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Category Archives: Mayor Jason Perry
Desperate Perry is denied his victory parade for a second year
Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed and increasingly desperate Mayor, has been snubbed for a second time in 12 months, as Crystal Palace Football Club announced today that there would be no immediate trophy parade following their triumph in the UEFA Conference … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Crystal Palace FC, Football, Mayor Jason Perry, Oliver Glasner, Selhurst, South Norwood, Steve Parish
Tagged Conservative, cpfc, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Football Club, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Oliver Glasner, Selhurst, South Norwood, Steve Parish, UEFA, UEFA Conference League, UEFA Conference League final, Victory parade
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Rubbish councillor Roche finally sacked from Mayor’s cabinet
Jason Perry’s ‘top team’ for his second term in charge of the Town Hall sees a belated call-up for a 76-year-old pensioner, and an overdue axing for a work-shy colleague. KEN LEE reports Scott Roche, the Conservative councillor for Shirley … Continue reading
Posted in Alasdair Stewart, Andrew Stranack, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Fly tipping, Housing, Jason Cummings, Jeet Bains, Luke Shortland, Lynne Hale, Margaret Bird, Mayor Jason Perry, Ola Kolade, Refuse collection, Richard Chatterjee, RIPI II: Fairfield Halls, Robert Ward, Scott Roche, Selsdon and Addington Village, Shirley South, Simon Brew, Veolia, Yvette Hopley
Tagged Cllr Alasdair Stewart, Cllr Jason Cummings, Cllr Robert Ward, Cllr Scott Roche, Conservative, Council Cabinet, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fly-tipping, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Tory, Veolia
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Part-time Perry’s Leipzig dilemma as Mayor faces fixture clash
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Life-long’ Palace fan is going to have to do some work to earn his £86,000 council salary, as opposition parties refuse to change date of Town Hall’s annual meeting on the night that the Eagles will be making history … Continue reading
Posted in Claire Bonham, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace FC, Football, Mayor Jason Perry, Ria Patel, Stuart King
Tagged Cllr Claire Bonham, Cllr Ria Patel, Cllr Stuart King, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace FC, Green Party, Labour, Leipzig, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Rayo Vallecano, Tory, UEFA, UEFA Conference League
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Perry’s goons abandon threats against George Street homeless
Council security contractors may have failed to follow the law over their ‘thuggery’ and ‘bullying’ of what they called an ‘encampment’ in the town centre. By STEVEN DOWNES and KEN TOWL Threats of enforcement action against what the council described … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Mayor Jason Perry, North End Quarter, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Centrale, Community Patrol, Community Protection Notice, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Parkguard, Tory, Whitgift Almshouses, Whitgift Foundation
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Perry’s cut-price carers support provider is failing to deliver
This is what “success” looks like under Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed Mayor. It is now little more than a year since the Tory Mayor decided to end years of successful collaboration and hard work by dedicated local charities and volunteers … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Business, Carers First, Charity, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Carers First, Carers Support Centre, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Carers Support Centre, Croydon Council, George Street, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Tory, Whitgift Foundation
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Election podcast: How did 33% tax hike Perry manage to win?
It could yet go down as the biggest mugging ever seen in Croydon – the day that nearly 36,000 people were conned into voting for Conservative Mayor Jason Perry. So just how did Perry, the incompetent Mayor who hiked your … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Croydon Insider, Inside Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Rowenna Davis, Under The Flyover
Tagged 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon mayoral election, 2026 local elections, BBC London, Brian Finegan, Cllr Rowenna Davis, Connie Duxbury, Conservative, Councillor Rowenna Davis, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, Oumesh Sauba, Tim Donovan, Tory
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‘The vote on the left split more than the vote on the right’
ELECTION COMMENTARY: Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed Mayor, may have been handed another four years in office, but the voting numbers declared yesterday spell trouble for the borough’s other Conservatives. By STEVEN DOWNES, Editor, Inside Croydon Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed Mayor, … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Ben Flook, Chris Philp MP, Conrad Hall, Croydon Council, Croydon East, Croydon South, Croydon West, Elaine Jackson, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Michael Pusey, Natasha Irons, Rowenna Davis, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North
Tagged 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon mayoral election, 2026 local elections, Ben Flook, Chris Philp MP, Cllr Rowenna Davis, Conservative, Coulsdon, Councillor Rowenna Davis, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, Peter Underwood, Reform Ltd, Reform UK, Richard Howard, Rowenna Davis, South Norwood, Tory
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Mayor Perry’s secret plan to privatise Croydon’s public parks
Buried deep in their uninspiring election manifesto, Croydon Tories have let slip that they want to hand over at least one of the borough’s public open spaces to a private company. SANDRA STEAD reports Jason Perry, the Croydon Mayor who … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Mayor Jason Perry, Peter Underwood
Tagged Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Lloyd Park, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, South Norwood Country Park, Tory, Wandle Park, Wettern Tree Garden
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Labour’s Davis should be in front when final whistle is blown
ONE DAY TO GO: An unusually subdued local campaign enters the final day with a last-minute visit from the Leader of the Opposition to try to salvage the Tory Mayor’s hopes of re-election. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, sifts through the … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Ben Flook, Council Tax, Croydon Greens, Croydon South, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Michael Pusey, Peter Underwood, Richard Howard, Rick Howard, Rowenna Davis, Steve Reed MP, Zack Polanski
Tagged 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon mayoral election, 2026 local elections, Ben Flook, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London, Major Richard Howard, Mayor Jason Perry, Peter Underwood, Reform Ltd, Reform UK, Richard Howard, Rowenna Davis, Tory
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Labour dumps their hard-working Thornton Heath councillor
THE TOSS-CARS 2026, Part 2: Inside Croydon reveals the borough’s hardest-working councillors. PLUS: Which Town Hall figure managed just 12 reports to the council’s smartphone app all year? The Labour Party goes in to Thursday’s local elections with the hardest-working … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, Callton Young, Chris Clark, Croydon Council, Janet Campbell, Karen Jewitt, Lynne Hale, Mayor Jason Perry, Rowenna Davis, Samir Dwesar, Simon Fox, Stuart King, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, West Thornton
Tagged Cllr Karen Jewitt, Cllr Rowenna Davis, Cllr Stuart King, Conservative, Councillor allowances, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Lynne Hale, Mayor Jason Perry, Samir Dwesar, Tory, Toss-cars
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These are the questions that Mayor Perry is too afraid to face
ANDREW FISHER has interviewed three of the main candidates standing for election as Croydon Mayor. Only Tory Jason Perry refused our invitations. What has Perry got to hide? These are the questions Perry has left unanswered Apparently, “Mayor Perry remains … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Andrew Fisher, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, The Andrew Fisher Interview
Tagged 15% Council Tax hike, 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon mayoral election, 2026 local elections, Andrew Fisher, Brick by Brick, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, LTNs, Mayor Jason Perry, Red Clover Gardens, The Andrew Fisher Interview, Tim Pollard, Tory
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The Toss-cars 2026: We name Croydon’s laziest councillors
EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES, Inside Croydon Editor Two of Croydon’s councillors, who receive tens of thousands of pounds in allowances from the cash-strapped council over the course of their term in office, submitted not a single members’ enquiry through a … Continue reading
Posted in Adele Benson, Croydon Council, Jason Cummings, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury Park, Richard Chatterjee, Shirley North, Shirley South, Tony Pearson
Tagged Adele Benson, Conservative, Councillor allowances, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Richard Chatterjee, Sherwan Chowdhury, Sue Bennett, Tony Pearson, Tory, Toss-cars
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It’s ex-teacher v ‘technocrat’ in Mayor debate on education
The National Education Union in Croydon sent a set of questions to the leading mayoral candidates standing for election this Thursday. Disappointingly, as far as the NEU branch secretary, Joe Flynn, is concerned, there were no responses from either the … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Education, Mayor Jason Perry, Rowenna Davis, Schools
Tagged 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon mayoral election, 2026 local elections, Cllr Rowenna Davis, Conservative, Councillor Rowenna Davis, Croydon, Croydon Council, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Rowenna Davis, Tory
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Planning control has got worse under developers’ friend Perry
STEVE WHITESIDE has compiled dossiers of evidence that show that nothing much has changed in the council planning department since 2022. In some cases, for the residents living next to some developments that have gone ahead, things have actually got … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, Nicola Townsend, Planning, Property, Sanderstead
Tagged 12 The Ridgeway, Chris Philp MP, Cllr Michael Neal, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon planners, Croydon South, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Nicola Townsend, Planning, Planning enforcement, Purley, Sanderstead, SPD2, Steve Whiteside, Suburban Design Guide, Tory
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Polls tighten in Town Hall race as Farage’s grifters get closer
SEVEN DAYS TO GO: You probably don’t want to read ‘It’s too close to call’ again, but judging by the latest, London-wide polling figures just published, the race to be Croydon Mayor is tighter than ever. By WALTER CRONXITE, Political … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Ben Flook, Council Tax, Croydon Greens, Croydon South, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Peter Underwood, Richard Howard, Rick Howard, Rowenna Davis, Shirley North, Steve Reed MP, Zack Polanski
Tagged 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon mayoral election, 2026 local elections, Ben Flook, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London, Major Richard Howard, Mayor Jason Perry, Peter Underwood, Reform Ltd, Reform UK, Richard Howard, Rowenna Davis, Tory
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This is where ‘Don’t rock the boat’ has become official mantra
CROYDON COMMENTARY: With local elections fast approaching, the national press has been taking a closer look at Croydon. Business owner NITIN MEHTA posted a comment in response to an article in Murdoch-owned The Times, and here expands on his points … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Broad Green, Business, Crime, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Council, Croydon West, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Knife crime, Mayor Jason Perry, North End Quarter, Whitgift Centre
Tagged A vision of the nation’s political future in Croydon’s concrete jungle, Cllr Rowenna Davis, Conservative, Councillor Rowenna Davis, Croydon, Croydon Commentary, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, London Road, Mayor Jason Perry, Nitin Mehta, Patrick Maguire, Rowenna Davis, The Times, Tory, West Croydon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Mayor Perry now forced into another U-turn over road fines
One month after Inside Croydon reported how a yellow box trap outside East Croydon Station was generating hundreds of thousands of pounds in unfair fines, the council has – probably reluctantly – painted over the offending road markings. JEREMY CLACKSON … Continue reading
Gang guilty of industrial-scale fly-tipping across south London
Four men sentenced after they were found to have issued threats and blackmail, destroyed property and, at a site off the Purley Way, cost the property owner £300,000 The scale of the organised criminality which lies behind the scourge of … Continue reading
Stink from Arkwright Road flats smells of council failures
Jason Perry boasts that he halted the overdevelopment of parts of Croydon, caused by SPD2, the hugely unpopular ‘Suburban Design Guide. STEVE WHITESIDE has compiled dossiers of evidence that show that nothing much has changed in the council planning department … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Environment, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, Nicola Townsend, Planning, Property, Purley, Sanderstead, Venetia Reid-Baptiste
Tagged 12 The Ridgeway, 54A Arkwright Road, Cllr Ian Parker, Cllr Michael Neal, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon planners, Jan Slominski, John Penn, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Nicola Townsend, Planning, Planning enforcement, Purley, Sanderstead, Sewers, SPD2, Steve Whiteside, Suburban Design Guide, Thames Water, Tory, Venetia Reid-Baptiste
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#DigitalDebate: Inside story from Croydon’s first e-hustings
Our hustings correspondent, KEN TOWL, has seen plenty of pre-election meetings before, but never one quite like this, as Inside Croydon brings the candidate debate into the 21st Century Charmingly chaired by Cheryl Fergus-Ferrell, this was like no other hustings … Continue reading
Posted in #DigitalDebate, 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Ben Flook, Croydon Greens, Inside Croydon, Ken Towl, Mayor Jason Perry, Michael Pusey, Peter Underwood, Richard Howard, Rowenna Davis, Under The Flyover
Tagged #DigitalDebate, Cllr Rowenna Davis, Conservative, Coulsdon, Council Tax, Councillor Rowenna Davis, Croydon, Croydon Council, Green Party, Ken Towl, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London, London Borough of Croydon, Major Richard Howard, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, Peter Underwood, Richard Howard, Rowenna Davis, Tony Newman, Tory, Waddon
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Perry didn’t ‘fix the finances’. He’s increased debt to £1.7bn
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Is Mayor Jason Perry deceiving voters about the state of Croydon Council’s debt? iC reader SIMON JELLIPOT certainly thinks so At the last local elections in 2022, Jason Perry, the Conservative candidate for Executive Mayor of Croydon, made … Continue reading →
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