Tag Archives: Bromley Council

Bromley’s £1.2m design tender to overhaul Crystal Palace Park

Posted on February 23, 2023 by insidecroydon

After years of delay and dither, local authority moves to start a nine-year improvement project to realise park’s ‘potential to be a national asset for the benefit of the local community’ Bromley Council is looking to spend at least £1.2million … Continue reading →

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£81,000 pa Mayor: Croydon is too skint to oppose ULEZ

Posted on February 18, 2023 by insidecroydon

Jason Perry, Croydon’s Tory Mayor, says that his cash-strapped borough doesn’t have enough money to join the Judicial Review legal action being brought by other outer London boroughs against the expansion later this year of ULEZ – the Ultra Low … Continue reading →

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‘Despicable’ Tory councillor under fire for rape-shaming victim

Posted on January 4, 2023 by insidecroydon

Remarks made by a Conservative councillor have been described as “despicable” and “dangerous and stupid”, while women’s support groups and his political opponents have demanded that Shaun Slator should be suspended by his party and resign immediately. Slator is a … Continue reading →

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Park Trust gets ready for handover with Connections strategy

Posted on December 19, 2022 by insidecroydon

Bromley Council is due to hand the keys to Crystal Palace Park over to a charitable trust in April 2023, and the Crystal Palace Park Trust has released its strategy document ahead of the momentous event. The 200-acre park was … Continue reading →

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‘Exclusion zones’ set up for public safety in Crystal Palace Park

Posted on November 21, 2022 by insidecroydon

Some parts of Crystal Palace Park remain in an “exclusion zone” three days after the park was subject to an emergency shutdown because concrete pillars that support the floodlights around the athletics stadium at the National Sports Centre were deemed … Continue reading →

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Concern over Crystal Palace sports centre’s emergency closure

Posted on November 19, 2022 by insidecroydon

Crystal Palace Stadium, for 50 years the home of British athletics, was last night subject to an emergency closure for safety reasons. The whole of the National Sports Centre, including the sports hall and gyms, is closed this weekend. There … Continue reading →

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Trust’s 12-month countdown to people’s takeover of park

Posted on April 5, 2022 by insidecroydon

Bromley Council wants to hand over control of the historic Crystal Palace Park to a people’s trust by April 2023. The park has been seen as a “problem” for Bromley ever since they were “gifted” the responsibility for it when … Continue reading →

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Organisers reach out as Wireless returns to Crystal Palace

Posted on April 4, 2022 by insidecroydon

A large section of Crystal Palace Park will be fenced off from the public for around three weeks this summer, as the Wireless Festival returns at the start of July. Wireless was staged in south London for the first time … Continue reading →

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£3m renovation for historic Crystal Palace Subway to go ahead

Posted on January 10, 2022 by insidecroydon

An ambitious £3million project to restore and re-open one of the last vestiges of the grand Crystal Palace has been given a green light. Bromley Council last week granted planning permission for a restoration project for the Crystal Palace Subway, … Continue reading →

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Biggin Hill suffers delayed take-off for fare-paying flights

Posted on June 4, 2021 by insidecroydon

Biggin Hill Airport appears set to challenge a decision to block it from operating fare-paying passenger flights. The application for a change of permitted use was rejected by Bromley Council last week over concerns that an increase in flights and … Continue reading →

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Shawcross steps up as Crystal Palace Park looks to the future

Posted on January 25, 2021 by insidecroydon

It has been a momentous week for the upkeep and improvement of one of the capital’s under-appreciated gems, writes MARTIN TEMPIA When a former head of planning at the London Borough of Bromley described Crystal Palace Park as the “unloved … Continue reading →

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Tory-run Bromley looking to sell or develop public parks

Posted on January 7, 2021 by insidecroydon

Tory-run Bromley Council has drafted a policy which seeks to identify parks and green spaces “for development or disposal”. Today is the closing date for residents to submit their comments on Bromley’s Open Spaces Strategy. The Campaign for the Preservation … Continue reading →

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Bromley in legal moves against Croydon over road closures

Posted on August 18, 2020 by insidecroydon

Croydon could be heading for a bitter, cross-boundary dispute with one of its neighbouring boroughs after the leader of Bromley’s Conservative-controlled council told residents that they have begun legal moves to get traffic-calming measures removed from residential streets in Crystal … Continue reading →

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‘Cough up’ to save centre for elderly, council leader is told

Posted on March 12, 2020 by insidecroydon

A Labour MP and local councillors are calling on the leader of Bromley Council to “cough up” and take immediate action to save a vital day services centre for older people from being forced to close – possibly as soon … Continue reading →

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College building in park could end Crystal Palace tram scheme

Posted on November 20, 2019 by insidecroydon

Any prospect of extending the tram network to Crystal Palace could hit the buffers before its backers even check-in at a platform, if the GLA gets its way. Piece by piece, the Greater London Authority, which has responsibility for the … Continue reading →

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Wibberley goes wobbly, and Bromley residents go to the polls

Posted on November 27, 2018 by insidecroydon

Our political editor WALTER CRONXITE peers over the borough boundary to see how campaigning is going for Thursday’s council by-election Residents in Bromley’s Kelsey and Eden Park ward will be trudging back to the polls on Thursday, just six months … Continue reading →

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Council leader forced to resign over critical Ofsted report

Posted on September 16, 2017 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE reports on another local government Carr crash over failures to provide adequate social services The pressure is mounting this weekend on Tony Newman, the Labour leader of Croydon Council, over his and council officials’ response to the highly … Continue reading →

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Eagles suffer planning snub over ‘inadequate’ training ground

Posted on August 19, 2017 by insidecroydon

Today’s defeat at Anfield was the second away loss for Crystal Palace this week, after the club had a planning application for new buildings at their Beckenham training ground rejected by Bromley Council on Thursday. Palace wanted to build what … Continue reading →

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Croydon’s well-paid councillors pay their Council Tax on time

Posted on December 7, 2016 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE on a new report that shows that in neighbouring boroughs, some councillors have not been punctual in paying their Council Tax bills Yet further evidence has emerged that Croydon Council Tax-payers may be forking out far too much … Continue reading →

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Crystal Palace stadium report delayed as scheme reconsidered

Posted on February 20, 2015 by insidecroydon

ZhongRong’s deadline for paying Bromley a non-refundable £5 million deposit to maintain their preferential status as developers of a £500 million “exciting glass-house proposal” (© Boris Johnson) for the top site in Crystal Palace Park expires later today, with the … Continue reading →

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Coe is accused of ‘world-class hypocrisy’ over Palace plans

Posted on October 17, 2014 by insidecroydon

Some of London’s leading athletes and coaches have reacted with dismay and horror at plans, revealed this week, to demolish the athletics stadium and indoor training facilities at Crystal Palace. And there is mounting anger among some senior athletics figures … Continue reading →

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Lord Coe’s company plans to bulldoze athletics stadium

Posted on October 15, 2014 by insidecroydon

Sebastian Coe, the chairman of the London 2012 Olympic organising committee which promised to create a sporting legacy for London and the whole of Britain, now heads up the company which has put forward plans to bulldoze the Crystal Palace … Continue reading →

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