Category Archives: Taberner House
Perry slow to stop cars parking in town centre pedestrian zone
Our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, on the belated end to a free parking wheeze in a kids’ playground It has taken Tory Mayor Jason Perry nearly two whole months to get around to issuing parking tickets on cars parked illegally … Continue reading
Towering prices leave L&Q with 1,500-plus unsold homes
Brick by Brick was ahead of the trend for building unsellable, over-priced shared ownership homes. By BARRATT HOLMES, housing correspondent Croydon’s Brick by Brick is not the only housing business that appears to be struggling to off-load its stock of … Continue reading
Part-time Perry and Labour in playground squabble over park
After a decade of Town Hall squabbles, the legacy of Newman and Butler’s years in charge of the council is a playground for the children of tower block half-millionaires. WALTER CRONXITE on another late, costly and incomplete town centre project … Continue reading
‘The Fold’: former council-owned site takes a gamble with name
Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, on the latest laugh-out-loud move by developers working in the centre of Croydon While this website might be loathe to echo one of the catchphrases of one of the more notorious tabloid columnists, you really … Continue reading
After eight-year wait, Croydon delivers homes on Taberner site
Eight years since the old council offices, Taberner House, that stood on the site, was vacated, and many months later than the council’s chosen developers had planned for the build to be complete, the ribbon was cut this week on … Continue reading
After eight-year wait, Taberner House flats near completion
A housing project which even Tony Newman and his numpties refused to entrust to Brick by Brick is finally nearing completion after an eight-year development saga. By our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES Eight years since the council moved out of … Continue reading
Eyewitness: I saw man climbing the crane. I was scared for him
An eyewitness has told Inside Croydon of the terrifying incident when they saw a man climbing a construction crane hundreds of feet above the ground on a building site in the centre of Croydon. The man eventually came down from … Continue reading
CCTV installed in Queen’s Gardens before Fairfield re-opening
Complaints of anti-social behaviour, drinking and drug-use in the open space between the Town Hall and Fairfield Halls has led to it being declared a crime hot-spot by the council, as KEN LEE reports Queen’s Gardens has been declared a … Continue reading
Taberner House developers still don’t have building start date
BARRATT HOLMES on another prestigious scheme in the town centre which seems to have come to a grinding halt Five years since Taberner House was demolished and almost a year since planning permission was granted for the site – including … Continue reading
Cost of New Addington Leisure Centre hiked by £8m in a year
WALTER CRONXITE reports on a worrying 50 per cent inflation rate on one key council building project The cost of building the new swimming pool and leisure centre in New Addington has gone up by £8million in less than 12 … Continue reading
Brick by Brick’s profitable Blairite response to Right to Buy
The tragedy of the Grenfell Tower fire has, rightly, focused attention on safety around the nation’s low-cost housing. But underlining the lack of attention given to the conditions of such homes and the ongoing under-investment in council housing has been … Continue reading
Saffron Central wants to go out with one last burst of colour
Croydon’s town centre saffron farm is again appealing for donations and volunteers for one last summer spree of colour before the builders move in on Queen’s Gardens and the site of the former council offices. This year’s theme is to … Continue reading
Council gags architecture experts on costly Place Review Panel
Croydon’s Place Review Panel has been gagged, just three months since the building design body was set up, at potentially considerable public expense. Once a month, six members of the panel of high-profile architects and designers, who include the celebrity … Continue reading
Council set to wave through £800,000 flats built on public park
The full horror of the over-tall overdevelopment of tower blocks on the site of Taberner House is beginning to be revealed, as documents with some design drawings have been published and the planning process has been opened up for public … Continue reading
Negrini heads council team to MIPIM’s ‘booze and hooker fest’
The PR flunkies putting together Croydon Council’s delegation to next month’s “booze and hooker fest” in the South of France are refusing to say who is paying for the junket. WALTER CRONXITE reports Croydon will be one of 16 London … Continue reading
Council-backed £800,000 flats cast a shadow over public park
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Amid the ludicrous claims that £800,000 yuppie apartments to be built on the site of former council offices at Taberner House are in any way “affordable”, LEWIS WHITE attended last week’s consultation session which also confirmed that developers … Continue reading
£800,000: that’s an ‘affordable’ flat according to developer
One of the great mysteries of London life in the 21st century – exactly how much does an “affordable” home cost? – may have finally been solved. Because, according to the managing director of the company to which Croydon Council … Continue reading
Developers to reveal plans to ‘improve’ Queen’s Gardens
Sshhh! Don’t tell everyone, but there’s another poorly publicised meeting later this month where developers are going to tell Croydon residents just what’s good for them, and how they plan to annex the only public open space in the town … Continue reading
New plan for Queen’s Gardens takes away public open space
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Having searched high and low through the council’s website to find the latest raft of proposals for Queen’s Gardens as part of the build on the Taberner House site, VALERIE HUNTER is dismayed by what she has seen … Continue reading
Fears for Queen’s Gardens in multi-million-pound land-grab
The latest proposals for Queen’s Gardens, the only open space in central Croydon, have left residents underwhelmed, with some seeing the small public park being rendered into little more than an annex of the £120 million private housing development proposed … Continue reading
Re-flowering of Saffron Farm means volunteers needed again
Another year with the Taberner House site undeveloped for new homes means another autumn harvest at what calls itself “the world’s largest urban pop-up saffron farm”*. Flowers have begun to appear from around 17,000 Crocus Sativus corms potted out on … Continue reading
Council finance chief Simpson’s promotion is confirmed
Richard Simpson, formerly the council’s finance director, has been promoted to the role of executive director of resources, it was confirmed today. Simpson’s move into one of the six-figure salary roles at Fisher’s Folly is part of the on-going reshuffle … 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
