Category Archives: Waddon

Brick by Brick CEO says company has sold 6 houses. Or is it 5?

Posted on March 27, 2020 by

Our overdevelopment correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, reports on the latest admission of incompetence from Croydon Council’s loss-making house-builders Five. Or it might be six. Colm Lacey, the former council employee who has been promoted way beyond his skills and abilities to … Continue reading →

Posted in Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, Leila Ben-Hassel, Vidhi Mohan | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Newman’s £100,000 governance review that’s going nowhere

Posted on March 2, 2020 by

KEN LEE on some of the more gruesome findings in a council-commissioned report about Croydon’s ineffective council Even the majority of Croydon’s elected councillors don’t think Croydon Council is “very effective”. That’s just one of the damning findings buried in … Continue reading →

Posted in Clive Fraser, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Jacqueline Harris-Baker, Jo Negrini, Joy Prince, Simon Hall, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Council pension fund makes £19m in General Election gamble

Posted on December 12, 2019 by

Croydon Council’s pension fund has made £19million in just a few weeks, through a gamble on the value of the pound sterling on foreign exchanges since August. That’s according to Andrew Pelling, the Waddon councillor who chairs the council’s pensions … Continue reading →

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Waddon Christmas Fair, St George’s Barrow Road, Nov 16

Posted on November 14, 2019 by
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SPAC-backing Tory campaigned on Remembrance Sunday

Posted on November 11, 2019 by

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports on the latest, and late, entry to the Croydon General Election campaign After much dither and delay, and some serious second thoughts among local Tories, the Conservatives have finally got round to announcing the name … Continue reading →

Posted in 2019 General Election, Croydon North, Donald Ekekhomen, Mario Creatura, Steve Reed MP, Waddon | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Olga who? Another knock-back for Newman over selection

Posted on November 2, 2019 by

WALTER CRONXITE on how the Labour Party is parachuting into Croydon South a General Election candidate, after a ‘selection’ which even ‘Toxic’ Tony Newman could not fix For the second General Election in succession, Labour Party HQ has decided to … Continue reading →

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Calls for Sutton’s CEO to resign over secret letter to Morrison’s

Posted on October 24, 2019 by

Our investigations editor, CARL SHILTON, on an attempted land grab by a council chief executive that has caused anger among councillors in two boroughs – and which has favoured the work of a senior Croydon councillor’s firm of architects There … Continue reading →

Posted in Helen Bailey, Nick Mattey, Paul Scott, Robert Canning, Sutton Council, Waddon | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments