Category Archives: Purley Way

Estate agents’ report highlights the crisis in Croydon housing

Posted on March 18, 2020 by

BARRATT HOLMES, our overdevelopment correspondent, on  a report from housing experts which shows how the council has been ignoring its own planning policies, to the detriment of neighbourhoods around the borough As the borough’s residents’ associations go to battle with … Continue reading →

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Negrini draws ridicule for her £81 On The Buses guided tour

Posted on February 27, 2020 by

Hold very tight please! Our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, is ready to be taken for a ride around Croydon town centre, all in the name of a good cause Croydon’s beleaguered £220,000 per year chief executive has attracted yet more … Continue reading →

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Purley Way brewery’s taproom offers a taste of things to come

Posted on February 20, 2020 by

Croydon’s newest brewery will be opening its on-site taproom next month. Craft brewers Anspach and Hobday have just started brewing in their new site in the Valley Point Industrial Estate, off the Purley Way, and from Saturday March 7, the … Continue reading →

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The Purley spa where your chakra is not just for Christmas

Posted on December 8, 2019 by

BELLA BARTOCK dives in head first to endure some full-on pampering at one of Croydon’s better sports clubs Jingle bells might well be the sound usually associated with this time of year. But for those in Croydon looking for a … Continue reading →

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Craft brewers in £500,000 expansion to Croydon’s Valley Park

Posted on November 17, 2019 by

Croydon is about to get a new brewery. Craft ale brewers Anspach and Hobday, currently based under a Bermondsey railway arch and with a bar in Camberwell, have a £500,000 expansion plan and they are looking to set up a … Continue reading →

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‘Absolute madness’: council eyes Green Belt for 6,000 homes

Posted on October 16, 2019 by

Remember all those solemn assurances from Alison Butler and Paul Scott that the Labour-run council will protect the borough’s precious green spaces? Guess what… Town Hall papers ahead of next Monday’s cabinet meeting show that the council is seriously considering … Continue reading →

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Long-Bailey drops a giga-clanger over giant battery factory

Posted on September 29, 2019 by

No sooner had Inside Croydon bothered to report the conference speech made by Rebecca Long-Bailey, Labour’s shadow business secretary, at her party conference last week, than we started to get concerned messages from sources in parliament and at City Hall. … Continue reading →

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