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Tag Archives: Croydon Council
China syndrome in Croydon with Lansdowne Road deal
Given the alacrity with which Gideon and Call Me Dave are flogging off national interests on the cheap to China, it was a wonder that as they departed the banqueting hall at Buck House this week – where they had … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Croydon Central, Environment, Fairfield, Housing, One Lansdowne Road, Planning, Property, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, One Lansdowne Road
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100 jobs will be lost with two-year Fairfield Halls closure
The battle for Croydon’s cultural future took a twist at the Town Hall last night, with local Tories arguing against job cuts and wanting to spend more public money on the borough’s flagship arts facility, as STEVEN DOWNES reports Croydon’s … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2018 council elections, Alison Butler, Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon College, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Dudley Mead, Education, Environment, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, Housing, Jo Negrini, London Mozart Players, Music, Nathan Elvery, Phil Thomas, Planning, Property, Riesco Collection, Stuart Collins, Theatre, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, URV, Warehouse Theatre, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Fairfield Halls, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Stuart Collins, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield
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Council’s chasm of unaccountability grows wider each day
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Our borough’s elected representatives are being increasingly marginalised by a system that places huge power in the hands of a handful of unaccountable officials, writes STEVEN DOWNES Make the most of it at the Town Hall tonight. For … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Bernard Weatherill House, Business, Cane Hill, Chris Philp MP, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Housing, Jo Negrini, Jon Rouse, Julie Belvir, Maggie Mansell, Nathan Elvery, Norbury, Oasis Academy, Paul Scott, Planning, Pubs, Purley, South Norwood, Stuart Collins, Thornton Heath, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, URV, Whitgift Centre, Woodside
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Norbury, Purley, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Woodside
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Newman: ‘Croydon will stand idly by and be victims of cuts’
The Labour Party leader in Croydon has pledged that the borough will back the Tory Government’s austerity dogma, and so allow the borough’s residents to suffer ever greater cuts to their public services. Or at least, that’s what Tony Newman … Continue reading
‘Interesting’: the best Newman can say of his Fairness report
Is this what fulfills the definition of “damned by faint praise”? After committing £200,000 from Croydon’s hard-pressed budgets towards the Opportunity and Fairness Commission, this is all Labour council leader Tony Newman could find to say about the Commission’s interim … Continue reading
Halls transferred to community group headed by councillors
The management of Stanley Halls has been formally transferred from Croydon Council to local residents’ group, The Stanley People’s Initiative, which has signed a 35-year management lease for the cherished venue. No sooner had the transfer to the community group … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, Kathy Bee, Music, Paul Scott, South Norwood, Stanley Halls, Theatre, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Croydon Council, Kathy Bee, Labour, Paul Scott, South Norwood, Stanley Halls, Tony Newman, Woodside
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MP Philp adds his name to petition for new Coulsdon primary
Notoriously, Croydon South’s previous MP, when visited at his office by lobbying constituents, called the police to have them removed, and to pay particular close attention to the dangerous septugenarians in the party. How things change: tomorrow, the new MP … Continue reading
Posted in Cane Hill, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Croydon South, Education, Planning, Schools
Tagged Boris Johnson, Cane Hill, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Tory
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Parking problems see businesses quit Coulsdon town centre
Businesses are quitting Coulsdon, as trade has dropped off by as much as 50 per cent because of what residents and businesses are describing as the “shambles” of the traffic and parking chaos created by on-going council works and developments … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, Croydon South, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Planning
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tory, Westfield
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Police called out 184 times to Thornton Heath bookmakers’
The Metropolitan Police have responded to 184 call outs for problems encountered by the staffs of the 11 high street betting shops in and around Thornton Heath in the past three years, according to figures provided to a local resident … Continue reading
Lambeth approves ‘omni-shambles’ libraries closure plan
How democracy works in south London, Part 94… STEP 1: Lambeth’s “co-operative” council issues a consultation, cleverly entitled Vision 2020 (geddit?), outlining how the Labour-run Town Halls wants to implement the government’s austerity agenda by making deep cuts to its … Continue reading
This House of Windsor has far from palatial accommodation
Such is the scale of the homelessness crisis in Croydon that the Labour-run council – which last month blocked future “permitted developments” of offices being converted into flats – is to utilise a third ex-office block to provide short-term accommodation. … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Norbury, Planning
Tagged Alison Butler, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Labour, landlords, London Borough of Croydon, Norbury, Windsor House
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Cameron’s kicked Croydon’s homeless in the teeth, says Butler
David Cameron’s announcement this week that developers will no longer have to provide “affordable” homes (in the sense that the homes are marginally less overpriced than what the speculators might wish) is “another nail in the coffin for social housing”, … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Business, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Property, Thornton Heath
Tagged Alison Butler, Concord House, Conservative, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Sycamore House, Thornton Heath, Tory
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MP Reed ‘committed’ to funding for Upper Norwood Library
Steve Reed OBE, the MP for Croydon North, has sent the Save the Upper Norwood Library campaign a supportive message as the campaigners try to stop the “decommissioning” of their library services as part of Lambeth Council’s scheme to close … Continue reading
Posted in Alisa Flemming, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, John Wentworth, Lambeth Council, Libraries, Matthew Bennett, Pat Ryan, Steve Reed MP, Upper Norwood Library Trust
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Labour, Lambeth council, Steve Reed OBE, Tory, Upper Norwood Joint Library, Upper Norwood Library Trust
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Colour-coded divisions over Black History Month events
It surely cannot be deliberate, since Croydon Council’s press and publicity department is too ham-fisted to organise itself so well. But if anyone ever wanted a demonstration of how we live in a divided borough, then they need only refer … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Badsha Quadir, Black History Month, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Dance, Education, Fairfield Halls, History, Kenley, London-wide issues, Mario Creatura, Music, Purley, Steve O'Connell, Theatre
Tagged Badsha Quadir, BHM, Black History Month, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Kenley, Mario Creatura, Purley, Simon Brew, Steve O'Connell, Tory
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Get your hard hat on: central Croydon is about to be closed
Central Croydon looks like it is going to be a ghost town for a couple of years, as its two flagship attractions, the Whitgift Centre and Fairfield Halls, are both closed for redevelopment at the same time. The temporary closure … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Business, Croydon Central, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Environment, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Planning, Timothy Godfrey, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon Central, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Fairfield Halls, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, Timothy Godfrey, Tony Newman, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Coulsdon residents demand Philp delivers new primary school
Chris Philp, Croydon South’s new MP – and a man who sits on a platform with The Taxpayers’ Alliance where one of their number seriously advocates that the Tory government should cut pensioners’ benefits because many affected would “not be … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Cane Hill, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, Croydon South, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, Education, Environment, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Planning, Schools
Tagged Boris Johnson, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Member of parliament, Steve O'Connell, Tory
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NHS seeks your views on future services for the over-65s
NHS Croydon Clincial Commissioning Group (CCG) and Croydon Council are working together to deliver a new approach to commissioning services for people over 65, known as Outcomes Based Commissioning (OBC). “Our aim is to transform the way services are provided … Continue reading
Who killed Bambi? Stag party could have had swifter ending
Oh, deer! Croydon’s week-long stag party, with a red deer roaming around Park Hill Park like a south London version of the Monarch of the Glen, finally came to an end yesterday, with council officials posting notices to announce the … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Croydon Council, Environment, Wildlife
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Jeremy, Park Hill Park, Red Deer
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Volunteers get together to help maintain Croydon’s park life
Our environmental affairs correspondent, CHRIS PECKHAM, reports on a new group established to safeguard our green spaces Last week saw the latest meeting of the fledgling Croydon Parks, Woodlands and Greenspaces Forum: a group that brings together all of the … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Community associations, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon Federation of Allotment and Garden Societies, Environment, Friends of Addiscombe Railway Park, Friends of Ashburton Park, Friends of Croham Hurst Woods, Friends of Farthing Downs, Friends of Grange Park, Friends of Haling Grove, Friends of Marlpit Lane Bowling Green, Friends of Millers Ponds, Friends of Selsdon Woods, Friends of Wandle Park, Friends of West Norwood Cemetery, Gardening, Health, Kenley Airfield Friends Group, Lakes Playground Action Group, Lloyd Park, London-wide issues, Timothy Godfrey, Wandle Park, Wildlife
Tagged Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Environment, Parks
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