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Category Archives: Nathan Elvery
Council’s £180,000 chief executive job goes to insider Negrini
Croydon’s supposedly Labour-controlled council has, for the second time in a couple of years, managed to appoint an insider to its most senior job, as Tony Newman, the council leader, announced tonight that Jo Negrini has landed the £180,000 chief … Continue reading
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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Council is paying two £180,000 CEO salaries at same time
Hard-up Croydon Council could be paying the £180,000 per year wages for two chief executives this month. That’s according to an email from the borough’s departing CEO, Nathan Elvery. Elvery’s last day working in the £140million over-priced council offices he … Continue reading
Council pimps out £144m offices in £7.5m 10-year deal
Croydon’s cash-strapped Labour-run council is today celebrating clawing back just £7.5million-worth of the costs of Fisher’s Folly, the borough’s vastly over-priced civic headquarters. Over a period of 10 years. So only another £136 million to go. At this rate, it … Continue reading
Murder on the dance floor as Newman checks who’s in step
Ignore the pointless “debate” on the EU referendum and badly sung versions of Land of Hope and Glory. Monday’s council meeting was in fact a thinly disguised contest to judge the performances in the Town Hall chamber of some of … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Jane Avis, Kathy Bee, Mark Watson, Mayor of London, Nathan Elvery, Oliver Lewis, Sadiq Khan, South Norwood, Stuart Collins, Stuart King, Toni Letts, Tony Newman, Vidhi Mohan, Wayne Lawlor, Woodside
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Jane Avis, Mayor, New Addington, Oliver Lewis, South Norwood, STUART KING, Tony Newman, Woodside
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Negrini named as interim council CEO in four-month process
Jo Negrini is to be the interim chief executive of Croydon Council once her current boss, the entrepreneurial Nathan Elvery, leaves his job in June. Negrini has been chosen for the onerous task from a field of… err… just one. … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Paul Greenhalgh, Planning, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman, Westfield, Whitgift Foundation
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CEO Elvery causes row in Sussex over ‘offensive’ salary
Nathan Elvery, the £180,000 per year Croydon Council chief executive who never had to apply for his job, has caused a row down in sleepy Sussex by the Sea – and he has not yet even been confirmed in the … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman, Tory
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Whistleblower’s book ignored by all Croydon’s councillors
Local government worker ROB TAPE decided to write a book based on the experiences of his council work career. He called it Sorry, It’s Not My Department. He then wrote to all 70 of Croydon’s councillors. He received not a … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Rob Tape, Tory
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McKenzie’s back on the ballot with the right-wing splitters
It looks like Winston McKenzie may get to stand in an election on May 5 after all. But the “Chump from the Dump”, who was ruled out of being a candidate for the London Mayoralty because he couldn’t manage to … Continue reading
One month left for bids to take on Ashburton old library
There’s less than a month for businesses and community groups to submit “expressions of interest” in taking on the old Ashburton library building. The handling of the future of this prestigious and historic building, set in 18½ acres of parkland … Continue reading
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’s newsletter gives the finger to LGBT month
Croydon Council’s press office is staffed, we understand, by six people. One or two used to work at the Sadvertiser, so we’re hardly dealing with Pulitzer prize-winning journalism here. The budget for the department is somewhere north of £500,000 per … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Hayley Lewis, Nathan Elvery
Tagged Croydon Council, Hayley Lewis, LGBT Month, Nathan Elvery
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Council’s £170,000 per year education chief is set to retire
Paul Greenhalgh, one of Croydon Council’s most senior executives, is to retire from his job in Fisher’s Folly this summer. Aged 61, Greenhalgh will step down from his £170,000 per year position as “Executive Director, People” at the end of … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Nathan Elvery, Paul Greenhalgh, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Nathan Elvery, Paul Greenhalgh, schools
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Coulsdon is thrown a CCURV ball: but who is responsible?
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The collapse of the CCURV Coulsdon supermarket project, as we reported yesterday, is a worrying sign about our local authority’s ability to handle development schemes, warns DAVID WICKENS The £25-million “Bridge to Nowhere” at East Croydon broke one … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged CCURV, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Jon Rouse, Nathan Elvery, Westfield
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Coulsdon supermarket deal collapses as CCURV fails again
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
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Cane Hill, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, Croydon South, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, Jo Negrini, Jon Rouse, Nathan Elvery, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Planning, Tony Newman, URV
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, Nathan Elvery, Tory, Westfield
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High Street retailer Blue Inc gets sunk under too much red ink
WALTER CRONXITE checks the City pages and discovers some worrying trends for Croydon business and property heading into 2016 Three pieces of business news – from retail, housing and commercial property – in Croydon this week strongly suggest that for … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Housing, Nathan Elvery, Planning, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Hermes Fund Managers, Labour, Tiger Tiger, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Council official who brought Boxpark to Croydon has now got a top job with… Boxpark
A council official who was involved at a high level in key redevelopment schemes, which in the past six months have also included making a £3 million public finance loan to tempt Boxpark to set up next to East Croydon … Continue reading
Council signs up new planning director despite jobs freeze
So much for the freeze on recruitment at Croydon Council. Fisher’s Folly issued a press release today to announce the appointment of another official at director level, the second since the council CEO Nathan Elvery last month invited all current … Continue reading
Council Tax increase ‘inevitable’, by as much as 3.9%
STEVEN DOWNES reports on the 2016-2017 Croydon Council budget, which sees more services cut, more jobs at risk, and charges rising It is “inevitable” that Council Tax in Croydon will rise in 2016, possibly by as much as 3.9 per … Continue reading
Croydon in crisis. Councillors watch football on the telly
Inside Croydon’s Editor, STEVEN DOWNES, on the latest shabby episode in the Town Hall chamber This was the scene in Croydon Town Hall during a full meeting of the council last night. Two well-paid local councillors engrossed in the Crystal … Continue reading
Council CEO Elvery tries to gag debate on garden waste cuts
Nathan Elvery, Croydon’s Chief Executive, wanted to shut down all debate at the Town Hall tonight on the axing of the council’s free garden waste collections, despite receiving a petition with the signatures of more than 11,000 residents opposing the … Continue reading
Council’s new architects’ department consists of one person
When is a borough architects’ department not an architects’ department? When it is in Croydon Council, of course. Claims made last month by one of Croydon’s most senior employees that the council was about to re-establish an in-house team of … Continue reading
