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Category Archives: Boris Johnson
Is Newman trying to tunnel away from any real questioning?
Tony Newman’s Labour group faces losing control of Croydon Town Hall at the first time of asking if the latest national opinion poll, which puts the Tories 12 per cent ahead, translates locally. And yes, of course all opinion polls … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Addiscombe West, Ashburton, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Commuting, London-wide issues, Mark Watson, Mayor of London, Outside Croydon, Patricia Hay-Justice, Sean Fitzsimons, Tony Newman, Transport
Tagged Bakerloo Line, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, TfL, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield
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The Dirty Dozen: Beddington’s Extra High Emission Zone
It was reported yesterday that twice as many Londoners – around 9,500 – are dying every year as a direct result of the city’s air pollution than was previously estimated. Undaunted, Croydon’s neighbouring borough, Sutton, is bulldozing through with plans … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Business, Croydon Council, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Refuse collection, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane, Beddington Lane incinerator, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Liberal Democrats, Mayor, Sutton, Sutton Council, Tory, Viridor
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Palace revolution as Bromley hands park to community
Bromley Council has agreed to hand over the management and governance of Crystal Palace Park to a community-led trust. The decision has been described as “one of the most important decisions in 30 years”.
Posted in Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Community associations, Croydon North, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, History, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Martin Tempia, Mayor of London, Stephen Carr
Tagged Boris Johnson, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, London Assembly, Martin Tempia
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Coe has been backing Baku while Crystal Palace crumbles
Sebastian Coe’s attempts to run a mile from being associated with recommendations to bulldoze Crystal Palace athletics stadium and other south London sports facilities which were to be part of the “Olympic legacy” promised by the 2012 London Games looks … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Business, Croydon Harriers, Croydon North, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Property, Sport
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Harriers, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace NSC, Lord Coe, Mayor, Sebastian Coe, Tory
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Athletics body condemns plans to bulldoze Palace track
Finally, the Lottery-funded national governing body for athletics has delivered a report which is strongly against the demolition of the track and field facilities at Crystal Palace. UK Athletics has delivered its views nine months after the start of a … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 London elections, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Croydon North, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sport
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, London, London Assembly, Mayor, Tory
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Labour go for six of the best to become next London Mayor
Londoners – of all political persuasions, and of none – will have six to choose from this summer when the Labour Party stages its first ever open primary to select its candidate to run for London Mayor in 2016. A … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 London elections, Boris Johnson, Christian Wolmar, Croydon Cycling Campaign, Environment, Housing, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Outside Croydon, Sadiq Khan, Steve O'Connell, Val Shawcross
Tagged Boris Johnson, Christian Wolmar, Conservative, Croydon, Labour, Mayor, Sadiq Khan, Steve O'Connell, Tessa Jowell, Tory, Wolmar for London
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TfL’s loopy proposals will cut some tram services by 13%
Another week. Another pointless, self-fulfilling “consultation”, this time from Transport for London as they steam-roller through their scheme to sever the tram network in Croydon town centre, all for the benefit of Hammersfield, and mainly at massive public expense. This … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boris Johnson, Centrale, Commuting, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Jo Negrini, Kenley, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, New Addington South, Planning, Steve O'Connell, Tramlink, Transport, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, East Croydon station, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Tory, Tramlink, Trams, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Coe’s Olympic legacy promises left in ruins at Crystal Palace
In all the furore surrounding corruption at FIFA, the world governing body of football, one name that has barely been mentioned is Sebastian Coe. Lord Coe spent almost two years as the chairman of FIFA’s ethics committee. He was appointed … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Community associations, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Education, London Assembly, Mayor of London, Planning, Sport, Stephen Carr, Swimming
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Sebastian Coe, Tory
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Labour council spends £148,000 for one night of cycle racing
Austerity? Government grant cuts? Front-line council jobs under threat? On yer bike! Here in Croydon, under our flip-flopping Labour-lite council, we are spending nearly £150,000 of public cash for a couple of hours of sport next month. Croydon town centre … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2012 Olympics, Activities, Boris Johnson, Business, Connected Croydon, Croydon Council, Cycling, Cycling, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, Mayor of London, Nathan Elvery, Skanska, Sport, Tony Newman, Tramlink, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Fairfield Halls, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, TfL, Tony Newman, Tory, Transport for London, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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TfL’s £48m loop schemes could break the link in Tramlink
Transport for London seems determined to double the cost of new Tramlink loops in the centre of Croydon – to around £48 million of public cash – and all at the behest of local council planners who want to reduce … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Addiscombe West, Boris Johnson, Business, Centrale, Commuting, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Parking, Planning, Tramlink, Transport, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boris Johnson, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Tramlink, East Croydon station, Hammersfield, Hammerson, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Tramlink, Trams, Westfield
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Police drop case against Croydon protester who ‘burned’ Boris
The use of the nation’s police for political ends is nothing new – anyone who lived through the Miners’ Strike in the 1980s, or has at least watched Billy Elliott and looked beyond the dance scenes, will have some idea … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Business, Crime, Housing, Jon Bigger, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Policing
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Mayor, Tory
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Mayoral contender calls for review of incinerator schemes
A leading contender for selection by Labour to run for the Mayor of London next year says he will ask whoever is the Environment Secretary in the new Government to conduct an urgent review of all waste incinerator schemes planned … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 General Election, 2016 London elections, Boris Johnson, Christian Wolmar, Croydon Greens, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Boris Johnson, Christian Wolmar, London, London Assembly, Mayor, Stop The Incinerator Campaign, Tom Brake, Viridor
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Wandle Park gets £58,000; Waddon park bulldozed with £87m
There’s something bittersweet about the announcement this week that Croydon Council has been awarded £58,800 from City Hall towards the cost of improving pedestrian and cycling access to Wandle Park. Sweet, because it is a cause that Inside Croydon’s loyal … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boris Johnson, Broad Green, Business, Connected Croydon, CPO, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Environment, Friends of Wandle Park, Kathy Bee, Mayor of London, Planning, Tony Newman, Waddon, Wandle Park, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boris Johnson, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Waddon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Bromley goes public on ZhongRong’s 500-year Palace dynasty
Bromley Council has published explosive correspondence to expose how the ZhongRong Group, the Chinese company to which London Mayor Boris Johnson wanted to hand a large chunk of Crystal Palace Park, were demanding to takeover half of the public park … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Business, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Outside Croydon, Planning, Property, Transition Town
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Council Tax, Crystal Palace, Mayor, Tory, ZhongRong Group, ZRG
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Boris Flyover to cost more than Mayor’s annual bike spend
Mayor of London Boris Johnson wants to spend more on building a four-/five-/six-lane flyover through a Waddon park than his entire annual spend on cycling in the city for 2014-2015. That’s the conclusion of Darren Johnson, the Green Party Assembly … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boris Johnson, Commuting, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Croydon South, Darren Johnson, Environment, Health, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Parking, Transport, Waddon, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Darren Johnson AM, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Assembly, Tory, Waddon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Nightmare scenario as O’Connell is lined up as London Mayor
It is a nightmare scenario, probably for Tories as much as the rest of Croydon’s residents, and certainly for all Londoners. But greedy Steve O’Connell, at one time the most overpaid local councillor in Britain (© The Daily Wail), could … Continue reading
Vote now to help really connect Croydon at Wandle Park
Inside Croydon’s loyal reader has 24 hours left to help transform Croydon for the better. Or at least one bit of it. When the highly paid consultant PR spinners came up with the “Connected Croydon” campaign, they did so without … Continue reading
Crystal Palace stadium report delayed as scheme reconsidered
ZhongRong’s deadline for paying Bromley a non-refundable £5 million deposit to maintain their preferential status as developers of a £500 million “exciting glass-house proposal” (© Boris Johnson) for the top site in Crystal Palace Park expires later today, with the … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Croydon North, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Stephen Carr
Tagged Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Conservative, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Tory
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Mayor’s new road schemes ‘will leave motorists worse off’
One of the people who wants to replace Boris Johnson as Mayor of London has described his road-building proposals across the city – which include the £87 million Waddon flyover to the Croydon Flyover – as “laughable”, “fanciful” and “damaging”. … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boris Johnson, Business, Christian Wolmar, CPO, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Parking, Planning, Purley Way, Waddon, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boris Johnson, Christian Wolmar, Croydon, Fiveways, Labour, Purley Way, TfL, Transport for London, Waddon
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TfL’s £87m scheme for Purley Way really is a bridge too far
WALTER CRONXITE took his copy of the A to Z and Boys’ Book of Bridges to Waddon Leisure Centre yesterday for the public consultation session about road schemes along the Purley Way. He might have saved himself the bother The … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, Business, Croydon South, Environment, Jo Negrini, Joy Prince, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Parking, Planning, Purley Way, Robert Canning, Sutton Council, Tramlink, Transport, Waddon, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, London Assembly, TfL, Transport for London, Waddon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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