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TfL’s tram scheme will benefit Westfield, but not passengers
Alerted by a report on Inside Croydon, BERNARD WINCHESTER’s research into Transport for London’s proposal for a new Tramlink loop has some troubling conclusions Do you catch the tram from Harrington Road or Beckenham to West Croydon or Surrey Street … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Addiscombe West, Allders, Boris Johnson, Business, Centrale, Commuting, Croydon Central, Croydon Greens, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Parking, Planning, Property, Surrey Street, Tramlink, Transport, West Croydon, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, East Croydon station, London, TfL, Tory, Tram, Tramlink, Transport for London
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No they can’t! Viridor needs to provide 100% safety guarantee
CROYDON COMMENTARY: For all the tens of thousands of pounds raised, and spent, by the Stop the Incinerator Campaign in taking its case to the High Court, the legal challenge has had to be based on planning issues. The issue … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Broad Green, Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Croydon North, Darren Johnson, Environment, Health, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Steve Reed MP, Stuart Collins, Transition Town, Waddon, Waste incinerator
Tagged Boris Johnson, Broad Green, Conservative, incinerator, Labour, London, Member of parliament, Shasha Khan, Steve Reed OBE, Stuart Collins, Tory, Viridor, Waddon, Waste incinerator
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Struggling on low wages? The BBC wants to hear from you
Posted in Activities, Charity, Church and religions, Community associations, Croydon Nightwatch
Tagged benefits, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Tory
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Coe wants community to have its say over Palace plans
Sebastian Coe, the double Olympic gold medal-winner and former chairman of the organising committee of London’s acclaimed 2012 Games, wants the local community to back calls to save the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre for future sporting use. Lord Coe, … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Community associations, Croydon Harriers, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Property, South London Harriers, Sport, Stephen Carr, Upper Norwood Library Trust
Tagged athletics, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, London, London Assembly, Lord Coe, Mayor, Seb Coe, Sebastian Coe, Sport, Tory
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Council set to bring pools, parks and library service in-house
Croydon school pupils denied desks to study in the borough’s public libraries, free swimming sessions going under-publicised, and our parks being locked up because of a lack of contractor staff could all be things of the past if outsourced services … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Carillion, Community associations, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Environment, Fusion, John Laing Integrated Services, Leisure services, Libraries, Refuse collection, Timothy Godfrey, Wandle Park, Waste incinerator
Tagged Carillion, Conservative, Croydon, Fusion, incinerator, Labour, Libraries, Quadron, Sara Bashford, Tim Pollard, Timoth Godfrey, Tory, Viridor
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Yes we Khan! Campaigners lodge incinerator legal appeal
Just after 5pm tonight, Stop the Incinerator campaigner Shasha Khan confirmed that an appeal has been lodged at the High Court against the decision of the judge, Mrs Justice Patterson, over the Judicial Review of Sutton Council’s decision to permit … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Environment, Planning, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Waddon, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Beddington, Conservative, Croydon Council, Hammerson, incinerator, Labour, Tony Newman, Tory, Viridor, Waddon, Waste incinerator, Westfield
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POLL: Should Croydon Council stop the incinerator?
What do you, Inside Croydon’s loyal reader, want your council to do about Sutton’s plans to build a waste incinerator right next to Croydon, on the Beddington Farmlands Metropolitan Open Land site? Do you want Croydon Council to back the … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Clare Hilley, Community associations, Croydon Council, Environment, Health, London-wide issues, Outside Croydon, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Tony Newman, Waddon, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Farmlands, Clean and Green, Conservative, Hammerson, Labour, Mike Fisher, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Tory, Viridor, Waddon, Westfield, Whitgift Foundation
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Newman refuses to halt ‘bias’ on Arena academy ‘stitch-up’
Residents in Woodside ward are demanding an urgent meeting with their three Labour councillors, including council leader Tony Newman, and insist that any councillors on the planning committee with links to Oasis academies – including the chairman, Paul Scott, another … Continue reading
£5,000 – by Monday: help pay cost of stopping the incinerator
The Stop the Incinerator Campaign needs to raise £5,000 by Monday to be able to afford to continue the fight to prevent Sutton and Croydon councils allowing industrialists Viridor to build and operate a waste incinerator on Metropolitan Open Land … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Community associations, Croydon Greens, Environment, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Beddington Lane, Broad Green, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammerson, incinerator, Labour, Shasha Khan, Stop the Inci, Sutton Council, Tory, Viridor, Westfield
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Judge gives all-clear for Viridor to build incinerator
So, Westfield and Hammerson are to build a £1 billion shopping mall in the centre of town, and thousands of new homes are to be built there, too, and they will all have a waste incinerator parked on the borough … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Broad Green, Business, Centrale, Croydon Greens, Environment, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Tony Newman, Waste incinerator, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Broad Green, Conservative, Hammersfield, Hammerson, incinerator, Labour, Shasha Khan, Stuart Collins, Sutton, Tony Newman, Tory, Viridor, Westfield
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Bromley leader Carr attacks Boris’s Palace consultation
Seconds out, round three: In a pull-no-punches letter sent to City Hall today, Stephen Carr, the leader of Tory-run Bromley Council, has condemned London Mayor Boris Johnson’s on-going consultation over the future of Crystal Palace National Sports Centre as “…variations … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Sport, Stephen Carr
Tagged athletics, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Crystal Palace, GLA, Greater London Authority, London, Lord Coe, Sebastian Coe, Tory
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Boris’s TfL goes all loopy for Westfield over tram extension
Another day, another public “consultation”, this time brought to us by Transport for London, and about the Croydon trams. No, don’t get too excited: Boris hasn’t suddenly found a few mill down the side of his sofa to pay for … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boris Johnson, Commuting, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, Jo Negrini, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Ruskin Square, Tramlink, Transport, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Crystal Palace, East Croydon station, Fairfield, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Tory, Tram, Tramlink, Westfield
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Coe’s company was given brief to bulldoze sports stadium
Sebastian Coe’s company, CSM Strategic, which is undertaking a “consultation” on behalf of London Mayor Boris Johnson, was given a brief to restructure the sports facilities at Crystal Palace to best suit the replica Palace development proposed by a Chinese … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Business, Community associations, Croydon Harriers, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sport
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon North, Crystal Palace Park, Sebastian Coe, ZhongRong
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Woodside residents worried over contract for Oasis academy
Along comes another non-public “public consultation” non-consultation, which has all the appearances that the local authority wants as few people as possible take part. The notice – which we have reproduced below – was first spotted by Inside Croydon’s loyal … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Hamida Ali, Oasis Academy, Paul Scott, Planning, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Arena Academy, Conservative, Croydon, Labour, Oasis, Paul Scott, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Tory, Woodside
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Candidate decries Labour re-zoning plan as a doomed stunt
A candidate standing in Croydon for election to parliament next May has dismissed a Labour campaign to change the zoning of East Croydon and West Croydon stations to help reduce commuter fares as “an electioneering stunt”. And Glen Hart is … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 General Election, Boris Johnson, Commuting, Croydon Central, Croydon North, East Croydon, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon North, East Croydon station, Labour, London Assembly, TfL, Tory, West Croydon station
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Friends environmental group to receive Queen’s award
The Friends of Croham Hurst Woods will be celebrating a prize-winning year at their annual meeting next month, when they will be presented with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. The doughty band of residents who each month spend at … Continue reading
‘This is the season of delivery for culture in Croydon’
Councillor TIMOTHY GODFREY, the council cabinet member for culture, responds publicly to concerns regarding the immediate future, and safety, of the Fairfield Halls Five months into the newly elected Labour council in Croydon and you begin to see the rewriting … Continue reading
Godfrey dismisses Tory ‘scaremongering’ over Fairfield Halls
A Croydon council cabinet member has hit out at what has been described as deliberate scaremongering and “opposition for opposition’s sake” from a Conservative councillor, who last night announced to a community association annual meeting that the Fairfield Halls was … Continue reading
