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E-bike battery fire prompts renewed warnings from Brigade
Firefighters have issued a safety warning after an e-bike caused a fire at a house on Beechwood Avenue in Thornton Heath last night. Part of the ground floor of a mid-terraced house was damaged by the fire. Two women and … Continue reading
Posted in Cycling, London Fire Brigade, London-wide issues, Thornton Heath
Tagged e-bikes, London Fire Brigade, Thornton Heath
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Food bank use up 74% in 5 years as London faces winter crisis
The need for food banks is still well above what it was before the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and is a shocking 74per cent higher than it was in 2016, according to the latest figures from charity the Trussell … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Marina Ahmad
Tagged food banks, London, London Assembly, Marina Ahmad, Trussell Trust
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Wheatley is appointed as chair of housing improvement panel
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Nine months after the conditions in council flats in South Norwood caused a national scandal, and after spending £104,000 on one director who never bothered meeting the Regina Road Residents’ Support Group, the council has got around … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Housing, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood, South Norwood Community Kitchen, South Norwood Tourist Board
Tagged Alison Knight, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Labour, Martin Wheatley, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
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Audsley has nowhere to run after Labour selection stitch-up
The insular and inward-looking local Labour Party is limping towards the finish line of a foregone conclusion, weeks after the Tories and Greens began campaigning to get their candidates elected as Croydon Mayor. By STEVEN DOWNES Croydon Labour’s laborious selection … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 Croydon Mayor election, Alisa Flemming, Callton Young, Croydon North, Croydon South, Jamie Audsley, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Manju Shahul Hameed, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman, Val Shawcross
Tagged Callton Young, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon Mayor, Croydon Mayoral election 2022, Croydon North, Croydon South, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Manju Shahul Hameed, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman, Val Shawcross
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Unions come together to protest against the council’s cuts
By DAVID WHITE The campaign against cuts by Croydon Council has stepped up a gear after members of the three largest unions representing council workers in the borough – Unite, Unison and GMB – yesterday held a demonstration outside the … Continue reading
London is ’23 days from disaster’ over transport funding
With one-fifth of buses and 10% of Tubes under threat of cuts, ‘TfL could become a byword for managed decline’ warns Mayor Khan as Tory government plays brinkmanship with the capital’s economy London’s transport system is “23 days away from … Continue reading
Murder investigation after 14-year-old killed at West Croydon
A 14-year-old boy died in hospital after being stabbed in a fight on the streets of West Croydon last night. The boy is the 27th teenaged fatality from knife crime in London in 2021, the worst death toll of this … Continue reading
Posted in Andy Brittain, Broad Green, Crime, Knife crime, Policing, West Croydon
Tagged knife crime, Metropolitan Police, Superintendent Andy Brittain, West Croydon
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Buyers beware: High Court judge puts planners in the dock
A High Court judge has ruled against Croydon’s planning department, quashing the decision of a senior council official to grant permission for a block of flats in Sanderstead. Here, former council planner STEVE WHITESIDE explains how the court ruling could … Continue reading
Posted in Aventier, Business, Croydon Council, Heather Cheesbrough, Housing, Nicola Townsend, Planning, Property, Purley, Purley Oaks and Riddlesdown, Sanderstead, Selsdon & Ballards, Selsdon and Addington Village
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Heather Cheesbrough, London Borough of Croydon, Nicola Townsend, Planning, Planning Committee, Planning enforcement, Purley, Riddlesdown, Sanderstead, Selsdon, Steve Whiteside
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London’s Living Wage for poorest paid set to rise to £11.05ph
At least 100,000 of the poorest-paid Londoners are about the get a pay rise, after the Living Wage Foundation announced that the London Living Wage should rise to £11.05 per hour. The good news needs to be tempered slightly by … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, London-wide issues, Marina Ahmad
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Living Wage, Marina Ahmad
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Building in suburban back gardens is not the only answer
CROYDON COMMENTARY: As residents in Old Coulsdon organise themselves to oppose more ‘back-garden’ developments in their village, LEWIS WHITE (right), offers some alternatives to unnecessary intensification It is not unknown for local residents’ associations to be heavily influenced by people … Continue reading
Mayor Khan agrees to repair Crystal Palace swimming pools
Crystal Palace’s swimming and diving pools are set to get a multi-million facelift and repair package to enable them to re-open, after the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, agreed to get the works done, a decision which City Hall today … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Ellie Reeves MP, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Sport, Swimming
Tagged Alex Yee, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace athletics stadium, Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, Crystal Palace NSC, Crystal Palace Sports Partnership, Joe Choong, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Tom Daley
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Down and out in Glasgow and Paris: climate talks end in failure
London’s Mayor joins critics of COP26’s final pact: ‘This agreement simply doesn’t meet the scale of the challenge’ It was late yesterday afternoon, with the COP26 UN climate talks in Glasgow already 24 hours into overtime, when Frans Timmermans, the … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
Tagged COP26, Greta Thunberg, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, United Nations
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Woman ends silence to report rapist father to Croydon police
After carrying a victim’s burden for decades, a woman who was sexually abused by her father when she was a child has waived her right to anonymity to show others “justice is always possible”. Sarah Mo says she was first … Continue reading
Norwood residents ask MP Reed to act over estate demolition
After a year-long, rear-guard action from residents of a council-built estate on the Croydon-Lambeth borough boundary, Truslove House and the mature trees in the grounds around it have in the past week been bulldozed completely. Lambeth Council has been accused … Continue reading
Croydon at centre of racism allegations over council homes
The scandal surrounding Croydon’s council housing last night plumbed new depths, as ITV News – who first exposed the “appalling” conditions in flats in South Norwood – broadcast a report which strongly suggested that many social housing tenants are stigmatised … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Housing, London-wide issues, South Norwood
Tagged Council housing, Regina Road, South Norwood
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Shawcross leads the way in first Labour Mayor nominations
WALTER CRONXITE, political editor, on a night of embarrassing snubs for the three Newman’s numpties who are seeking selection to be their party’s candidate in next year’s mayoral election Val Shawcross last night stormed to a decisive victory at the … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 Croydon Mayor election, Alisa Flemming, Callton Young, Croydon Central, Jamie Audsley, Manju Shahul Hameed, Sarah Jones MP, Val Shawcross
Tagged Alisa Flemming, Callton Young, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Donna Murray-Turner, Jamie Audsley, Labour, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, Manju Shahul Hameed, Mayor, Val Shawcross
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£800 per day council director Knight quits housing top job
CROYDON IN CRISIS: ‘Troubleshooter’ hired to fix scandalous conditions in flats in South Norwood has left cash-strapped local authority after less than six months. EXCLUSIVE By STEVEN DOWNES Alison Knight, the £800 per day director who was hired in May … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Knight, Community associations, Croydon Council, David Padfield, Housing, Katherine Kerswell, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
Tagged Alison Knight, Croydon, Croydon Council, David Padfield, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
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Housing’s free market free-for-all only benefits landlords
There’s a simple way to solve the ‘housing crisis’, says ANDREW FISHER: build homes for the many, not investment opportunities for the few Private renters in London are typically having to spend almost 40 per cent of their income on … Continue reading
Newman backers say they want to be Labour’s Mayor candidate
Next week marks one year since the council was forced to declare itself effectively bankrupt. For some senior Labour councillors, it’s almost as if they played no part in the borough’s financial collapse. By STEVEN DOWNES Three members of Tony … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 council elections, 2022 Croydon Mayor election, Alisa Flemming, Callton Young, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Jamie Audsley, Jason Perry, Manju Shahul Hameed, Sarah Jones MP, Section 114 notice, Steve Reed MP, Val Shawcross
Tagged Alisa Flemming, Callton Young, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Donna Murray-Turner, Jamie Audsley, Labour, Manju Shahul Hameed, Mayor, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman
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Police looking for man in connection with two bus arsons
The Metropolitan Police has released a photograph of a man they want to question in relation to two arson attacks on buses in south London, one of which gutted the entire top deck, causing more than £200,000-worth of damage. That … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Policing, TfL, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Metropolitan Police, West Croydon
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Council rehomes families from overcrowded Regina Road flats
EXCLUSIVE: New heaters have been promised by the middle of this month, as officials finally start to make changes for those living in ‘appalling’ conditions in South Norwood council flats. By STEVEN DOWNES Families with more than two children living … Continue reading
Posted in Clive Fraser, Community associations, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Health, Housing, Patricia Hay-Justice, Patsy Cummings, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Labour, Patricia Hay-Justice, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
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Tory Chancellor scores an own goal with London-lite Budget
Rishi Sunak took the capital for granted in his Budget speech yesterday, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has said, and in doing so the Tory Chancellor scored an own goal for the nation’s economic recovery. Sunak allocated nearly £7billion to … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Marina Ahmad, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Transport
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Labour, London, London Assembly, Marina Ahmad, Mayor, Rishi Sunak, Sadiq Khan, Tory
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Ombudsman demands culture change after council flats ‘shock’
Croydon Council’s housing department and repairs contractors need to change their ways, following the publication of an official report into “appalling” conditions endured by council tenants, many of whom have been found to be ignored by their landlords and even … Continue reading
Former City Hall chief Shawcross enters Croydon Mayor race
By WALTER CRONXITE, political editor Valerie Shawcross, a former deputy mayor of London and widely acknowledged as one of the best leaders of the council Croydon has ever had, wants to be Labour’s candidate to run in the election for … Continue reading
Nothing to see here: police back down over Palace banner
As the old saying goes, tweet in haste, repent at your leisure. Croydon’s police are certainly repenting that tweet they sent out on Saturday evening after Crystal Palace’s match against Saudi-owned Newcastle United, following a backlash from fans who reminded … Continue reading
