Category Archives: West Thornton

South Norwood’s Andrew Fisher resigns as Corbyn aide

Posted on September 22, 2019 by

Andrew Fisher, the influential policy adviser to the leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn and the author of the Labour’s widely admired 2017 For The Many Not The Few manifesto, is standing down from his position, in the latest shock … Continue reading →

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Sutton backs scheme to route 60,000 lorries through Croydon

Posted on September 4, 2019 by

BELLE MONT on how the environmental vandals running Sutton Council are pushing a scheme for another industrial plant on Beddington Lane Just a matter of weeks since declaring a climate emergency, Sutton Council is tonight backing a Beddington Lane waste … Continue reading →

Posted in Andrew Pelling, Broad Green, Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Planning, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Stuart King, Suez waste treatment plant, Sutton Council, Waddon, Waste incinerator, West Thornton | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Council forced into speedy U-turn on councillor parking permits

Posted on August 5, 2019 by

PAUL LUSHION, our environment correspondent, reports on how a decision passed at a Town Hall committee just a few days ago didn’t manage to survive a phone call from the news desk of The S*n Croydon’s Labour-run council leadership has … Continue reading →

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Croydon CLP backs elected mayor over ‘dysfunctional’ council

Posted on August 1, 2019 by

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports on what Mrs Merton might have called ‘a heated debate’ The simmering internal conflict within the Labour Party in Croydon seems unlikely to cool off during the Town Hall’s summer recess, after members in Croydon … Continue reading →

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£300 parking tax agreed but councillors will keep their freebies

Posted on July 28, 2019 by

Croydon Council is back in Orwellian mode again. Transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, on the latest stealth tax imposed on the borough’s residents, but from which its councillors are spared Croydon residents’ parking permits are to be hiked to up to … Continue reading →

Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Parking, Peter Underwood, Stuart King, Transport, Waste incinerator | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Works to begin to instal segregated cycle lane at Bedford Park

Posted on July 20, 2019 by

A new cycle lane and signalling improvements will make it easier for cyclists to access central Croydon. The work on Bedford Park will begin on Monday. Once the lane is installed, cyclists will be able to safely cycle against the … Continue reading →

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Council fails to write to permit-holders over parking charge hike

Posted on June 7, 2019 by

Croydon is being accused of deliberately suppressing details of its on-going parking consultation from the people most affected: the 9,000-plus residents who already have permits for on-street parking issued by the council each year. “We’re earning a deserved reputation for … Continue reading →

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