy Shirley Park, Oasis Arena Academy, Tony Newman, Tory, Woodside
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Labour council continues to charge for reading lessons
GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, has discovered that Croydon’s Labour-run council is using a legal loophole to continue to charge local children up to £3,500 per year just to teach them how to read and write Croydon Council continues to … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Julie Belvir, Paul Greenhalgh, Schools, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Education, Julie Belvir, Labour, Paul Greenhalgh, schools, Tony Newman, Tory
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Oasis governors cleared to rule on academy planning decision
Croydon Council’s highly paid legal eagles see nothing wrong with current and former governors from an Oasis academy in the borough being part of a planning committee that is to decide on an application to build a six-forms-of-entry Oasis academy … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon North, Environment, Hamida Ali, Julie Belvir, Nathan Elvery, Oasis Academy, Paul Scott, Planning, Schools, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Arena Academy, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Arena, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Labour, Oasis, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Tory, Woodside
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