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Category Archives: Boris Johnson
Crystal Palace tram decision is “disgraceful and inexplicable”
One of the country’s leading transport experts has described Mayor Boris Johnson’s decision not to fulfil his promise to deliver a tram extension to Crystal Palace as “disgraceful and inexplicable”. Christian Wolmar, the author of several books on transport policy … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Croydon North, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Steve O'Connell, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Britain, Christian Wolmar, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Labour, London, Mayor
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Time to fight back against council’s arrogance and neglect
TONY NEWMAN, the leader of Croydon’s Labour group on the council, says local people demand change at the Town Hall Croydon has been shaken to its core by recent events, from the riots of August 2011, the unprecedented economic downturn … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Steve O'Connell, Tony Newman, Tramlink
Tagged Allders, Boris Johnson, Croydon, Croydon North, Elections, Labour, London, Steve Reed
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Boris takes us for a ride but not by tram to Crystal Palace
Transport for London is about to publish a seven-year investment plan that includes not a penny for the tram extensions promised in the London election campaign earlier this year by Mayor Boris Johnson and Steve O’Connell, the Assembly Member for … Continue reading
Reed’s regeneration record leaves Vauxhall cross
Steve Reed, Labour’s candidate for Thursday’s Croydon North by-election, wants to be judged on his record in Lambeth. SEAN CREIGHTON talks to community groups about the council leader’s job creation claims A key claim in Steve Reed’s campaign to be … Continue reading
Boris says he’s using riots funding to cover-up police cuts
London Road businesses and residents are to have a massive insult heaped upon the injury that many of them suffered in the Croydon riots last year, with Mayor Boris Johnson admitting that the Riots Recovery Fund he promised the area … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Broad Green, Crime, Croydon 8/8, Croydon North, London Assembly, London Road Traders Association, Mayor of London, Policing, Val Shawcross, West Croydon Community Forum
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, Police, West Croydon, West Croydon station
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“Never knowingly understood”? Realities of a co-op council
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Last Wednesday, while Croydon Council was handing over its libraries to Laings, up the A23 at Brixton Town Hall, Lambeth Council was making an equally significant decision. SEAN CREIGHTON looks at the work done over the borough boundary … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 by-election, Boris Johnson, Charity, Church and religions, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Greenwich Leisure, Housing, John Laing Integrated Services, Lambeth Council, Libraries, London-wide issues, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Croydon, Croydon North, Labour, Lambeth, Lambeth London Borough Council, Malcolm Wicks, Steve Reed MP, Upper Norwood Library
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91 police taken off Croydon’s streets claims Miliband
Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour party, visited Croydon this morning and accused the Conservatives of leaving residents at risk by taking 91 police officers off the beat in the borough – all despite the 2011 riots. Miliband is … Continue reading
Election questions: Marisha Ray, Liberal Democrats
The Croydon North by-election is on November 29, and Inside Croydon has put to candidates a set of questions. We will be putting the responses on the record, published without the artifice, interruptions and grandstanding of the usual hustings. We … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 by-election, Boris Johnson, Croydon North, CSEP, Education, Health, Housing, Libraries, London Road Traders Association, Marisha Ray, Mayor of London, Paul Burstow MP, St Helier Hospital, Tom Brake MP, Transport
Tagged Caroline Pidgeon, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon North, Labour, Liberal Democrat, London, Upper Norwood Library
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What a picture: Reed campaign’s photographic memories
CAMPAIGN CATCH-UP: Another day, another photo-call. Politics, 2012 style, demands that election candidates are high-profile and seen in as many favourable situations as possible. So it is that Steve Reed, the Labour candidate for Croydon North, seems to have posed … Continue reading
Mind the gap: Addiscombe gets its missing “link”
Nil carborundum illegitimi* In dealing with the often obdurate and regularly crass management of our local council, sometimes people have to take satisfaction over the little victories, the minor successes. These are usually achieved against the corporate brick wall of … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Boris Johnson, Business, Cherry Orchard Gardens, Commuting, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, Jon Rouse, Mayor of London, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Sean Fitzsimons, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, East Croydon station, Jobcentre Plus, London, London Borough of Croydon, Network Rail, Taberner House
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Four Croydon police stations to close as Boris’s cuts bite
Four of Croydon’s police stations – Addington Village, Kenley, Norbury and South Norwood – are to be closed as London Mayor Boris Johnson wields the axe on the Met’s spending. And according to an internal Metropolitan Police document seen by … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 by-election, Addington, Boris Johnson, Crime, Croydon 8/8, Croydon North, Kenley, Mayor of London, Norbury, Policing, Sean Fitzsimons, South Norwood, Steve O'Connell, Steve Reed MP, Wayne Lawlor
Tagged Croydon, Croydon North, England, Home Office, London, Metropolitan Police, South Norwood, Steve O'Connell
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Boris’s road safety cuts have led to increase in casualties
The number of casualties among pedestrians and cyclists on London’s roads have risen each year since 2008, while spending on road safety in the capital has been more than halved since Boris Johnson became Mayor, according to research by Jenny … Continue reading
High Court judge grants appeal over Crystal Palace Park plan
Ordinary residents are claiming a High Court victory after Lord Justice Jewison granted the Crystal Palace Community Association the right to have their appeal heard against a “masterplan” – backed by London Mayor Boris Johnson – to have a vast … Continue reading
Community group takes Crystal Palace Park appeal to court
Crystal Palace Community Association is to get its day in (the High) Court tomorrow morning, as its rearguard battle to prevent housing being built on parkland continues. CPCA is seeking to challenge the approval given to a London Development Agency … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Community associations, Croydon North, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Environment, Housing, Lambeth Council, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Outside Croydon, Planning, Property
Tagged Boris Johnson, Crystal Palace London, Crystal Palace Park, London, Mayor
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Norwood down to its last SNT police sergeant, Labour claims
The Labour group on the council says it is “disgusted” over a “behind closed doors” decision that leaves two Croydon wards, Upper Norwood and South Norwood, with just a single safer neighbourhood team police sergeant between them, down from three, … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Crime, Croydon 8/8, Croydon North, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Pat Ryan, Policing, Shirley North, South Norwood, Steve O'Connell
Tagged Conservatives, Croydon, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Gipsy Hill, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, South Norwood
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O’Connell: “I wouldn’t be so silly to take £500 per day”
Steve O’Connell, the London Assembly Member for Croydon and Sutton once dubbed Britain’s highest paid councillor by the Daily Mail, has told Inside Croydon that “even I would not be so silly as to take £500 a day”, following a … Continue reading
Boris’s cunning plan: too high, too many, too central
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The Mayor of London’s “cunning plan” for Croydon is flawed in important respects, says ANDREW PELLING – too much housing crammed into the centre of the borough, in too many high-rise blocks, and by ignoring other parts of … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Ashburton, Boris Johnson, Broad Green, Cane Hill, Cherry Orchard Gardens, Commuting, Coulsdon, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, Health, Housing, IYLO, London Assembly, London Road Traders Association, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Purley, Ruskin Square, Schools, Transport, URV, Vidhi Mohan, West Croydon, West Croydon Community Forum
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor
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Boris’s objections are set-back for Beddington incinerator
Croydon’s Greens and other groups opposed to the £1 billion Beddington Lane waste incinerator scheme were in celebratory mood last night thanks to help from a most unexpected source: Mayor of London Boris Johnson. The Greater London Authority has submitted … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Broad Green, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Croydon North, Environment, Health, Jenny Jones, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Norbury, Outside Croydon, Planning, Sutton Council, Thornton Heath, Waddon, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Boris Johnson, Croydon, England, Greater London Authority, London, London Mayor, Mitcham Common, Viridor
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The end of Allders: a timeline to oblivion
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The decline of Allders is partly a story of Croydon itself. ANDREW PELLING looks at the council’s role in the final days and asks if more could have been done by the Town Hall to save the near-1,000 … Continue reading
Posted in Allders, Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, Business, Centrale, Coulsdon, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Fairfield, History, Ikea, Ken Livingstone, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Mike Fisher, Parking, Policing, Property, Purley, Purley Way, Richard Ottaway MP, Ruskin Square, Surrey Street, Transport, URV, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Allders, Centrale, Croydon, East Croydon station, Ken Livingstone, London, Minerva, Purley Way
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