Throwley Yard Cinema under scrutiny as companies collapse

Posted on January 23, 2025 by insidecroydon

INSIDE SUTTON: Four sister companies of the firm behind Sutton’s council-backed cinema have gone out of business in quick succession.
BERTIE WORCESTER-PARK does what he heard them say in the movies, and follows the money…

Gone to the pictures: this is what £2.4m of public money has bought the people of Sutton

Though it claims it is “business as usual”, there are serious questions hanging over the future of the Throwley Yard Cinema in Sutton, the last surviving venue in the portfolio of its parent company, Really Local Group Ltd.

Sutton Council has almost £1million of public money invested in the cinema, having granted a 15-year lease to Really Local Group. Really Local Group also received £1.42million in grants through the government’s Future High Street scheme towards the project. The private company behind the venue, meanwhile, committed a relatively modest £100,000 to the Sutton cinema.

The four-screen cinema, off Sutton High Street, was officially launched last September in a ceremony attended by LibDem council leader Barry “Basher” Lewis. Inside Sutton has not been able to confirm reports at the time that Councillor Lewis expressed his disappointment that he was not to enjoy a screening of his favourite movie, Rocky.

But “Basher” did go on the record to state: “Throwley Yard will become another go-to cultural destination for all Sutton residents and visitors.” Oh dear…

A council press release issued at the time said that the Really Local Group was “known for their successful projects in London”.

This week, two of Really Local Group’s cinemas, in Reading and in Sidcup, entered voluntary administration. This follows the failure of their cinema in Ealing last September. Continue reading →

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Man to appear in court charged with murder in Thornton Heath

Posted on January 23, 2025 by insidecroydon

The police have this morning named Larry Nimoh as the man charged with the murder of a woman in Thornton Heath on Monday night.

The woman has been identified as 31-year-old Jamelatu Tsiwah. A post-mortem examination found the cause of death was due to neck compression.

Nimoh, 21, of no fixed address, is expected to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today.

A second man who was arrested in connection with the death of the woman has been bailed pending further investigation, the Metropolitan Police said today. The police say that they are not seeking anyone else in connection with the murder. Continue reading →

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Yes we CAN? Four MPs lobbied to support vital climate Bill

Posted on January 23, 2025 by insidecroydon

Residents who have become increasingly concerned about the climate emergency have taken their protests to the doorsteps of Croydon’s four MPs.

The time is now: some of the Croydon climate group protesting outside the constituency office of Environment Secretary Steve Reed

Campaigners from the Croydon Green Network rounded off their lobbying by meeting Croydon East MP Natasha Irons, ahead of the Climate and Nature Bill having its second reading in Parliament tomorrow.

The CAN Bill is a landmark piece of environmental legislation, with cross-party support in the Commons and House of Lords, as it seeks to address the full extent of the climate-nature crisis in line with the most up-to-date science.

Dr Amy McDonnell, from Zero Hour, the campaign team supporting the Bill, said, “The Climate and Nature Bill is our last, best chance to ensure the UK rrises to the challenge of the crisis we’re facing.

“Previous governments have already pledged alongside 196 other nations to achieve the 2030 targets that the Bill would make law.

“At present these targets aren’t legally binding and our existing legislation isn’t robust enough to ensure they’re met. The CAN Bill, written by scientists, will enable Britain to do everything it has promised and ensure a liveable future for all.” Continue reading →

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Private tenant takes Lambeth to High Court over S21 eviction

Posted on January 22, 2025 by insidecroydon

Labour-controlled Lambeth Council is being taken to the High Court accused of unlawfully renting homes in the private sector under insecure assured shorthold tenancies and of having made a decision which will see these tenants made homeless – using the dreaded Section 21 no-fault eviction rule which Labour nationally has promised to ban.

Day in court: a High Court judge is to review the housing case brought against Lambeth

The “regeneration” of five council estates across Lambeth began when Steve Reed, now the MP for Streatham and Croydon North, was the council leader at Brixton Town Hall.

One of those estates is Central Hill, close to the Croydon-Lambeth borough boundary, and which once provided homes to 470 households.

The Judicial Review is being brought by a private resident of Central Hill, who is one of potentially hundreds of tenants facing eviction across the five estates in the borough. Continue reading →

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MP Jones’s Swiss role has her missing Ruskin House karaoke

Posted on January 22, 2025 by insidecroydon

Organisers of a Croydon Labour fund-raising karaoke night to be staged at Ruskin House have said privately that they are “disappointed” that Croydon West MP Sarah Jones will be giving the event a miss, after she jetted out to Davos as part of a British government delegation.

Davos delegate: MP Sarah Jones is missing Croydon Labour’s karaoke

Jones won’t even be able to attend her own CLP – constituency Labour Party’s – fund-raising dinner event tomorrow evening. Jones has got a Swiss fondue to look forward to, instead.

Jones is the Minister of State for industry, and is attending the annual World Economic Forum in Switzerland, what is described as a “highly curated group of delegates from global business, government, civil society, media and academia… to address the most pressing issues of the day”.

In 2025, the Davos annual meeting of the great and not-so-good is centred on collaboration in the “intelligent age”. Ha! If only! Continue reading →

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READER OFFER: £5 off tickets for skateboarding play at Polka

Posted on January 22, 2025 by insidecroydon

Inside Croydon is delighted to offer our readers a special, money-saving offer on tickets for Sisters 360, a new play being performed at the Polka Theatre, opening in March.

Inspiration: Sky Brown has won Olympic medals at two Games before she was 16 years old

This exciting, skateboarding saga has been inspired by real-life sisters Layna, Maysa and Amaya, and their hero, teenaged Olympic medallist Sky Brown. It is written for the stage by Asif Khan.

The plot is along these lines: Fatima and Salima are the closest, coolest, hijabi step-sisters in all of Bradford and they will win the Tiny is Mighty skateboarding competition, there is no doubt about it. Continue reading →

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Brigade rescues 16 people from blaze at flats in Upper Norwood

Posted on January 22, 2025 by insidecroydon

Emergency rescue: using a range of tall ladders, firefighters helped people escape from the first, second and basement floors

Six people had to be rescued from the basement of an Upper Norwood building last night, with 10 other residents in flats on the first and second floors being evacuated by firefighters using tall ladders. The firefighters worked “incredibly hard in challenging conditions”, according to official sources.

Eight fire engines and around 60 firefighters tackled the fire on Church Road in Upper overnight.

Six of the people rescued were taken to hospital by the London Ambulance Service.

Half of the first floor was damaged by the fire.

According to the London Fire Brigade: “Six people were escorted from the lower ground floor of the building by the Metropolitan Police. Firefighters rescued 10 people from the first and second floors using a 13.5-metre ladder and a nine-metre ladder.” Continue reading →

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Driving fines kicked out after council fails to provide paperwork

Posted on January 22, 2025 by insidecroydon

Money-spinner: a single council CCTV camera has generated hundreds of thousands of pounds in fines on drivers using the Wellesley Road bus lane. But recently, there’s been more problems with the council’s admin of FPNs

Penalty fines amounting to thousands of pounds have been dismissed after Croydon Council failed to provide the required paperwork for tribunal appeals brought by drivers against alleged driving offences in the weeks leading up to Christmas.

That’s according to a report today from motoring organisation the AA, which says that thousands of London drivers are paying traffic fines which should never have been issued.

Croydon was among six London boroughs who had £130-a-time Fixed Penalty Notices issued in December ruled invalid because their enforcement and restriction cameras lacked proper certification.

It is the second time in just 12 months that Croydon Council’s management of fines for drivers has been shown to be flawed to the point of incompetence.

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Police make two arrests after Bensham Lane woman’s murder

Posted on January 22, 2025 by insidecroydon

“This is Croydon, isn’t it?”

Crime scene: Bensham Lane, with an increased police presence as they sought evidence connected with the murder

That was the response from a Bensham Lane resident when asked by the BBC whether the area is unsafe, following the latest murder in Croydon, a 30-year-old woman who was found dead by first responders shortly after they were called out at around 7pm on Monday night, January 20.

Two 21-year-old men, said by police to have been known to the woman, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in police custody. Continue reading →

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£500,000 donation aids Crystal Palace Park’s dinosaur project

Posted on January 21, 2025 by insidecroydon

Brightening the future with heritage from the past: Crystal Palace Park Trust is making important progress in updating the 170-year-old park. Pic: HTA Design

A charitable foundation has made a grant of half-a-million pounds to the Crystal Palace Park Trust towards the historic park’s regeneration projects.

“The grant, over two years, will support work to preserve and regenerate historic features and landscapes within Crystal Palace Park, including conservation of the Grade I-listed Crystal Palace Dinosaurs,” the Park Trust announced today.

The money is coming from the Garfield Weston Foundation which, since it was established in 1958, has made donations of more than £1.5billion. In the most recent financial year, the Foundation gave more than £100million to nearly 1,800 charities across the country. Continue reading →

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MP ‘delighted’ as Coulsdon banking hub set to open by April

Posted on January 21, 2025 by insidecroydon

Almost three years since the last bank branch in Coulsdon slammed its safe door shut for the final time, residents are about to get a replacement “hub” to provide all the services that were once taken as a standard feature of any high street.

Work begins: the new Coulsdon banking hub is being fitted out, set to open by April

The campaign has been driven by the East Coulsdon Residents’ Association, and they have managed to get support from the Post Office to take on the former Whicher’s Financial Services office in Coulsdon town centre for the purpose.

Work began on site at 152 Brighton Road yesterday, with a view to opening the banking hub by April. Coulsdon’s postmaster has been appointed to manage the banking hub as well as the Post Office.

Together with Cash Access UK, the Post Office has already opened nine similar banking hubs around London and the home counties – providing physical premises for banks to conduct their business and for their customers to make cash deposits and withdrawals and most of the usual banking services. Continue reading →

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St Helier facing ‘catastrophic failure’ as hospital plans delayed

Posted on January 21, 2025 by insidecroydon

INSIDE SUTTON: Yesterday’s announcement by Labour health secretary Wes Streeting that the promised new hospital at Belmont will be delayed by at least another seven years drew dire warnings from health professionals, reports DAVE BURTON

State of collapse: each passing year is costing £150m just to repair and patch-up St Helier

“We’re going to have to prepare for the catastrophic failure of our estate,” was the dire warning of Dr James Marsh, the deputy CEO of the St George’s, Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust, following the health secretary’s announcement yesterday of further delays to the New Hospital Programme.

“After decades of false promises, the people of south-west London and Surrey have been let down once again,” Dr Marsh said.

The New Hospital Programme is in disarray. Labour minister Wes Streeting chose a “good day to bury bad news” for his announcement, following an urgent review of the previous Tory government’s “undeliverable” hospital plans. Continue reading →

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WIN!!! 3 pairs of tickets for Changing Seasons at Fairfield Halls

Posted on January 21, 2025 by insidecroydon

Inside Croydon is delighted to team up with the London Mozart Players to offer three lucky subscribers each a pair of tickets – worth £65 – for their Changing Seasons concert at the Fairfield Halls on Saturday, February 15.

The concert is a new multi-genre spectacular from Croydon’s resident orchestra, created as a reflection on the climate emergency and its impact on our future.

When Vivaldi wrote his Four Seasons in 1723, the world was a difference place. As nature continues to inspire art, Vivaldi’s piece remains popular and still has a place in today’s society, as this London Mozart Players concert will strive to demonstrate.

This exciting production mixes Vivaldi’s classic with new commissions from four talented local arts groups. Continue reading →

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TfL updates its Go app as contactless arrives across south-east

Posted on January 21, 2025 by insidecroydon

Transport for London has released its latest update to the free TfL Go app, which will make it easier for customers to keep tabs on their fares and journey history while on the move.

Time to Go: TfL has upgraded the functionality for some users of its Go app

The update will allow customers to easily access their contactless or Oyster online account and then view their journey history directly in the TfL Go app, rather than having to do so via the TfL website or Oyster and Contactless app.

They will also find it easier to check and apply for a refund for any incomplete journeys, top up pay as you go credit and buy adult rate season tickets for their Oyster card via the app. Customers can also create a contactless or Oyster account on the app if they don’t already have one.

The update is being rolled out to all TfL Go users over the next few weeks, after which point TfL will look to close down its Oyster and Contactless app, which launched in September 2017.

When using pay as you go with contactless and Oyster, customers can travel flexibly at quieter times by simply touching in and out and only paying for the journeys they make, reducing the need to queue or buy tickets in the station. Continue reading →

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92% of readers disagree with Kerswell’s Peer Review findings

Posted on January 20, 2025 by insidecroydon

Unconvincing: Croydon CEO Katherine Kerswell

Croydon Mayor Jason Perry and the council CEO who tells him what to do, Katherine Kerswell, had better be very worried, as a series of public opinion questions have had responses in which more than 90% of iC readers have firmly rejected the findings of a report by some of their old chums.

Inside Croydon reported earlier this month on the somewhat credulous findings of the LGA Corporate Peer Challenge, the latest report to be published into the workings of Croydon’s cash-strapped and dysfunctional council.

At one point, the Peer Review claimed:

“Together the Mayor and chief executive are well-respected and provide strong, visible leadership to the council.” Continue reading →

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Sutton staff kept Kingdom revenue deal secret from councillors

Posted on January 20, 2025 by insidecroydon

Evenin’ all: Kingdom staff pose with Sutton CEO Helen Bailey (second left). Sutton has been collecting 10% of fines issued by Kingdom since April last year

INSIDE SUTTON: Discussion about the private ‘bounty hunters’ patrolling the borough’s streets has been blocked, while evidence has been discovered that council staff may have misled opposition councillors over Kingdom’s latest contract. EXCLUSIVE by DAVE BURTON

Sutton Council has been making money from the High Street fines being issued by controversial “bounty hunters” working for a private security firm – and senior council staff misled councillors over the arrangements.

A council committee meeting earlier this month descended into farce when Christopher Woolmer, the Liberal Democrat councillor chairing the meeting, refused to allow any discussion about the deal with Kingdom LA Services.

Inside Sutton reported earlier this month serious allegations of misconduct by staff from Kingdom, the private security company which provides “environmental protection officers” who hand out fines for often petty littering offences on Sutton High Street. Continue reading →

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Plans announced for ‘community centre’ in former Norbury pub

Posted on January 20, 2025 by insidecroydon

New owners of The Norbury, the big old boozer on London Road that closed its doors nearly five years ago, have put forward a set of proposals for public consultation to refurbish the building as a community centre, to be called the Norbury Hive.

The landmark building on the main road between Streatham and Thornton Heath was built in the 1930s as a hotel.

The ownership of the building appears to have changed hands in the last 12 months for around £2.6million, and is now owned by a recently established development firm, London Road Norbury Ltd, which has the London Muslim Support Network registered as persons of significant control.

They say, “The site has been left derelict for several years and previously being run as a drinking facility and nightclub for over a decade.”

It was, in fact, what is more usually known as a pub, it had been run by the same family for 25 years, and was known for the massive Guinness signage over the front door, until they chose to shut up shop for good in the face of storm-force economic winds caused by covid. Continue reading →

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Another Whitgift store to close – and manager blames Westfield

Posted on January 19, 2025 by insidecroydon

There’s another closing down sale in the Whitgift Centre.

Empty promises: Christmas was supposed to be the busiest time of the retailing year. But not in the Westfield-owned Whitgift Centre last month, when there were more buckets than customers

And this time, the exiting retail business, toy store The Entertainer, has made it abundantly clear that their decision to quit the increasingly empty Croydon shopping centre was entirely down to the management of Westfield.

The Entertainer, which has 160 branches across Britain, will permanently shutter its branch in the Whitgift Centre on February 1, and so follow the likes of Sainsbury’s (which had been a permanent fixture of the centre since it opened more than 50 years earlier), The Body Shop and Camden Coffee House, who have all given up on the run-down mall in a growing exodus of businesses the past 12 months or so.

And in a national newspaper report published yesterday, the company’s regional manager said that the closure was as a “requirement of the landlord” for the “proposed redevelopment of the Whitgift Shopping Centre”.

Continue reading →

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For those in peril on the sea: HMS Racehorse’s Manx legacy

Posted on January 19, 2025 by insidecroydon

Shipwrecked: the rescue of the crew of HMS Racehorse in December 1822 saw eight men lost at sea off the Isle of Man. Painting by Paul Parker, courtesy the Isle of Man Post Office

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A surgeon from Croydon who served in the Royal Navy of Nelson’s era, survived a traumatic shipwreck that prompted the formation of a fine institution, as DAVID MORGAN discovered with the help of fellow archivists from the Isle of Man

It is more than 200 years ago now since he decided to write his will, a timely decision just a few months before he was on board a ship that ran aground in a notorious shipwreck, an incident that would lead to the foundation of one of the great institutions of this country.

The document that was drawn up on March 7 1822 was the last will and testament of John Pegus, a surgeon in the Royal Navy. Pegus described himself as living at Croydon Common, which at that time was an area of some affluence. Continue reading →

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Hero Hirai joins the Pirates’ perfect pitch for women’s baseball

Posted on January 19, 2025 by insidecroydon

Croydon Pirates Baseball Club is launching its first women’s programme, aiming to start playing in the 2025 season.

As part of this initiative, the Pirates will be hosting a “Intro to Baseball” session on Saturday, February 1, from 6pm to 8pm at Wallington County Grammar School.

The session is open to women of all experience levels over the age of 14 (the minimum age to play in the British Baseball Federation’s women’s league).

Spaces for the session are limited, so early registration is encouraged. Continue reading →

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Residents’ associations reject developer’s revised Purley plans

Posted on January 18, 2025 by insidecroydon

Polaska’s 220-unit ‘later living’ development was deemed ‘wholly unacceptable’ by the GLA last year. Now groups representing hundreds of locals say updated parking proposals could be the ‘death knell’ for businesses in the area. EXCLUSIVE by PEARL LEE, our south of the borough correspondent

Tall order: residents’ associations have objected to the revised Polaska plans as the proposed blocks of rtirement flats are too tall

Seven of the borough’s largest and most influential residents’ associations have roundly rejected the revised plans for the large “later living” development of 220 retirement homes in Purley, on the site of a council-owned multi-storey car park, disused supermarket and the leisure centre.

The RAs released a statement today which threatens to scupper the £70million-plus scheme that has been proposed by shady developers Polaska and enthusiastically backed by Croydon’s Tory Mayor Jason Perry, a local business association and Conservative MP for the area, Chris Philp.

“Whilst all the RAs are very keen to see a new leisure centre built in Purley, serving our area, we believe this should not be at any cost,” the statement read.

The statement was issued on behalf of Hartley and District RA, Riddlesdown RA, East Coulsdon RA, Selsdon RA, Croham Valley RA, Old Coulsdon RA and Coulsdon West RA – whose members are all residents from the usually overwhelmingly Conservative-voting areas of the borough. Continue reading →

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Mayor Perry challenged over broken promises in Wandle Park

Posted on January 18, 2025 by insidecroydon

Locals in Waddon and Broad Green are challenging the Croydon Mayor to keep his promise to re-open the café in Wandle Park.

A river runs through it: Wandle Park has been neglected for the last five years, its café remaining closed

Wandle Park, wedged in alongside railway and tram tracks, on the western edge of the borough close to the Purley Way, is among the oldest public open spaces in Croydon.

Civic-minded Victorians laid out the public park on the site of Stubbs Mead and Frogs Mead, low-lying land through which ran the River Wandle. With the creation of a boating lake, Wandle Park was officially opened in 1890, on a day when 30,000 people turned out for the occasion. There probably wasn’t much on the telly.

There was a bandstand, a bowling green with pavilion and tennis courts. According to an official history of the park, by the 1930s Wandle Park had become “the venue for the borough’s Summer Show, there were pony rides, hoop-la, boat-swings and roundabouts”. Sounds like a scene from Half A Sixpence…
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Friends of Addiscombe Railway Park Wassail!, Jan 25

Posted on January 18, 2025 by insidecroydon

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Banstead Rotary 2025 Charity Walk, North Downs, May 11

Posted on January 18, 2025 by insidecroydon

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Surrey Street traders give Mayor Perry their own shopping list

Posted on January 17, 2025 by insidecroydon

After a botched £1.2m Croydon facelift just eight years ago, market traders have outlined what they say they need to make the place safer and more attractive to visitors

Bustling: Surrey Street on a busy Saturday is still the place for good value fruit and veg

Traders working in Croydon’s historic street market have given Mayor Jason Perry a shopping list of their own, in the hope of improving Surrey Street and make it a much safer and more pleasant place to visit.

It is less than eight years since the council spent £1.2million on giving Surrey Street a Croydon face-lift, which involved shutting the normally busy market for three months for a bit of resurfacing work and equipping traders with some new, flimsy stalls.

While market customers drifted away, there was an exodus of stall-holders, with a drop of 87% in the number of casual market licences issued after the refurbishment.

But now Mayor Jason Perry, unable to exercise any real influence over Westfield’s continuing development blight around the Whitgift Centre, has decided to turn his attention to the unsuspecting businesses of Surrey Street. Continue reading →

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