Perry stakes Town Hall leadership on Tory mayoral selection

Posted on October 8, 2021 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The borough’s Conservatives will choose from two current councillors and an outsider whose selection campaign tagline is ‘I’m different’. EXCLUSIVE by WALTER CRONXITE, political editor

The Croydon Conservative Federation will meet on Sunday to select its candidate to become this diverse borough’s first elected mayor, with their membership expected to choose from a shortlist that comprises three middle-class white blokes.

If this is supposed to be the exciting and inspiring fresh leadership which the people of Croydon appear to be crying out for, then it would seem that the Tory officials in charge of the local party didn’t get the memo.

Jason Perry, the leader of the Conservative opposition at the Town Hall, Andy Stranack, a councillor for Selsdon Vale and Forestdale, and Ben Gadsby, a party member who earlier this year used the pages of this website to argue against having a directly elected mayor, represent the best that the Tories can muster to put before the public for the onerous role of mayor when the elections are held on May 5 next year.

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After defeat, pressure mounts on ‘lame duck’ council leader

Posted on October 8, 2021 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: ‘We mocked the electorate by putting burning £20 notes on our election material’. What now for Croydon Labour, after a nasty and petty waste of around £20,000 in party funds on a referendum campaign they could never win? STEVEN DOWNES reports

Burnt: £20 notes in flames from a party that bankrupted the borough was never a good look

In the cold light of day this morning, it was not long before the recriminations, bitterness and anger began to seep out among Croydon’s chattering political classes, or at least around what’s left of the local Labour Party.

For while the governance referendum delivered up a vote in favour of change to a directly elected mayor, the campaign overall, the equivalent of two bald blokes battling over a comb, utterly failed to engage the people of Croydon.

In total, 221,000 people decided that this matter was not worthy of a few minutes of their time to wander along to their neighbourhood polling station. They thought that it was too much trouble to even consider reaching an opinion in an esoteric ballot to determine whether the council is led by a politician picked by their mates that they have on the payroll, or by an election of all the borough’s voters.

And they have a point.

Those who did bother to vote were left underwhelmed by the whole experience. “One of the most depressing examples of democracy in my life,” one Labour supporter said. “Walked into an empty polling station purely to put X in a box to try to maintain an already woefully unacceptable status quo.” Continue reading →

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Croydon votes 4-to-1 in favour of having directly elected mayor

Posted on October 8, 2021 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: After a disastrously run, high-spending campaign by Labour opposing change, every ward in the borough voted for a new way of running the council. By STEVEN DOWNES

X marks the spot: Croydon voted for #ABitLessShit

Katherine Kerswell took to the low stage at Trinity School just after 2.30am, a couple of sheets of paper in hand, to read the results. Steve Reed OBE, the Labour MP who had driven his party’s opposition campaign against having a directly elected mayor, hadn’t even bothered to turn up for the count.

The turnout had been 21 per cent, Kerswell announced, which was, at least, a little better than feared, even though she had failed to distribute poll cards to all who expected them.

The council chief exec, serving as the official counting officer for the referendum, then got to the figures that really mattered.

11,519

voted to stay with the “strong leader” model of governance.

47,165

voted for change to a directly elected mayor, or something that is #ABitLessShit. Continue reading →

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Butler and Scott among those not facing the voters again

Posted on October 7, 2021 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, on the high drop-out rate among Croydon’s Labour councillors, bruised and deflated after nearly eight years in charge at the Town Hall

Architect of his own downfall: Paul Scott is not seeking selection to run for the council next year

Paul Scott and Alison Butler, the husband and wife duo who made up half of Tony Newman’s “Gang of Four”, and who ruled over the Labour group and the council with a rod of iron for more than a decade, are among nine councillors from the ruling group at the Town Hall who are not seeking reselection to stand at next May’s local elections.

Together with two sitting councillors who have not survived their party’s internal selection process and the three long-standing councillors who quit earlier this year, that makes more than one-third of the 41 Labour councillors elected since 2018 who won’t be on the ballot papers at the Town Hall elections in seven months’ time.

And the casualty rate could yet be higher still, once the votes are all counted on the morning of May 6, after electors have their say over the administration that bankrupted the borough. Continue reading →

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Save The Glam campaigners ask community to buy a share

Posted on October 7, 2021 by insidecroydon

Crunch time is approaching the Save the Glamorgan campaign, as they are asking supporters to dig into their pockets to secure the future of the 170-year-old building on Cheery Orchard Road, close to East Croydon Station.

In the balance: The Glamorgan, having staved off demolition, now needs locals to find the money to buy the building

The group that was formed five years ago to try to keep one of the oldest pubs in Croydon operating as a local boozer has its annual general meeting on October 21, but before that they are asking supporters to give an indication whether they would want to buy in as share-holders on the project.

It’s a similar model which rescued The Hope at Carshalton from near-oblivion a decade ago, since when the community-owned pub has won numerous Pub of the Year awards and continues to be much-valued by customers from across south London. Continue reading →

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David Lean Cinema announces Oct 26 as reopening date

Posted on October 7, 2021 by insidecroydon

The David Lean Cinema, the much-cherished local arts institution in the Croydon Clocktower, will start showing films again at the end of this month – more than 18 months after being forced to close due to the covid-19 pandemic.

The David Lean Cinema reopens on Oct 26

“This is surely one of the happiest newsletters we have written during the life of the David Lean Cinema CIC,” members of the local campaign group were told last week, “as we are able to announce the reopening of the cinema.”

The David Lean Cinema was opened in 1995, when the Clocktower complex was built to house library, local archive and CALAT facilities. It is named after Sir David Lean, the Oscar-winning director of Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Bridge On The River Kwai, and one of Croydon’s most famous sons or daughters.

The 60-seat auditorium is run by a community interest company, or CIC,  formed out of the Save the David Lean Cinema Campaign, who – backed by support from Inside Croydon and inspired by Ronnie Corbett – originally secured its reopening in 2014, after it had been closed by the then Tory-run council as part of the first round of austerity cuts three years before.

The David Lean’s covid closure has lasted almost six months longer than many other cinemas and theatres – mainly because the campaign group were waiting for clearance from Croydon Council, who own the venue.

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Use our free voting widget if you have not received poll card

Posted on October 7, 2021 by insidecroydon

Make sure you use Inside Croydon’s essential voting day widget.

Katherine Kerswell: council CEO admits she has failed to issue poll cards on time

That, effectively, was the message being issued last night from the propaganda bunker at Fisher’s Folly on the eve of the borough-wide governance referendum by Katherine Kerswell, the council chief executive.

Croydon’s £192,474 CEO was forced to admit, at the 11th hour, that her organisation had failed in the simple task of issuing voting cards to all the borough’s voters in time for today’s big vote.

For what is, after all, for most Croydon’s residents a fairly esoteric question – should the borough be run by a directly elected politician, or a politician picked by their politician mates? – the turn-out on referendum day was already expected to be as low as 20 per cent.

But the failure by the council to issue poll cards could reduce the number of voters further still. Continue reading →

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Nothing adds up as Labour plays numbers game over mayor

Posted on October 6, 2021 by insidecroydon

REFERENDUM COUNTDOWN: On the eve of polling day, the many shortcomings of a shambolic and expensive campaign waged by Labour to oppose a change to an elected mayor seem about to be exposed.
By STEVEN DOWNES

The same people who helped bankrupt the council have spent more than £100 for every new “follower” that they have managed to attract to a social media group opposing a vote for a directly elected mayor.

Polling stations around the borough open at 7am tomorrow for people to vote on whether the council should switch to a directly elected mayor, or stay with the current “strong leader” model of governance.

Senior figures within the Town Hall’s ruling Labour group have told Inside Croydon that they are expecting to suffer a demoralising reverse. Continue reading →

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Referendum offers us a chance for consensus in Croydon

Posted on October 6, 2021 by insidecroydon

Led By Donkeys: perhaps inspired by the subversive public space messaging group, someone decided to make use of a blank advertising hoarding on the Purley Way this week. The control freaks among Croydon’s Labour group of councillors are investigating who was responsible…

REFERENDUM COUNTDOWN: Last week, Labour’s Leila Ben-Hassel offered her reasons for opposing a change in the way the council is governed. With the borough-wide referendum being staged tomorrow, resident – and voter – IAN KIERANS questions the councillor’s arguments

Councillor Leila Ben-Hassel, in her article “Council governance is poor due to lack of competent cultures“, claimed that the 21,000 people who signed the petition which triggered a referendum on the change to a directly elected mayor may have been misled by Tories from the south of Croydon. The campaigners may have used over-development and planning issues as a hook.

Perhaps they did, but they did so no more than every other political campaign run by the parties, including Labour. Continue reading →

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Child’s transplant delayed by council SEND decisions

Posted on October 6, 2021 by insidecroydon

As the Ofsted inspectors visit Fisher’s Folly this week, one family’s struggle to get the council to provide a decent standard of education for their son with SEND has forced them to write this open letter to the council leader

Dear Councilor Hamida Ali,

I have read with interest the recent news concerning your and Katherine Kerswell’s views on the failings of Croydon Council. You both stress your apparent commitment to sorting out Croydon.

Tim Watson: his parents have been fighting for more than two years to get the council to provide acceptable schooling

Yet your failure to respond to our four requests, sent over the last three months, for a meeting with a member of your leadership team leads me to now make this letter to you public. Three months really is more than long enough to wait for an answer. We feel we’ve got a very compelling reason to seek a meeting with your leadership team and this is only part of it.

A few weeks back, at the opening of Croydon’s new free school for children with special needs, you praised the trust which operates it, Orchard Hill.

One of Orchard Hills’ schools had assessed our son, Tim, a few years back to see if they would take him. Tim is autistic, has attention deficit disorder and complex health needs, including kidney failure which meant he required a transplant. They took a medical history from him. Tim was eight years old at the time. Continue reading →

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All pumped up: interactive map offers petrol station updates

Posted on October 6, 2021 by insidecroydon

Queue hopper: there’s now an interactive map that shows which petrol stations have fuel

Motorists still seeking to find a petrol station where you can fill up with more than a Yorkie bar now have the help of an interactive map which charts which outlets have petrol or diesel to fuel your vehicle – and which ones are still running on empty.

As one Inside Croydon loyal reader demonstrated at the weekend, the absence of any reliable information on where fuel is available, and how panic buying has quickly turned those potential new supply lines into lengthy queues, has forced some to drive deep into the countryside to find a petrol station that is open to sell petrol. Continue reading →

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Midnight deadline to complete Ofsted’s SEND survey

Posted on October 5, 2021 by insidecroydon

By SARAH BOWELL

It’s a big week for Croydon, and not just because of Thursday’s council governance referendum.

For some families, the bigger news of this week is that Croydon’s SEND department is being visited for an Ofsted inspection.

For families with children with SEND – special educational needs and disabilities – there were important reforms in 2014 with the introduction of EHCPs – Education, Health and Care Plans. Continue reading →

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Croydon one of 19 town centres to get extra ‘beat Bobbies’

Posted on October 5, 2021 by insidecroydon

Croydon, Bromley, Brixton, Lewisham and Kingston are among 19 town centres around London that are to get additional police officers on the beat, the Met announced today.

More ‘Bobbies on the beat’: Croydon is to get a new town centre team of 24 extra officers

The capital is to get an additional 650 police officers who, the statement from the Metropolitan Police said, “will work solely in busy public places and other areas, including those where women and girls often feel unsafe”.

This announcement comes less than a week since the murder conviction of Wayne Couzens, the serving Met officer who kidnapped Sarah Everard as she walked home in south London in March this year.

And it was yesterday that another policeman serving in the Met was remanded in custody pending a trial next month charged with the rape of a woman when he was off duty.

Dame Cressida Dick, the Met Commissioner, responded to mounting criticism by  ordering a review of professional standards and internal culture in London’s police force. Continue reading →

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Director of planning’s bogus claim over Institute membership

Posted on October 5, 2021 by insidecroydon

‘The council considers landscape as an integral part of all development’: no prizes for guessing which council’s planning department found that this met with its ‘high’ standards for landscaping

Planning officers routinely ignoring the requirements of local plans, little or no enforcement of conditions applied when permission has been granted and the courts throwing out decisions of the council. STEVE WHITESIDE on a litany of shortcomings, and worse, at Fisher’s Folly

Heather Cheesbrough: ‘personal integrity and professionalism’

Croydon Council’s “director of planning and strategic transport”, Heather Cheesbrough BA (Hons) PG Dip LA CMLI MRTPI, recently lectured elected councillors that criticism of her department was unmerited, stating that, “All the planning officers in the team have the highest personal integrity and professionalism”.

Is that true, or is she merely defending the indefensible?

To assess just how “professionally” Cheesbrough and her officers have been performing their duties, I have taken a look at just one aspect of their assessment of planning applications that continues to cause him concern: the landscape design around some of the new developments ging up around the borough. Continue reading →

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Has Labour already lined up its candidate for elected mayor?

Posted on October 4, 2021 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The governance referendum is not until Thursday, but despite officially opposing the proposal to move to a directly elected mayor, some senior Labour figures may have already moved to find a candidate to stand for the office next May.
EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES

The candidate: has Donna Murray-Turner, left, already been given the nod by MP Sarah Jones (right)?

Croydon MPs Steve Reed and Sarah Jones lent their considerable influence to Labour spending thousands of pounds of party funds to campaign against having a directly elected mayor to run the council.

But according to senior sources in the local party, the MPs have in the meantime also been sounding out a prominent community activist to be Labour’s candidate if an election for mayor is held next May.

Donna Murray-Turner has never been a councillor nor held any elected office, although she is the chair of Croydon Council’s Safer Neighbourhood Board, a police and local authority liaison body, but one which has had only a patchy record for holding meetings and, evidently, an even poorer record for making any of the borough’s neighbourhoods safer.

But 47-year-old Murray-Turner, from South Norwood, has developed a reputation for being a “colourful” interviewee on local TV and radio. Probably her greatest asset of all is that she had no part to play in the Labour council going bankrupt last year. Continue reading →

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Members accuse officials: ‘unsound, unjust and unacceptable’

Posted on October 4, 2021 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: A local branch of the Labour Party has raised ‘serious concerns’ and suspicions of ‘undue political motives’ after their ‘excellent’ ward councillor Jamie Audsley had his application to stand as a Town Hall election candidate rejected. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES

Jamie Audsley: party and ward colleagues say he has been treated unfairly

Grassroots members in Bensham Manor ward have sent an open letter to MP Steve Reed and London Region Labour HQ in support of their local councillor, Jamie Audsley, after his application to be a party candidate at next May’s Town Hall elections was blocked over his support for a directly elected mayor.

In a covering note to the letter, Peter Durrans, the secretary of the Labour Party’s Bensham Manor branch, states that “the explanation given for rejecting the application by Jamie Audsley is unsound, unjust and, therefore, unacceptable”.

The open letter also suggests that the Local Campaign Forum, which is supposed to oversee a fair process, failed to follow strict party guidelines over the selection procedure for candidates. Continue reading →

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‘If you want something better, then you have to vote for it’

Posted on October 4, 2021 by insidecroydon

REFERENDUM COUNTDOWN: With just days to go before the borough-wide ballot, PETER UNDERWOOD, pictured right, offers a Green Party perspective on the governance of the council

We all know that Croydon Council is useless. On Thursday, we are being offered the chance to change the way it is governed to a directly elected mayor, but it’s a change in the wrong direction and will only make things even worse. That’s why you should vote No to a directly elected mayor on October 7. Continue reading →

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70 people evacuated after gas main fire in Thornton Heath

Posted on October 4, 2021 by insidecroydon

Lights out: there was a power cut in the area as three houses in Thornton Heath were damaged by fire

Firefighters tackled a fire at a row of terraced houses on London Road in Thornton Heath on Friday evening.

The ground floor of one terraced house was damaged by fire due to a ruptured gas main.

Another two terraced houses were also damaged due to fires involving fuse boxes, while a number of other properties on London Road and surrounding roads suffered a power outage.

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Croydon driver finds petrol for sale – in Pease Pottage

Posted on October 4, 2021 by insidecroydon

As petrol shortages across south London go into a third week, one Inside Croydon reader went that extra mile – or 20 – to fill up his tank in Sussex

Pumps out: supplies to petrol stations in Scotland, the north and Midlands have normalised. But not in London

I set off at 6am yesterday morning, Sunday.

The queue for Tesco Elmers End was all the way beyond Longheath Gardens, and after last week’s midnight experience elsewhere of irate drivers and people pushing in the line, I just couldn’t face the slow-moving queue any longer and moved on.

I had enough petrol but Sunday is the day I have less work. I can’t get time off work on weekdays to spend time on petrol hunting.

We live a long way from public transport and need the car for dropping young children at different schools. So filling up the car once a week is important.

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Police appeal for witnesses after shooting in South Croydon

Posted on October 4, 2021 by insidecroydon

A man was murdered in the early hours of Saturday morning. The incident took place at a private house party in South Croydon where the man, named by police as Leroy Mitchell, was shot dead by someone carrying a gun.

Murder victim: Leroy Mitchell

There have been no arrests.

According to a statement from Scotland Yard, the police were called shortly before 5am on Saturday after reports of the shooting in a car park in Birdhurst Road.

Despite the efforts of the emergency services, including from the London Ambulance Service, Mitchell was pronounced dead at the scene. He was 35.

Detectives investigating the murder are continuing to appeal for anyone who was at the party or who saw Mitchell on Friday night, October 1, to get in touch. Continue reading →

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You can’t put a price on this exhibition of a year’s isolation

Posted on October 3, 2021 by insidecroydon

What was your ‘lockdown project’? Paul Hall opened an art gallery in Addiscombe, and KEN TOWL popped along to view its first show

Room 1: the artwork on the wall might go viral

In a backstreet in St Leonards on Sea last year I noticed – you couldn’t miss it – a five-metre high wooden scale model of the Eiffel Tower.

Ah, I thought. A lockdown project. We all had one, didn’t we? Something to do while we stayed at home, something to do instead of seeing people, instead of socialising, instead of living our normal workaday lives.

During the first lockdown, Paul Hall, struggling to connect with his students (in the most literal sense) took both redundancy and possession of a ground floor retail space at 41 Lower Addiscombe Road.

Originally, he planned to rent it out as artists’ studios with perhaps a small space at the front to display the work of his tenants. He realised the space was not ideal for that but convinced himself that it would make a great gallery.

This became Paul’s lockdown project; he worked as electrician, painter, handyman and labourer to create the Croydon Art Space Gallery. It opened to the public in late July and its first exhibition, Isolation, will be there until November 21. Continue reading →

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Runners take to the streets to encourage more planting

Posted on October 3, 2021 by insidecroydon

Two charities have teamed up to spread the word about a national tree sponsorship scheme, using the tried and trusted method of door-to-door leafleting.

Growing target: Trees for streets wants to plant 250,000 trees in the next 10 years

Trees for Streets is part of a national urban tree charity, funded by the government’s Green Recovery Challenge Fund. Its mission is to fund the planting of more than a quarter of a million additional street trees nationwide over the next 10 years by supplementing council tree planting budgets through public sponsorship.

The Trees for Streets online app makes it easy for anyone wanting to sponsor a street tree in their neighbourhood to make a request to their local council by providing a few simple details.

The council then assesses the chosen location, and if it is suitable, arrangements will be made to plant a tree the following winter, which is the best time to plant young trees to ensure they grow and thrive.

GoodGym is a community of runners, walkers and cyclists who combine getting fit with doing good within the local community. Established in 2010, they are active in 50 and credit the movement’s success to its lean start-up structure and focus on recruiting local enthusiasts to drive things forward in each location. Continue reading →

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The church fire that consumed a thousand years of history

Posted on October 2, 2021 by insidecroydon

Destruction: many tombs, records and graves dating back to medieval England were lost forever on the night of Jan 5, 1867

MARVELS OF THE MINSTER: Dating back to the Domesday Book, Croydon Parish Church was almost destroyed one cold winter’s night 150 years ago. Here, DAVID MORGAN takes up the story of the Great Fire of Croydon

Ebenezer Whittaker, the parish clerk, was exhausted.

A week had gone by since the fire and he had barely rested, let alone slept. His voice sounded tired and scratchy from talking to so many people. Everyone wanted to know about the tragedy. Questions were flung at him. Papers had to be signed. Decisions had to be taken.

Living so close to the church on St John’s Road, it was like he was always on call. He was glad to sit with the sexton, Richard Kilmaster, for 10 minutes, just the two of them, and mull over the events. Continue reading →

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Battersea says Wear Blue for Rescue to help the underdogs

Posted on October 2, 2021 by insidecroydon

Battersea Dogs’ and Cats’ Homes, the world-leading animal welfare charity, is asking the public to join the rescue movement by taking the to share their love of rescue and Wear Blue for Rescue.

Wear Blue for Rescue: Battersea has been finding loving new homes for animals for more than 150 years

From sharing images of their own rescue pets on social media or shouting about how they support the work rescues do – Battersea wants members of the public to join in their campaign and celebrate their love of rescue animals.

Research shows 1 in 4 pets in Britain come from rescue, and Battersea believes a spotlight should be shone on the much-loved rescue animals that are in homes across the country, and in all walks of life, regardless of their breed. Continue reading →

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Write your ‘Love Letter to London’ for a chance to win

Posted on October 2, 2021 by insidecroydon

The London Society is inviting you to pen a love letter to the city – and the best entries will win cash prizes.

“We’re biased, but we believe London is the greatest city in the world,” the Society says. Continue reading →

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