Category Archives: Selsdon and Addington Village

Mystery of the ‘lost’ £600,000 expert report into Fairfield Halls

Posted on July 20, 2021 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Suspicions mount over the business of Brick by Brick and the scandal surrounding the Fairfield Halls refurbishment. But even members of the Town Hall’s scrutiny committee are being denied vital information by council directors. By STEVEN DOWNES … Continue reading →

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Selsdon golf club offers youngsters chance to kickstart careers

Posted on June 30, 2021 by insidecroydon

A group of leisure venues and golf clubs, including Farleigh in Selsdon, is running another recruitment drive as a new crop of ambitious young professionals are given their chance to shine. The government’s Kickstart scheme is being used at the … Continue reading →

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Locals concerned over ‘mini Glastonbury’ in Addington Park

Posted on May 28, 2021 by insidecroydon

Residents in Addington Village are filing lengthy objections to a licence application which, if the council allows, could see more than 11,000 festival-goers descend on a Croydon conservation area for a “mini Glastonbury” over a single weekend in August. But … Continue reading →

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How remote meetings sometimes bring the council closer

Posted on May 26, 2021 by insidecroydon

Have we inadvertently discovered a better way of staging some council meetings? Croydon councillor ROBERT WARD thinks so Imagine we had decided in the pre-pandemic world to run council meetings remotely. There would have been studies, options analyses, pilot projects, … Continue reading →

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Brick by Brick and the 18 documents officers want kept secret

Posted on May 24, 2021 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Not for the first time, elected councillors have been denied vital information about Town Hall deals. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Croydon Conservatives have “called in” for extra scrutiny three multi-million-pound deals intended to off-load the council’s loss-making … Continue reading →

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Headteacher Smith’s passport to Pimlico began in Croydon

Posted on April 28, 2021 by insidecroydon

Our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE, reports on how recent confrontations between ‘woke’ staff and pupils at an inner London academy may have had their beginnings in south London Daniel Smith, the controversial head of Pimlico Academy who has attracted national … Continue reading →

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Under-threat libraries missing from council’s re-opening plans

Posted on April 9, 2021 by insidecroydon

Croydon Council this morning released details of its phased re-opening of some of the borough’s public libraries – but with no immediate plans for three of the buildings which it has listed for permanent closure in its recent consultation. Broad … Continue reading →

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Leader says she has no idea who approved BxB loans

Posted on February 21, 2021 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The £224m in loans and unpaid interest owed to the council by Brick by Brick may have broken EU and British state aid and competition laws. But after nearly six months in her job, Hamida Ali claims … Continue reading →

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‘Changing the culture of secrecy must be the turning point’

Posted on February 2, 2021 by insidecroydon

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports on the council leadership’s reaction to yesterday’s announcements from the local government ministry “We have a very long way to go,” the council leader, Hamida Ali, said, more than once, as she accepted the findings … Continue reading →

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Council applies emergency brake on New Year parking hike

Posted on January 5, 2021 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON reports on how Fisher’s Folly officials have been forced into a sudden U-turn over their money-spinning ’emissions-based’ parking charges New car parking charges, due to come into force at council-run car parks and … Continue reading →

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The Audit Report: Council ignored five warnings on reserves

Posted on October 28, 2020 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Complacency and ‘corporate blindness’ to the problems at the council contributed to the collapse of the borough’s finances. But Grant Thornton’s report also managed to have a dig at Jo Negrini. WALTER CRONXITE reports Grant Thornton’s Report … Continue reading →

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