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Lloyd’s bequest to the people faces up to challenge of drought
THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR: The long, dry summer had an impact on many of the borough’s parks and open spaces. KEN TOWL meets the Friends of Lloyd Park to hear about the work they are doing in the middle … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Community associations, Croydon parks, Environment, Friends of Lloyd Park, History, Ken Towl, Lloyd Park, Nature Notes, South Croydon, Walks
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Disc golf, Friends of Lloyd Park, Ken Towl, Lloyd Park, TCV, The Conservation Volunteers, Walks
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Council fails to pay 200 interpreters for more than three months
CROYDON IN CRISIS: A ‘collapsed’ payments system has seen the council stiff hundreds of casual workers – highly trained translators and interpreters – for tens of thousands of pounds. And Mayor Perry knew nothing about it. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Children's Services, Conrad Hall, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Simon Robson, Stuart King, Yvette Hopley
Tagged Adult Services, Adult Social Care, business and service compliance operations manager, Cllr Stuart King, Cllr Yvette Hopley, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Translation and Interpretation Service, CTIS, David Wheeler, director of operations for adult social care, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Simon Robson, Tory
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Mendacious Mayor is sitting on £8m of overpaid tax money
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The cash-strapped council’s Tory leader had no answers when asked why he has failed to refund ‘money which rightfully belongs to hardworking residents’. By our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE Croydon’s failed Mayor Jason Perry is sitting … Continue reading
Healey’s ‘breathing space’ Budget was tempered by Trump
Small Business Rate Relief is not the headline-grabber from yesterday’s Budget that a £100 payment to millions of households to help with fuel bills was. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, reports how it is a measure that should help more than … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Chris Philp MP, Council Tax, Croydon Council
Tagged Chancellor of the Exchequer, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Iran, Iran war, John Healey, Labour, London, President Donald Trump, Small Business Rate Relief, SMEs, Tory
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Unpicking the Budget and the Bayeux Tapestry in our podcast
The latest episode of the Croydon Insider podcast is now available – free for our paying subscribers as premium content via Patreon, or for purchase on our Spotify page. It’s another jam-packed episode, with a panel of iC readers going … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Fisher, Business, Cheryl Fergus-Ferrell, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Croydon Insider, Inside Croydon, Under The Flyover
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Bayeux Tapestry, BBC, Beckenham Junction, British Museum, Cheryl Fergus-Ferrell, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Insider, Croydon Trams, Dr Yusuf Ali Osman, Elmers End, London Trams, New Addington, Patreon, Podcast, Sanjana Idnani, Spotify, The Budget, Yusuf Osman
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Have your voice heard at South Norwood Council Tax meeting
A special meeting attended by a local law centre is taking place tomorrow in South Norwood to help military veterans, disabled people, lone parents and those on low incomes with their Council Tax South West London Law Centres will be … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Socco Cheta Community Hub, South Norwood, South Norwood Community Kitchen, South West London Law Centres
Tagged Council Tax, Council Tax Support, Croydon, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Norwood Junction, Portland Road, SNCK, Socco Cheta, South Norwood, South Norwood Community Kitchen, South West London Law Centre, SWLLC
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Perry’s plan is rejected by four parties – and Commissioners
CROYDON IN CRISIS: ‘Zero plan and zero competence’ – Croydon Mayor has his proposed business plan blocked at the Town Hall this week in an embarrassing reverse for the Tories and the council’s interim CEO. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, reports … Continue reading
Posted in Amy Foster, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Mike Jackson, Stuart King
Tagged 39% Council Tax increase, Business plan, Conservative, Council Tax, Council Tax Support, Councillor Amy Foster, Councillor Stuart King, Croydon, Croydon Council, Disabled Persons Freedom Pass, Disabled Persons Freedom Passes, Failed Mayor, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor's business plan 2026-2023, Tory
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‘Utterly outrageous’ proposal to withdraw disabled travel pass
The consequences of the council losing its LTN case in the High Court in March, and with it millions of pounds in fine refunds and lost revenue, now sees Croydon’s failed Mayor taking travel passes from the disabled. WALTER CRONXITE, … Continue reading
Posted in Council Tax, Croydon Council, Mark Adderley, Mayor Jason Perry
Tagged 39% Council Tax increase, Cllr Mark Adderley, Conservative, Council Tax, Council Tax Support, Councillor Stuart King, Croydon, Croydon Council, Disabled Persons Freedom Pass, Disabled Persons Freedom Passes, Failed Mayor, London Borough of Croydon, Tory
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Mayor fails to find ‘right’ person for £275,000 CEO vacancy
CROYDON IN CRISIS: A year since the vacancy arose at Fisher’s Folly, the Mayor is no closer to recruiting someone for the top job to take over from Katherine Kerswell. KEN LEE, Town Hall correspondent, reports Jason Perry has failed … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioners, Conrad Hall, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Elaine Jackson, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Mike Jackson, Section 114 notice
Tagged Chief executive officer, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Elaine Jackson, GatenbySanderson, Interiim chief executive, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Mike Jackson, Steve Reed OBE, Tory
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Perry’s consultation is outsourced to AI spyware company
Zencity is owned by a cyberwarfare expert who learned his sinister trade in an elite unit of the Israel Defense Force. The use of the firm has been subject to growing complaints and scrutiny in America Croydon’s “digital first” council … Continue reading
Posted in Council Tax, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry
Tagged 39% Council Tax increase, AI, Commonplace Digital Ltd, Conservative, Council Tax, Council Tax Support, Councillor Stuart King, Croydon, Croydon Council, Eyal Feder, Failed Mayor, London Borough of Croydon, South Norwood Community Kitchen, Tory, Zencity
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Perry looks to inflict pain for his failures on Croydon’s poor
Not content with axing services that protect children, closing libraries and committing ‘cultural vandalism’ over CALAT, Croydon’s Mayor is now coming after lone-parent families and even disabled residents. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, on Perry’s plan to make cuts to Council … Continue reading
Posted in Council Tax, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Socco Cheta Community Hub, South Norwood Community Kitchen, Stuart King
Tagged 39% Council Tax increase, Conservative, Council Tax, Council Tax Support, Councillor Stuart King, Croydon, Croydon Council, Failed Mayor, London Borough of Croydon, South Norwood Community Kitchen, Tory
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Here’s suggested (polite) responses to Perry’s consultation
As Croydon’s £86,000 per year piss-poor Mayor looks to cut support for lone parents and the disabled, this is your chance to let him know what you really think… The lovely, helpful people at the South Norwood Community Kitchen have … Continue reading
Let the heartaches begin as Baldry starts job as Perry’s gofer
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The thing is with the Conservatives and spending public money, they have no qualms when it comes to lavishing hundreds of thousands of pounds on themselves. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Did someone mention jobs for the Tory … Continue reading
Posted in Andrea Perry, Croydon Council, Mario Creatura, Mayor Jason Perry, Ryan Baldry
Tagged Adecco, Andrea Perry, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Conservative Central Office, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Dean Shoesmith, HR, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor's office manager, Ryan Baldry, Tory
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Coulsdon’s Red Clover Gardens gets a new coat of whitewash
A housing scheme in Coulsdon has won the country’s top architecture award. Yet there’s not been a peep from the council’s propaganda department, usually desperate to spin anything as ‘good’ news in Croydon. STEVEN DOWNES on the desperate efforts of … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Environment, Housing, Jo Negrini, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, Property
Tagged Brick by Brick, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, Lion Green Road, Lion Green Road car park, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Paul Scott, Red Clover Gardens, RIBA, Royal Institute of British Architects, Stirling Prize
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Mayor forced to order inquiry into children’s home contract row
EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed Mayor, has been forced to authorise a review into the procurement omnishambles that saw the council cancelling a £8.6million contract for the management of a children’s home within six months of the … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Services, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Stabilisation Plan, Stuart Collins, Stuart King
Tagged Children's home, Children's Services, Cllr Stuart King, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Ofsted, Ofsted inspection, St Christopher's Fellowship, Stuart Collins, Tory
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After five years, council finally acts to clean up country park
Sluggish council has finally acted to clean up local streams that have been turned into ‘sludge’ by sewage pollution After a five-year campaign by residents and environmentalists, backed by their Labour councillors and MP, Croydon Council has finally confirmed that … Continue reading
Posted in Amy Foster, Brigitte Graham, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon East, Croydon parks, Environment, Friends of South Norwood Country Park, Natasha Irons, Wildlife, Woodside
Tagged Cargreen Road, Cllr Amy Foster, Cllr Brigitte Graham, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon East, Environment, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Natasha Irons MP, Norwood Junction, Pollution, Sewage, South Norwood, Thames Water, Woodside
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Perry’s CALAT lies exposed as up to 200 jobs are put at risk
In four years under Croydon’s Tory Mayor, the borough’s adult education service has gone from paying its own way to operating a £500,000 overspend – after its landlords, the council, doubled its rent to more than £800,000 a year. ‘It … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, CALAT, Croydon Council, Education, Libraries, Mayor Jason Perry
Tagged adult education, CALAT, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Adult Learning and Training, Croydon Clocktower, Croydon Council, Croydon Town Hall, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Tory, UCU, University and College Union
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Council could face legal battle over £8.6m children’s home deal
Findings of Ofsted inspectors are ‘difficult to reconcile’ with council’s report about care at a children’s home, as Town Hall says that it needs to be ‘clearer’ with service providers. By STEVEN DOWNES The establishment of a children’s home to … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Stranack, Children's Services, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Natalie Vesty, Stabilisation Plan, Stuart Collins
Tagged Children's home, Children's Services, Cllr Andy Stranack, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Debbie Jones, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Ofsted, Ofsted inspection, St Christopher's Fellowship, Stuart Collins, Tory
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Children’s home in contract row given a ‘Good’ Ofsted rating
Government inspectors who visited the council-owned children’s home contradict the Town Hall’s critical report that prompted the cancellation of an £8.6m, seven-year contract. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The Croydon children’s home where the council cancelled its management contract with a … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Services, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Stabilisation Plan, Stuart Collins
Tagged Children's home, Children's Services, Cllr Andy Stranack, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Debbie Jones, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Ofsted, Ofsted inspection, St Christopher's Fellowship, Stuart Collins, Tory
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Council admits it has no idea who it paid £1.1m in legal fees
EXCLUSIVE by JOSHUA STEIN Croydon Council has admitted that it does not know how it spent £1.082million of public money on legal fees over the past two years. Croydon’s cash-strapped council has debts totalling £1.7billion. In July 2025, following the … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioners, Conrad Hall, Croydon Council, Inside Croydon Investigates, Joshua Stein, Mayor Jason Perry, Stephen Lawrence-Orumwense
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Joshua Stein, Legal fees, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Stephen Lawrence-Orumwense, Tory
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Croydon roads under Perry among London’s most dangerous
Transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON on the clear and present danger of a car-obsessed Mayor who has no consideration for road safety for Croydon’s children Croydon is the second most dangerous area in the whole of London for traffic collisions outside … Continue reading
Posted in Alasdair Stewart, Commuting, Croydon Council, Cycling, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Schools, TfL, Transport
Tagged Cllr Alasdair Stewart, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Department for Transport, DfT, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Scrap Car Comparison, TfL, Tory, Transport and Parking Strategic Direction, Transport for London
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Greens call for audit investigation into possible fraud at council
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Mayor Perry spent £53.4m on temporary staff at the council in 2024-2025. Yet the council sacked a whistleblower who raised serious concerns about staffing agency Adecco’s possible overcharging for workers in the children’s services department. With an … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Services, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Fairfield, Mayor Jason Perry, Paul Ainscough, SEND
Tagged Adecco, Cllr Paul Ainscough, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Daniel Cox, Employment Tribunal, Fairfield, Grant Thornton, His Honour Judge James Tayler, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Tory
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‘Digital first’ council fails to achieve basic level of competence
By STEVEN DOWNES, Editor, Inside Croydon Poet Brian Bilston was on stage at the Ashcroft Theatre last night*. In between frequent references to Clare Grogan, his cat and the seemingly unstoppable onward march of AI, Bilston read from his poem … Continue reading
Posted in 'Future Croydon', Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Neil Williams, Opama Khan, Poetry, Theatre
Tagged AI, Ashcroft Theatre, Brian Bilston, Clare Grogan, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Digital Service, Digital-first council, Fairfield Halls, How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Microsoft, Waterstones, Whitgift Centre
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‘Challenge remains enormous’ as Perry hikes Council Tax again
WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, on the grim budget report from the borough’s failed Mayor After almost five years in charge at Croydon Town Hall, Mayor Jason Perry has made a public admission of failure. “It remains difficult to see a … Continue reading
Whistleblower’s lonely eight-year battle over council spending
CROYDON IN CRISIS: In 2018, Daniel Cox blew the whistle when he discovered that a contractor was charging the council almost double what he was being paid for his work. Cox was dismissed, and the council has spent the past … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Services, Croydon Council, Jacqueline Harris-Baker, Jo Negrini, Mayor Jason Perry, SEND, Stephen Lawrence-Orumwense
Tagged Adecco, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Daniel Cox, Employment Tribunal, His Honour Judge James Tayler, Jacqueline Harris-Baker, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Stephen Lawrence-Orumwense, Tony Newman, Tory
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