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Category Archives: Housing
Council flogs off Addington Hills cooling station on the cheap
While Croydon Council continues to push through schemes that concrete-over playing fields and public parks – Queen’s Gardens, at Coombe Wood and the site next to Ruskin House – yesterday saw the buffoons who handle the borough’s public property manage … Continue reading
Posted in Addington, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Health, History, Housing, Jo Negrini, Planning
Tagged Addington Hills, Brick by Brick
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Developers scale down towering ambition for Surrey Street
Developers who want to demolish an old shop and warehouse building on Surrey Street and replace it with a modern block of flats have scaled down their plans, following meetings with the council’s planning committee and a public consultation last … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Housing, Property, Surrey Street
Tagged Hoodoos, Matthews Yard, Surrey Street
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Residents give backing to Brick by Brick’s Coulsdon schemes
CROYDON COMMENTARY: One Coulsdon residents’ association is supporting developments proposed by Brick by Brick, the council-owned house-builders. CHARLIE KING explains why East Coulsdon Residents’ Association will be supporting the four, linked Brick by Brick developments in Coulsdon because, unlike previous … Continue reading
South Norwood pensioner wins Shard legal battle with Qataris
PERRY MASSON, our court reporter, on an extraordinary turn of events at the Royal Courts of Justice today Ian Bone, the South Norwood pensioner threatened with a High Court injunction by lawyers acting on behalf of the uber-rich Qatari royal … Continue reading
Croydon to publish viability reports – just not for Westfield
BARRATT HOLMES on a move towards openness and transparency over planning applications – though one that has come too late to provide insight into the biggest development scheme in the borough for a generation Did you hear that very loud … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Property, Sadiq Khan, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Alison Butler, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London, Mayor, Sadiq Khan, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Qatari royals in High Court threat to South Norwood pensioners
A couple of Croydon pensioners are being dragged to the Royal Courts of Justice this week by one of the world’s richest royal families, who want to ban them from exercising that old British tradition of freedom of speech. The … Continue reading
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
Tories are waging war on council housing, says Butler
This week’s council meeting featured a tub-thumping performance in the council chamber over Croydon’s housing policies. KEN LEE reports Monday night’s meeting of the full council witnessed something not seen in a very long time: Alison Butler delivering a speech … Continue reading
Fieldway’s Food Stop scheme makes final of Housing Awards
Croydon Council’s work in helping struggling families to avoid homelessness has reached the final of a national award that recognises housing innovation. In January last year, Croydon and around 30 local charities and voluntary groups launched Community Connect so more … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Council, Fieldway, Health, Housing, New Addington
Tagged Croydon Council, Fieldway, Fieldway Food Stop, Food Stop, Labour, New Addington
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Lambeth is showing the way with destruction of five estates
This week, Labour’s ruling NEC stepped in to stop one London council from undertaking a property deal which could have seen hundreds of council tenants evicted from their homes. Yet meanwhile, a bus ride up the A23 from Croydon, at … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Croydon North, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Housing, Jo Negrini, Lambeth Council, London-wide issues, Matthew Bennett, Outside Croydon, Planning, Property, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Jo Negrini, Labour, Lambeth council, Lib Peck, London Borough of Croydon, Matthew Bennett, Member of parliament, Steve Reed OBE
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MP Philp joins with Corbyn to object to widow’s eviction
Tomorrow, at around 11.30am, a widow and her five school-aged children seem likely to be rendered homeless, as bailiffs will be knocking on the door of their home in Benson Road to demand that they leave. The eviction is being … Continue reading
Philp’s PPS appointment creates a Purley poser for Javid
So Chris Philp didn’t miss out in the Prime Minister’s Government reshuffle at the start of the week after all. The Croydon South Tory MP got what amounts to a demotion. Thus Theresa May has managed to create a situation … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Croydon South, Housing, London-wide issues, Property, Purley
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon South, Purley, Tory
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MP Jones promoted as PPS to Labour’s housing team
WALTER CRONXITE, political editor, on an early promotion for Croydon’s newest MP Sarah Jones has made an impressive early move up the greasy pole of Westminster politics by being appointed as PPS – Parliamentary Private Secretary – to John Healey, … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Croydon Central, Housing, Sarah Jones MP
Tagged Brick by Brick, Croydon Central, Sarah Jones MP
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Mayor’s ‘affordable’ rents in Westfield will be £1,157 per month
BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent, reports on the likely rents for the ‘affordable’ flats in the towers to be built over the top of a shopping mall car park It is a rarely mentioned – by everyone except Sadiq Khan … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Sadiq Khan, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Alison Butler, City Hall, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Mayor of London, Tony Newman, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Council planning chief’s ‘new way of working’ for Brick by Brick
Having managed to piss off people from Upper Norwood to Purley, from Shirley to Coulsdon, Brick by Brick, the council’s wholly owned and wholly opaque home-building company, and the Town Hall planning department are undertaking a pre-Christmas charm offensive. For … Continue reading
4,000 residents apply to buy pocket-sized Addiscombe flats
A private developer building a residential tower just across the road from the 50p-bit building and tram tracks of East Croydon has received more than 4,000 expressions of interest from Croydon residents who might want to take one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning
Tagged Addiscombe West, Croydon, Croydon Council, Pocket Living
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Old Coulsdon residents ready for back-garden developers
As BARRATT HOLMES reports, the opening moves in the battle for your back gardens have just begun Croydon’s Tories really know no shame. Publicly, they are keen to try to score petty political points by claiming to be opposed to … Continue reading
Brick by Brick begins its privatisation of public open space
Oh, how we laughed – not – when someone in the offices of the council’s unaccountable property speculators, Brick by Brick, decided to tweet a joke yesterday. “This week we have been mainly painting hoardings…”, they said, apparently channeling The … Continue reading
Landlord licensing scheme made one prosecution in a year
BARRATT HOLMES on some surprising statistics regarding the borough’s private landlords The Labour-run council’s controversial landlord licensing scheme, which has collected an estimated £6million from the borough’s private landlords, has made just a single prosecution in the past 12 months. … Continue reading
Butler agrees to attend panel debate on homelessness
The leaders of the Labour group at the Town Hall may have tried to ban their colleague councillors from speaking to Inside Croydon, but there’s clear evidence that one of them, at least, continues to be an avid reader. Within … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Cinema, Croydon Nightwatch, Housing, Screen25, South Norwood
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Labour, Screen25, South Norwood
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Council developer delivering just 8% homes for affordable rent
BARRATT HOLMES unveils startling figures from the council on the failure of its own house-builder to deliver on promises to deliver affordable homes There could be one very strong reason that Paul Scott, the controversial chair of Croydon’s planning committee, … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Paul Scott, Sadiq Khan, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Tony Newman
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Dispossession: film club stages debate over housing crisis
For some people, a housing crisis means not getting planning permission for a loft conversion. For others it means, quite simply, losing their home. Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle is a feature documentary which is being shown by Stanley’s … Continue reading
