Tag Archives: Barwell

Twitter witnesses Croydon’s St Valentine’s Day massacre

Posted on February 15, 2015 by insidecroydon

Conservative Party activists in London have recently been in receipt of a guide on how to use social media in election campaigns. The guide offers glowing praise for the way that Croydon MP, Gavin Barwell, and his office tea boy, … Continue reading →

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Poster propaganda prompts Barwell into another costly error

Posted on February 13, 2015 by insidecroydon

The Croydon Labour brains trust (ha!) that is running the Town Hall has managed to score yet another political own-goal, handing a gilt-edged opportunity for Gavin Barwell, the MP for the Whitgift Foundation, to boost his flagging credibility. From the … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015 General Election, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Emily Benn, Gavin Barwell, Nathan Elvery, Sarah Jones MP, Simon Hall, Tony Newman, Whitgift Foundation | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Serious Whitgift CPO objections could end up in law courts

Posted on February 12, 2015 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The complaints to the Whitgift Centre CPO have been raised by some of the country’s biggest businesses, and DAVID CALLAM says that their public opposition could end up in the law courts Like Susan Oliver and commenter David … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, CPO, Croydon Council, David Callam, Gavin Barwell, Housing, Jo Negrini, London-wide issues, Planning, Property, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

How the Whitgift CPO is proving bad for Croydon’s business

Posted on February 10, 2015 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: As the inquiry into Croydon Council’s Compulsory Purchase Order for the Westfield and Hammerson development of the Whitgift Centre enters its second week at Fisher’s Folly, SUSAN OLIVER, left, asks what it may be doing to the town’s … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, CPO, Croydon Council, Environment, Fairfield, Gavin Barwell, Jo Negrini, Planning, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Boxpark pop-up retail outlet set to come to East Croydon

Posted on February 9, 2015 by insidecroydon

Croydon looks set to get its own Boxpark retail marketplace, right next to East Croydon Station. Croydon Visitor Centre and the computer gadget shop next door on the concourse area of East Croydon Station are being moved out to make … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Addiscombe West, Commuting, Croydon Central, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, Gavin Barwell, Housing, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Transport, Warehouse Theatre | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Flawed Purley Way scheme ‘intended to mislead’ says expert

Posted on February 7, 2015 by insidecroydon

Transport experts have condemned the £85 million proposals, including a flyover to the Croydon Flyover, as bad policy, and have criticised the public consultation as seriously flawed and possibly intended to mislead. The consultation was launched this week, and proposes … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, CPO, Croydon Council, Environment, Gavin Barwell, Joy Prince, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Purley Way, Robert Canning, Waddon, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Longer trams could save London millions, say LibDems

Posted on February 5, 2015 by insidecroydon

There is rapidly growing realisation that the major transport projects proposed in and around Croydon – so far amounting to more than £100-million-worth of publicly financed works – are concerned only with increasing the number of cars on our roads, … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Boris Johnson, Business, Commuting, CPO, East Croydon, Environment, Gavin Barwell, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Parking, Property, Tramlink, Transport, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

How MP for Whitgift Foundation has lobbied ‘Inspector Blight’

Posted on February 4, 2015 by insidecroydon

STEVEN DOWNES reports on a Tory MP’s latest failure to declare his interests in a £1 billion redevelopment of central Croydon The official inquiry into Croydon Council’s Compulsory Purchase Order for property in and around the Whitgift Centre began yesterday. … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", 2015 General Election, Bernard Weatherill House, Business, CPO, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Jo Negrini, Julie Belvir, Planning, Property, Purley Way, Timothy Godfrey, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Barwell backs scheme which could bulldoze Waddon park

Posted on February 3, 2015 by insidecroydon

Backed by Boris Johnson, Gavin Barwell and even Labour councillor Kathy Bee, a £85m new roads scheme around the A23 is sure to go through. But as STEVEN DOWNES reports, all the evidence suggests that it will be a dead … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, Business, CPO, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Croydon South, Environment, Gavin Barwell, Health, Joy Prince, Kathy Bee, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Purley Way, Robert Canning, Tony Newman, Waddon, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Tory councillors warned over failure to pay party levy

Posted on February 3, 2015 by insidecroydon

Croydon’s Tory group on the council is feeling the financial pressure, and some elected councillors have been issued with warnings by local Conservative officials after failing to make payments from their council allowances into the campaign fund being used to … Continue reading →

Posted in 2014 council elections, 2015 General Election, Chris Wright, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Gavin Barwell, Mario Creatura, Mike Fisher, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

GCSE results put Croydon in bottom four London boroughs

Posted on February 2, 2015 by insidecroydon

GENE BRODIE reports that 2014’s GCSE results demonstrate that academisation isn’t working – with 3 in every 4 Croydon school leavers still lacking the basic five exam passes According to Croydon’s new Opportunity and Fairness Commission, the borough’s schools are … Continue reading →

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96 days to go and councillors’ self-interest is showing

Posted on January 31, 2015 by insidecroydon

Have you had someone with a rosette knock at your door yet? You will, says WALTER CRONXITE, you will. Though how the tax-payers of Croydon will benefit from one of the longest election campaigns in history is questionable Fed up … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015 General Election, Addiscombe West, Chris Wright, Croydon Central, Dudley Mead, Eddy Arram, Gavin Barwell, Helen Pollard, Jan Buttinger, Jason Cummings, Jason Perry, Louisa Woodley, Maggie Mansell, Malcolm Wicks MP, Margaret Mead, Maria Gatland, Mario Creatura, Mark Watson, Patricia Hay-Justice, Robert Canning, Sara Bashford, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Hollands, Tim Pollard, Timothy Godfrey, Tony Newman, Wayne Lawlor, Whitgift Foundation | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Council meeting goes through the motions as a costly joke

Posted on January 27, 2015 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE, our man watching the webcast with a Yorkie bar and  a cup of strong black coffee, calls for another reform of Croydon Council: scrap meetings of the full council. They’re a complete waste of time and public money, … Continue reading →

Posted in Andrew Pelling, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon Town, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Julie Belvir, Kenley, Lynne Hale, Mario Creatura, Mike Fisher, Nathan Elvery, Phil Thomas, Purley, Purley Pool, Richard Ottaway MP, Sanderstead, Steve O'Connell, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Waste incinerator, Whitgift Foundation, Woodside | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Survey predicts MP Barwell is facing capital ‘punishment’

Posted on January 27, 2015 by insidecroydon

Even the Evening Boris is predicting that Gavin Barwell, the MP for the Whitgift Foundation, will lose his parliamentary seat at the General Election in 100 days time. Barwell had London Mayor Boris Johnson attend his glitzy campaign launch last … Continue reading →

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Borough Solicitor issues councillors with CPO gagging order

Posted on January 24, 2015 by insidecroydon

WHO’S REALLY RUNNING CROYDON COUNCIL (Part 94): The borough’s 70 councillors, all democratically elected as recently as last May to represent the interests of the people of Croydon, have been ordered to express no opinion whatsoever about the £1billion Hammersfield … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, CPO, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Jo Negrini, Julie Belvir, Planning, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Jones’s campaign given £10,000 boost by ex-LibDem peer

Posted on January 22, 2015 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE on the latest intriguing developments in Croydon’s marginal parliamentary constituency Sarah Jones, Labour’s parliamentary candidate in Croydon Central, has been given a £10,000 donation towards her campaign funds by someone who sat in parliament as a member of … Continue reading →

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Report covers up council’s role in #WadGate scandal

Posted on January 21, 2015 by insidecroydon

Croydon Council has overseen a cover-up of the role of senior public officials in the #WadGate scandal, in which over the course of a year the now former council leader, Mike Fisher, was allowed to trouser an extra £13,000 of … Continue reading →

Posted in Bernard Weatherill House, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Julie Belvir, Mike Fisher, Nathan Elvery, Shirley North, Steve Hollands, Steve O'Connell, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Vidhi Mohan | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Sutton Tory refuses to canvass for beleaguered Barwell

Posted on January 20, 2015 by insidecroydon

An official Conservative Party election candidate in a south London constituency is refusing to help Tory MP Gavin Barwell in his battle to hold on to his seat in Croydon Central. Barwell is a career politician who won Croydon Central … Continue reading →

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Selhurst loses a councillor and champion in Gerry Ryan

Posted on January 19, 2015 by insidecroydon

STEVEN DOWNES attempts to pay tribute to Gerry Ryan It was Gerry Ryan’s 57th birthday yesterday. That, by any measure, is too young an age at which to die, but after many months suffering a debilitating form of cancer, finally, … Continue reading →

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Shapps sends an SOS for Barwell: Save Our Salaries

Posted on January 16, 2015 by insidecroydon

HAS GAV GIVEN UP (Part 94): Not so much a straw in the wind. More an entire bale of hay that shows the Conservatives are very worried for the fate of their former Tory HQ wonk, Gavin Barwell, as last … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015 General Election, Addiscombe West, Ashburton, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Emily Benn, Gavin Barwell, Mario Creatura, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Tom Brake MP | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Labour election campaign gets third organiser in six months

Posted on January 15, 2015 by insidecroydon

Is being the assistant to Sarah Jones, Labour’s candidate in Croydon Central at the General Election, more insecure as a job than being manager at Crystal Palace Football Club? Croydon Labour is now on to its third campaign assistant since … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015 General Election, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Sarah Jones MP, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Croydon needs a comedy candidate: Run, Jonny! Run!

Posted on January 15, 2015 by insidecroydon

Yesterday’s announcement that The Pub Landlord is to stand as a candidate in the General Election in South Thanet, wherever that might be, was satire of the highest calibre, worthy of Beyond the Fringe or Private Eye. But it also … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015 General Election, Business, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Croydon 8/8, Croydon South, Gavin Barwell, Jon Bigger, Mario Creatura, Purley, Purley Pool, Richard Ottaway MP, Tony Newman, Waste incinerator | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Croydon streets being paved with gold – or public cash

Posted on January 14, 2015 by insidecroydon

Next Monday, the council starts work to give the area around East Croydon Station a £5million overhaul. But when all the work is finished, will we be able to say it is money well spent? If the quality of some … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Boris Johnson, Business, Centrale, Commuting, CPO, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Emily Benn, Environment, Fairfield, Gavin Barwell, Jon Rouse, Kathy Bee, Mayor of London, Menta Tower, Nathan Elvery, Planning, Property, Restaurants, Ruskin Square, Sarah Jones MP, South Croydon, South Croydon Community Association, Stiles Harold Williams, Tramlink, Transport, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Pigs and dead dukes more important for O’Connell than TfL

Posted on January 9, 2015 by insidecroydon

Neither the local London Assembly Member nor the MP for the area have taken part in an important public consultation on the future for bus routes 312 and 130. Steve O’Connell and Gavin Barwell are both Conservatives. The 312 runs … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015 General Election, Addiscombe West, Ashburton, Boris Johnson, Commuting, Croydon Central, East Croydon, Gavin Barwell, Kenley, London Assembly, Mayor of London, South Norwood, Steve O'Connell, Transport, Woodside | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Could Dead Mall Syndrome be coming to a high street here?

Posted on January 7, 2015 by insidecroydon

“Did you have a good Christmas?” is a question that takes on a different meaning for shop-keepers and retail analysts. STEVEN DOWNES on a shopping trend in America of which Croydon’s Hammersfield developers must be wary Next month will see … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, John Burton, Planning, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments