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Tag Archives: Colm Lacey
Lacey to be removed from board of mismanaged Brick by Brick
Consultants’ report is latest damning review of Croydon’s badly-run council. By STEVEN DOWNES Colm Lacey is to be removed from the board of Brick by Brick, the council’s loss-making house-builder, while funding for new schemes is to be frozen and … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Martyn Evans, Planning, Section 114 notice, Simon Hall, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Martyn Evans, PwC, PwC Report, Simon Hall, Tony Newman
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It’s magic! Brick by Brick’s in-house Google reviews vanish
Our Magic Circle correspondent, PAUL SPANIELS, on a disappearing act performed at the borough’s loss-making house-builders It was a case of “Now you see them, now you don’t”, as the dodgy Google reviews about their employers posted by a handful … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey
Tagged Akin Lisk-Carew, Brick by Brick, Claudia Evans, Colm Lacey, Google, Katrina Thomas
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Brick by Brick staff caught breaking Google review policies
EXCLUSIVE: Desperate to salvage the company’s sagging reputation, Brick by Brick employees appear to have been indulging in a bit of online onanism. By STEVEN DOWNES Staff at Brick by Brick, the council-owned housebuilder, have been breaking online standards rules … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council
Tagged Brick by Brick, Chloe Phelps, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Google
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Lacey could lose job over latest pitch to sell Brick by Brick
CROYDON IN CRISIS: A publicity campaign – effectively funded by Council Tax-payers – on behalf of the council-owned housing firm in an effort to salvage the managing director’s job has enraged councillors. By STEVEN DOWNES Labour councillors were furious today, … Continue reading
The Audit Report: Brick by Brick has paid nothing to council
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The Report in the Public Interest into the financial crisis at Croydon Council includes 21 recommendations. Four of them apply directly to Brick by Brick, the loss-making house-builder which has broken multiple agreements and owes the council … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Report in the Public Interest
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Grant Thornton, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Report in the Public Interest, RIPI
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Last council-appointed director resigns from Brick by Brick
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Council-owned house-builder releases some financial figures that show they have missed their latest annual revenue targets by £113m and have delivered 377 fewer homes than they predicted. By STEVEN DOWNES There is not a single representative of … Continue reading
No conflict of interest over BxB review, claims chief exec
KEN LEE reports on a hurried closing of ranks at Fisher’s Folly over the loss-making council-owned house-builders Asking the council executive director who has been in charge of Brick by Brick’s piss-poor performance for the past four years to draw … Continue reading
Brick by Brick climbdown over ‘Stasi prison block’ in Waddon
It’s get-out-of-jail-free for the residents of Theobald Road, as the council-owned developer pulls its plans for an ugly block of flats, without any public explanation. Prisons correspondent, BELLE MARSH, reports Brick by Brick has withdrawn its planning application to build … Continue reading
Brick by Brick lied about using £600k house as site office
EXCLUSIVE: A family with a five-year-old child undergoing cancer treatment are among those whose house-owning dream has been turned into a nightmare. By BARRATT HOLMES, housing correspondent A young family have been delayed for more than a year from moving … Continue reading
Brick by Brick claim building on green space is ‘sustainable’
If there was any doubt of the contempt in which the residents of this borough are held by the six-figure salaried executives at Brick by Brick and their paymasters at Croydon Council, then one need only look at the back-slapping … Continue reading
Council to borrow another £30m to buy Brick by Brick flats
EXCLUSIVE: A local authority already £1.5bn in debt and nursing a coronavirus overspend of £65m now wants to increase its borrowing further, as the failed in-house housebuilder needs another bail-out. By STEVEN DOWNES Alison Butler and Simon Hall, part of … Continue reading
Loss-making Brick by Brick offers profit sharing to new recruit
Our housing correspondent BARRATT HOLMES reports that while there continues to be a myriad of problems on sites run by the council-owned house-builders, one thing that they have not been slow to do is empire-building While cash-strapped Croydon Council may … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council
Tagged Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council
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Facing uncertain future, Fairfield Halls returns all its pianos
The Fairfield Halls had the removal men in yesterday – taking away the arts venue’s pianos. Inside Croydon understands that the pianos – nine in total, including two grand pianos – have been returned to their makers after the venue … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ashcroft Theatre, BH Live, Borough of Culture 2023, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Music, Neil Chandler, Oliver Lewis, Theatre
Tagged BHLive, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Labour, Neil Chandler, Phoenix Pianos
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Soaring costs of unviable schemes should sound alarm bells
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Brick by Brick have been patting themselves on the back, but their high-staffing levels, low-experience levels and expensive schemes ought to be deeply concerning, according to SEBASTIAN TILLINGER Alarm bells should be ringing all over Croydon Council about … Continue reading
Council staffer Pitt is recruited to board of failing Brick by Brick
KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, discovers that the council has been less-than-forthcoming over the latest appointment to their loss-making house-builder Brick by Brick has appointed a new company director, in a move that could signal the council-owned house-builder is … 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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Croydon now has three employees paid £200,000+ per year
Our political correspondent, WALTER CRONXITE, reports on the latest startling figures coming out of the council Croydon Council had three members of staff who took home more than £200,000 in the last financial year for which figures are available. That’s … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Services, Colm Lacey, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Eleni Ioannides, Guy van Dichele, Heather Cheesbrough, Jacqueline Harris-Baker, Jo Negrini, Richard Simpson, Robert Henderson, Shifa Mustafa
Tagged Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Guy van Dichele, Heather Cheesbrough, Jacqueline Harris-Baker, Jo Negrini, London Borough of Croydon, Richard Simpson, Shifa Mustafa
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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
‘The works are putting my family’s lives at risk from the virus’
Shocking video footage and photographs, taken by council residents who are terrified that they might contract coronavirus, show construction workers taking no special measures to avoid spreading the deadly disease This video was filmed yesterday by a mother with a … Continue reading
Brick by Brick CEO says company has sold 6 houses. Or is it 5?
Our overdevelopment correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, reports on the latest admission of incompetence from Croydon Council’s loss-making house-builders Five. Or it might be six. Colm Lacey, the former council employee who has been promoted way beyond his skills and abilities to … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, Leila Ben-Hassel, Vidhi Mohan
Tagged Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, Leila Ben-Hassel, London Borough of Croydon, Tory, Waddon
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Negrini draws ridicule for her £81 On The Buses guided tour
Hold very tight please! Our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, is ready to be taken for a ride around Croydon town centre, all in the name of a good cause Croydon’s beleaguered £220,000 per year chief executive has attracted yet more … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Boxpark, Brick by Brick, Business, Centrale, Colm Lacey, CPO, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Heather Cheesbrough, Jo Negrini, Menta Tower, Paul Scott, Property, Purley Way, Ruskin Square, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Heather Cheesbrough, Jo Negrini, London, Paul Scott, Purley Way
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‘Lack of trust’ sees arts venue selling just 26% of tickets
With the Fairfield Halls refurbishment costs now confirmed as £42.6m, and still rising, the venue is struggling to win back its audiences, as KEN LEE reports The costs of refurbishing the Fairfield Halls rose by another £1.6million in just five … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ashcroft Theatre, BH Live, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Jerry Fitzpatrick, Jo Negrini, Neil Chandler, Sean Fitzsimons
Tagged BH Live, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Jerry Fitzpatrick, Jo Negrini, Labour, Leila Ben-Hassel, London Borough of Croydon, Neil Chandler, Sean Fitzsimons
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Brick by Brick fail to apologise for shared ownership bungling
Brick by Brick, the loss-making council-owned house-builder, last night finally ended their silence and admitted that they are not able to sell homes under any shared ownership schemes. Seven days after Inside Croydon broke the news that Brick by Brick … Continue reading
Brick by Brick forced to suspend sales of dozens of new homes
Inside Croydon’s editor, STEVEN DOWNES, reports on the latest massive set-back to the council’s loss-making house-builder Brick by Brick, Croydon Council’s controversial in-house house-builder, has been forced to suspend all sales of shared ownership homes. The delay in selling the … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Flora Court, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman
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‘Are Brick by Brick trying to lose the election for Sarah?’
Our construction correspondent BARRATT HOLMES on concerns that the council is pressing ahead with consultations on often controversial housing schemes during the run-up to the General Election “Are they trying to lose the election for Sarah?” That was the angry … Continue reading
Posted in 2019 General Election, Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Fieldway, Housing, Jo Negrini, New Addington North, New Addington South, Paul Scott, Planning, Sarah Jones MP, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, Paul Scott, Sarah Jones MP, Tony Newman
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