Ecology Centre staging plant “bring and buy”: May 12

Posted on May 9, 2013 by insidecroydon

The Croydon Ecology Centre at Heathfield on Coombe Lane is staging a plant, seed and seedling sale this Sunday, May 12, from noon to 4.30pm.

ecology centreAdmission is free.

“If you’re looking for something pretty to plant in your garden or maybe grow a few vegetables, then this Bring & Buy plant sale is the place to be,” the organisers say.

“If you have any pot plants or surplus trays of seedlings, please bring them along and donate them to our Ecology Centre Plant Stand. All money raised on this stand goes to our Wildlife Rescue Fund and directly benefits local wildlife.” Continue reading →

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Volunteers needed for Crystal Palace Festival: Jun 27-30

Posted on May 9, 2013 by insidecroydon

This year’s Crystal Palace Underground Festival is taking place between Thursday 27 and Sunday 30 June. And the organisers are looking for volunteers.

Crystal Palace overgroundfestival logoThe free four-day community arts festival, now in its seventh year, will start with “fringe” events around Crystal Palace on the Thursday and Friday, in anticipation of the  big festival weekend.

Westow Park will be the main festival hub on Saturday 29, with Sunday 30 focusing around the Upper Norwood Triangle.

“Our festival is special and helps our community come together as one so it’s important that it continues,” the organisers say. “If you can help with fundraising, grants or would like to sponsor or advertise with the festival, then do get in touch and help make the festival even bigger and better in 2013.” Continue reading →

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Council’s Mr & Mrs act that defies proper declarations

Posted on May 8, 2013 by insidecroydon

The move by Croydon Council to take over the running of the Fairfield Halls has thrown a supertrouper spotlight on some of the interests, and potential conflicts of interest, of leading members of the borough’s Establishment.

Margaret Mead: councillor for Selsdon and Ballards, and one half of Croydon's First Couple

Margaret Mead: councillor for Heathfield ward, and one half of Croydon’s First Couple

After all, with senior members of Croydon Council deciding to spend millions of pounds of public money on a particular project or venue, it would be good to know that the decisions are being reached in the best interests of all the people of the borough.

The Favoured Halls’ tired schedule of professional wrestling, old-wave comics, trite tribute acts and stale spin-offs from second-rate television shows may not yet have managed to include a stage play version of the 1970s sit-com Terry and June.

Were they to do so, the casting director would have to look no further for the show’s stars than the Town Hall front bench of the Conservatives who run our council: Ladies and Gennelmen! We give you … Dudley and Margaret Mead.

Both are former Mayors of Croydon. Dudley has been on the council since 1980, is a former leader of the Conservative group on the council, and today is Mike Fisher’s deputy leader.

Both Dudley and Margaret are in the cabinet in Croydon’s Tory-run council (Dudley with the key role in charge of “capital budget”). With both of them in the cabinet, their household receives more than £90,000 a year in councillor allowances. It also means that when, last week, the cabinet met in secret to discuss the future of the Fairfield Halls, the Meads between them held one-fifth of the votes available when it came to decide whether Croydon Council should bail out the arts centre with millions of pounds of public cash.

The Meads appear to have a finger-in-all-the-pies approach to public life. Let’s have a look at what the Meads declare officially as their “interests”.

And then compare that with what they have failed to declare. Continue reading →

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Portas starts to opens doors – for £1bn “Hammersfield”

Posted on May 8, 2013 by insidecroydon

LAST NIGHT’S TELLY: DAVID CALLAM, the former local newspaper business editor, reviews the opening episode of Mary Queen of the High Street, the Channel 4 series that spawned £2.7 million-worth of public grants, and poses an important question about her business involvements in Croydon

Lights, cameras, inaction: Mary Portas filming in a street market, though not Croydon's Surrey Street. Photo by Helen Augustine

Lights, cameras, inaction: Mary Portas filming in a street market, though not Croydon’s Surrey Street

She came, she saw, and frankly, she had very little new to offer.

Mary Portas walked up and down Roman Road in east London not saying very much of note and repeating herself after every ad break, presumably to fill time. The stuff about better presentation and a wider variety of street food have both been tried in Surrey Street in Croydon, without any game-changing success.

And Portas’s destination shopping solution – turn an overstuffed junk shop into an overpriced junk shop – is hardly what we might expect from one of the country’s foremost authorities on retailing. Continue reading →

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Join the celebration for Crystal Palace’s transition: May 8

Posted on May 8, 2013 by insidecroydon

The Crystal Palace Transition Town group is inviting residents from near and far to join them tonight for their annual meeting and celebration tonight at The Salvation Army Building, 58-60 Westow Street, SE19 3AF from 7.30pm.

Crystal Palace park and tower 2“It’s been a very exciting year for us and we would like you to come along and hear about what we have been up to,” according to CPTT co-chair Sarah Hathaway.

In the last 12 months, CPTT’s projects have seen five local community food growing sites, including the prize-winning “Edible Garden” in Westow Park; the “Bugs Club” for Kids; Palace Pick-Ups: our community clean-ups; Palace Pints; Palace Preserves; Patchwork Farm; Palace Power, our community solar energy project; our “Local and Fair” group supporting Fairtrade and local businesses; our new transport group.

And it does not stop there. From this Saturday, May 11, there will be a weekly Crystal Palace Food Market, which will launch on Saturday May 11. The brainchild of CPTT steering group member Karen Jones, it promises to have at least a dozen food stalls of hand-picked ethically sourced food of the highest standards but within a price range that competes with the local supermarkets. Continue reading →

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Fairtrade Croydon’s 10th birthday: May 18

Posted on May 7, 2013 by insidecroydon

Latest Fairtrade LogoTen years ago, Croydon became the first London borough to become officially recognised as a Fairtrade borough, committed to boosting awareness and understanding of trade issues and promoting the purchase of Fairtrade products.

It is World Fairtrade Day on May 11.

And on Saturday May 18, to mark the borough’s anniversary Croydon Fairtrade Network (CFTN) is hosting a celebration event in the Clock Tower Café Foyer from 11am to 1pm. Continue reading →

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Mary Portas’s TV company listed Croydon to get grant

Posted on May 7, 2013 by insidecroydon

Croydon received a £100,000 government grant last year after programme makers involved with tonight’s new Mary Portas Channel 4 series had named Surrey Street on a list of markets that they wanted included in the scheme.

Mary Portas "Queen of the High Street", visiting Croydon last year: there's been little progress since

Mary Portas “Queen of the High Street”, visiting Croydon last year: there’s been little progress since

Mary Queen of the High Street starts its three-part series tonight, although while Croydon was among the towns chosen by the local government department to receive the six-figure grant for the Portas Pilot, aimed at reviving ailing high streets, Surrey Street will not feature strongly in the programmes.

According to a report in The Guardian, television producers involved with the new Portas TV series sent a list of their favourite locations to the Department for Communities and Local Government when it was picking key locations – including Croydon – to receive more than £2.5 million of public grants. Continue reading →

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“We will reject having the incinerator imposed upon us”

Posted on May 7, 2013 by insidecroydon

TONY NEWMAN, the leader of the Labour opposition group on Croydon Council, says that he will use every legal power available to stop a £1 billion Viridor incinerator project being developed on the borders of the borough at Beddington Lane

Croydon Labour leader Tony Newman: opposed to incinerator

Croydon Labour leader Tony Newman: opposed to incinerator

Just a few weeks after the planning committee in Sutton refused to pass council officials’ strong recommendation to inflict an incinerator upon us all, with the backing of Croydon’s Tory-run council, they are shamelessly bringing it straight back to the same committee next week, on May 15.

Bringing the matter back so swiftly, with no answers as to how the traffic pollution will be addressed or how the risks to public health will be answered, could deliver a decision that will blight the lives of tens of thousands of residents for the next quarter of a century, without the matter ever being put before the people.

Let me be crystal clear: an incoming Labour council in Croydon next May will use every legal power at our disposal to stop this incinerator being inflicted upon us, and we will work with politicians of any other political party, and none, to achieve our shared ends. Continue reading →

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Tories Fisher and Barwell told to get off their “fat arses”

Posted on May 6, 2013 by insidecroydon

Croydon’s Tory leadership, Mike Fisher and Gavin “I’m just a bag man” Barwell, have come in for a withering attack – from their own political party’s high command.

Blogged: Iain Dale - Tory party opinion-former

Blogged: Iain Dale – Tory party opinion-former

Iain Dale, the noted Conservative blogger, used his weekly diary on ConservativeHome.com, the website owned by none other than Lord Cashcroft, to slaughter Croydon Tories for “sitting on their fat arses” instead of getting out campaigning in support of their colleagues in Surrey ahead of last week’s less-than-successful county council elections.

Dale was fiercely critical of Croydon Conservatives for staging a cosy manifesto get-together fronted by Fisher, the rarely sighted leader of the Tory group at Croydon Town Hall, and Croydon Central MP Barwell.

Dale felt that the timing of the Croydon Conservatives’ event, so close to the county elections, was extremely poor judgement.

But Inside Croydon has also been contacted by Conservative figures in Sutton who are angry at their Croydon party colleagues for their equally slap-dash approach over the issue of the Beddington Lane waste incinerator. Continue reading →

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£1.5m gym opens offering easy rates for exercise

Posted on May 6, 2013 by insidecroydon

Bit by bit, some things are coming together. Thus, opening on London Road, West Croydon, in the past couple of weeks, is easyGym, where £1.5 million has been spent on refurbishment and equipment at the site of the Fitness First which was closed by the 8/8 riots in 2011.

West Croydon's newest facility: £17.99 per month for easyGym

West Croydon’s newest facility: £17.99 per month for easyGym

The business model is a low-cost gym based on the easyJet concept of Stelios Haji-Ioannou, and has an opening offer of no joining fee, flexible membership arrangements with no fixed contracts, charging from just £17.99 per month.

That’s considerably less than half of the basic £44 a month charges at the recently opened, council-owned Waddon Leisure Centre. Continue reading →

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The Sugarloaf, the school and the lost Lawrence connection

Posted on May 5, 2013 by insidecroydon

What hope for Croydon’s future when so little interest is shown in its past? Local author BRIAN MELICAN on how the area’s links with one of the outstanding novelists of the 20th Century have been ignored, forgotten and … re-developed into a Tesco Express

Croydon author DH Lawrence: the author's first teaching job was at a new elementary school, Davidson Road, between 1908 and 1911, on an annual salary of £100

DH Lawrence: the young author’s took a teaching job at a then new elementary school, Davidson Road, between 1908 and 1911, on an annual salary of £100

With the Red Deer pub under threat from conversion into (yet another) supermarket, there’s a sense of déjà vu: landmark pub, architecturally significant, on a sharp corner off of the Brighton Road, facing into the town centre… Swan and Sugarloaf, anyone?

You might muse on Croydon’s congenital lack of interest for its own history, especially when you learn that the Swan and Sugarloaf was a pub of literary pedigree, mentioned in a short story by DH Lawrence.

Granted, that side of things may have been hard to imagine during this particular watering hole’s latter years, what with the blaring big-screen TVs and mid-morning drinkers with toddlers in tow. But in its halcyon days, this was a pub of renown.

So how did the Swan and Sugarloaf soar to the lofty heights of English literature? And what was the notoriously elitist Lawrence doing in one of Croydon’s less salubrious establishments? In fact, scratch that: what was DH Lawrence doing in Croydon? Continue reading →

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Addiscombe councillor takes the (very) high road for charity

Posted on May 5, 2013 by insidecroydon

With Croydon Council in recess, Addiscombe councillor Mark Watson is off on his latest charity trek.

Councillor Watson: ready for the long haul

Councillor Watson: ready for the long haul

This latest vertiginous effort will take him to north Africa’s highest peak, the 13,671ft Jebeel Toubkal in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco.

Watson is raising money to help end exploitation in tourism and to support a local community project sustained by tourism – the Education for All project, which provides schooling for girls in the area, and which Watson and his fellow climbers will be visiting. Few girls from remote, rural communities in the high Atlas Mountains get the chance to continue their education after primary school.

To help tackle this, Education for All has constructed the first girls’ boarding house for 24 girls, which was opened in 2008.

“It is important in international development for women to have the opportunity to be educated,” Watson said. Continue reading →

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Aldi asks Coulsdon residents for views on Red Lion scheme

Posted on May 4, 2013 by insidecroydon

Another week, another old pub (site), another supermarket.

Another super market: residents are being lobbied by Aldi about its plans for Coulsdon High Street

Another super market: residents are being lobbied by Aldi about its plans for Coulsdon High Street

This time, it is the Red Lion site on Coulsdon High Street, long used as a car park, with plans put forward by German supermarket chain Aldi.

Aldi has distributed a leaflet in Coulsdon with a questionnaire seeking views on a proposal to build a foodstore with a “regional training facility” and 30 car park spaces on the Red Lion site, promising to create 30 jobs. Continue reading →

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Take a walk among the bluebells on Bank Holiday Monday

Posted on May 4, 2013 by insidecroydon

Bluebell walkThere will be a bluebell and spring flower walk around Coulsdon’s Dollypers Hill, including In Wood (a noted ancient woodland area) with Malcolm Jennings, the Surrey Wildlife Trust‘s volunteer warden, and Jane McLauchlin on Bank Holiday Monday, May 6.

To start at 2pm, the walk should last for about two hours, it covers less than two miles. The Surrey Wildlife Trust suggests a donation of £2 for adults, £1 for children. Continue reading →

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UKIP results are “poison” to Conservatives in Croydon

Posted on May 3, 2013 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: If UKIP can gain Godstone in neighbouring Surrey, then what damage might they do to the Tories in Coulsdon or Purley, especially when 2014’s Town Hall elections are held along with European ballots? ANDREW PELLING has been crunching the numbers

UKIP logoThis week’s local elections outside London saw national media coverage concentrate on UKIP, Nigel Farage and the social media postings of some of his candidates.

UKIP polled well yesterday but even then only made limited actual seat gains. If repeated in Croydon’s Town Hall elections next year, it could mean the first UKIP councillor being elected in our borough.

Today’s results have shown that UKIP has the ability to draw voters unhappy with the government, and those disenchanted with “real” politicians. Voters who in the past might swing from one major party to the other have this time voted UKIP.

UKIP is poison for Tory fortunes in Croydon, especially with next year’s elections coinciding with the European elections. However the diversion of voters to UKIP, rather than Labour, might yet derail the current Croydon opposition party’s hopes of taking control of the Town Hall next year. Continue reading →

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Inside Croydon’s Hero of the Week: John Cartwright

Posted on May 3, 2013 by insidecroydon
Not a typical Croydon Tory: John Cartwright in his Loony Party outfit

Not a typical Croydon Tory: John Cartwright in his Loony Party outfit

Inside Croydon puts great store in “doing the right thing”, and our local hero (cue Knopfler guitar music) for the past week is therefore John Cartwright.

A relatively new member of the Croydon Conservative party, Cartwright did the right thing this week when in a comment posted on this site, he accused the Mayor of Croydon, Ashburton councillor Eddy Arram, of bullying a member of the public in the gallery during a Town Hall meeting.

It was, Cartwright said, “the most outrageous and contemptible thing I have ever witnessed in 15 years of attending council meetings”.

By speaking out, Cartwright broke the cosy consensus within the Croydon Tories which through inaction had condoned Mayor Arram’s petulant and boorish public conduct over the previous 12 months. Maybe the Tories’ collective silence had something to do with the fact that during his mayoralty, Arram continued to work as Gavin’s gofer, a constituency worker for Gavin Barwell MP. Or maybe they were all just too cowed to act. Continue reading →

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£1bn incinerator “replay” meeting hurriedly set-up for May 15

Posted on May 3, 2013 by insidecroydon

Sutton Council’s anxiety to push through proposals to build a waste incinerator in the midst of a highly populated residential area in Beddington Lane was demonstrated today with the announcement that a further development control committee meeting will be staged on May 15.

Smoke stackLast month, the same committee was split on the issue, with the chairman John Leach deferring any decision.

Some had suggested that, given the usually slow pace that such matters progress at local councils, it might not be until late June at the earliest before the committee would re-convene to consider the arguments. Any further delays, over the summer break, would then risk the decision being reviewed by incoming administrations after next year’s local elections.

But with a £1 billion public contract on the table for Viridor to operate the waste incinerator for four south-west London boroughs – Sutton, Merton, Croydon and Kingston – such delays apparently cannot be risked. Continue reading →

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Campaign groups unite for Croydon’s May Day Rally

Posted on May 3, 2013 by insidecroydon

The annual Croydon Mayday March takes place on Saturday, May 4.

May DayOrganised by the Croydon Trade Union Council, the march begins at noon from a meeting point in Elmwood Road, West Croydon, and progresses to Coombe Road’s Ruskin House, the home of Croydon’s Labour movement in its various left-of-centre forms. Continue reading →

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Sutton official tried to influence vote at incinerator meeting

Posted on May 3, 2013 by insidecroydon

Sutton-20120215-00413An audio clip, obtained from the official Sutton Council recording of last week’s controversial planning meeting for the £1 billion incinerator scheme at Beddington Lane, shows that a council official intervened with the meeting chairman to try to force a decision on the night, rather than defer the matter as was determined by the elected councillors.

Listen in all its glory as John Leach, the LibDem councillor chairing the meeting, decides to defer the decision, having added his own vote to tie-up proceedings at 3-3 before opting out of exercising a casting vote (nice of him to give himself two votes, don’t you think?). Continue reading →

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Play-offs within reach for Palace down Holloway’s road

Posted on May 3, 2013 by insidecroydon

It is promotion High Noon – well, 12.45 – at Selhurst Park tomorrow, as Crystal Palace seek to secure a promotion play-off place. IAN LAMONT knows where he’s placing his money

Inside Croydon’s loyal reader will remember that I have a cheeky bet on Crystal Palace’s promotion bid.

Goal celebration: Glenn Murray after one of his 30 goals this season. But scenes such as this have been rare in the past two months

Goal celebration: Glenn Murray after one of his 30 goals this season. But scenes such as this have been rare in the past two months

Back in January, I bet on them, Bradford and Bournemouth to be promoted, with the feeling that at least two of them would need to get through the play-offs to go up. Bournemouth are up. Bradford, steaming into form, were favourites of the four candidates in League Two going into Thursday’s play-offs.

Palace? They haven’t even quite made it yet to the cup-style season finale. They should manage to do that. But on current form they could well struggle to reach the play-off final, let alone go up. Tomorrow’s game at home with relegation-threatened Peterborough is by no means a foregone conclusion. Continue reading →

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“No service will be untouched” in further cuts, says CEO

Posted on May 2, 2013 by insidecroydon

Maybe it is the “interim” element of the title that gives Nathan Elvery a touch of impermanence as Croydon’s chief executive, a bit like Rafa Benitez, the unloved and unappreciated “interim” manager at Chelsea football club.

Interim Croydon CEO Nathan Elvery: more cuts to come

Interim Croydon CEO Nathan Elvery: more cuts to come

Or maybe, as a former finance director who’s only too aware of the state of the council’s accounts – much of which have been kept in utter secrecy not least because of the mis-firing £450 million URV scheme with Laing’s – Elvery may not want to hang around in the top job for too long.

There’s certainly a sense of doom and gloom in Elvery’s statement to council staff in the latest edition of The Loop (as in “keeping you in the loop”. Seriously), the staff magazine.

Tucked in behind an ad for the Taberner House Weight Watchers group, Elvery’s article says that despite four years of unremitting cut-backs in service levels and staff, there’s worse still to come. Much worse. “No service will be untouched”, Elvery says.

The council staff who have been in fear of redundancy for years must have really been inspired and encouraged by that. Continue reading →

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Appeal judges’ decision on Crystal Palace puts parks at risk

Posted on May 2, 2013 by insidecroydon

An appeal court decision to allow “luxury apartments” to be built in Crystal Palace Park could see parkland up and down the country subject to speculative development, according to a concerned London Assembly Member.

Law Lords' decision on Crystal Palace Park could open the way for developers to build on other parkland

Law Lords’ decision on Crystal Palace Park could open the way for developers to build on other parkland

Earlier this week, three Lords of Appeal found against the Crystal Palace Community Association’s application to halt any flat-building on the park as proposed under a development “Masterplan” from Bromley Council. The scheme allows developers to build on the park, in return for meeting the costs of other improvements in the area.

The legal decision could have immediate ramifications in Croydon, where the council wants to build a new academy secondary school on Metropolitan Open Land.

“I fear the court’s decision will set a precedent that will encourage inappropriate development on all public parks and green open spaces,” warned Darren Johnson, a Green party London Assembly Member.

Continue reading →

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Sevens Heaven looks for fast start at Warlingham

Posted on May 2, 2013 by insidecroydon

bournemouth-sevensThe first Warlingham Sevens Heaven tournament gets underway promptly on Saturday morning, May 4, with 18 Rugby 7s sides from across the south-east signed up to compete.

Hillcrest Netball Club is also staging a tournament of its own during the day at Hamsey Green, where a beer tent, hog roasts and other attractions are laid on for what could establish itself as one of the area’s top annual sporting fixtures. Ground entry for the day is free. Continue reading →

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Lords of the dance: Purley’s Morris Men are on the march

Posted on May 2, 2013 by insidecroydon

The next couple of weekends will be busy for the area’s merry band of English folk dancers, the North Wood Morris Men (they’re actually based in Purley; North Wood is a reference to ancient wood which dominated the hilly slopes around Croydon, and from which Norwood gets its name).

Continue reading →

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May Day holiday gives Crown and Sceptre a festival feeling

Posted on May 2, 2013 by insidecroydon

As outlined with previous reports about the Good Companions, the Swan and Sugarloaf and the Red Deer, the pub business is under pressure.

Crown and SceptreSo if we want to keep our local, we need to help to support it, and this Bank Holiday weekend’s Beer Festival at the Crown and Sceptre on Junction Road in South Croydon might be an opportunity to do just that. Continue reading →

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