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Mayor Perry: ‘It’s going to get worse before it gets better’
CROYDON IN CRISIS: It didn’t take very long once he became Croydon’s first executive Mayor after telling the electorate that he had a plan, that Jason Perry was forced to admit that he never had a plan at all. By … Continue reading
Posted in Bernard Weatherill House, Brick by Brick, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Mike Fisher, Section 114 notice, URV
Tagged #PennReport, 15% Council Tax hike, Bernard Weatherill House, CCURV, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fisher's Folly, John Laing, Labour, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, Mike Fisher, Penn Report, The Penn Report, The Shard, Tory, Town Hall petition, Toxic debt
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‘The Fold’: former council-owned site takes a gamble with name
Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, on the latest laugh-out-loud move by developers working in the centre of Croydon While this website might be loathe to echo one of the catchphrases of one of the more notorious tabloid columnists, you really … Continue reading
Council office entrance closed because of ‘extreme’ weather
KEN LEE, our newshound on Mint Walk, sniffs out the latest piece of nonsense from the £140m council office building, where the main entrance has been ruled out-of-bounds Further proof, not that any has been needed, that Fisher’s Folly, the … Continue reading
Posted in Bernard Weatherill House, Croydon Council, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman, URV
Tagged Bernard Wetherill House, BWH, CCURV, Fisher's Folly, Mike Fisher, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman
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Cost of New Addington Leisure Centre hiked by £8m in a year
WALTER CRONXITE reports on a worrying 50 per cent inflation rate on one key council building project The cost of building the new swimming pool and leisure centre in New Addington has gone up by £8million in less than 12 … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Jon Rouse, New Addington, Planning, Taberner House, Tony Newman, URV
Tagged CCURV, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, New Addington Leisure Centre, Tony Newman, Tory
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Council finance chief Simpson’s promotion is confirmed
Richard Simpson, formerly the council’s finance director, has been promoted to the role of executive director of resources, it was confirmed today. Simpson’s move into one of the six-figure salary roles at Fisher’s Folly is part of the on-going reshuffle … Continue reading
Posted in Bernard Weatherill House, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Paul Greenhalgh, Richard Simpson, Taberner House, Tony Newman, URV
Tagged Bernard Weatherill House, CCURV, Conservative, Croydon Council, Fisher's Folly, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Fisher, Taberner House, Tony Newman, Tory
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Hard-up Croydon rents out top floors of £140m council office
Cash-strapped Croydon Council is to rent out the top two floors of the world’s most expensive local authority offices, Fisher’s Folly. They reckon that the lodgers will contribute about £500,000 per year to the borough’s finances. So at that rate, … Continue reading
Posted in Bernard Weatherill House, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, URV
Tagged #WadGate, Bernard Weatherill House, CCURV, Conservative, Croydon Council, Fisher's Folly, Jo Negrini, Labour, Mike Fisher, Tory
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Coulsdon is thrown a CCURV ball: but who is responsible?
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The collapse of the CCURV Coulsdon supermarket project, as we reported yesterday, is a worrying sign about our local authority’s ability to handle development schemes, warns DAVID WICKENS The £25-million “Bridge to Nowhere” at East Croydon broke one … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon West, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged CCURV, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Jon Rouse, Nathan Elvery, Westfield
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Planners block proposed primary school on Purley Way
Croydon Council planners have rejected proposals to build a primary school close to one of south London’s busiest road junctions on the Purley Way. In a rare example of Croydon’s planning department displaying clarity of thought and common sense, after … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Environment, Planning, Purley Way, Schools, Sean Fitzsimons, URV, Waddon
Tagged CCURV, Conservative, Croydon Council, Fiveways, Harris Federation, Oasis, Purley Way, Tory, URV, Waddon
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Croydon council offices cost more to build than The Shard
Fisher’s Folly, the glass palace that is our council’s headquarters which opened just over a year ago and which cost the borough’s Council Tax-payers’ £144 million, was more expensive to build than The Shard. That’s the conclusion reached by a … Continue reading
Posted in Bernard Weatherill House, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Jon Rouse, Leisure services, Mike Fisher, Nathan Elvery, Planning, Property, Taberner House, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, URV
Tagged Bernard Weatherill House, CCURV, Conservative, Croydon Council, Fisher's Folly, John Laing, Jon Rouse, Labour, Mike Fisher, Nathan Elvery, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Tory, URV
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Council gambles millions with “Son of CCURV” scheme
Given recent experience, Croydon councillors more than most should realise that using public money to gamble rarely ends happily. But like a losing punter chasing after his losses, Croydon Council, now under a Labour administration, is going back to the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Alison Butler, Bernard Weatherill House, Business, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Simon Hall, Tony Newman, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Alison Butler, CCURV, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Revolving Investment Fund, RIF, Ruskin Square, Simon Hall, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Building a new Croydon won’t be boring, promises Negrini
Jo Negrini, Croydon Council’s head of planning, this week rejected earlier schemes – drawn up by the previous Conservative council – for Fairfield Halls to be virtually surrounded by high-rise housing as “really, really boring”. Instead, Negrini told hundreds of … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Ashcroft Theatre, Bernard Weatherill House, Business, Centrale, Cinema, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Planning, Taberner House, Tech City, Theatre, URV, Warehouse Theatre, Whitgift Centre
Tagged CCURV, Conservative, Croydon, East Croydon station, Fairfield Halls, Fisher's Folly, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, Roehampton University, Taberner House, Tory, Westfield
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Library deal questioned as council blacklists the blacklisters
Croydon Council is set to stop using building contractors that have blacklisted workers for their union affiliations, following Labour winning last week’s local elections, the trade magazine Building is reporting. The policy of the new council could also place Carillion, … Continue reading
Posted in Carillion, Libraries, URV
Tagged Carillion, CCURV, Croydon, John Laing, Labour, Libraries, Tony Newman
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These councillors voted last night to build on a Croydon park: next month they will want you to trust them with your vote
When you last had a chance to vote for the local council four years ago, were you asked for your views on the council building on public open space so that the developers could make more than £100million in profit? … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Business, Chris Wright, Coulsdon East, Croydon Council, David Osland, Environment, Fairfield, Heathfield, Helen Pollard, Housing, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Lynne Hale, Planning, Property, Richard Chatterjee, Sanderstead, Shirley North, Sue Winborn, Taberner House, Tim Pollard, URV
Tagged CCURV, Conservative, Coulsdon, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Fairfield, John Laing, Labour, London Assembly, Mike Fisher, Planning, Queens Gardens, Taberner House, Thornton Heath, Tory
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Advisors reject Taberner redevelopment as ‘Eastern Bloc’
Croydon Council not only wants to bulldoze through Queen’s Gardens, but it is already bulldozing through its own planning policies to do so, as it conspires with its billionaire builder partners to make more than £100 million from building on … Continue reading
