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Category Archives: Menta Tower
“Poor Doors” show how town centre subsidises suburbs
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Having worked to establish a community organisation for East Croydon, ROD DAVIES finds it disappointing to find developers planning to introduce divisive “Apartment Apartheid” locally, and suggests further inequalities in which parts of the borough fund other areas … Continue reading
East Croydon community group first public meeting, Oct 7
The East Croydon community group will be holding its first public meeting at 8pm on October 7 at Oval Primary (doors will open around 7.45pm). One of the first decisions for the meeting will be what to call the group. … Continue reading
East Croydon’s new platforms put borough on track for growth
East Croydon Station is to get two new platforms to help it cope with the increased number of passengers anticipated in a plan for growth by the Labour council, which forecasts 16,000 new jobs being created in the borough and … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Commuting, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Jo Negrini, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Tony Newman, Tramlink, Transport, URV
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Gatwick Airport, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Tony Newman
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Riot money splurged to celebrate the Bridge to Nowhere
Croydon Council is spending public money on a party tomorrow night. There will be food. There will be drink. There will be fireworks! It does not seem to have occurred to anyone that the spending of riot recovery money in … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe Residents Association, Addiscombe West, Broad Green, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Lansdowne Road RA, London Road Traders Association, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Transport
Tagged Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Lansdowne Road, London, Network Rail, Town Centre
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Renaissance man who’s under-cutting rents across London
Renaissance, the five-storey office block on Dingwall Road, close to East Croydon railway station, opened last week, offering office space at one-fifth of the cost of rates in the West End, Canary Wharf and the City of London, according to … Continue reading
Londoners being priced out of London by social cleansing
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Building thousands of high-rise high-priced “luxury apartments” to be bought by overseas investors may enhance the bottom line of private property developers, but will do nothing to solve the borough’s housing crisis. By STEVEN DOWNES London, and Croydon, … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2014 council elections, Altitude 25, Business, Cane Hill, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Housing, IYLO, Lambeth Council, Menta Tower, Paul Spooner, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Steve Reed MP, Taberner House, URV, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Flyover, Croydon North, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, Tory, Whitgift Foundation
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Constant congestion cannot be solved by more road schemes
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Responding to Charlotte Davies’s column yesterday on the borough’s secret parking tax, ARFUR TOWCRATE, the Sage of Waddon, offers his view “For a town that has built itself around the demands of the motor car, parking the vehicles … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Commuting, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Cycling, Environment, Health, Housing, Menta Tower, Parking, Planning, Property, Purley Way, Steve O'Connell, Taberner House, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, England, London, Purley London, Steve O'Connell, Tramlink, Westfield
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Wellesley Road scheme offers traffic chaos for years to come
According to a survey published recently, Wellesley Road in central Croydon is the eighth most congested road in the capital. Not satisfied with that, Croydon Council’s cabinet of senior councillors, together with Transport for London, seem intent on getting Wellesley … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Addiscombe West, Cherry Orchard Gardens, Commuting, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, Health, Lansdowne Road RA, Menta Tower, Parking, Planning, Property, Tramlink, Transport, West Croydon, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, Croydon Vision 2020, East Croydon station, Lansdowne Road, London, Wellesley Road, Whitgift Centre
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Planning conflicts of interest? In Croydon? Don’t be silly
The Daily Torygraph, that bastion of left-wing revolutionaries, yesterday ran a fascinating report on how some councillors had been abusing their position within local authority planning committees to line their own pockets. Or purses. Shock! Horror! This, of course, would … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Cane Hill, Clare Hilley, Croydon South, Housing, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Richard Ottaway MP, Ruskin Square, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon South, Daily Telegraph, Eric Pickles, Hilary Benn, Local government, London, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
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Gateway’s uninspired opening with a couple of blocks of flats
According to ANDREW PELLING, the first phase of development proposed for the long-vacant Ruskin Square site, in a town crying out for family housing, consists of a couple of ugly blocks of flats that even the architects admit are not … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Andrew Pelling, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, Housing, IYLO, Jon Rouse, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Transport, URV
Tagged Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Croydon, East Croydon station, London, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Schroders
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Bridge to Nowhere opens and offers a Stairway to Heaven
It is seven days now since the £22 million bridge at the north end of the platforms at East Croydon station was opened, at least partially. The video from engineers BAM Nuttall is a terrific view of the impressive work … Continue reading
The bridge has landed: East Croydon station has a new look
Commuters arriving at East Croydon Station had something of a surprise this morning, with the new pedestrian bridge at the northern end of the platforms having been moved into position over the weekend.
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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Flawed council plan puts flats too close to Fairfield Halls
The public consultation for the latest Croydon Council pipe dream, the “Fair Field Masterplan”, closes today. Extraordinarily, even by Croydon’s standards for bungling, this latest masterplan has managed to antagonise the centrepiece upon which many of the proposals depend: the … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Cherry Orchard Gardens, Croydon College, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, Housing, Jon Rouse, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Tramlink, Transport, URV, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, East Croydon station, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, London, Park Lane, Taberner House
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Don’t panic! Mead’s benefits U-turn shows council in crisis
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Something strange is happening at the Town Hall. Commonsense is prevailing over political dogma. Some highly placed people’s jobs must be at stake, says Inside Croydon editor STEVEN DOWNES Don’t panic! Croydon’s Captain Mainwaring is in charge! Something … Continue reading
Posted in Allders, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Jon Rouse, Margaret Mead, Menta Tower, Mike Fisher, Planning, Schools, URV
Tagged BBC, Conservative, Croydon, Eric Pickles, London, London Borough of Croydon, Taberner House
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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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