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Leaks in £140m council offices cause more problems
Florid-faced Mike Fisher, the Conservative leader of Croydon Council, is likely to be more red-faced than usual at tonight’s Town Hall meeting, as it emerges that there is a leak in the roof of his flagship new council headquarters offices, … Continue reading
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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Library operators Carillion’s shady record on blacklistings
Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, is not alone in being spied upon by her “friends”. The practice has been happening a lot closer to home, even in the workplace, and conducted on behalf of one firm that is coming … Continue reading
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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Laing exit library business after taking over in Croydon
So, this is how Conservative-run Croydon Council does “business”… The council consults residents about library services. After receiving an overwhelming response that the people of Croydon want all their public libraries maintained and to continue to be run by the … Continue reading
Renaissance man who’s under-cutting rents across London
Renaissance, the five-storey office block on Dingwall Road, close to East Croydon railway station, opened last week, offering office space at one-fifth of the cost of rates in the West End, Canary Wharf and the City of London, according to … Continue reading
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
It’s time for Town Halls to take back local powers
TONY NEWMAN, the leader of the Labour group on Croydon Council, says that it is long overdue for powers to be returned to local councils so that they can take responsibility for their communities After serving as an elected local … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Housing, Jon Rouse, Mike Fisher, Planning, Tony Newman, Tramlink, URV
Tagged Arts Council England, Brighton, Croydon, England, London, London Borough of Croydon, Northern Ireland, Whitehall
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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
Seeing potential for SEGAS building and Riesco “windfall”
As Croydon Council scrambles to hand every spare building or piece of publicly owned land over to John Laing to fulfil the ravenous appetite of the developer’s CCURV scheme, however unsuitable the sites might be for high-profit, high-rise apartments, Inside … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Riesco Collection, URV
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Fairfield Hall, Hong Kong, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon
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Ashburton residents firmly oppose sale of old library
SARAH JONES reports from last night’s first meeting of the Friends of Ashburton Park, as they considered the sell-off of the old library Sometimes, the world is a hard place to be. Times are hard, money harder to find and … Continue reading
I am a rock! But new kids on building blocks have problems
The IYLO BUILDING has awoken from its slumbers… The construction crane is back and builders in hi-viz jackets, like worker ants, are climbing all over it. But the oft neglected, unfinished tower in the middle of a suburban roundabout has … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Altitude 25, Broad Green, Business, Centrale, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Environment, IYLO, Planning, Property, Riesco Collection, Ruskin Square, Thornton Heath, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Hammerson, IYLO BUILDING, London, Ruskin Square, Saffron Square, Shard, Westfield
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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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Council’s secrets and lies over sale of old Ashburton Library
Residents have been outraged yet again at the latest pawn shop move to flog off public property by the wide boys who control Croydon Council, following an advertisement appearing in the local press offering the old Ashburton Library building for … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Adam Kellett, Art, Ashburton, Avril Slipper, Croydon Council, Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Eddy Arram, Education, Environment, History, Libraries, Planning, Riesco Collection, URV
Tagged Ashburton, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema, London Borough of Croydon, Oasis Academy Shirley Park, Tory
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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
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
Coulsdon residents complain over dangers of CURV scheme
It seems that Croydon Council’s strategy of ignoring the interests of local residents and businesses, and instead acting at the bidding of big business, has now been extended to the leafy, largely Conservative-supporting suburbs of Coulsdon. Croydon’s Urban Regeneration Vehicle … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Business, Cane Hill, Community associations, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, Environment, Friends of Farthing Downs, Housing, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Parking, Planning, Property, Schools, URV
Tagged Cane Hill Hospital, Croydon, Croydon Council, England, Eric Pickles, London, London Borough of Croydon, Tory
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