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Negrini’s ‘absurd’ response over planning conflicts of interest
BARRATT HOLMES reports on how the council CEO is trying to pretend that £250m-worth of planning applications from the council’s own housing company have anything to do with the council’s cabinet member for housing, whose husband also just happens to … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Chris Philp MP, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Housing, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning, Purley
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Chris Philp MP, Colm Lacey, Conservative, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Purley, Tory
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Minister calls in plans for 17-storey tower block in Purley
Our housing reporter, BARRATT HOLMES, on a piece of party political tit-for-tat which could stall the development of 200 homes by a year If there is a housing crisis, it clearly can’t be affecting Purley much, after the Tory government’s … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Church and religions, Croydon South, Housing, Parking, Planning, Property, Purley
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon Council, Purley, Tory
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Snap up this chance to picture Purley in all its glory
Purley’s Business Improvement District team is holding a Take Notice of Purley photography competition, with categories for all ages, open to “everyone who is passionate about Purley and would like to share the best of the town we live in … Continue reading
Easter in the Square free event, Purley town centre, Apr 15
EASTER IN THE SQUARE Sat Apr 15 3 to 5pm PURLEY TOWN SQUARE Free open air event for families Music, Drama, Crafts and much more, staged by Purley Baptist Church
Friends of Foxley 25th anniversary, Purley, May 1
Posted in Community associations, Croydon parks, Environment, Purley, Wildlife
Tagged Foxley Wood, Friends of Foxley Wood, Purley
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Council’s planning department groaning under workload strain
Croydon’s planning department, confronted with a massive workload in the borough’s relentless drive for redevelopment, is struggling under the strain with an exodus of experienced senior employees from an already understaffed office, and reports of some officials being reduced to … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boxpark, Brick by Brick, Chris Philp MP, CPO, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Heather Cheesbrough, Housing, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Purley, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Heather Cheesbrough, Jo Negrini, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Purley, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Anger at planning committee as Scott sways Purley vote
Another week, and another group of residents outraged at the way the council is overdeveloping their neighbourhood. Another week, and yet more complaints about the bombastic conduct of the chair of the council’s planning committee, Paul Scott, as he drives … Continue reading
Tory MP helps to promote 10% off takeaway curry offer
See, that’s the problem when, as the constituency MP, you “show your support for local business” by posing for a picture outside the local curry house owned by a Tory Party donor. Before long, you’re appearing plastered all over a … Continue reading
Posted in Badsha Quadir, Chris Philp MP, Croydon South, Purley, Restaurants
Tagged Badsha Quadir, Chris Philp MP, Croydon, Croydon South, Purley
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Power Networks are in a hole after ordering wrong-sized cable
Inside Croydon can expose yet another multi-million-pound “cover-up”, this time by a utility company which has been digging holes in the roads between Sutton and Purley to lay electricity cable between two sub-stations, only then to fill in the holes. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Coulsdon, Environment, Purley, Purley Way, Sutton Council, Transport
Tagged Coulsdon, Purley, Sutton, UK Power Networks
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Bingo! Join Purley BID as it celebrates its first birthday, Feb 23
Purley BID is celebrating its first birthday next Thursday with a Networking Bingo event. “Have a drink some nibbles as well as meeting some new contact with our networking bingo,” they say. The event is at the Pear Tree, 908-912 … Continue reading
Watson’s moving speech homes in on a Labour weakness
WALTER CRONXITE on what could turn out to be another boost for local estate agents, unwittingly provided by Croydon Council Mark Watson is going nowhere – and that’s official. Well, at least that’s what the under-pressure Addiscombe councillor told a … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Bensham Manor, Bernadette Khan, Broad Green, Coulsdon, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Hamida Ali, Jane Avis, Manju Shahul Hameed, Mark Watson, Patricia Hay-Justice, Paul Scott, Purley, Shirley North, South Croydon, South Norwood, Steve Reed MP, Stuart Collins, Stuart King, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, Waddon, West Thornton, Woodside
Tagged Addiscombe West, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Labour, Mark Watson, Purley, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Tory, Waddon
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Council planning chief agrees to give a talk to ‘ladies’ of Purley
Heather Cheesbrough, Croydon’s six-figure salaried director of planning and strategic transport, is to address a public meeting next week – at an event which is only open to women. Cheesbrough has been in post at Fisher’s Folly, the council offices, … Continue reading
20mph limit is a safety measure which deserves your support
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The latest consultation about 20mph zones should seek comments from those in favour, as well as objectors, says CATHERINE SHELLEY, pictured There is a strange dynamic whenever notices are published for planning and other publicly regulated work, which … Continue reading
Buses set to by-pass Colonnades and Purley Way superstore
Transport for London has this week begun a consultation on streamlining two Croydon bus routes, the 289 and 455, in and around the Purley Way. TfL wants to eliminate the loop into the Colonnades complex currently on the 289 route, … Continue reading
Posted in Purley, Purley Way, TfL, Transport, Waddon, West Croydon
Tagged Purley, Purley Way, South Croydon, TfL, Transport for London, Waddon
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Cancer charity appeals for volunteers for its fashion show
A Purley-based cancer centre is seeking volunteers to help with a fund-raising fashion show they are planning for the spring – and they are especially seeking help from hair and make-up experts. The South East Cancer Help Centre is staging … Continue reading
Coulsdon’s Carservatives declare: ‘Carry on Speeding’
The Tories in Coulsdon have formed an unholy alliance with a car campaigner whose extreme conduct even saw him kicked out of UKIP. Our transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON reports The leadership of the Croydon Conservatives has been issuing post-truth emails … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, Environment, Mario Creatura, Policing, Purley, Sara Bashford, Transport
Tagged Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Mario Creatura, Peter Morgan, Purley, Sara Bashford, STUART KING, Tory, UKIP
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Keeping the conversation flowing over the source of a river
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Locating the source of the River Wandle ought to be reasonably straightforward, though DAVID GILL says that his latest project has raised a few eyebrows The conversation usually starts something like this: “So David, have got this right? … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon parks, Education, Environment, History, Kenley, Purley, Waddon, Wandle Park
Tagged River Wandle, Waddon Ponds, Wandle Park, Wandle Trust
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‘Shameful’ conduct of planning meeting ignores common sense
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Last week’s council planning meeting, the final one of 2016, was “a shameful night” for the borough, according to CHRIS MASSEY, a concerned local resident The meeting of the council’s planning committee last week was a shameful night, … Continue reading
Nasty Party goes to war over church’s Purley tower block
A nasty war of words has broken out in Purley over the local baptist church’s development of a 17-storey tower overlooking the ugly gyratory road system. So unpleasant is the behaviour that Purley has revealed itself as no longer the … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Chris Wright, Church and religions, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Donald Speakman, Environment, Luke Clancy, Parking, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Purley, Purley BID, Richard Chatterjee, Sue Winborn, Transport
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Chris Wright, Conservative, Croydon Council, Donald Speakman, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Purley, Purley Baptist Church, Tory
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Children’s Society fund-raising at candle-lit Christingle services
Churches across London, including three in Croydon, are inviting their local communities to help bring hope to some of the country’s most vulnerable children this festive season by supporting their candle-lit Christingle celebration in aid of The Children’s Society. All … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Church and religions, Coulsdon, Purley
Tagged Coulsdon, Purley, The Children's Society
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Labour’s attempt at beating the boundaries could back-fire
WALTER CRONXITE reports on one version of the borough’s political map which may not deliver all that council leader Tony Newman imagined If council leader Tony Newman’s intention was to gerrymander a new set of council wards to secure Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Ashburton, Bensham Manor, Broad Green, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Fairfield, Fieldway, Heathfield, Kenley, New Addington, Norbury, Purley, Sanderstead, Selhurst, Selsdon & Ballards, Shirley North, South Croydon, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, Waddon, West Thornton, Woodside
Tagged Addiscombe West, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Labour, Liberal Democrats, New Addington, Purley, South Croydon, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, Tory, UKIP
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