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Category Archives: Phil Thomas
Council spends £200,000 on dropped kerbs in flood-risk area
Senior Conservative politicians have ordered Croydon Council staff to cold-call house-holders in a marginal ward to offer to build dropped kerbs with a hefty discount provided on the rates. At the same time that council staff and the emergency services … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Andrew Pelling, Bensham Manor, Clare Hilley, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Environment, Joy Prince, Parking, Phil Thomas, Property, Robert Canning, Simon Hoar, Tony Harris, Transport, Waddon
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Labour, Phil Thomas, Tory, Waddon
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Town Hall bruiser Thomas, lies and a Tory power struggle
Inside Croydon editor STEVEN DOWNES on another demoralising three hours of his life that he will never get back – spent at last night’s council budget meeting Croydon Tories, who have been in charge of the council for eight years, … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Environment, Fly tipping, Mike Fisher, Phil Thomas, Refuse collection, Selsdon & Ballards, Shirley North, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Labour, Mayor, Phil Thomas, Selsdon and Ballards, Tory, Waddon
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Tories snub report on Croydon’s rubbish reputation
Croydon Council should dump its £10 charge to residents for removing bulky items of waste; there’s a need to return to weekly bin collections; it should ensure regular jet-washing of the streets; and more enforcement action against fly tippers is … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Environment, Fly tipping, Mike Fisher, Phil Thomas, Refuse collection, Steve Reed MP, Street lighting
Tagged Citizen Reed, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, East Croydon station, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Fisher, Phil Thomas, Steve Reed MP, Steve Reed OBE, Tory
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How much is your vote worth? Fisher reckons 50p a week
Things must be getting bad for florid-faced Mike Fisher, the Conservative leader of Croydon Council, who this morning announced at a poorly attended media briefing that he is to offer the borough’s residents a £3 million bribe – paid for out … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Boris Johnson, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Dudley Mead, Mayor of London, Mike Fisher, Phil Thomas, Steve O'Connell, Tony Newman
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Ken Livingstone, Labour, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Fisher, Steve O'Connell, Tony Newman, Tory
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Lights go out again in Addiscombe but Skanska are in no rush
Residents in and around Addiscombe have been left in the dark again this week, less than two months after filing formal complaints to Croydon Council over the service – or lack of it – from contractors Skanska when several roads … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe Residents Association, Addiscombe West, Bensham Manor, Croydon Council, Environment, Fairfield, Lebanon Road Residents' Association, Phil Thomas, Selhurst, Skanska, Street lighting, Woodside
Tagged Addiscombe West, Bensham Manor, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Lewisham, lighting, London Borough of Croydon, Skanska, street lights, Tory, Woodside
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Council killjoy tries intimidation to halt Conan Doyle lake event
It appears that Tony Brooks, the “director of environment” at the council, has redoubled his efforts to be cast as the villain of the piece, the evil Professor Moriarty of Croydon if you like, with another letter to the South … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Community associations, Croydon Council, Environment, Paul Scott, Phil Thomas, South Norwood, South Norwood Tourist Board
Tagged Conan Doyle, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Lake Conan Doyle, London Borough of Croydon, Moriarty, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, South Norwood, South Norwood Country Park, South Norwood Tourist Board
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Lebanon Road residents left in the dark by “indifferent” council
Residents in Lebanon Road have filed a formal complaint to the council, accusing it of “indifference” to their plight, after their street has been plunged into darkness, with no street lighting for nearly a week, creating obvious risks for accidents … Continue reading
Old battlegrounds revisited as local elections get ever closer
It is just 229 days until the May morning when the winners, and losers, will be declared of local elections that will determine who runs Croydon Town Hall until 2018 – potentially to reap all the political benefits of the … Continue reading
Croydon in 2013: The Garbage Gallery revisited
UPDATE 4: September 27: And still our loyal reader continues to find examples of criminal fly tipping, lack of good neighbourliness or plain and simple selfish laziness, and send us pictures of the sad and bad state of Croydon’s grotty streets. … Continue reading
Croydon’s secret tax on car parking that divides the borough
CROYDON COMMENTARY: For a town that has built itself around the demands of the motor car, parking the vehicles is an ever-growing problem, and Croydon Council has yet to find the right, or fair, way of dealing with it, CHARLOTTE … Continue reading
Cashflow gets the Wandle rolling on a green way to the Thames
Croydon, Wandsworth, Sutton and Merton are to benefit from another £2 million grant for environmental work to further “de-urbanise” the River Wandle, one of the first industrialised and culverted of London’s Thames tributaries. In Croydon, that will help transform the … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Environment, Outside Croydon, Phil Thomas, Planning, South Croydon, Waddon, Walks, Wandsworth Council, Wildlife
Tagged Carshalton, Croydon, London, Merton Priory, Morden Hall Park, River Wandle, South Croydon, Waddon
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Woodside Labour councillor Jewitt fails to win selection
The Croydon Labour party’s selection process for candidates to stand at next year’s Town Hall elections claimed its first casualty on Wednesday night, when Karen Jewitt, councillor for Woodside ward, failed to be selected. Jewitt has been a Croydon councillor … Continue reading
Posted in Adam Kellett, Ashburton, Avril Slipper, Coulsdon Town, David Osland, Eddy Arram, Graham Bass, Karen Jewitt, Paul Scott, Phil Thomas, Purley, Selsdon & Ballards, Tony Newman, Uncategorized, Woodside
Tagged Ashburton, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Labour, New Addington, South Norwood, Tory
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X marks the spot: Croydon appoints firm in administration
News reaches Inside Croydon of what appears to be yet another epic fail by the leadership at Croydon Council. On February 11, at the Town Hall cabinet meeting, Mike Fisher, the council leader, and his “top team” decided to appoint … Continue reading
Pick of posts of 2012: Allders, comics and sinking ships
Yesterday, we listed our 20 most-read posts of 2012. We also asked some of our readers and contributors for a more subjective selection and to choose their favourite articles from the past 12 months. Here’s some of their answers: If … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Allders, Andrew Pelling, Art, CODA, Comedy, Croydon Council, Housing, John Laing Integrated Services, Libraries, Mike Fisher, Phil Thomas, Planning, URV
Tagged Allders, Andrew Pelling, Croydon, Edinburgh Festival, London, Seat of local government, Surrey Opera, Town Hall
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Senior councillor goes west as Tories consider their futures
Phil Thomas, one of the “big beasts” of local Croydon politics for the past decade and the architect of the Conservatives’ 2006 Town Hall election win, is moving from the borough and will not be seeking re-election in 2014. “He’s … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, David Osland, Dudley Mead, Graham Bass, Margaret Mead, Mike Fisher, Parking, Phil Thomas, Sara Bashford, Selsdon & Ballards, Simon Hoar, Transport, Waddon
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Labour, Mike Fisher, Phil Thomas, Selsdon, Tory, United States
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Portas fund pays £10,000 for Waddon underpass mural
Phil Thomas, the Croydon cabinet member in charge of the borough’s highways system, has broken a promise to meet with residents in Waddon to discuss progress on the area’s pedestrian underpasses – which were often ill-lit, covered in animal excrement, … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Phil Thomas, Surrey Street, Transport, Waddon
Tagged Croydon, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mary Portas, Phil Thomas, River Wandle, Waddon
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Waddon residents land a coo with Thomas’s promises
Waddon has a big pigeon problem, apparently. But the area’s bird shit-lined, often flooded, dark and threateningly unpassable pedestrian underpasses, the scene of at least two mugging attacks in recent weeks, are to get a council-run makeover. “And that’s a … Continue reading
