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Wireless exposes disconnect between Bromley and neighbours
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The impact of the Wireless Festival in Crystal Palace Park last weekend, and its effect on residents in neighbouring boroughs has seen GLYNN McDONALD raise some serious questions of the park’s new trust The Wireless Festival staged in … Continue reading
Boundary Commission recommends four MPs for Croydon
Croydon is to get an extra MP under far-reaching proposed changes to parliamentary constituencies released overnight by the Boundary Commission for England. Under changes which have been years in the making, England will have the number of seats in the … Continue reading
Biggin Hill suffers delayed take-off for fare-paying flights
Biggin Hill Airport appears set to challenge a decision to block it from operating fare-paying passenger flights. The application for a change of permitted use was rejected by Bromley Council last week over concerns that an increase in flights and … Continue reading
Posted in Bromley Council, Environment, London-wide issues, Outside Croydon
Tagged Biggin Hill Airport, Bromley, Bromley Council
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Tory-run Bromley looking to sell or develop public parks
Tory-run Bromley Council has drafted a policy which seeks to identify parks and green spaces “for development or disposal”. Today is the closing date for residents to submit their comments on Bromley’s Open Spaces Strategy. The Campaign for the Preservation … Continue reading
Posted in Bromley Council, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, Outside Croydon
Tagged Bromley, Bromley Council, CPRE, Crystal Palace Park
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Taking a U-turn on road measures risks a traffic accident
Some people are taking to the streets in Upper Norwood today to protest against the traffic-calming Low Traffic Neighbourhood initiative. But as an investigation by environment correspondent PAUL LUSHION has discovered, their campaign is supported and funded by motoring lobbyists … Continue reading
Posted in Bromley Council, Colin Smith, Commuting, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Cycling, Environment, Gareth Streeter, Mario Creatura, Scott Roche, South Norwood, Stuart King, TfL, Transport
Tagged Alliance of British Drivers, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Gareth Streeter, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Low Traffic Neighbourhood, LTN, Mario Creatura, Roger Lawson, Scott Roche, South Norwood, STUART KING, TfL, Tony Newman, Tory, Transport for London, Upper Norwood
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Bromley in legal moves against Croydon over road closures
Croydon could be heading for a bitter, cross-boundary dispute with one of its neighbouring boroughs after the leader of Bromley’s Conservative-controlled council told residents that they have begun legal moves to get traffic-calming measures removed from residential streets in Crystal … Continue reading
Triangle will be ‘decimated’ by road closures, warns councillor
The Labour group at the Town Hall, already riven with fault lines on a number of contentious issues, is facing another split, this time over road closures in Upper Norwood that have been introduced today under coronavirus emergency powers. The … Continue reading
Posted in Angela Wilkins, Bromley Council, Commuting, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Cycling, Environment, London-wide issues, Pat Ryan, South Norwood, Stuart King, TfL, Transport
Tagged Anglea Wilkins, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Triangle, Labour, Pat Ryan, road closures, STUART KING
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Town Team puts Crystal Palace Triangle on the (digital) map
The new Crystal Palace Town Team has launched an interactive map of the Crystal Palace Triangle and surrounding areas, allowing the community to find which businesses have marked themselves as “open” during the pandemic lockdown. The CP Town Team is … Continue reading
Posted in Angela Wilkins, Business, Community associations, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Crystal Palace Town Team, Nina Degrads, Pat Ryan, Stephen Mann
Tagged Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Town Team, Stephen Mann, Steve Reed OBE
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‘Cough up’ to save centre for elderly, council leader is told
A Labour MP and local councillors are calling on the leader of Bromley Council to “cough up” and take immediate action to save a vital day services centre for older people from being forced to close – possibly as soon … Continue reading
Crystal Palace’s historic dinosaurs placed on ‘at risk’ register
Crystal Palace Park’s historic dinosaurs are in danger of becoming extinct… or at least, crumbling apart. And conservation agency Historic England has stepped in, adding the 30 Grade I-listed, life-size statues to its Heritage at Risk Register – which will … Continue reading
Exclusive competition: WIN £60 tickets for Dance To The Music
Inside Croydon has a pair of VIP tickets to give away – completely FREE – to see Strictly Come Dancing‘s Kristina Rihanoff and singing host Jake Quickenden live on stage in Bromley next month in their Dance To The Music … Continue reading
Posted in Bromley Council, Dance, Inside Croydon
Tagged Bromley, Churchill Theatre, Strictly Come Dancing
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College building in park could end Crystal Palace tram scheme
Any prospect of extending the tram network to Crystal Palace could hit the buffers before its backers even check-in at a platform, if the GLA gets its way. Piece by piece, the Greater London Authority, which has responsibility for the … Continue reading
Posted in Angela Wilkins, Athletics, Bromley Council, Commuting, Croydon parks, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Sadiq Khan, Sport, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Angela Wilkins, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Capel Manor College, Croydon Tramlink, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace Park, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
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Official figures show Croydon is capital’s worst for complaints
Our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, crunches some numbers and finds that according to the annual report from the Local Government Ombudsman, our council does not compare well, however you dress it up Official figures from the Local Government Ombudsman … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Bromley Council, Children's Services, Croydon Council, Education, Jo Negrini, Lambeth Council, Merton, Planning, SEND, Southwark Council, Sutton Council, TfL, Tony Newman
Tagged Bromley, Conservative, Croydon Council, Haringey, Jo Negrini, Labour, Lambeth, Liberal Democrats, Local Government Ombudsman, London, London Borough of Croydon, Merton, Ombudsman, Southwark, Sutton, Tory
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Freedom! Are Crystal Palace residents ready for breakaway?
The week-long Crystal Palace Festival gets underway tomorrow with a weekend of music and dance in the park. But because of the local borough geography, the organisers and other groups have to deal with five, even six, local authorities, which … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Bromley Council, Comedy, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Dance, Lambeth Council, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Music, Poetry, Southwark Council, Theatre
Tagged Bromley, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Festival, Lambeth, Lewisham, London, Noreen Meehan, Southwark
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44 care homes in Croydon fail post-Grenfell fire safety tests
Figures from the Mayor of London show that 44 care homes in Croydon were failing to meet fire safety standards through London Fire Brigade audits carried out following the Grenfell Tower tragedy. The figures put Croydon as second worst in … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Andrew Dismore, Bromley Council, Croydon Council, Kingston, Lambeth Council, London Assembly, London Fire Brigade, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Merton, Outside Croydon, Southwark Council, Sutton Council, Tom Copley
Tagged Andrew Dismore, Care Homes, Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Assembly, London Fire Brigade, Mayor, Mayor of London, Tom Copley
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Security warning for demonstrations over European elections
WALTER CRONXITE on how Croydon and other London local authorities have been told to prepare for the worst: European elections in May Jo Negrini, Croydon’s barely competent £200,000 per year council chief executive, confirmed to Monday night’s full council meeting … Continue reading
Posted in 2019 European elections, Bromley Council, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Kingston, Lambeth Council, Southwark Council, Surrey, Sutton Council, Wandsworth Council
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, Lambeth, London Borough of Croydon, London Borough of Sutton, Southwark, Tory, UKIP
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Feck! Croydon Tories cry foul as Garratt wins selection ballot
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on a somewhat fractious outcome to the Conservatives’ vote on who will represent the party in the 2020 London Assembly elections Neil “Father Jack” Garratt, the councillor for Belmont ward, will be the Conservative candidate for … Continue reading
Tories’ male, stale and, mainly, pale shortlist for selection
Our political editor WALTER CRONXITE reveals the Conservative shortlist for the candidate to stand in next year’s London Assembly elections in Croydon and Sutton The local Tory Party, which has held the Sutton and Croydon constituency at the London Assembly … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 London elections, Bromley Council, Joseph Lee, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Neil Garratt, Sadiq Khan, Shaun Bailey, Simon Hoar, Stephen Carr, Steve O'Connell, Sutton Council
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Joseph Lee, London, London Assembly, Neil Garratt, Simon Hoar, Stephen Carr, Sutton, Sutton and Croydon, Tory
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BINMAGEDDON!: Rubbish contractor considers more job cuts
If you thought that the refuse collection and street cleaning in Croydon couldn’t get any worse, WALTER CRONXITE has news for you Croydon’s rubbish contractor, Veolia, is considering cutting the number of staff it employs to carry out the domestic … Continue reading
Posted in Bromley Council, Business, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Kingston, Merton, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Veolia, Waste incinerator
Tagged #SuttonBinShame, Croydon Council, Kingston, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Merton, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Stuart Collins, Sutton, Veolia
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Wibberley goes wobbly, and Bromley residents go to the polls
Our political editor WALTER CRONXITE peers over the borough boundary to see how campaigning is going for Thursday’s council by-election Residents in Bromley’s Kelsey and Eden Park ward will be trudging back to the polls on Thursday, just six months … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Bromley Council
Tagged Bromley, Bromley Council, Conservative, Kelsey and Eden Park, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London, Tory
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Poetry performers embark on Inspiration tour of south London
Momtaza Mehri, the Young People’s Laureate for London, is calling on 13- to 25-year-olds in Kingston, Sutton and Bromley to be part of her Be My Next Inspiration campaign. During the school half-term week, Mehri will headline Spread the Word’s … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Bromley Council, Outside Croydon, Poetry, Sutton Council
Tagged Bromley, Kingston, Sutton
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‘Deep suspicion’ over Mayor plans for National Sports Centre
The future of the athletics stadium at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre is under threat once again, as the Mayor of London is staging the latest round of “consultations” on the badly neglected, once internationally renowned facility. Campaigners have … Continue reading
Posted in Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Football, Housing, Ken Livingstone, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Outside Croydon, Sadiq Khan, Sport
Tagged Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, Crystal Palace NSC, Crystal Palace Sports Partnership, Greater London Authority, John Powell, London, London Assembly, Mayor, Sadiq Khan
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Tram’s Elmers End branch on track with £3.3m from TfL
The Elmers End branch of the tram network is to be upgraded, including double tracking of the branch line and a second platform at the tram stop, as part of £24million-worth of transport infrastructure improvements around the capital announced this … Continue reading
Posted in Bromley Council, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Outside Croydon, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Croydon Tramlink, Mayor, Sadiq Khan
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