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Category Archives: Planning
Wildlife reserve at Beddington Farmlands under threat
Locally based naturalist PETER ALFREY lays out the case for protecting the Beddington Farmlands nature reserve from being industralised with the building of a polluting waste incinerator Beddington Farmlands is my local patch. A 400-acre expanse of south London currently … Continue reading
Newman offers ambition for a fairer future for Croydon
VOTE 2014: The leader of Croydon’s Labour group, TONY NEWMAN, says that the time has come for a new council that no longer takes the borough’s people for granted Croydon goes to the polls tomorrow. As the leader of the … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Bernard Weatherill House, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Housing, Planning, Refuse collection, Taberner House, Tony Newman, URV, Waste incinerator, Woodside
Tagged Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fisher's Folly, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Tony Newman, Tory
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Putting a roof over people’s heads ought to cap any policy
For the final piece comparing the policies of the parties ahead of the local elections tomorrow, WALTER CRONXITE has been window shopping around Croydon’s estate agents Issue No4: HOUSING THE ISSUE: It was the steaming turd he left on his … Continue reading
Residents debate the role of Crystal Palace Park: May 28
With proposals to redevelop Crystal Palace Park, a group of local residents have started The Information Project to publicise the possibilities for the park and to help create a critical, intellectual debate about the identity of community, place, culture and design for the 21st … Continue reading
LibDems bid for more liberal and more democratic council
VOTE 2014: What do the Liberal Democrats have to offer the people of Croydon ahead of the local elections? GILL HICKSON gives their party line The LibDems feel its time to break the two-party duopoly in Croydon politics. For too … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Cane Hill, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Housing, Planning
Tagged Cane Hill, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon West, Surrey, Tory
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Residents and independents struggle to make their mark
In Thursday’s local elections, there will be five candidates around the borough who are standing as “independents”, including the NF candidate who can’t say he’s an NF candidate. Up against the “party machines”, none of them have even the slightest … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Andrew Pelling, Cane Hill, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Planning, South Croydon, Thornton Heath
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Conservative, Coulsdon, Coulsdon West, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Liberal Democrats, South Croydon, Thornton Heath, Tory
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Plan for 300 homes on Green Belt angers Addington
A packed residents’ meeting in Addington this week heard of developer plans to build 300 homes on Green Belt land at the bottom of Gravel Hill. Conservative councillor Jason Cummings told an audience of more than 100 people at the … Continue reading
Election candidate calls Croydon’s modern slums a scandal
Croydon Council’s mishandling of its housing stock – with a rising number of empty council homes despite more than 2,000 families forced to live in temporary accommodation – has been described as a “scandal” by one of the candidates for … Continue reading
£500m Palace developers admit: we don’t know what it’ll do
The on-going transfer of billions of pounds’ worth of public assets – in the form of academised schools, privatised libraries, given away building land – to private profiteers is a sadly familiar theme. Yet the shady deal done by London … Continue reading
These councillors voted last night to build on a Croydon park: next month they will want you to trust them with your vote
When you last had a chance to vote for the local council four years ago, were you asked for your views on the council building on public open space so that the developers could make more than £100million in profit? … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Business, Chris Wright, Coulsdon East, Croydon Council, David Osland, Environment, Fairfield, Heathfield, Helen Pollard, Housing, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Lynne Hale, Planning, Property, Richard Chatterjee, Sanderstead, Shirley North, Sue Winborn, Taberner House, Tim Pollard, URV
Tagged CCURV, Conservative, Coulsdon, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Fairfield, John Laing, Labour, London Assembly, Mike Fisher, Planning, Queens Gardens, Taberner House, Thornton Heath, Tory
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Coulsdon residents summon candidates to hustings sessions
There are plans for three sets of election hustings in Coulsdon next month, organised by local residents. On Thursday May 8, there will be a hustings for the Euro MEP election at the Coulsdon Community Centre from 7.30pm. The residents … Continue reading
Crystal Palace residents debate park’s future: Apr 30
With the prospect of a large chunk of Crystal Palace Park being handed over to a Chinese developer to build a vast new palace, a group of residents has started The Information Project to publicise the possibilities for the park … Continue reading
Scrap council cabinet and councillors’ allowances, says TUC
Croydon’s trade unionists have issued a 10-point challenge to all candidates standing in the local elections next month, and presented their traditional allies in the Labour Party with a significant problem, daring them to oppose outright all further cuts in … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Community associations, Croydon Council, URV
Tagged Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Labour, Tory
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£1bn Westfield and Hammerson scheme is Croydon’s last hope
CROYDON COMMENTARY: DAVID CALLAM welcomes the Hammersfield redevelopment of the centre of town. After all, there is no alternative The Whitgift Shopping City proposals are a way for the Whitgift Foundation to secure its financial future for decades to come. … Continue reading
