Tag Archives: College Green

Mayor bids for £20m funding with old and failed projects

Posted on July 11, 2022 by insidecroydon

Our Town Hall correspondent, KEN LEE, on an optimistic wish list for a handful of cosmetic schemes around the town centre Part-time Mayor Jason Perry’s pitch for £20million of “levelling up” money from the Tory government is “just a re-hash … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Boxpark, Brick by Brick, Broad Green, Business, Commuting, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Cycling, Environment, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, Property, TfL, Transport, Waddon, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 12 Comments

Council flogs off hotel for less than £29.8m it cost to buy

Posted on October 21, 2021 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: While one Labour MP dines out with a notorious property lobbyist whose employees include the council’s deputy leader, one of the firm’s clients has snapped up the Croydon Park Hotel at a bargain basement price. EXCLUSIVE By … Continue reading →

Posted in Brick by Brick, Callton Young, College Green, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Housing, Improvement Board, London-wide issues, Planning, Property, Steve Reed MP, Stuart King | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 11 Comments

Council puts hotel and College Green up for sale for just £40m

Posted on June 22, 2021 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Two prime sites, owned by the council, are the latest public assets to be off-loaded on the cheap. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The cash-strapped council’s fire-sale of public assets continues, with the Croydon Park Hotel and College … Continue reading →

Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, East Croydon, Housing, Jo Negrini, Property, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Bogus ‘consultation’ in Upper Norwood has priorities all wrong

Posted on April 9, 2020 by insidecroydon

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 →

Posted in Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Planning | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

£400m+ scheme at risk after council’s failed property deal

Posted on December 16, 2018 by insidecroydon

BARRATT HOLMES, our housing reporter, on how bungling by ‘award-winning’ Brick by Brick has put in serious jeopardy half-a-billion-pounds’ worth of new homes, has damaged the Town Hall’s relationship with Croydon College, and leaves a gaping funding hole for Fairfield … Continue reading →

Posted in Alison Butler, Arnhem Gallery, Brick by Brick, Business, Chris Philp MP, College Green, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Fairfield Halls, Housing, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

How CEO Negrini used council money to promote herself

Posted on December 11, 2018 by insidecroydon

Here is the text of the ‘sponsored competition’ which appeared on the website of the Architect’s Journal on December 5, just after the publication was announcing that Croydon Council’s Brick by Brick house-builder (which has yet to build a single … Continue reading →

Posted in Arnhem Gallery, Ashcroft Theatre, Brick by Brick, College Green, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Planning | Tagged , , , , , | 3 Comments

College sells Annex building to thwart Cultural Quarter plan

Posted on July 27, 2018 by insidecroydon

Croydon Council has been accused of ‘incompetence’ after a building it needed as part of a multi-million-pound development has been sold to a private developer. BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent, reports Croydon College has sold part of its site to … Continue reading →

Posted in Alison Butler, Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Brick by Brick, College Green, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning, Theatre, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Newman’s £18m ‘cast-iron guarantee’ that bucks the market

Posted on April 11, 2016 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE on how a Labour-run council that says it is committed to housing the homeless meanwhile needs to maximise profits from a property development at College Green The people of Croydon should be worried. Tony Newman has offered what … Continue reading →

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We need quality homes, not quantity, to avoid ghettoes

Posted on November 5, 2015 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Location. Location. Location. LEWIS WHITE is less concerned about the need to build flats in the redevelopment at College Green, provided they offer enough open spaces and are of the right quality, and not mega-sized tower blocks David … Continue reading →

Posted in Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Education, Environment, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, Housing, Planning, Property | Tagged , , , , , | 5 Comments

College opens itself up for a day with the community

Posted on June 26, 2012 by insidecroydon

ANDREW PELLING has yet another good news story, as Croydon College celebrates its first community day on tomorrow It is time to party and to celebrate what Croydon College can offer. With a self-confident disregard for the recent crisis in … Continue reading →

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Rats! Barwell’s team risks their health on litter picking duty

Posted on January 27, 2012 by insidecroydon

With one of the important roles of Croydon Central’s MP being to act as an unpaid refuse collector, we hope that Gavin Barwell‘s litter picking team, who tomorrow tackle College Green, are insured and protected against contracting Leptospirosis, or Weil’s … Continue reading →

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