Category Archives: Wayne Lawlor
Night of the short knives as Newman sacks chief whip Ryan
WALTER CRONXITE, our man in the public gallery with a Twix bar and a copy of the Racing Post, offers the inside information on what passes for a reshuffle at the Town Hall It was the sort of “hit” that … Continue reading
South Norwood councillor Lawlor picked as deputy mayor
Councillor Wayne Lawlor has been selected to be Croydon’s next deputy mayor. A Labour councillor for South Norwood ward, Lawlor, aged 38, succeeds Patricia Hay-Justice, who after one year as deputy will step up to be Croydon Mayor for 2015 … Continue reading
This takes this biscuit: cuts start to hit Town Hall tea breaks
The Osborne-Balls austerity consensus is biting, and biting hard where it really matters: councillors’ hob nobs. Angry tweets have been sent from the Town Hall to complain about the lack of sandwiches at recent council meetings. Some outraged councillors cannot … Continue reading
Arena trams ‘most congested part of network’ says Bee
Croydon Council’s planning committee meets next month to consider the application to build a massive secondary academy on Metropolitan Open Land next to Croydon Sports Arena. But the Labour-run council’s cabinet member for transport has already suggested that public transport … Continue reading
Labour MP gets his wish with a free school for South Norwood
Sometimes, you need to be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it. Thus calls by the Labour MP for Lambeth South, Steve Reed OBE, for the site of the former South Norwood police station to be … Continue reading
A Viscount, two Lords and a comedian back Labour campaign
Eddie Izzard was out campaigning in Croydon town centre this morning with local Labour leader Tony Newman. Cue jokes from all other political parties about there being more than one comedian in Croydon Labour… It’s unclear whether many of the … Continue reading
Newman struggling to keep team singing from same songsheet
WALTER CRONXITE, our man in the public gallery with a Yorkie bar in his pocket and a copy of the local free paper under his arm, analyses the real story behind yesterday’s headlines Divided parties rarely win elections. The tensions … Continue reading
Spendthrift council forks out £176,000 on sound system
Next week, thousands of Croydon children will make their ways to their schools at the start of the new term without the reassuring assistance of a “school crossing patrol officer” – a lollipop lady or man in old-fashioned, ordinary English … Continue reading
Four Croydon police stations to close as Boris’s cuts bite
Four of Croydon’s police stations – Addington Village, Kenley, Norbury and South Norwood – are to be closed as London Mayor Boris Johnson wields the axe on the Met’s spending. And according to an internal Metropolitan Police document seen by … Continue reading
Bricking it: Council refuses to rebuild wall to “save” £50,000
Party walls are among the most common causes of disputes between neighbours. Just hope that you never share a boundary with Croydon Council as your neighbours Seven years after first being warned about the possible collapse of a boundary wall … Continue reading
Norwood councillor calls on Pollard to hold talks on library
A South Norwood councillor has described Croydon’s decision to abandon its legal agreement with Lambeth over the Upper Norwood Joint Library as “consistently wrong”, accusing Tim Pollard, the Conservatives’ deputy leader on the council, of not acting “in the interests … Continue reading
Labour’s Newman names his team for council election build-up
The Labour group on Croydon Council is becoming a bit like the Conservatives. Well, at least in just one small, but important, way, writes ANDREW PELLING In parliament, Labour dropped the election of its shadow cabinet by its MPs, leaving … Continue reading
South Norwood residents campaign to save police station
Residents at a public meeting have called upon their councillors to speak out against the proposed closure of South Norwood police station. With a London-wide election coming up in which reducing policing levels under Mayor Boris Johnson is a key … Continue reading
South Norwood police station under threat of closure
South Norwood police station looks set to be closed, the latest in a series of blows for the fabric of Croydon society. After the axing of Croydon’s art activities, the possible “out-sourcing”asset-stripping of the borough’s libraries and the closure of … Continue reading
Two Labour councillors in Croydon face the chop
What is it about senior Croydon Council figures and their hair? Last week we unveiled Croydon CEO’s Jon Rouse’s Movember moustache. Now, news reaches us of a Children In Need stunt by two Labour councillors, Wayne Lawlor and Simon Hall, … Continue reading
