Category Archives: URV

Council office entrance closed because of ‘extreme’ weather

Posted on February 1, 2019 by

KEN LEE, our newshound on Mint Walk, sniffs out the latest piece of nonsense from the £140m council office building, where the main entrance has been ruled out-of-bounds Further proof, not that any has been needed, that Fisher’s Folly, the … Continue reading →

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Negrini’s gamble on housing is facing a Brexit downturn

Posted on August 2, 2017 by

WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, on troubling reports for a council which has staked so much capital on profiting from the housing market With local elections just 10 months away, there’s a couple of brief reports just out which ought … Continue reading →

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Council’s £140m offices are to become a glorified Job Centre

Posted on July 17, 2017 by

WALTER CRONXITE on how the local council has been forced to take in more lodgers in its “prestige” £140m office building Tonight’s council cabinet meeting at the Town Hall is unlikely to uncover quite how the costs of building the … Continue reading →

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Cost of New Addington Leisure Centre hiked by £8m in a year

Posted on July 15, 2017 by

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 →

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Barwell White Paper undermines £270m council homes scheme

Posted on February 8, 2017 by

BARRATT HOLMES finds that the government’s housing policies include a measure which goes against Treasury advice and may deter local authorities such as Croydon from building The housing White Paper, introduced yesterday by Croydon Central Tory MP Gavin Barwell, could … Continue reading →

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Flood in Fisher’s Folly forces council staff to work from home

Posted on October 2, 2016 by

Dozens of Croydon Council staff are being asked to work from home tomorrow, after faulty plumbing in Fisher’s Folly, the borough’s £140 million office building, has caused flooding on at least one of the floors. This is particularly embarrassing timing … Continue reading →

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Council finance chief Simpson’s promotion is confirmed

Posted on September 6, 2016 by

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 →

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Council sells Taberner site in secretive multi-million pound deal

Posted on August 29, 2016 by

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 →

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Staff to move out of two more floors of £140m Council HQ

Posted on August 5, 2016 by

BARRATT HOLMES, our development correspondent, has discovered that by taking in corporate ‘lodgers’, the purpose-built local authority offices won’t be able to provide desks for 40% of the council’s staff Fisher’s Folly, the purpose-built local authority “hub” which was built … Continue reading →

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Council drops own housing company for new Taberner scheme

Posted on July 23, 2016 by

In central Croydon, where some think it is “easy” to build houses, it’s back to square one for the building of homes on the site of Taberner House, the council’s former office block. Work on the £150 million project is … Continue reading →

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