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‘Hypocrite’ Tory voted for proposal to destroy heritage home
Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on a planning committee meeting where Conservative councillors backed a private developer’s bid to drastically alter a listed family home in a conservation area So much for Tory Mayor Jason Perry protecting family homes in … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Chris Clark, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Town, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Esther Sutton, Fairfield, Ian Parker, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, Ria Patel
Tagged Chris Clark, Chris Philp MP, Cllr Esther Sutton, Cllr Ria Patel, Conservative, Coulsdon, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Ian Parker, Labour, Mayor Jason Perry, Peter Morgan, Planning, Ross Gentry, Tory
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CQC inspectors are being ‘nobbled’ by the council, carers claim
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Carers accuse council and their new contractors of trying to distort the findings of a supposedly independent quality inspection. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Croydon’s carers, already reeling from the changes imposed on their services by Mayor Jason … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Business, Carers First, Charity, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Care Quality Commission, Carers Centre, Carers First, Carers' assessement service, Conservative, CQC, Croydon, Croydon Carers Centre, Croydon Council, George Street, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Toby Lee-Manning, Tory, Whitgift Foundation
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Surrey Street trader wins civic award for his community work
Jose Joseph, the Surrey Street stall-holder who provides hot meals for the homeless in Croydon town centre every week, has been recognised for his efforts in the community with a special certificate at this week’s Civic Mayor Awards ceremony at … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Croydon Business Association, Croydon Council, Jose Joseph, Surrey Street
Tagged Civic Mayor of Croydon, Civic Mayor's Awards, Cllr Kola Agboola, Council website, Croydon, Croydon Council, Digital first, Fairfield, Jose Joseph, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Carers First move to axe managers’ jobs from Croydon centre
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Mayor Jason Perry promised a seamless transition and no job cuts – but now two senior managers at the Croydon Carers’ Support Centre have been told they are to be made redundant. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Carers … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Business, Carers First, Charity, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Carers Centre, Carers First, Carers' assessement service, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Carers Centre, Croydon Council, George Street, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Tory, Whitgift Foundation
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Ashen Grove is up for auction again – as site for 27 houses
Alarm bells are sounding among concerned residents in Selsdon, after a patch of public open space that sold at auction last month for more than five times its guide price has now been put straight back on the market – … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Stranack, Community associations, Croydon parks, Environment, Housing, Planning, Property, Selsdon Residents' Association, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale, Wildlife
Tagged Andy Stranack, Ashen Grove, Cllr Andy Stranack, Croydon parks, Forestdale, Parks and open spaces, Peacock Gardens, Selsdon Residents' Association, Selsdon Vale, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale, Taylor Wimpey, Wimpey
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Council chief West warns staff that finances ‘remain serious’
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The council appears to be sleepwalking into another financial crisis, without a full meeting at the Town Hall for three months, while bosses at Fisher’s Folly waiting for the next government directive. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES “Our … Continue reading
Posted in 'Future Croydon', Council Tax, Croydon Council, Improvement Board, Jane West, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Section 114 notice, Tony McArdle
Tagged 2025 Council budget, Budget, Conservative, Council budget, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Exceptional financial support, Improvement and Assurance Panel, Improvement Panel, Jane West, Katherine Kerswell, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Tory, Unbalanced budget
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MP steps in over rubbish contractor’s missed bin collections
BINMAGEDDON: Residents are complaining of streets ‘littered with dumped rubbish, overflowing recycling and a persistent smell of decay’. And we are only one month into a new £40m bins contract. By our Town Hall correspondent, KEN LEE Just one month … Continue reading
Reed tests election purdah with his fly-tipping announcement
Political Editor WALTER CRONXITE on the latest instance where the MP for Croydon North has bent the rules Steve Reed OBE, the environment secretary, has been accused of breaking strict purdah rules with his announcement of a crackdown on fly-tipping … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Crime, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Mayor Jason Perry, Refuse collection, Rowenna Davis, Veolia
Tagged Cllr Rowenna Davis, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, DEFRA, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, fly-tip, Fly-tipping, Labour, local elections, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, purdah, Steve Reed OBE, Streatham and Croydon North, Tory, Victoria Atkins MP
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Study proves Chelsea tractors’ deadly risk to other road users
JEREMY CLACKSON, transport correspondent, on the troubling but entirely obvious findings of recently published scientific research “Chelsea tractors”, those super-sized vehicles that take up extra road space and gobble up more than their share of parking bays, are also deadlier … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Parking, Transport
Tagged Chelsea tractors, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Imperial College, London, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Mayor Jason Perry, Purley, Road collisions, Sports utility vehicles, SUVs, Tory, traffic, University of London
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569 more flats coming after £210m East Croydon property deal
Praise from Mayor Perry for a 28-storey tower in the town centre that his own council’s planners tried to block for being too tall Property speculators Cheyne Capital say they are going ahead with a scheme that will build hundreds … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, No1 Croydon, Planning, Property
Tagged Addiscombe, Cheyne Capital, City Link House, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Tory, Wittington Investments
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Network Rail pulls its planning request for Bridge to Nowhere
EXCLUSIVE: Network Rail has made a U-turn over the Bridge to Nowhere, as people power – and commonsense – appear to have won the day. By JEREMY CLACKSON, transport correspondent Network Rail appears to have made a significant U-turn over … Continue reading
Agent on a mission overlooks Coulsdon Tories’ dark secret
It is just over a year until Croydon goes to the polls in its second Mayoral election, and the local Tories already seem up for the fight. But leading the way for them is a paid gofer who struggles to … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Ben Taylor, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Town, Council Tax, Croydon South, Ian Parker, Mario Creatura, Mayor Jason Perry, Rowenna Davis, Tony Newman, Waddon
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Cllr Rowenna Davis, Conservative, Coulsdon, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Ian Parker, Labour, Mayor Jason Perry, Peter Morgan, Tony Newman, Tory
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Centre of excellence serving Croydon’s youth for 80 years
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: The Sir Philip Game Centre in Addiscombe is a ground-breaking experiment in crime prevention which has provided access to a range of activities for thousands of youngsters since it opened. DAVID MORGAN recounts its history and some of … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Boxing, Charity, David Morgan, Duke McKenzie, Education, Policing, Sir Philip Game Centre, Sport, Youth Services
Tagged Addiscombe, Boxing, David Morgan, Duke McKenzie, Frank Bruno, Frankie Lucas, Judo, Morland Avenue, Roy Hudd, Sir Philip Game Centre, St Vincent, Tommy Trinder
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After 4 years, Croydon’s housing taken out of special measures
The ‘slum-like’ conditions of ‘dangerous squalor’ in council flats on Regina Road caused a national scandal in 2021. Only now, and £30m of spending later, is the housing regulator satisfied that council housing in the borough meets proper standards. EXCLUSIVE … Continue reading
Still time to apply to council to stage a Big Lunch this June
The Big Lunch returns on June 7 and 8 – the annual event for neighbours and communities to come together for friendship, food, fun and celebrating where you live. The deadline to apply to Croydon Council to hold a Big … Continue reading
Council begins trial with AI system which is only 80% accurate
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Without any advance notice, the borough’s bureaucrats have unleashed on the public an imperfect system to handle Council Tax enquiries. EXCLUSIVE by KEN LEE, Town Hall reporter The robots have started their takeover of Croydon Council. And … Continue reading
Posted in 'Future Croydon', Council Tax, Croydon Council, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry
Tagged 'Future Croydon', AI Assistant, Boston Consulting, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Digital first, Katherine Kerswell, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Microsoft Copilot, Tory
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Kerswell’s council blocks staff from reading Inside Croydon
CROYDON IN CRISIS: In sinister moves that raise fundamental questions about freedom of speech and democracy, council officials have ordered a block on elected councillors emailing this website. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES There’s a growing sense of a siege mentality … Continue reading
Negrini enjoys her centre stage return pitching for Mayor Khan
Like Banquo’s ghost, Jo Negrini has returned to haunt Croydon after her latest jaunt to the south of France for the annual “booze and hooker fest” – or prestigious international property conference – that is MIPIM. When “Negreedy” was the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Brick by Brick, Business, CPO, Croydon Council, Heather Cheesbrough, Housing, Jo Negrini, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Sadiq Khan, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Brick by Brick, Croydon, Croydon Council, Heather Cheesbrough, Jo Negrini, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Planning, Richard Plant, Sir Sadiq Khan, Stiles Harold Williams, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Ex-planning chief’s rose-tinted view of Croydon developments
It appears that Heather Cheesbrough, Croydon Council’s former “director of planning and sustainable regeneration”, has been busy trying to rewrite history since leaving her £130,000-plus job earlier this month. An internal council memo gave the reason for Cheesbrough’s departure as … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Brick by Brick, Business, CPO, Croydon Council, Heather Cheesbrough, Jo Negrini, Planning, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Brick by Brick, Croydon, Croydon Council, Heather Cheesbrough, Jo Negrini, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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New shared reading group to begin at New Addington Library
The Reader, a national charity, is starting a shared reading group in Croydon next week. Run by a local volunteer, the group will meet every Tuesday at 2pm, starting April 22, at New Addington Library. The group is open to … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Education, Libraries, New Addington
Tagged New Addington, New Addington Library, Shared Reading group, The Reader
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Labour Party ends suspension of ex-council leader Newman
CROYDON IN CRISIS: After more than four years, the two men who presided over what at the time was the biggest financial collapse in the history of local authorities in England have been allowed back into their political party. EXCLUSIVE … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, David Evans, Fieldway, Jason Cummings, Jo Negrini, Mayor Jason Perry, New Addington, Report in the Public Interest, RIPI II: Fairfield Halls, Rowenna Davis, Section 114 notice, Simon Hall, Steve Reed MP, The Penn Report, Tony Newman
Tagged Brick by Brick, Cllr Rowenna Davis, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, David Evans, Fieldway, Jo Negrini, Labour, Lord Evans of Penge, Mayor Jason Perry, New Addington, Simon Hall, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman, Tory, Woodside
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What a load of old rubbish! And that’s just inside the Town Hall
There’s only a handful of opportunities each year for the public to question the way their council is being run, but as ANDREW FISHER, pictured right, discovered when watching last night’s full council meeting, it is increasingly obvious that the … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Andrew Fisher, Callton Young, Christopher Herman, Claire Bonham, Council Tax, Crime, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Heathfield House, Jason Cummings, Katherine Kerswell, Live Facial Recognition cameras, Mayor Jason Perry, Refuse collection, Ria Patel, Rowenna Davis, Simon Fox, Stuart King, Veolia, Waddon
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Cllr Callton Young, Cllr Christopher Herman, Cllr Jason Cummings, Cllr Ria Patel, Cllr Rowenna Davis, Cllr Stuart King, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Gaza, Green Party, Heathfield House, Israel, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, Pension fund, Rowenna Davis, Tory, Waddon
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Trading standards ‘postcode lottery’ is hitting Croydon hard
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Research by Which? magazine has found trading standards teams at councils such as Croydon’s to be ‘stretched to the point where it’s impossible for them to effectively carry out essential work’ There’s a good reason that Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Crime, Croydon Council, Trading Standards
Tagged Church Street, Consumer Association, counterfeit tobacco, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Trading Standards, London Borough of Croydon, Stop and Shop, tobacco, Trading Standard, Trading Standards, Vapes shop, Which?, Which? magazine
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82% of Labour members back Davis as 2026 Mayor candidate
The 2026 Croydon Mayoral contest began in earnest today when Labour finally got round to naming their chosen candidate EXCLUSIVE by WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor To the surprise of absolutely nobody – except perhaps Manju Shahul-Hameed – Rowenna Davis has … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Broad Green, Croydon Council, Manju Shahul Hameed, Mayor Jason Perry, Rowenna Davis, Tony Newman, Waddon
Tagged Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Manju Shahul Hameed, Mayor Jason Perry, Rowenna Davis, Scrutiny and Overview Committee, Scrutiny committee, Tony Newman, Tory, Waddon
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10,000 sign Liberty petition against facial recognition cameras
Jason Perry’s council might not be allowing open discussion or questions on things that matter to the public, but Liberty, the widely respected human rights organisation, has got nearly 10,000 signatures on a petition that calls for more and better … Continue reading
