Category Archives: Planning

Residents on high alert to keep check on planning applications

Posted on March 29, 2020 by

BARRATT HOLMES, our overdevelopment correspondent, on the 9-9-9 emergency for some roads in the south of the borough Last week’s decision to delegate all planning decisions to council officials, removing even a vestige of cover offered by the planning committee … Continue reading →

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Council ordered to use public buildings as emergency shelters

Posted on March 27, 2020 by

Parts of the Fairfield Halls, the borough’s leisure centres and even Fisher’s Folly could be transformed over the weekend into emergency shelters for rough sleepers, under the latest government edict in an effort to limit the spread of the deadly … Continue reading →

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Powers to be delegated as council cancels planning meetings

Posted on March 25, 2020 by

Croydon Council has finally caught up with the advice from the government and public health organisations over the coronavirus pandemic and cancelled all Town Hall public meetings “until further notice”. Even at the start of this week, Jo “We’re Not … Continue reading →

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The latest Croydon carbuncle: Riddlesdown’s own glasshouse

Posted on March 25, 2020 by

Another day, another Croydon carbuncle. This time it is a block of 18 flats in a gargantuan five-storey block plonked between the suburban detached houses of Mitchley Avenue, Riddlesdown, as proposed by Vita Homes.

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Council finally decides to cancel cabinet and Town Hall meeting

Posted on March 23, 2020 by

Croydon Council has cancelled tonight’s planned cabinet meeting at the Town Hall and has scrapped the full meeting of the borough’s 70 councillors that was due to be held in the chamber next Monday, as council execs slowly get round … Continue reading →

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‘Business as usual’ at Town Hall as four councillors self-isolate

Posted on March 22, 2020 by

KEN LEE reports – from a safe distance – on the mixed messages put out by Newman and Negrini over the covid-19 pandemic At least four of Croydon’s elected councillors have quarantined themselves after displaying symptoms or being in contact … Continue reading →

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Institute member Townsend promoted as new chief planner

Posted on March 21, 2020 by

Nicola Townsend is the council’s new chief planner. Except she’s not. She’s been appointed as something which is described in council papers as Croydon’s “director of homes and social investment”. The council opted for an internal promotion to replace the … Continue reading →

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