Creatura fails to declare his council position to Parliament

Posted on August 10, 2015 by insidecroydon

Admin is clearly beneath Croydon Central MP Gavin Barwell and his very well-staffed office (whose salaries are paid for by you, the tax-payer).

Cheers: Tory councillor Mario Creatura manages to enjoy a day at the races despite holding down two publicly funded jobs

Cheers: Tory councillor Mario Creatura manages to enjoy a day at the races despite holding down two publicly funded jobs

Well over a year since Mario Creatura, Barwell’s Westminster bag carrier, got himself a second publicly funded income as a Tory councilor, and he is yet to declare that position, as he is required by the strict rules of the House of Commons.

The latest update of the Register of Interests of Members’ Secretaries and Research Assistants was published last month.

Town centre resident Creatura, who was handed a cushy safe Tory council seat in Coulsdon West in May 2014, is not listed as having benefited by this great good fortune.

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Croydon Tory MP’s aide signs up as Labour Party supporter

Posted on August 10, 2015 by insidecroydon

Conservative Croydon councillor Jason Cummings, who works as a parliamentary assistant at Westminster to Tory MP Gavin Barwell, has applied to become a supporter of the Labour Party.

Jason Cummings: aide to a Tory MP, who wants to be a Labour supporter

Jason Cummings: aide to a Tory MP, who wants to be a Labour supporter

Cummings is understood to be one of thousands of members of other political groups and parties who over the past month have paid £3 to become Labour supporters, ahead of what is supposed to be an open primary to choose that party’s new leader.

Cummings is a member of Croydon Tories’ shadow cabinet at the Town Hall under Tim Pollard. It is not known whether Cummings signed up with Labour with the knowledge of Pollard or of his employer, Croydon Central MP Barwell.

Barwell, of course, has only a passing acquaintance with openness and transparency when it comes to declaring his political allegiances: he spent most of the General Election campaign trying to appear anything but a Tory, even drafting bogus letters of support for his constituents to send to their neighbours which explicitly omitted any mention of the Conservatives or David Cameron.

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Council offers online service – to centre with no website

Posted on August 9, 2015 by insidecroydon

SUSAN OLIVER is concerned at the absence of practical support for victims of domestic abuse in the borough

In early 2014, I wrote a piece in Inside Croydon about the shockingly high rates of domestic violence in the borough.

Family Justice CentreAt that point, the Croydon Family Justice Centre – the council-funded facility that deals with domestic violence – was open only 24 hours a week.

Today, the Family Justice Centre is still open only 24 hours a week.

At the recent Croydon Council meeting at the Town Hall, Mark Watson, the cabinet member responsible, informed us that a new online advisory service for victims will start in September, extending the current hours.

It’s a start. But what about people who need someone to talk to, or who flee from their victimiser? What about people who don’t have access to computers? Continue reading →

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Ecology Centre’s Green Heritage Fair, Sep 19-20

Posted on August 9, 2015 by insidecroydon

The Croydon Ecology Centre at Heathfield House will be staging its Green Heritage Fair over the weekend of September 19-20, from 11am to 5pm on each day.

The Croydon Ecology Centre at Heathfield House, with its walled gardens, extensive parkland and orchards, is open to visitors all this weekend

The Croydon Ecology Centre at Heathfield House, with its walled gardens, extensive parkland and orchards

There will be a large number of stands showcasing the work of local nature conservation groups, traditional crafts, animal welfare organisations and fine art exhibitions by local artists.

The pantry cafe will also be open.

There will be tours of the Heathfield Gardens Tree Trail and of our Wildlife Sanctuary and Old Varieties Orchard.

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Jowell ducks Croydon hustings as Berlusconi link questioned

Posted on August 8, 2015 by insidecroydon

Dame Tessa Jowell, the favourite to win selection to stand as Labour’s candidate in next May’s London Mayoral election, is to snub the south London hustings being staged in Croydon on Monday. But she is able to fit in a visit to Croydon two days later for an event organised by her own campaign.

Dame Tessa Jowell: ducking Croydon hustings. Will she also duck awkward questions about Silvio Berlusconi?

Dame Tessa Jowell: ducking Croydon hustings. Will she also duck awkward questions about Silvio Berlusconi?

The hustings have been organised by Croydon Central Constituency Labour Party and officials from nine other outer south London CLPs, because all the previous events staged by their party had been staged in the centre or north of the city. Five of Labour’s six Mayoral candidates have confirmed their attendance, but not former Dulwich and West Norwood MP Dame Tessa.

The event is to be staged at Ruskin House, scene of this week’s Jeremy Corbyn meeting which was attended by around 400 people from across south London eager to hear what the underdog in the Labour leadership race had to say.

The Croydon organisers had delayed announcing their Labour Mayoral hustings until Sadiq Khan, the Tooting MP, confirmed his attendance. With barely two days to go, the event’s Facebook page continues to have Dame Tessa listed as “TBC” – to be confirmed.

Inside Croydon understands that Dame Tessa has indeed confirmed that she will not be attending the hustings to face questions alongside her Labour rivals. Continue reading →

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Landlord scheme court case may turn on Plant’s spot

Posted on August 7, 2015 by insidecroydon

Whatever the outcome of the court case over Croydon’s proposed landlord licensing scheme, which had an application for a Judicial Review heard by Mr Justice Silber at the High Court this week, the role played by Richard Plant could prove critical.

Richard Plant: partner in Stiles Harold Williams and chairman of Develop Croydon

Richard Plant: partner in Stiles Harold Williams and chairman of Develop Croydon

Those who were in the High Court on Tuesday suggest that the judge’s decision on whether to grant the review really could go either way.

The challenge to the Labour-run council’s flagship policy has been brought by the shadowy Croydon Property Forum, a group which is registered at an address in Bury, Lancashire, and which while claiming to represent “hundreds of landlords and tenants”, has been reluctant to identify who these might actually be.

Tuesday’s court hearing confirmed that at least one of the Forum’s members is a former chairman of the Croydon Central Labour Party, while another called upon to give evidence in a case which argues that developers were not consulted properly is the chairman of the Develop Croydon forum,

It is Plant who holds that latter role, in a private sector group which works closely with the council to, well, err… develop Croydon, or at least represent the views of those businesses with a commercial stake in the borough. Develop Croydon uses the Grey Label PR firm which enjoys so much regular work from the council, and annually sends a delegation off to Cannes for the MIPIM property speculators’ shin-dig. So it might be reasonable to assume that, through Develop Croydon, developers in Croydon are kept in touch with the local council’s plans.

Plant’s influential position with Develop Croydon owes much to the fact that he is a partner in Stiles Harold Williams, one of Croydon’s biggest commercial estate agencies, who manage the property portfolios of many landlords, including the influential Whitgift Foundation.

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Masked dancers step out to help draw in more park users

Posted on August 7, 2015 by insidecroydon

The Wild Hunt Bedlam Morris, a slightly scary-looking Border Morris side, are dancing in Croydon next Tuesday evening to help to encourage local people to use the park again.

Making a song and a dance in the park next Tuesday

Making a song and a dance in King George’s Field  next Tuesday

Locals have been staying away from King George’s Field in Sydenham Road despite local charity, the Eleanor Shorter Fund, ploughing money into the park for the purchase of equipment. The problem is that many feel that the park is being used more for anti-social behaviour than for recreation.

The Eleanor Shorter Fund decided to provide a programme of free events in both its parks, King George’s Field and Haling Grove in South Croydon, to encourage local residents to use the parks more and keep anti-social users at bay.

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8/8: ‘There’s real anxiety that the riots could happen again’

Posted on August 7, 2015 by insidecroydon
London Road as it looks today. Progress to repair the riots damage has been far too slow

London Road as it looks today. Repairing the riots damage has taken far too long

To mark the fourth anniversary of the Croydon riots, BUSHRA AHMED recalls that infamous night and assesses what progress has been made towards rebuilding West Croydon

I cannot begin to describe what it felt like to witness the Croydon riots of August 8, 2011. For one night, Croydon felt like a war zone.

The symbol of Croydon 2011: But more than two years on, many victims of the riots have yet to receive compensation

One of the most memorable images of Croydon Aug 8, 2011: How have the riot victims and West Croydon been treated since?

Watching from your home, while your community of 50 years suddenly turns on itself and attack their own is terrifying.

Watching your family business being set alight is unbelievably heartbreaking.

Four years on, the memories are still very raw. But where are we now? What progress has been made to repair the damage and heal the wounds?

Along London Road, around Broad Green and Old Town, where the worst of the rioting in Croydon happened, there are now some signs of physical regeneration. Recent activity on Royal Mansions Parade signifies the start of the rebuilding process for the owners of the site, after winning a three-year-long battle with MOPAC, the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, to fulfill its obligations over riot compensation, which in itself is another tale of incompetence and a lack of will on the part of all levels of government. Continue reading →

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Croydon FC all set for new season to kick-off

Posted on August 7, 2015 by insidecroydon

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Fairness Commission’s youth competition gets just 10 entries

Posted on August 6, 2015 by insidecroydon

Don't all rush at once: the Fairness Commission's appeal to Croydon youth has not yet caused much of a stir

Don’t all rush at once: the Fairness Commission’s appeal to Croydon youth drew just 10 entries

What do you get for £200,000 of public dosh?

Not a lot, it seems, if the underwhelming response to Croydon’s Opportunity and Fairness Commission’s latest “youth engagement” efforts are anything to go by. Only 10 youngsters from across London’s most populous borough bothered to enter a competition which offered an iPad mini as first prize.

The Opportunity and Fairness Commission is a pet project of Labour’s council leader, Tony Newman, but it has already been blighted with delays in its launch and defections of its carefully/hand-picked “commissioners”.

Like much of the Commission’s work, the youth competition was organised out of the George Street offices of The Campaign Company, a firm founded by Blairite aide David Evans. Last month, the Fairness Commission reached out to the borough’s older residents by staging a talk by Lord Glassman, the Labour academic who coined the phrase “Blue Labour”. What do you mean, you gave that a miss? Continue reading →

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Council can’t repair Kenley road because of ‘wrong sort of tar’

Posted on August 6, 2015 by insidecroydon

Nearly a year after complaints were first lodged about the pitted and pot-marked state of a road in Kenley, repair work has yet to commence, as MICHAEL SHACKLETON reports

Badly word and rutted, Valley Road in Kenley offers a rough ride for road users

Badly worn and rutted, Valley Road in Kenley offers a rough ride for road users

Croydon Council’s list of excuses for not resurfacing one crumbling road in the south of the borough have come thick and fast over the past year.

The state of the carriageway in Valley Road, Kenley, has been a bugbear for residents for several years as it has grown to resemble something like the crack-covered surface of the moon.

Around October last year one concerned local wrote to the council to enquire when the “Third World” road surface might be due some attention, only to be assured there was a “backlog” of jobs but the work would commence shortly.

Come November 26 – three weeks after an email from the same resident – a second explanation was received citing “dodgy” tar. Continue reading →

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Will Self writes for Inside Croydon… (Well, sort of)

Posted on August 6, 2015 by insidecroydon

Labour’s candidates for London Mayor, or at least most of them, come to Croydon on Monday for a suburban hustings. But only one of them will be able to do so with the endorsement described by the New Statesman as “peak open letter”.

Author Will Self: made it clear who he is backing

Author Will Self: made it clear who he is backing

“No one is going to top the endorsement we are about to publish,” the editor of the magazine’s online politics pages said this week, minutes before posting an article by Will Self, the internationally acclaimed novelist, as well as NS columnist, who in his own forceful style  endorsed the one non-career politician on the shortlist, Christian Wolmar, as the right choice to be Labour’s next Mayor of London.

Self wrote:

I wish it to be known that I unequivocally support Christian Wolmar’s campaign to become the Labour mayoral candidate in the forthcoming election. I have indeed registered as a Labour Party supporter purely in order to be able to take part in the selection process.

I’ve known Christian as a colleague for over thirty years – at a personal level he has always struck me as a principled and honest man without a scintilla of vanity, pride, self-righteousness or narcissism (the besetting character flaws of the career politician). Continue reading →

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Morris men bring Night of Dance to Addiscombe, Aug 18

Posted on August 5, 2015 by insidecroydon

Croydon Night of DanceThe 11th annual staging of the Croydon Night of Dance – a festival of Morris dance – this year will take place on August 18 in Addiscombe.

The event features six Morris sides from around London and the south-east. It starts at the Builders’ Arms, Leslie Park Road at 7.30pm and dances on in a Morris procession to the Glamorgan in Cherry Orchard Road at 9pm.

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Developing Palace’s young players is not merely academic

Posted on August 5, 2015 by insidecroydon

It is three years since the last time that a Palace Academy player made a first-team league debut. MATT WOOSNAM says this is a worrying trend

“South London and Proud” read Billboards throughout Croydon and south London. The faces of Sean Scannell, Nathaniel Clyne and others adorned them. Palace were proud of their Academy, and rightly so.

A thousand days and counting: it is three years since Kyle de Silva was the last Palace Academy product to "graduate" to the club's first team

A thousand days and counting: it is three years since Kyle de Silva was the last Palace Academy product to “graduate” to the club’s first team

Those days are long gone, the club has evolved and those billboards are no longer needed, we are flying high in the Premier League and things are going well.

With progression, comes change. The club’s evolution has been rapid, and unexpected. With that, however, has been the increasing shift away from the Academy and on to the first team.

Palace must not lose sight of how well that system has served them in the past, for they will regret it in the future if they do.

It is more than a thousand days since Kyle de Silva became the last Academy player to make a league debut. Palace are at risk of losing touch with clubs such as Charlton Athletic and Millwall, not to mention slipping further behind other London academies. Continue reading →

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Croydon Photography Forum focuses on guest speaker, Aug 6

Posted on August 5, 2015 by insidecroydon
Gary John Norman, guest speaker at the Croydon Photography Forum tomorrow evening

Gary John Norman, guest speaker at the Croydon Photography Forum tomorrow evening

Beginning this Thursday, August 6, Lenses of Croydon will be hosting the Croydon Photography Forum each month, with tomorrow’s first session featuring a talk from an internationally regarded professional photographer.

The aim of the forum is to provide local photography enthusiasts with an opportunity to meet with an experienced professional photographer who will share of their expertise.
CPF will also serve as another opportunity for Croydon creatives and our neighbouring friends to network in a relaxed environment.

For the launch event, Gary John Norman is the special guest speaker. Continue reading →

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Angie Davila photography exhibit, Crystal Palace, Aug 16

Posted on August 5, 2015 by insidecroydon

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Croydon BME Forum’s Meet the Funder event, Aug 27

Posted on August 4, 2015 by insidecroydon

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Social cleansing of town centre underway with council survey

Posted on August 4, 2015 by insidecroydon

As they begin the process of “cleansing” the town centre ahead of the arrival of that consumerist’s wet dream, Hammersfield, Croydon’s Labour-run council wants to clear the streets of  drug-dealers and prostitutes, charity fund-raisers, cyclists and skateboarders. PETER UNDERWOOD reports

Westfield's preliminary drawings for how they want to change Croydon

The Hammersfield vision of the future, delivered by Croydon Council: no druggies, no prostitutes, no street drunks… and no cyclists

You will probably not have heard of it but Croydon Council is conducting another one of its poorly publicised consultation exercises. This time they are “consulting” over the introduction of a Public Spaces Protection Order, or PSPO.

A PSPO allows local authorities to start issuing fines to anyone doing anything that they don’t like and make these activities a criminal offence. Croydon Council has decided that there are too many people doing things they don’t like in the centre of Croydon and so they want to introduce a PSPO.

The area where it would be applied is extensive, from Northcote Road in the north, to South Croydon rail station in the south, and from Wandle Park in the west to Cherry Orchard Road in the east. And at the heart of it all is the current Whitgift Centre, Centrale and North End, which over the next three to four years is due to be redeveloped by Westfield and Hammerson.

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Sutton LibDems move to expel Mattey the whistle-blower

Posted on August 3, 2015 by insidecroydon

The “Liberal” “Democrats” have moved to expel from their party an elected south London councillor who has dared to speak up on behalf of the residents he represents over the issue of air pollution and the construction of a vast waste incinerator in his ward.

Sutton councillor Nick Mattey, isolated by the LibDems on the "naughty step" at the last Sutton Council meeting for revealing secret details of the incinerator schemes

Councillor Nick Mattey, isolated by the LibDems on the “naughty step” at Sutton Council

Nick Mattey is the Sutton Council whistle-blower who earlier this year exposed how senior figures in his local LibDem Party were very close to executives at Viridor, the waste incinerator operators who Sutton and three other south London boroughs, including Croydon, had awarded a £1 billion deal to burn their rubbish for three decades.

Mattey also unearthed a £275,000 “gift” from a Viridor operation to a church in Wallington which is a regular host of Sutton LibDem events, and which Tom Brake, the LibDems’ last remaining MP in London, uses as a base in elections.

Such outspokenness by Mattey got the party whip removed from him at Sutton Council meetings, which in reality means not a great deal. “Effectively, they put me on the naughty step,” he told Inside Croydon.

But now the full might of what’s left of the Liberal Democratic Party has been brought against Mattey, with a view to kicking him out. And there we were thinking they needed all the help they can get.

Given the LibDems’ long-held reputation for having a more environmentally friendly stance than either Labour or the Tories, the party leadership’s attitude towards Mattey appears extremely intolerant, and risks long-lasting consequences for the party’s credibility in south London. Continue reading →

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Crafternoon Tea at Coffee Craft, Stanley Halls, Aug 9

Posted on August 3, 2015 by insidecroydon

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Palace need to stop measuring loyalty in burger purchases

Posted on August 2, 2015 by insidecroydon

PAUL DARVILLE on the unfairness of the Crystal Palace fan loyalty scheme, which offers more rewards for buying a burger or a replica shirt than it does for following the team to away games

Well worth 20 loyalty points...

Well worth extra loyalty points…

Crystal Palace’s club loyalty scheme, or “Parish Points”, is used to help allocate tickets for various away games to ensure that the regular away-goers and long-term fans get a higher priority.

This had been seen to be a fair system until last season, when the addition of loyalty points being awarded for purchases through the club shop or through food and drink outlets around the ground was introduced.

Here’s an example of how the loyalty system works now:

  • Norwich away ticket (£45) + Chelsea away ticket (£55) = £100 + travel and expenses = 60 loyalty points
  • Short sleeved replica home shirt (£50) + short sleeved replica away shirt (£50) = £100 = 100 loyalty points

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Is Newman trying to tunnel away from any real questioning?

Posted on August 1, 2015 by insidecroydon

Tony Newman’s Labour group faces losing control of Croydon Town Hall at the first time of asking if the latest national opinion poll, which puts the Tories 12 per cent ahead, translates locally.

Tony Newman, on "#teamTessa", and some of his Town Hall top team.

Tony Newman (third from left) and some of his Town Hall Labour councillors, two of whom pictured here stand to lose their council seats if the polls stay as they have been this week

And yes, of course all opinion polls come with hefty health warnings since the pollsters collectively got so much so spectacularly wrong in the lead-up to May’s “too close to call” (ha!) General Election.

And yes, the next council elections are still a long way off, in 2018.

But one year into Newman’s group’s control of the borough council, unless they are able to convince local residents that Labour has truly made a difference to Croydon, this week’s ComRes poll, conducted for the Daily Wail, would see the Tories gaining three wards and nine new councillors.

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Sara Pascoe in Comedy Festival at The Oval Tavern, Aug 5

Posted on August 1, 2015 by insidecroydon

Croydon Comedy Festival Aug 5 Continue reading →

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£10,000 donation to Jowell’s campaign rings alarm bells

Posted on July 31, 2015 by insidecroydon

Sports and community groups in south London have expressed concerns that Dame Tessa Jowell has been hired by a company founded by Mrs Thatcher’s former spin doctor, and which has strong connections to backers of the controversial Garden Bridge project and has advocated the demolition of athletics facilities at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre.

Tessa Jowell worked with Lord Coe on the Olympics. They now both hold executive positions in subsidiaries of Chime Communications

Tessa Jowell worked with Lord Coe on the Olympics. They now both hold executive positions in subsidiaries of Chime

Jowell, who is 67, retired from Parliament in May. When she was still the MP for Dulwich and West Norwood, the former Olympics Minister was one of the most senior voices to speak out against the Tory Mayor of London’s plans to bulldoze the National Sports Centre.

But now Jowell has been appointed as the non-executive chair of a company owned by Chime Communications. It was another Chime subsidiary, CSM Strategic, which conducted the heavily criticised Crystal Palace NSC consultation on behalf of London Mayor Boris Johnson.

Jowell’s appointment as executive chair at Chime Specialist was announced earlier this month. The company is a subsidiary of Chime, the global communications and sports marketing firm which was founded by Tim Bell, the former PR adviser to Thatcher.

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Labour’s London Mayor candidates coming to Croydon, Aug 10

Posted on July 31, 2015 by insidecroydon
Diane Abbott: Labour Mayoral contender

Diane Abbott: Labour Mayoral contender

Croydon’s Ruskin House will stage a Labour London Mayoral hustings on Monday week, August 10.

The event is being co-ordinated on behalf of 10 outer London constituency Labour parties by the same officials from Croydon Central who are staging an open meeting with Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn next Tuesday.

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