Category Archives: West Thornton

Council killjoys ban bikes and scooters from play street

Posted on September 19, 2018 by

Saturday is World Car-Free Day, though Croydon Council’s efforts to mark the event are hardly fun-filled. There’s no grand gesture, no scheme to close off the Croydon Flyover, that monument to the primacy of the internal combustion engine. Somewhat more … Continue reading →

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Councillors’ air pollution event fails to mention incinerator

Posted on September 17, 2018 by

Three Croydon councillors want to stage a talking shop about how to deal with air pollution – just days after the council-commissioned Beddington incinerator begins to pump out pollutants over south London. Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, reports In the … Continue reading →

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Resident parking permits to be frozen amid modest fee rises

Posted on July 18, 2018 by

The cost of parking permits and the borough’s free parking bays will remain largely unaltered as the council looks to update and increase some of its other parking charges. The fee for a resident’s first parking permit will stay at … Continue reading →

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Croydon looks at more car-free zones near primary schools

Posted on July 18, 2018 by

Croydon Council is looking to roll-out more “car exclusion zones” around primary schools in the borough, following successful trials in Coulsdon and Selhurst during the past year. Woodcote Primary in Coulsdon and Heavers Farm Primary and St Chad’s Catholic Primary, … Continue reading →

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Politicians score own goals on the World Cup bandwagon

Posted on July 4, 2018 by

Croydon’s Second Division politicians showed themselves all-too-keen to bask in the reflected glory of England’s World Cup penalty shoot-out success over Colombia last night. They may be dribbling into tricky territory, though. While it is an urban myth that Harold … Continue reading →

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Newman’s secret agenda includes pay hike for council leader

Posted on July 3, 2018 by

Our political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports on how the recently elected Labour leadership is trying to sneak through increases in councillor allowances without anyone noticing Something was being withheld from the public domain when, just before the weekend, the council … Continue reading →

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Canning rejects new job after being dropped as cabinet deputy

Posted on May 25, 2018 by

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports on the fall-out from the latest round of patronage for Tony’s cronies Tony Newman’s usual tactic of using public money patronage to keep the support of his Labour council colleagues appears to have been less … Continue reading →

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