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Public’s questions censored on CEO appointment and equality
When Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour party, stood up in Fisher’s Folly in Croydon on Thursday and made his pledge about a “strategy for delivering racial equality” in Whitehall and other public sector employers, he had no idea … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Jon Rouse, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman, Tory
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Coe’s Palace consultation is extended due to public demand
Campaigners fighting to save Crystal Palace as an Olympic legacy training venue were claiming a small victory last night, when the Greater London Authority announced that it had been so overwhelmed with responses to a consultation on the future of … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Community associations, Croydon Harriers, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, South London Harriers, Sport
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Lord Coe, National Sports Centre, Seb Coe, Sebastian Coe, Sport, Tory, ZhongRong Group
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Planning committee dominated by Oasis school governors
Angry residents from Woodside and South Norwood are considering a formal complaint about the conduct of a meeting on Thursday in which four of the 10 members of the council’s planning committee, including the chairman, all had some connection with … Continue reading
Town centre is a monument to municipal mismanagement
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The honeymoon is over for Tony Newman’s Labour council which was elected in May, says DAVID CALLAM Labour has settled back into power in Croydon Town Hall and many of the same old problems are as intractable as … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Boris Johnson, Business, Centrale, Council Tax, Croydon Council, David Callam, Housing, Jo Negrini, London Assembly, Mayor of London, Planning, RIF, Tony Newman, URV, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Is it time to park ill-considered plans for the Arena Academy?
Councillor ANDREW PELLING suggests that the mounting case against building a secondary academy at the Croydon Arena will get a thorough hearing at tonight’s planning committee My colleagues on the council’s planning committee will want to ask some pertinent questions … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Athletics, Croydon College, Croydon FC, Croydon Harriers, Education, Environment, Oasis Academy, Parking, Planning, Ryelands Primary and Nursery, Schools, South Norwood, Sport, St Andrew's
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Arena, Croydon Council, Labour, Oasis Academy, Oasis Arena, South Norwood, Tory, Waddon
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Trades Union candidate wants to put questions to Miliband
Ed Miliband visits Croydon on Thursday afternoon to speak to the borough’s Black and Minority Ethnic Forum. “I wonder, during his flying visit, whether Mr Miliband and his ‘One Nation Labour’ party can re-assure attendees about some crucial issues affecting … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 General Election, Croydon North, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Conservative, Croydon North, Ed Miliband, Labour, Steve Reed OBE, Tory
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Labour cuts and pastes Tory plans for a very bleak midwinter
Tough luck. That’s the message from Croydon Council if we have a bad winter. As commuters battle their way home through what’s left of Hurricane Gonzalo, winter seems to be with us already. Snow and ice cannot be too far … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Commuting, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Environment, Health, Kathy Bee, Mayday Hospital, Purley Way, Transport
Tagged Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Kathy Bee, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Fisher, Phil Thomas, Tony Newman, Tory
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Coe rival Ovett backs calls to keep Crystal Palace on track
Steve Ovett, the Olympic gold medal-winner and half of one of the biggest rivalries ever seen in international sport, has entered the debate over the future of the Crystal Palace athletics stadium, backing local campaigners, and the athletes and coaches … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Business, Community associations, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Property, Sport
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Crystal Palace, London, Lord Coe, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Tory
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£756,608 for two-bed flat? Speculators roll the dice again
What will three-quarters of a mil buy you in Croydon these days? Not a lot, if the latest piece of property speculation, on Edridge Road in South Croydon, is anything to go by. Yes: £756,608 for a two-bedroom flat. In … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boris Johnson, Business, Environment, Fairfield, Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, South Croydon Community Association
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Flyover, Fairfield, Planning, The Edridge, Tory, Yuppies
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Coe is accused of ‘world-class hypocrisy’ over Palace plans
Some of London’s leading athletes and coaches have reacted with dismay and horror at plans, revealed this week, to demolish the athletics stadium and indoor training facilities at Crystal Palace. And there is mounting anger among some senior athletics figures … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Business, Croydon Harriers, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London Assembly, Martyn Rooney, Mayor of London, Planning, Property, South London Harriers, Sport, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Conservative, Croydon Harriers, Crystal Palace athletics, Crystal Palace athletics stadium, Martyn Rooney, Mayor, Sebastian Coe, Sport, Tory
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‘Award-winning’ planning chief says house building is easy
Famously, Tom Lehrer said that satire died the day that Henry Kissinger was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. What Lehrer might have made of Croydon being presented with an award for being Britain’s best local planning authority probably … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Bernard Weatherill House, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Planning, RIF, Steve Reed MP, Taberner House, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Mike Fisher, Nathan Elvery, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Lord Coe’s company plans to bulldoze athletics stadium
Sebastian Coe, the chairman of the London 2012 Olympic organising committee which promised to create a sporting legacy for London and the whole of Britain, now heads up the company which has put forward plans to bulldoze the Crystal Palace … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Business, Community associations, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Property, Sport
Tagged Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Conservative, Crystal Palace athletics, Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, Crystal Palace NSC, Lord Coe, Seb Coe, Sebastian Coe, Tory, ZhongRong
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‘Flat-broke’ councils all set for MIPIM’s champagne reception
Australian-born Jo Negrini, who was appointed as Croydon’s head of planning soon after Australia-based developers Westfield rode into town with their £1 billion super-mall scheme, is likely to cut a lonely figure as the MIPIM UK international developers conference gets … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Jo Negrini, Jon Rouse, Nathan Elvery, Planning, RIF, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon Council, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, MIPIM, Nathan Elvery, Taberner House, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Boris’s plans for Crystal Palace are branded as ‘disastrous’
London Mayor Boris Johnson wants to bulldoze 120 years’ worth of south London’s proud sporting heritage, with proposals to demolish Crystal Palace Stadium which have been dismissed by senior sports figures as “a disgrace” and “disastrous”. It is surely more … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, History, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Sport
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Lord Coe, Mayor, Olympics, Sebastian Coe, Sport
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Long overdue that we found proper future for Segas House
CROYDON COMMENTARY: According to senior sources at the Town Hall, the scheme to convert the Grade II-listed Segas House into a primary school, the brainchild during the previous Tory council of Tim Pollard, has been abandoned because the building would … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Croydon Council, David Callam, Education, Planning, Schools, Segas House
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Education, Roehampton University, schools, Segas House, Tim Pollard, Tory, Wellesley Road
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Croydon suffering more as London’s poverty gap grows
It’s not just the Scots who are demanding a new financial settlement from central government. Outer London boroughs, especially Croydon, need to get more cash from Westminster for the growing needs of their rapidly growing populations. Croydon, as we have … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Health, Housing, Schools
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Housing, Labour, London, Poverty, Tory
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Labour councillors demand free vote over Osland honour
Tony Newman, the Labour leader of Croydon Council, could face some angry party colleagues in the Town Hall chamber tonight if they are forced to vote through a borough honour for former councillor David Osland. Osland, a Tory councillor for … Continue reading
