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Revealed: Council’s plan for town centre is 95th-best university
GENE BRODIE, education correspondent, on the increasingly desperate-looking moves to salvage anything from the town centre regeneration Croydon Council’s “cunning plan” to dig the town centre out of the hole created for it by the Whitgift Foundation and Westfield is … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Croydon BID, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Education, Jo Negrini, Planning, Sussex Innovation Centre, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon College, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, South Bank Poly, Tony Newman, University of Sussex, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Coulsdon teachers go on strike over £700m funding shortfall
Teaching union members working at Coulsdon Sixth Form College will be on strike on Wednesday, demanding more funding for their students and their college. Across the country, the National Education Union will be taking strike action at another 33 sixth … Continue reading
Labour warns that education cuts threaten knife crime work
Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner and Croydon MP Sarah Jones have warned that funding cuts to colleges and schools in Croydon risk jeopardising the good work being done in the borough to tackle knife crime. The Labour MPs met staff … Continue reading
Council goes toe-to-toe with College over ‘university’
Croydon College and the University of Sussex have been providing degree courses in the town centre for a decade. Now the council, with its own multi-billion development plans in tatters, has decided to come up with a scheme of its … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Brick by Brick, Business, College Green, Colm Lacey, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Croydon School of Art, Education, Jo Negrini, Planning, South Bank Poly, Sussex Innovation Centre, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, South Bank Poly, University of Sussex, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Croydon’s Quantum of Solace can’t clear up Fairfield debacle
CROYDON COMMENTARY: As exclusively revealed by Inside Croydon, Brick by Brick’s failure to secure the purchase of the Barclay Road Annex building from Croydon College put at risk a multi-million-pound property deal. At a Town Hall planning meeting tonight, the … Continue reading
House-builder Brick by Brick asks for extra £78m council loan
Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, on how the failure to seal a property deal with Croydon College and ‘Brexit uncertainties’ have caught out the geniuses running the council-owned house-builders Brick by Brick needs another £78million loan from Croydon Council to … Continue reading
£400m+ scheme at risk after council’s failed property deal
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 Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Chris Philp MP, College Green, Colm Lacey, Conservative, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Tony Newman, Tory
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Exhibition opens to celebrate 150 years of School of Art
An exhibition has opened at the Museum of Croydon in the Clocktower to mark the 150th anniversary of the foundation of Croydon School of Art. The free exhibition is on display until April 14, and includes work from many of … Continue reading
Reverse Jobs Fair matches applicants with employers
A council-backed event for local businesses to hire applicants with disabilities returns in October. The Reverse Jobs Fair, which is open to applicants with disabilities looking for everything from a permanent post to a temporary work placement, will be held … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Business, Charity, Croydon College, Education, Mind in Croydon
Tagged Croydon College, Reverse Jobs Fair
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London Mayor ducks Night Czar questions to speak in Croydon
WALTER CRONXITE on the latest instance of non-accountability of our elected representatives, and how the borough’s new top cop will need to address the Bashment ban Amy Lamé will make one of her first, if not the first, public speech … Continue reading
We need quality homes, not quantity, to avoid ghettoes
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
Can two-bedroom flats really be solution for Fairfield Halls?
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The scheme to redevelop Fairfield Halls and College Green could cost more than £70m, with Council Tax-payers taking much of the risk, says DAVID WICKENS Those that study regeneration and city centre proposals will have noticed that there … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Addiscombe West, Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Education, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Planning, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon College, David Wickens, Fairfield Halls, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Taberner House, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Croydon College free school proposal gets fobbed off by DfE
GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, reports on the surprising reasoning given by Whitehall to block expansion plans around College Green It’s official: according to the Department for Education, there is no school places crisis in Croydon. That was the reason … Continue reading
Ofsted reports signal concerns over College’s free school plan
The school places shortage has already prompted a range of daft ideas in Croydon, from the notion of sticking a primary school in a listed building overlooking a six-lane urban motorway, to building on Metropolitan Open Land with barely a … Continue reading
Steve Reed MP: “Here’s my end-of-term report”
The House of Commons is in recess for the summer, marking the end of a very busy few months as the new MP for Croydon North‘s for STEVE REED It is eight months since the Croydon North by-election, where local … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon North, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Croydon, Croydon College, Croydon North, London, Mayor, Thornton Heath, Tories, Tory
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Fisher and council condemned for missing jobs fair
Croydon’s Conservative-run council has already been described as cynical, callous and calculating, and with some justification. Now, headed by Mike Fisher, the elusive leader of the Tory group on the council, they have added “condemned” and “incompetent” to their growing … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2014 council elections, Allders, Business, Centrale, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Education, London-wide issues, Mike Fisher, Shirley, Steve Reed MP, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon College, Croydon North, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, Tony Newman
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Jobs Fair offers help for long-term unemployed youth
There are nearly 1,000 young people out of work in the northern part of Croydon – almost half the total unemployed in the whole of the borough. Which is why Steve Reed OBE, the MP for Croydon North, is hosting … Continue reading
Store at beating centre of making Croydon a Heart Town
Croydon is to become a “Heart Town”, with the borough’s new mayor, Yvette Hopley, choosing the British Heart Foundation as one of her official charities for the coming year and endorsing the campaign to reduce the amount of heart disease … Continue reading
“Favoured” Halls, £4.5m debts and the commercial interests
Using the Fairfield Halls’ trustees’ own annual reports and accounts since 2010, together with official council documents, SEAN CREIGHTON examines what is going on at the town’s arts venue, ahead of £25m of public money being spent to refurbish it … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Art, Business, Charity, Cinema, Comedy, Community associations, Croydon Council, Dance, David Fitze, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Dudley Mead, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, Jon Rouse, London Mozart Players, Music, Property, South Croydon Community Association, Theatre, Timothy Godfrey, Warehouse Theatre, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Fairfield Hall, Legal & General, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Former mayors Hecks and Millard have died
Two former Mayors of Croydon, Pat Hecks and Derek Millard, have died.
