Category Archives: Fairfield Homes

Brick by Brick needs £10m loan to avoid going bankrupt

Posted on February 19, 2021 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Consultants’ salvage plan for failed house-builder is accepted, including the council paying a second time for 190 flats which will be used as social housing. But the full extent of potential losses is kept under wraps. By … Continue reading →

Posted in Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Fairfield Homes, Hamida Ali, Improvement Board, Property | Tagged , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Council set to take £100m hit as it winds down Brick by Brick

Posted on February 5, 2021 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The borough is looking for a buyer for its failed development company, as a secret report to next week’s scrutiny committee balances the costs of selling off sites currently under development against the price of persisting with … Continue reading →

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FAT chance of there being any inspired designs for Fair Field

Posted on May 26, 2020 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The council might be broke, but that hasn’t stopped them spaffing another million pounds, maybe more, on a set of architects’ designs which are certain to turn the borough into a laughing stock once more, says SEBASTIAN TILLINGER … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, College Green, College Tower, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Fairfield Halls, Fairfield Homes, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Place Review Panel, Planning | Tagged , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Putting Mr Blobby in charge is Newman’s latest blunder

Posted on April 25, 2020 by insidecroydon

TOWN HALL SKETCH: If a council’s planning deliberations have to be seen and heard to meet the requirements for democracy laid down by law, then Croydon could be in a spot of trouble, writes WALTER CRONXITE Well, that was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Brick by Brick, Chris Clark, College Green, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Fairfield, Fairfield Homes, Housing, Mayor of London, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Toni Letts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Might Brick by Brick ‘cash in their chips’ over Fairfield site?

Posted on April 21, 2020 by insidecroydon

BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent, reports on how the council’s casino economics may have forced Brick by Brick to consider some sharp practice Sources within the property business in south London suggest that the Fairfield Homes proposals being rushed through … Continue reading →

Posted in Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Fairfield Homes, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning, Property | Tagged , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Newman switches planning chair before remote meeting

Posted on April 21, 2020 by insidecroydon

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on the latest behind-the-scenes shenanigans going on at the Town Hall The fix is in. Two days before the Croydon planning committee is due to meet for the foregone conclusion of approving a Brick by Brick … Continue reading →

Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Caragh Skipper, Chris Clark, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Fairfield Homes, Housing, Niro Sirisena, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Toni Letts, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Only 16% of council’s Fairfield flats project will be affordable

Posted on April 18, 2020 by insidecroydon

Our housing correspondent BARRATT HOLMES on the latest signs of desperation to fix Brick by Brick’s failing finances The planning application being considered by the charade that will pass for a planning committee meeting next Thursday is for a scheme … Continue reading →

Posted in Brick by Brick, College Green, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Fairfield Homes, Housing, Jo Negrini, Planning, Property | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments