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Council still receiving ‘vast quantities’ of planning applications
What trade magazine Property Week described as “an unprecedented volume of planning applications” has been submitted to Croydon Council in the couple of weeks since the authority issued a Section 114 notice to declare itself broke. Between October 1 and … Continue reading
Croydon uses four agencies to help on trip to South of France
KEN LEE, our foreign travel on someone else’s budget correspondent, reports on the proliferation of consultants who are getting their expense accounts paid for out of Croydon Council Tax at MIPIM’s junket next week Senior officials from Croydon Council and … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, Planning, Property, RIF, Tony Newman
Tagged 31Ten, 3Fox International, Croydon, Croydon Council, Develop Croydon, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, MIPIM, Richard Simpson, Tony Newman, White Label
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Architects plan protest against ‘social cleansing for profit’
Architects for Social Housing, the organisation which maintains that London boroughs should be providing decent, affordable homes, is staging a protest in central London on Thursday, when RIBA, the Royal Institute for British Architects, stages its annual Stirling Prize, reckoned … Continue reading
Council sells Taberner site in secretive multi-million pound deal
Croydon Council has agreed to sell the Taberner House site. The deal has been done within the first month of Jo Negrini being installed as the council’s chief executive, but neither she nor Tony Newman, the leader of the Labour-run … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, RIF, Simon Hall, Taberner House, Tony Newman, URV
Tagged Alison Butler, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, Paul Scott, Taberner House, Tony Newman, Tory
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Newman’s £18m ‘cast-iron guarantee’ that bucks the market
WALTER CRONXITE on how a Labour-run council that says it is committed to housing the homeless meanwhile needs to maximise profits from a property development at College Green The people of Croydon should be worried. Tony Newman has offered what … Continue reading
Town Hall to have own architects department once again
Croydon Council is to recreate its own, in-house architects’ department. According to a report in Architects’ Journal, the council architects will be used to design housing schemes across the borough. “The move bucks the trend of recent decades, which has … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Bernard Weatherill House, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Planning, RIF, Tony Newman, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Colm Lacey, Conservative, Croydon Council, Fisher's Folly, Hammersfield, Jo Negrini, Labour, New Addington, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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The “continuity council” that rarely meets and barely debates
WALTER CRONXITE welcomes a rare opportunity for Croydon’s councillors to meet at the Town Hall tonight Croydon’s well-rewarded cabinet, the nine Labour councillors hand-picked for his top team by leader Tony Newman, get together in the council chamber at the … Continue reading
Newman goes big on promises on jobs, homes and investment
Is it mandatory to take large quantities of hallucinogenic drugs on assuming a senior position at Croydon Council or taking political office at the Town Hall? We only ask because it seems Tony Newman, the council leader, has been on … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, John Burton, Nathan Elvery, RIF, Tony Newman, URV, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Develop Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Labour, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Town centre is a monument to municipal mismanagement
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The honeymoon is over for Tony Newman’s Labour council which was elected in May, says DAVID CALLAM Labour has settled back into power in Croydon Town Hall and many of the same old problems are as intractable as … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Boris Johnson, Business, Centrale, Council Tax, Croydon Council, David Callam, Housing, Jo Negrini, London Assembly, Mayor of London, Planning, RIF, Tony Newman, URV, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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‘Award-winning’ planning chief says house building is easy
Famously, Tom Lehrer said that satire died the day that Henry Kissinger was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. What Lehrer might have made of Croydon being presented with an award for being Britain’s best local planning authority probably … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Bernard Weatherill House, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Planning, RIF, Steve Reed MP, Taberner House, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Mike Fisher, Nathan Elvery, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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‘Flat-broke’ councils all set for MIPIM’s champagne reception
Australian-born Jo Negrini, who was appointed as Croydon’s head of planning soon after Australia-based developers Westfield rode into town with their £1 billion super-mall scheme, is likely to cut a lonely figure as the MIPIM UK international developers conference gets … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Jo Negrini, Jon Rouse, Nathan Elvery, Planning, RIF, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon Council, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, MIPIM, Nathan Elvery, Taberner House, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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