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Emergency services on call after worker falls from site lift
PHOTOSTORY EXCLUSIVE Pictures by DAVID WHITE East Croydon was lit up with blue lights at lunchtime today, responding to reports that a site worker had fallen off an inner lift on a building site on Addiscombe Road, opposite landmark No1 … Continue reading
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Mayor Perry now forced into another U-turn over road fines
One month after Inside Croydon reported how a yellow box trap outside East Croydon Station was generating hundreds of thousands of pounds in unfair fines, the council has – probably reluctantly – painted over the offending road markings. JEREMY CLACKSON … Continue reading
Tribunal rules Perry’s yellow box at East Croydon is ‘wrong’
Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed Mayor who is already having to find up to £10million in refunds for fines levied on motorists driving in his unlawful LTNs, could now have to repay another £2million for drivers caught in a yellow box … Continue reading
How Croydon’s second rink skated past Edwardian Nimbyism
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Following ‘Rinkomania’ 30 years earlier, Croydon got a second roller skating rink early in the 20th Century which thrived despite public opposition from residents living close to East Croydon Station. DAVID MORGAN on the brief history of a … Continue reading
Planning Inspector gives green light to another 28-storey tower
The NLA Tower, the Richard Seifert and Partners-designed “50p Building” that has come to symbolise central Croydon, is to be overlooked by a 28-storey block (another one), after the council lost yet another case at the Planning Inspectorate. Wittington Investments … Continue reading
Subway fire sparked fears for Seifert’s landmark building
Six fire engines were called out to a blaze underneath the No1 Croydon building last night. The London Fire Brigade this morning clarified that the fire was in a pedestrian subway on Addiscombe Road, close to East Croydon Station, and … Continue reading
