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Tories pick B-List election candidate. And fail to announce it
Shhh! Don’t tell anyone, but there is a Conservative candidate for the council by-election, as WALTER CRONXITE reports Croydon Conservatives have chosen their candidate to stand in the South Norwood council by-election on September 7. It is to be Rebecca … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon North, Jason Cummings, Patsy Cummings, Peter Underwood, Sara Bashford, South Norwood, Tim Pollard
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Jason Cummings, Labour, Patsy Cummings, Rebecca Natrajan, Sara Bashford, South Norwood, Tim Pollard, Tory
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Council planner admits: we didn’t report consultation findings
KEN LEE reports on the latest shocking development (cough) surrounding the failures of the council planning department Croydon Council has failed to fulfill its statutory, legal obligations over planning applications. Who says? The head of Croydon Council’s planning department, that’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Housing, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Pete Smith, Planning, Property, Purley, Sanderstead
Tagged Croydon Council, Croydon South, Derrick Avenue, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Norman Avenue, Purley, Purley Oaks Station, Sabderstead
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Ex-planning chair: council broke law over Coulsdon cottages
CROYDON COMMENTARY: A borough alderman and former chair of the council planning committee, ADRIAN DENNIS, pictured right, suggests that the council may have failed to follow the letter of the law in the planning notification for Well Cottages Apart from … Continue reading
MP slams Optivo over ‘outrageous’ plans to demolish cottages
BARRATT HOLMES reports on the shabby treatment of social housing tenants by one of the country’s largest housing associations An elderly couple who have lived in a Coulsdon cottage for almost 40 years only found out that they were to … Continue reading
Council officials play the gooseberry fool with their Friday poll
Rest easy, loyal reader, if you are at all concerned that your Council Tax is not being spent to get the very best value. Because clearly, no efforts are being spared to make the borough a public laughing stock. This … Continue reading
Housing association applies to bulldoze Coulsdon cottages
Some of the last surviving buildings associated with Cane Hill Hospital, located in a conservation area in Coulsdon, are under threat of demolition – because a developer says that they “are not economically suited for the area”. In this instance, … Continue reading
Croydon has too few officers to police soaring knife crime
Incidents of knife crime in Croydon have nearly doubled in the past year, with 13 murders in the borough since January 2016. But police shortages in Croydon have become so bad that there were no officers available to visit the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Crime, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Knife crime, London-wide issues, Norbury, Policing, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman, Trading Standards
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Labour, Member of parliament, Norbury, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman, Tory
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Negrini’s gamble on housing is facing a Brexit downturn
WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, on troubling reports for a council which has staked so much capital on profiting from the housing market With local elections just 10 months away, there’s a couple of brief reports just out which ought … Continue reading
None of Croydon’s new school buildings have sprinklers fitted
Not a single school building constructed or planned in Croydon over the past five years has been fitted with a sprinkler system, despite building regulations going back for a decade having an “expectation” that sprinklers should be included in all … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Harris Primary Purley Way, Howard Primary, London Fire Brigade, Oasis Academy, Planning, Purley Way, Schools, South Norwood
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Harris Federation, Harris Purley Way Primary, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Oasis Academy Arena, South Croydon, South Norwood, Tory
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Council could face High Court challenge over traveller site
BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent, on the latest challenge to the Labour-run council’s Block by Block strategy At least one of the more controversial decisions taken recently by the council’s planning committee, egged on by eager Town Hall officials and … Continue reading
Our three-year battle to secure education for our SEND son
CROYDON COMMENTARY: In the past couple of weeks, Croydon Council’s press office has issued releases about a £1million grant for families of looked after children and a “virtual reality roadshow to let shoppers experience how autistic people can feel”. Yet … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Croydon Council, Education, Schools
Tagged autism, ECHP, SEND, Special Educational Needs
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Tory minister lied over council appeals for fire safety funding
Croydon is among half a dozen local authorities who have caught a Tory minister out in a lie over government help – or the lack of it – for installing sprinklers in council-managed residential blocks to improve their fire safety … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Housing, London Fire Brigade, Sarah Jones MP
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Labour, Sajid Javed, Sarah Jones MP, Tory
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Assembly Member tells Mayor to bin TfL’s Fiveways scheme
A London Assembly Member has called on Mayor Sadiq Khan to get Transport for London to go back to the drawing board with its latest proposals for the Fiveways junction on the Purley Way and “come back with a set … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, Caroline Russell, Chris Philp MP, Commuting, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Cycling, Environment, Harris Primary Purley Way, Health, Joy Prince, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Purley Way, Robert Canning, Sadiq Khan, Schools, Steve O'Connell, Stuart King, TfL, Transport, Waddon
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, Caroline Russell, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon South, Labour, London, London Assembly, Mayor, Purley, Sadiq Khan, Steve O'Connell, Tory, Waddon
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Leon House squeezes another 263 flats into town centre
While new offices come on stream in the town centre, some of the more eye-catching edifices of the Croydon building spree of the 1960s are about to be given a lease of extra life. Leon House is the 21-storey office … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Fairfield, Leon House, Planning, Property
Tagged Fairfield, Leon House, William Mitchell
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#SavetheGlam: Strong support for pub’s community value
An application to have a 190-year-old pub building near East Croydon Station declared as an Asset of Community Value will be submitted to Croydon Council tomorrow. More than 40 people turned out to express their concern for the fate of … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, ECCO, Patricia Hay-Justice, Planning, Property, Pubs, Sean Fitzsimons
Tagged #SavetheGlam, Addiscombe West, East Croydon, Sean Fitzsimons, The Glamorgan
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Council’s ‘Rottweiler behaviour’ sent carer to brink of suicide
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Last week, we reported how the Local Government Ombudsman had found “a catalogue of unacceptable failings by London Borough of Croydon, which has left a family stretched to breaking point”. Here, in a shocking criticism of the way … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Croydon Council, Education, Youth Services
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, EHCP, Jo Negrini, Local Government Ombudsman, SEND
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Four residents’ associations join protest petition on planning
KEN LEE reports on growing support for a petition over the conduct of the council’s planning committee Four more residents’ associations from around the borough have added their endorsement to a petition which questions the integrity of the council’s planning … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Community associations, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, Housing, Kenley, Paul Scott, Planning, Purley, Sanderstead
Tagged Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Kenley, Labour, Paul Scott, Purley, Sanderstead, South Norwood
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Glamorgan owner submits planning application for demolition
Addiscombe councillors and residents who want to keep The Glamorgan on Cherry Orchard Road as a pub serving the community now face a race against time, after the building’s owners yesterday submitted a planning application for the demolition of the … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Planning, Property, Pubs, Sean Fitzsimons
Tagged #SavetheGlam, Addiscombe West, Sean Fitzsimons, The Glamorgan
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Angry residents in revolt over Scott’s planning committee
KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, on how a group of residents’ associations have hit back at the controversial conduct of the planning committee’s chair Paul Scott, the Labour councillor who chairs the planning committee, has managed to unite at … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Paul Scott, Planning, Shirley North, South Norwood
Tagged Brick by Brick, Labour, Paul Scott, Shirley, South Norwood
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Croydon fined for abandoning autistic boy and his grandmother
Croydon Council has been ordered to pay £11,250 in compensation and has been sharply criticised by the Local Government Ombudsman for abandoning a grandmother with no help in caring for her disabled grandson for two years. The Local Government and … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Croydon Council, Education, Tony Newman
Tagged Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, SEND, Tony Newman
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