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Final Brick by Brick annual accounts withheld for three months
CROYDON IN CRISIS: It looks like Tory Mayor Jason Perry and the council execs who now run the failed housing company have opted to bury bad news. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES What could possibly be the very final set of … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Croydon Council, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry
Tagged Brick by Brick, BxB, Colm Lacey, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jason Cummings, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Mears Group Plc, Red Clover Gardens, Regen Capital, Tony Newman, Tory
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Coulsdon’s new flats with ‘parking option’ for £100 per month
Residents have started to take occupancy in the long-vacant Red Clover Gardens. But as housing correspondent BARRATT HOLMES reports, anyone owning a car is likely to get hit with extra bills Private tenants looking to live in new blocks of … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Croydon Council, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry
Tagged Brick by Brick, BxB, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Lion Green Road car park, London Borough of Croydon, Mears Group Plc, Red Clover Gardens, Regen Capital, Tory
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Brick by Brick’s final flats put up for rent at £2,400 per month
In Coulsdon, 157 flats have been standing empty for almost two years, in the middle of a housing crisis. But now, with the council silent on the multi-million sale of the properties, some are being made available for eye-watering rents. … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, BxB, Chris Philp MP, Colm Lacey, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jason Cummings, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mary Duggan, Mears Group Plc, Notting Hill Genesis, Paul Scott, Red Clover Gardens, Regen Capital, Tony Newman, Tory
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Brick by Brick posts £7.6m loss in latest annual trading report
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Yet more bad news finally emerging into the public record. By BARRATT HOLMES, our house building correspondent Even when it is no longer paying above the odds to build new homes, Brick by Brick continues to lose … Continue reading
Squatters do a bunk as bailiffs smash Brick by Brick’s doors
Seven bailiffs, acting as “Representatives of the Owner”, wasted no time in descending on Brick by Brick’s former offices in George Street on Saturday afternoon to evict the squatters who had been occupying the building for almost two weeks. A … Continue reading
Homes report warns of ‘unsustainable’ shared ownership deals
Shared ownership risks becoming “financially unsustainable” for lower-income buyers, warns a report published this week. The report, Shared ownership: the consumer perspective, reveals how more than one-third of shared owners display indicators of financial vulnerability, with lower financial resilience and … Continue reading
Brick by Brick close to selling off Coulsdon flats at half-price
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The borough’s residents could be short-changed again as the council’s housing developer bails out by selling Lion Green Road flats on the cheap. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES One of the country’s biggest housing associations is in talks … Continue reading
Only 16% of council’s Fairfield flats project will be affordable
Our housing correspondent BARRATT HOLMES on the latest signs of desperation to fix Brick by Brick’s failing finances The planning application being considered by the charade that will pass for a planning committee meeting next Thursday is for a scheme … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, College Green, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Fairfield Homes, Housing, Jo Negrini, Planning, Property
Tagged Brick by Brick, BxB, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Fair Field, Fairfield Halls, Fairfield Homes, Jo Negrini, Labour
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Brick by Brick faces ‘disaster’ as it misses sales targets by 83%
For more than two years, Inside Croydon has been carefully tracking the difference between Brick by Brick’s budgeted targets and their actual delivery: what they say, and what they do. Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, reports on the multi-million-pound chasm … Continue reading
Council has no idea how many houses BxB has built or sold
Croydon Council does not know how many homes Brick by Brick has completed or sold. That’s according to an official council response to a Freedom of Information request – delivered, in true council style, much later than is required by … Continue reading
Council sneaks out details of extension to planning objections
The public has been given an extra week to lodge objections to planning applications in the borough – not that Paul Scott and Croydon Council want anyone to know about it. The council’s propaganda department sneaked out its latest press … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Paul Scott
Tagged Brick by Brick, BxB, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, Norbury, Paul Scott
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Bogus ‘consultation’ in Upper Norwood has priorities all wrong
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Late notice, poor connections and several interested residents unable to log-in for last night’s developers’ webinar for College Green. JUNO BAKER says Brick by Brick ‘are using this current crisis as a justification to drive through an extremely … Continue reading
Building societies decide to stop loans to first-time buyers
The mounting desperation sensed around Brick by Brick, the loss-making council-owned house-builder, could yet get even worse, after major mortgage lenders today announced that they would not be providing new loans for prospective house-buyers because of the economic uncertainty caused … Continue reading
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Tagged Brick by Brick, BxB, coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon
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Brick by Brick ignores covid-19 to continue work on four sites
Brick by Brick, the loss-making council-owned house-builder, has announced that it intends to continue work on at least four of its building sites – despite pleas from the government, the Mayor of London and NHS chiefs to halt all non-essential … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Croydon Council
Tagged Brick by Brick, BxB, coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon
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New Addington, Purley, George St: protests mount against BxB
The spin is in. Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, on how the council is responding to gathering disquiet by spending thousands on a London PR firm They were there again yesterday, despite the stormy February weather. They’ve been turning up … Continue reading
Butler: We’ll let Brick by Brick build on all under-utilised spaces
Be afraid, be very afraid – there is not a scrap of open space in the borough which the council deputy leader won’t allow Brick by Brick to build on, reports political editor WALTER CRONXITE Alison Butler, the deputy leader … Continue reading
Residents’ mounting anger as BxB builders cancel meeting
A meeting arranged for tonight by Brick by Brick to discuss a mounting volume of complaints over the mismanagement and poor conduct of one of their sites in the south of the borough has been cancelled, at barely 24 hours’ … Continue reading
Shock! Council discovers trees on site it gave to Brick by Brick
Brick by Brick, the council’s loss-making in-house house-builder, has suffered yet more setbacks after the council “discovered” that two sites it wanted to concrete over were either too close to high-voltage electricity pylons, or had real live trees growing there. … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Helen Pollard, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Selsdon & Ballards
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, BxB, Conservative, Croham Valley Road, Croydon, Croydon Council, Foxearth Spinney, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Selsdon and Addington Village, Tony Newman, Tory
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Brick by Brick losses mount as they spend £1m on ‘showroom’
The annual report from the council’s loss-making in-house house-builder shows ‘directors costs’ more than tripling in the past year, while spending £1million on rent and renovations to the company’s George Street base Brick by Brick, the bastard brainchild of Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Housing, Jo Negrini, Martyn Evans, Planning, Shifa Mustafa
Tagged Brick by Brick, BxB, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Shifa Mustafa, Whitgift Foundation
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Council tries to hide BxB’s latest flats for sale scheme
A Town Hall planning meeting this week is seeking to cover-up the council-owned developer’s role, with residents saying that they were misled over the intention to exclude completely any social housing for rent. Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, reports Profit-hungry … Continue reading
Brick by Brick chief admits failing to meet 50% affordable target
Colm Lacey, the head of the council’s house-builders, says that that there will be no council homes built and that he is missing his ‘affordable’ housing targets. BARRATT HOLMES, housing correspondent, reports Colm Lacey, the former council employee who has … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Housing, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, BxB, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Paul Scott, Tony Newman
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Negrini’s gone silent over secret subsidies to Brick by Brick
Questions have been asked in the House of Commons about the legality of Croydon Council’s land sales to Brick by Brick, and the answers make for uncomfortable reading for the Town Hall leadership, as KEN LEE reports Croydon Council may … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Chris Philp MP, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Housing, Jo Negrini, Tony Newman
Tagged Brick by Brick, BxB, Chris Philp MP, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Jo Negrini, Kit Malthouse, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tony Newman
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