Category Archives: Planning

Electric House gets makeover for Britain’s 95th-best university

Posted on July 5, 2020 by

‘It’s a bit like saying Fulham are one of London’s top football teams.’ Our Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on the latest example of the council over-hyping its performance Unable to deliver the £1.4billion shiny new Westfield shopping mall that … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Croydon School of Art, Education, Jo Negrini, Planning, South Bank Poly, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

After covid suspension, Ombudsman reopens for business

Posted on June 25, 2020 by

Council CEO Jo Negrini’s three-month amnesty from having complaints submitted about her authority to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman is over. The Ombudsman is pretty much the only recourse that remains to residents of the borough if they … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult Social Care, Children's Services, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Planning | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Council accused of ‘wildlife vandalism’ to help Brick by Brick

Posted on June 25, 2020 by

Our environment correspondent, PAUL  LUSHION, on suspicions that a rare wildlife habitat in suburban Kenley has suffered the cruellest cut The council has been accused of an act of “wildlife vandalism”, with some angry residents of Wontford Road and Roffey … Continue reading →

Posted in Brick by Brick, Climate Crisis Commission, Croydon parks, Environment, Extinction Rebellion, Kenley, Planning, Tony Newman, Wildlife, Wontford Road Green | Tagged , , , , , | 4 Comments

Sandrock owners reveal monster plans to tower over Shirley

Posted on June 22, 2020 by

Twice in the past two years, residents in Shirley have seen off attempts by rapacious developers to erect an ugly monster among the modest dwellings that surround the Sandrock, a locally listed Victorian pub. On one previous application, even the … Continue reading →

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Scott called out over ‘gentrification’ of housing in Croydon

Posted on June 15, 2020 by

JANE NICHOLL reports on how Black Lives Matter activists responded to councillors’ ‘meaningless words’ at a community-led event at Park Hill Croydon Council’s failing housing policies cannot escape criticism, even at a Black Lives Matter protest which some leading Labour … Continue reading →

Posted in Alison Butler, Croydon Council, Housing, Patsy Cummings, Paul Scott, Planning | Tagged , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Is Brick by Brick’s Theobald Road ‘Stasi prison’ now kaput?

Posted on June 9, 2020 by

Pressure is growing on the council’s house-builders to drop their ugly plans for a site in Waddon, after a second tree quality survey completely contradicted an earlier report. By BELLE MARSH, our prisons correspondent Brick by Brick, the council’s wholly-owned, … Continue reading →

Posted in Brick by Brick, Environment, Felicity Flynn, Louisa Woodley, New Addington, New Addington North, Oliver Lewis, Paul Scott, Planning, Robert Canning, Simon Hall, Tony Newman, Waddon | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

LibDem rebels block plan to build on Sheen Way playing fields

Posted on June 4, 2020 by

Our Sutton reporter, CARL SHILTON, on how the council leadership has suffered another damaging knockback A meeting held in Sutton last week proved that it really is possible for a committee to vote down a proposal for overdevelopment backed by … Continue reading →

Posted in Elliot Colburn, Environment, Helen Bailey, Nick Mattey, Paul Scott, Planning, Purley Way, Ruth Dombey, Schools, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Back to the drawing board for new plans for the Whitgift Centre

Posted on June 2, 2020 by

The council has today issued documents that admit the era of big, shiny shopping centres is over and that the £1.4bn Westfield development is ‘unlikely to be implemented as consented’. Our unbuilt shopping centre correspondent, MT WALLETTE, reports Less than … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, CPO, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Planning, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Council fails to mention 12,000 flats in its Purley Way survey

Posted on May 31, 2020 by

It is, even by Croydon Council standards, an extraordinarily vacuous and transparently misleading public consultation announcement. The council says it is seeking “the public’s likes, dislikes, memories, opinions and ideas” on the Purley Way. In the honey-dripped soothing words of … Continue reading →

Posted in Croydon Council, Paul Scott, Planning, Purley Way, Waddon | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Objections? What objections? Opposition? What opposition?

Posted on May 30, 2020 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Has the council granted planning permission to a slew of sub-standard developments because the local Tories have allowed them to do so? STEVE WHITESIDE on the questions that Croydon Conservatives refuse to answer Have you ever wondered how … Continue reading →

Posted in Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Dudley Mead, Jason Perry, Lynne Hale, Paul Scott, Pete Smith, Planning, Purley, Sanderstead, Tim Pollard | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments