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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
Chancellor is taking an axe to councils’ magic money tree
Croydon Council has more than £1bn of borrowings – half of which has gone on Brick by Brick and the purchase of some commercial properties. Proposals contained in the Budget this week could put an end to that, as KEN … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Bernard Weatherill House, Brick by Brick, Business, Centrale, Colonnades, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Croydon parks, Jo Negrini, New Addington, Planning, Property, Queens Gardens, Simon Hall, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Brick by Brick, Colonnades, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Selco, Simon Hall, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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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
Posted in Crime, Croydon Council, Queens Gardens, Taberner House
Tagged CCTV, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Queens Gardens
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Extra CCTV camera for Queen’s Gardens over safety concerns
Queen’s Gardens, the much-reduced open space in the town centre, soon to be made into a quasi-private park for the residents of a tower block, is to get an extra security camera to, in the words of the council, “help … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Policing, Queens Gardens
Tagged Broad Green, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Norbury, Queens Gardens, Shirley, Taberner House, Thornton Heath
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Council contempt for public in Orwellian Town Hall meeting
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE watched the latest travesty of a council meeting, so you wouldn’t have to Will they never learn? Monday night saw the Town Hall chamber holding the last full meeting of the council before the local elections … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Chris Wright, Community associations, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Donald Speakman, Dudley Mead, Housing, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning, Purley, Queens Gardens, Shirley, South Norwood, Tim Pollard, Timothy Godfrey, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick Action Group, Conservative, Croydon Council, Donald Speakman, Dudley Mead, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Tony Newman, Tory
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Brick by Brick ignore public again over Coombe Road scheme
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Today is your last chance to lodge comments – supportive or objecting – to the planning application from the council’s Brick by Brick house-builder to squeeze eight one-bed flats and a three-bedroomed house on a corner of open … Continue reading
Queen’s Gardens workshop and design sessions, Mar 24-Jul 14
Posted in Croydon parks, Environment, Queens Gardens
Tagged Hub, Queens Gardens, Taberner House
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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
Butler in U-turn over parks protection: ‘Nothing to see here’
Alison Butler, the Croydon Council cabinet member responsible for planning, has made a U-turn over the future planning status of the borough’s parks. On Saturday, Inside Croydon reported how the government planning inspector had rejected Croydon Council’s efforts to apply … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon Federation of Allotment and Garden Societies, Croydon parks, Duppas Hill Park, Environment, Friends of Addiscombe Railway Park, Friends of Ashburton Park, Friends of Croham Hurst Woods, Friends of Crystal Palace Park, Friends of Farthing Downs, Friends of Grange Park, Friends of Grangewood Park, Friends of Haling Grove, Friends of Heavers Meadow, Friends of Marlpit Lane Bowling Green, Friends of Millers Ponds, Friends of Selsdon Woods, Friends of Shirley Windmill, Friends of South Norwood Country Park, Friends of Wandle Park, Friends of West Norwood Cemetery, Peter Underwood, Planning, Queens Gardens, Wildlife
Tagged Alison Butler, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Queens Gardens, South Norwood
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Origami to unfold a dance festival in Queen’s Gardens
This Saturday will see two free dance performances in Croydon town centre. Dance Umbrella, the annual London-wide contemporary dance festival, is coming to Queen’s Gardens to present a work called Origami which, according to a council-issued press release, is “a … Continue reading
Residents have 48 hours to save 70 parks and open spaces
The people of Croydon have 48 hours left to try to save more than 70 of the borough’s parks and open spaces from being put at serious risk of being handed over to developers to be built on. Alison Butler, … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Duppas Hill Park, Environment, Friends of Addiscombe Railway Park, Friends of Ashburton Park, Friends of Croham Hurst Woods, Friends of Farthing Downs, Friends of Grange Park, Friends of Grangewood Park, Friends of Haling Grove, Friends of Heavers Meadow, Friends of Marlpit Lane Bowling Green, Friends of Millers Ponds, Friends of Selsdon Woods, Friends of South Norwood Country Park, Lloyd Park, Peter Underwood, Planning, Queens Gardens
Tagged Addiscombe Railway Park, Addiscombe West, Alison Butler, Croydon Local Plan, Croydon parks, Peter Underwood, Planning, Purley, Rotary Field, Sanderstead
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Croydon Health Walks anniversary strolls, Sep 30
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Croydon Ramblers, Health, Lloyd Park, Queens Gardens, Walks
Tagged Croydon Health Walks, New Addington, Warlingham
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Croydon Pridefest 2017, Queen’s Gardens, Jul 15
Posted in Activities, Dance, Music, Queens Gardens
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Pridefest, Queens Gardens
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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
Posted in "Hammersfield", Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Centrale, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Jo Negrini, One Lansdowne Road, Paul Scott, Place Review Panel, Planning, Property, Queens Gardens, Taberner House, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, Paul Scott, Place Review Panel, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Chinese developers buy Nestlé Tower in £60m property deal
Nestlé Tower, SEGAS House and St George’s Walk in Croydon town centre have been sold to a Chinese development company in a £60million deal. Property Week is reporting that R&F Properties has made the move, its first venture into European … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Delancey, Environment, Housing, Nestle Tower, Planning, Property, Queens Gardens, Segas House, St George's Walk
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Delancey, Minerva, Nestle Tower, Segas House, St George's Walk
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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
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
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Housing, Planning, Queens Gardens, Taberner House
Tagged Croydon Council, Labour, Queens Gardens, Taberner House
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£160m schools plan to be badgered over surplus places
In the thrall of property developers as usual, Croydon Council officials want to spend many millions of public money on building schools where there are not enough pupils. Education correspondent GENE BRODIE reports Croydon Council’s school-building strategy will come in … 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
Posted in Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Fairfield, Jo Negrini, Planning, Queens Gardens, Taberner House
Tagged Jo Negrini, Queens Gardens, Taberner House
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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
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Croydon parks, Environment, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning, Queens Gardens, Taberner House, Tracey Hague, Transition Town
Tagged Alison Butler, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Queens Gardens, Taberner House
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