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Category Archives: Taberner House
Croydon appoints Negrini as fifth planning chief in two years
Croydon Council has hand-picked someone to be our borough’s executive director of planning and environment who has spent the last four years working closely with developers Westfield on their Stratford mega-mall. Jo Negrini will become Croydon’s fifth planning chief in … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, Jon Rouse, Lambeth Council, London-wide issues, Nathan Elvery, Outside Croydon, Paul Spooner, Planning, Property, Taberner House, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Canning Town, Croydon, Croydon North, London, London Borough of Newham, Metropolitan Police Service, Newham, University of New South Wales
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Commitment, Croydon-style: charity which benefits business
A Croydon-based charity which next month is staging a high-profile fund-raising abseil off Taberner House has been issued with an official warning that it is in default of its legal duties. Croydon Commitment – with the slogan “Charity is our … Continue reading
Croydon’s £1,000-a-day planning chief set to leave council
Paul Spooner, Croydon Council’s £1,000 a day executive director of planning and environment, is to leave the council before the end of the year. “Sponger”, as he is known among more modestly paid staff who are now working in the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2014 council elections, Allders, Cane Hill, Centrale, Community associations, Coulsdon, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, Friends of Farthing Downs, Jason Perry, Nathan Elvery, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Paul Spooner, Planning, Taberner House, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boris Johnson, Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Spooner, Taberner House
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Don’t say a word: Queen’s Gardens plans discussed tonight
A small step, but progress of sorts this week. Inside Croydon has received a note from the very helpful public relations person at GL Hearn, the private consultants that have been running the public consultation on proposals to knock down … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Fairfield, Planning, Taberner House, URV
Tagged Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, England, London, Taberner House
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Council consultation they don’t want you to know about
Yesterday, Inside Croydon published this, a report about the poor handling of the publicity for a public consultation on the future of the site of Taberner House and the neighbouring Queen’s Gardens public open space, which together with their property … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Planning, Taberner House, URV
Tagged Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Borough of Croydon, South Norwood, Taberner House
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Just 53 attend Taberner House sham consultation sessions
There’s a public consultation going on over Croydon Council’s plans to build four new tower blocks on the site of Taberner House, including building out on to the Queen’s Gardens public park space. Who knew? As we have highlighted many … Continue reading
Croydon U-turn as it opens its doors for Open House weekend
Might this weekend represent the latest minor victory for Inside Croydon? Just over a year ago, we broke the news that, like a churlish, spoilt child having a tantrum, Croydon Council had withdrawn from the Open House London weekend. As … Continue reading
Council approves another £420,000 spend on Fisher’s Folly
And still the costs of moving the offices into Fisher’s Folly, the shiny glass palace on Cost A Mint Walk to be opened next month by Croydon Council leader Mike Fisher, continue to mount. On top of the £140 million … Continue reading
Londoners being priced out of London by social cleansing
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Building thousands of high-rise high-priced “luxury apartments” to be bought by overseas investors may enhance the bottom line of private property developers, but will do nothing to solve the borough’s housing crisis. By STEVEN DOWNES London, and Croydon, … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2014 council elections, Altitude 25, Business, Cane Hill, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Housing, IYLO, Lambeth Council, Menta Tower, Paul Spooner, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Steve Reed MP, Taberner House, URV, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Flyover, Croydon North, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, Tory, Whitgift Foundation
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Council planning chief paid £28,000 for six weeks’ work
Paul Spooner, Croydon’s latest executive director of planning and environment, was paid £28,000 for his first six weeks work at the council, according to the council’s own accounts. That works out at a rate of £4,666 per week, or £242,666 … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2014 council elections, Ashburton, Business, Cane Hill, Croydon Council, Environment, Housing, Nathan Elvery, Paul Spooner, Planning, Taberner House, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Celtic Manor Resort, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Taberner House
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Does Town Hall’s missing link point to another public sell-off?
Might Croydon’s Grade II-Listed Town Hall be the next public asset which the borough’s Conservative administration wants to flog-off? Rumours have been circulating Katharine Street since the virtual closure of the Clocktower arts complex nearly three years ago. The talk … Continue reading
Posted in Bromley Council, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Environment, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, Gardening, History, Housing, Planning, Property, Restaurants, Riesco Collection, Taberner House, URV
Tagged Cathedral Group, Croydon, Croydon Flyover, England, Fairfield Halls, London, Riesco
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Fair housing for all at the heart of Labour pledges
More affordable homes and a registration scheme for private landlords would feature under a Labour council in Croydon, as outlined here by Councillor ALISON BUTLER Housing will be at the very heart of policies for an incoming Labour council. Sadly, … Continue reading
Council belatedly offers free furniture to community groups
Public pressure, or even a degree of shame, does seem to have some effect on the benighted managers at Conservative-controlled Croydon Council. Last month, our loyal reader will recall, Inside Croydon exposed how the council had given first dibs on … Continue reading
Constant congestion cannot be solved by more road schemes
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Responding to Charlotte Davies’s column yesterday on the borough’s secret parking tax, ARFUR TOWCRATE, the Sage of Waddon, offers his view “For a town that has built itself around the demands of the motor car, parking the vehicles … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Commuting, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Cycling, Environment, Health, Housing, Menta Tower, Parking, Planning, Property, Purley Way, Steve O'Connell, Taberner House, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, England, London, Purley London, Steve O'Connell, Tramlink, Westfield
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Croydon celebrates its parks – but omits Queen’s Gardens
A press release plops on to the news editor’s desk here at Inside Croydon Towers. It arrives via a PR agency called Grey Label. And it announces that earlier this week, no fewer than 11 of Croydon’s open spaces were … Continue reading
