Category Archives: Sanderstead

Pollard fires starting gun on race to be Croydon Tories’ leader

Posted on June 11, 2020 by

EXCLUSIVE: Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, says that the next local election campaign has  just begun Croydon’s Conservatives have started a search for a new Town Hall leader after Tim Pollard, who has been in the job since 2014, announced … Continue reading →

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Objections? What objections? Opposition? What opposition?

Posted on May 30, 2020 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Has the council granted planning permission to a slew of sub-standard developments because the local Tories have allowed them to do so? STEVE WHITESIDE on the questions that Croydon Conservatives refuse to answer Have you ever wondered how … Continue reading →

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Residents on high alert to keep check on planning applications

Posted on March 29, 2020 by

BARRATT HOLMES, our overdevelopment correspondent, on the 9-9-9 emergency for some roads in the south of the borough Last week’s decision to delegate all planning decisions to council officials, removing even a vestige of cover offered by the planning committee … Continue reading →

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The latest Croydon carbuncle: Riddlesdown’s own glasshouse

Posted on March 25, 2020 by

Another day, another Croydon carbuncle. This time it is a block of 18 flats in a gargantuan five-storey block plonked between the suburban detached houses of Mitchley Avenue, Riddlesdown, as proposed by Vita Homes.

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Council to debate Westfield after Newman’s pointless meeting

Posted on February 25, 2020 by

KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, on an attempt to block any discussion of the crisis for the town centre at next week’s full council meeting Tony Newman came back from his meeting with Westfield at City Hall yesterday empty-handed … Continue reading →

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Warlingham Beer Bands and BBQ, Hamsey Green, Jun 13

Posted on February 12, 2020 by
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Croydon Tories in call for public inquiry into Brick by Brick

Posted on January 28, 2020 by

Croydon Tories have appealed to a government minister to hold an urgent inquiry into the running of Brick by Brick, the council’s in-house house-builders. The call was made public at last night’s meeting of the full council by Tim Pollard, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Chris Philp MP, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Jo Negrini, Lynne Hale, Planning, Sanderstead, Tim Pollard | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Newman fails to deny that Fairfield Halls bill has reached £60m

Posted on January 28, 2020 by

The refurbishment of the Fairfield Halls could end up costing Croydon’s Council Tax-payers £60million – or even more. And there are fears within the town’s arts circles that BH Live, the events and management firm brought in by venue owners … Continue reading →

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Come And Sing with Downland Chorale, Sanderstead, Feb 15

Posted on January 26, 2020 by
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Sanderstead and Riddlesdown lead battle to save Green Belt

Posted on January 16, 2020 by

In 1953, the Coulsdon and Purley Urban District Council was granted a coat of arms, and this included two trees, one an oak to represent the Purley Oaks and the other a beech for Purley Beeches. In 2020, Croydon Council … Continue reading →

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