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Special school offers its stones to plug gaps in park’s walls
Croydon Council officials have given Cressey College a free pass over the “disappearing” rocks from ornamental walls around Park Hill Recreation Ground, assuring residents and friends’ groups that the stones used by the private special school’s builders over the Easter … Continue reading
Cressey College looks to be on the rocks over park and Ofsted
Residents’ anger over the disappearance of large pieces of masonry in Park Hill Park over Easter weekend has forced the owners of a struggling special school business to issue a series of conflicting statements. By our Town Hall reporter, KEN … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Croydon parks, Education, Environment, Jade Appleton, Park Hill and Whitgift, Park Hill Recreation Ground, Schools
Tagged Cressey College, Friends of Park Hill Park, Horizon Care and Education Group, Jade Appleton, Josi Kiss, Park Hill, Park Hill and Whitgift Estate, Park Hill Park
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Council rejects private school’s planning scheme for Heathfield
A planning application from a private education business to make extensive alterations to Heathfield House, a listed building owned by Croydon Council, has been refused. As Inside Croydon reported in June, Cressey College has been renting the building from the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Education, Gardening, Heathfield House, Nicola Townsend, Planning, Property, Sarah Jones MP, Schools, Selsdon and Addington Village
Tagged Cressey College, Croydon, Croydon Council, Heathfield House, London Borough of Croydon, Sarah Jones MP
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MP joins objectors as Heathfield House plans get called in
A council official-backed proposal to convert Heathfield House into a special school, surrounding it with 9ft-high prison-style fencing, has been “called in” for consideration by the planning committee. Today is the final day for residents and interested bodies to lodge … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Heathfield House, Leila Ben-Hassel, Planning, Sarah Jones MP, Schools
Tagged Cressey College, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Heathfield House, Horizon Care and Education Group, Labour, Leila Ben-Hassel, Sarah Jones MP
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Alderman criticises handing Heathfield to profit-making school
A private school that charges £81,000 per year for some of its pupils is accused of doing work on the ‘cheap’ with its proposals, including ugly 9-foot-high fencing around a listed Victorian building A Croydon alderman, and former cabinet member … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Education, Environment, Heathfield House, Planning, Property, Schools, Selsdon and Addington Village, SEND, Timothy Godfrey
Tagged Cressey College, Croydon, Croydon Council, Heathfield House, Horizon Care and Education Group, Labour, Timothy Godfrey
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9ft fence for special school could ruin listed Heathfield House
Our south of the borough correspondent, PEARL LEE, on the disposal of another of Croydon’s heritage assets – with a listed building being rented out on the cheap to a multi-million-pound education company that charges its pupils up to £81,000 … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Education, Environment, Gardening, Heathfield House, Planning, Property, Schools, Selsdon and Addington Village
Tagged Conservative, Cressey College, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Ecology Centre, Heathfield House, Peter Mitchell, Tory
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