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Category Archives: Sarah Hayward
‘No records’ after council hired Starmer ally to advise leader
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Mystery surrounds how a Labour figure with connections to David Evans was recruited to provide political advice when Hamida Ali took charge of Croydon Council – because no one kept any records. Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Croydon Council, Croydon North, David Evans, Jo Negrini, Julian Ellerby, Katherine Kerswell, Sarah Hayward, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman
Tagged #LabourFiles, #TheLabourFiles, Alison Butler, Croydon, Croydon Council, David Evans, Hamida Ali, Imogen Walker, Katherine Kerswell, Keir Starmer, Labour, Labour Files, Morgan McSweeney, Sandwell Council, Tony Newman
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Two years late and council safety ‘strategy’ is barely changed
After a week when the borough’s streets were smeared in blood once again, after stabbings on Church Street in the town centre and on Central Parade in New Addington, Croydon’s dysfunctional council is finally getting around to publishing an updated … Continue reading
Purley Pool closure planned to help GLL repay £279,000 loan
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Cash-strapped council’s case for closing down leisure centre depends entirely on made up figures and abandoning terms of a 20-year management agreement. EXCLUSIVE By STEVEN DOWNES Inside Croydon’s exclusive report two weeks ago about proposals to cut … Continue reading
#BINMAGEDDON: Council admits Veolia’s failing on the job
The situation has become so dire that residents are being asked not to report when their street’s collections have been missed. By STEVEN DOWNES A senior council executive this afternoon rushed out a “wholehearted apology” to residents over the increasingly … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Sarah Hayward, Veolia
Tagged Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Veolia
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Mystery of the ‘lost’ £600,000 expert report into Fairfield Halls
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Suspicions mount over the business of Brick by Brick and the scandal surrounding the Fairfield Halls refurbishment. But even members of the Town Hall’s scrutiny committee are being denied vital information by council directors. By STEVEN DOWNES … Continue reading
Posted in Asmat Hussain, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Robert Ward, Sarah Hayward, Sean Fitzsimons
Tagged Asmat Hussain, Brick by Brick, Conservative, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Hamida Ali, Labour, Robert Ward, Sarah Hayward, Scrutiny and Overview Committee, Sean Fitzsimons, Tony Newman, Tory
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Fore! Golf course and hotel latest properties in council fire sale
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Four public-owned properties, not mentioned in the council’s original disposals list, are now being sold off as the Town Hall gets itself out of the hotels business. By PEARL LEE, our south of the borough correspondent The … Continue reading
Police name teenager killed in Bensham Manor stabbing
Council’s cabinet member admits that crime strategy is still being ‘developed’, two years after an out-of-work Labour politician was put in charge of the borough’s ‘violent crime reduction network’ The police have named the second Croydon 16-year-old to have been … Continue reading
Posted in Bensham Manor, Crime, Croydon Council, Knife crime, London-wide issues, Manju Shahul Hameed, Policing, Sarah Hayward, Sarah Jones MP, Tony Newman
Tagged Camron Smith, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Damarie Roye, knife crime, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Metropolitan Police, Sarah Hayward, Sarah Jones MP, youth knife crime
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Public outcry as council off-loads historic Heathfield House
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The future of a long-established ecology charity has been placed under threat, as well as hundreds of school visits conducted annually, by a council plan to lease out a publicly-owned listed building. By our environment correspondent, PAUL … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Charity, Croydon Council, Croydon Friends of the Earth, Croydon parks, Environment, Heathfield, Heathfield House, History, Property, Riesco Collection, Sarah Hayward, Schools, Selsdon & Ballards, Wildlife
Tagged Addington Hills, Croydon Ecology Centre, Heathfield House, Lorraine Chatfield, Lucia Briault, Sarah Hayward, STUART KING
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‘Deeply shocking’ report shows council’s ‘serious failure’
The pressure increased on Hamida Ali, the leader of Croydon Council, as the Town Hall’s pay-masters, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, issued a statement today in response to the notice issued by the Social Housing Regulator which … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Alison Knight, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Sarah Hayward, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Labour, MHCLG, Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, Sarah Jones MP, Social Housing Regulator, South Norwood, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman, Tory
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Government regulator steps in over ‘appalling’ council flats
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The squalid conditions of homes in South Norwood has seen the council found to be in breach of 15-year-old regulations introduced to prevent people having to endure slum conditions. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The council has been … Continue reading
‘None of the tenants in Croydon trust anybody in the council’
By STEVEN DOWNES The council took the unusual step last night of inviting one of the people it is supposed to serve, a resident, a council tenant, to speak at its Town Hall cabinet meeting. What Fransoy Hewitt said, her … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Knight, Clive Fraser, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Housing, Katherine Kerswell, Patricia Hay-Justice, Sarah Hayward, South Norwood
Tagged Clive Fraser, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fransoy Hewitt, Hamida Ali, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Patricia Hay-Justice, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
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£104,000: astronomical pay deal for housing troubleshooter
Town Hall reporter KEN LEE says that the controversy surrounding the squalid conditions in council homes in South Norwood seems likely to be stoked further tonight over disputed claims that the council leader, Hamida Ali, has met with residents in … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Knight, Community associations, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Housing, Katherine Kerswell, Sarah Hayward, South Norwood, South Norwood Tourist Board, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Alison Knight, Croydon North, Hamida Ali, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, Sarah Hayward, South Norwood, Steve Reed OBE
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Council housing staff summoned to urgent briefing with CEO
The wait could almost be over: the report into how council flats in South Norwood fell into such squalid and appalling conditions is expected to be released tomorrow. All members of the council’s housing department have been summoned to attend … Continue reading
Official accused of bullying Regina Road tenants over meeting
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Did the council leader lie to a parliamentary committee when she promised to release the investigation findings into the ‘appalling’ state of council flats in South Norwood ‘as soon as we have them’? EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES … Continue reading
Kerswell set to depart after completing cull of Negrini execs
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Having overseen the removal of almost all of Jo Negrini’s ‘executive leadership team’, it seems that the interim chief exec wants to move on to better things. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Croydon Council is to begin the … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Elaine Jackson, Guy van Dichele, Hazel Simmonds, Heather Cheesbrough, Jacqueline Harris-Baker, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Lisa Taylor, Robert Henderson, Sarah Hayward, Section 114 notice, Shifa Mustafa
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Hazel Simmonds, Jacqueline Harris-Baker, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Shifa Mustafa
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Council’s ‘urgent’ inquiry into housing scandal is slow to start
It took Croydon Council five days after they were approached by ITV News with serious questions about the appalling conditions in council flats in South Norwood before they announced an “urgent inquiry”. And in the council’s first response to the … Continue reading
Hayward promoted to investigate Regina Road scandal
CROYDON IN CRISIS: A controversial former Labour council leader is promoted and given a possible £40,000 pay rise by Hamida Ali in the latest round of musical chairs at the Town Hall. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Sarah Hayward has been … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Housing, Katherine Kerswell, London-wide issues, Policing, Sarah Hayward, Shifa Mustafa, Tony Newman
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Katherine Kerswell, London Borough of Croydon, Sarah Hayward, Shifa Mustafa, Tony Newman, Violence Reduction Network
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Lip-service webinars fail to consider libraries’ community future
CROYDON COMMENTARY: As the council pays lip-service to a legally required consultation process, there’s a sense of inevitability about proposed closures for up to five of the borough’s public libraries. After sitting in on one of the council’s virtual Q&A … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Broad Green, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Education, Libraries, Old Coulsdon, Oliver Lewis, Sarah Hayward, Section 114 notice
Tagged Bradmore Green Library, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Old Coulsdon, Shirley Library, South Norwood, South Norwood Library
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‘Mistakes will be made’ warn staff after latest round of cuts
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Libraries to close, refuse dumps to close, while elderly, disabled and mental health services are to be cut. Even buses for SEND schoolchildren face the axe. Yet the council’s ‘renewal plan’ will still spend £37m more in … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Children's Services, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Katherine Kerswell, Libraries, Refuse collection, Sarah Hayward, Section 114 notice
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Renewal Plan, Hamida Ali, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, S114, Sarah Hayward, Section 114
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New leader Ali blames covid for crime report that is a year late
CROYDON IN CRISIS: On crime figures, ‘some are going up, some are going down’, according to the newly elected leader of the council, who has failed in a legal duty to deliver a community safety plan. KEN LEE reports Whichever … Continue reading
Jobs for the gals! Newman hands £100,000 job to Blairite pal
It’s not what you know, but who you know when it comes to some top-level jobs at Croydon Council, as KEN LEE reports Tensions between Croydon Council’s senior paid officials and the Town Hall’s Labour leadership threaten to break out … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Jo Negrini, Julian Ellerby, Knife crime, Paula Murray, Sarah Hayward, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Sarah Hayward, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman, youth knife crime
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