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Council presses on with £22m academy that no one wants
As Croydon Council prepares to give the go-ahead for a school which has just 29 first-choice applications, WALTER CRONXITE turns detective to investigate the mysterious case of the disappearing demand for school places Residents living near Croydon Arena in Woodside … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Wright, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Croydon Council, Education, Hamida Ali, Julie Belvir, Oasis Academy, Oasis Academy Coulsdon, Oasis Academy Shirley Park, Paul Greenhalgh, Paul Scott, Planning, Ryelands Primary and Nursery, Schools, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Oasis Academy Coulsdon, Oasis Academy Shirley Park, Oasis Arena Academy, Tony Newman, Tory, Woodside
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POLL: Back our scheme to save Purley Pool – permanently
FLIP FLOP (Part 94): Purley Pool has been given a reprieve, of sorts. Following an announcement this morning by Tony Newman, the council leader, the only public swimming pool serving a vast catchment area in the south of the borough … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 General Election, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Emily Benn, Fusion, Leisure services, Mike Fisher, Planning, Purley Pool, Swimming, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Labour, Mike Fisher, Purley Pool, Tony Newman, Tory
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Labour council continues to charge for reading lessons
GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, has discovered that Croydon’s Labour-run council is using a legal loophole to continue to charge local children up to £3,500 per year just to teach them how to read and write Croydon Council continues to … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Julie Belvir, Paul Greenhalgh, Schools, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Education, Julie Belvir, Labour, Paul Greenhalgh, schools, Tony Newman, Tory
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Eye! Eye! Council offices’ £144m cost is attracting attention
Not for the first time, a scandal involving Croydon Council has attracted the attention of the scurrilous satirical magazine, Private Eye, when the local mainstream media has kept well clear of the story. Presumably, the Sadvertiser doesn’t think that an … Continue reading
Fairness Commission keeps public waiting before revealing all
The first public meeting of the council’s Opportunity and Fairness Commission will be staged next Wednesday, January 28, at Stanley Halls, South Norwood. Chaired by the Bishop of Croydon, the Right Reverend Jonathan Clark, the commission, which is supposed to … Continue reading
Segas House school scheme dropped over Minerva sale price
“A victory for commonsense”, to borrow from the UKIP/Freedom Association/Tax-payers Alliance handbook of handy, populist, yet empty statements. But the decision to convert Segas House into a primary school has been binned. The very notion was ludicrous. It was put … Continue reading
Wander the Wandle and make sure you don’t miss the mills
The WANDLE WANDERER steps out from the source of the eponymous river for a stroll through south London heritage and nature The Wandle Trail has been in existence for nearly 20 years now, since a group of rambling, conservation and … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, East Croydon, Pubs, Tramlink, Transport, Walks, Wandle Wanderer
Tagged Croydon Council, Merton Abbey Mills, River Wandle, Wandle Park, Wandle Trail
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Ten compelling questions on the Whitgift Centre CPO
CROYDON COMMENTARY: A once-in-a-lifetime regeneration, or a sinister land grab? SUSAN OLIVER, pictured, has some nagging doubts about the massive Compulsory Purchase Order on the Whitgift Centre taken out by Croydon Council on behalf of the Hammersfield developers I was … Continue reading
Council’s “disturbing” lack of records on homeless families
Croydon Council has no proper records of households on its homeless list, according to a recent response to a Freedom of Information Act. The council has refused to provide figures for the number of households with school-aged children that Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Housing
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, homeless, Labour, Tory
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Purley Pool shows Tories and Labour are both in shallow end
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Croydon South’s anarchist candidate, JON BIGGER, pictured left, says that the decision over Purley Pool is another example to show there’s little difference between his Conservative and Labour election rivals The debate around the closure of Purley Pool … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 General Election, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Emily Benn, Jon Bigger, Leisure services, Purley, Purley Pool, Tony Newman
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon Council, Emily Benn, Jon Bigger, Labour, Purley, Purley Pool, The Hon Emily Benn, Tony Newman, Tory
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Back to the future to find lessons from Croydon’s past
Architecture author JOHN GRINDROD re-views an old television documentary and sees some interesting warnings for the town’s regeneration Back in 1993, it’s fair to say that I had never given much thought to the architecture of my home town, Croydon. … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Art, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Environment, History, Housing, Planning, Property, Taberner House, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema, East Croydon station, Fairfield Halls, Hammersfield, Hammerson, London Borough of Croydon, Taberner House, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Video: Alphaville and Sir Richard Rogers’ massive erection
It is more than 20 years since BBC2’s The Late Show devoted an entire programme to an examination of the merits, or otherwise, of Croydon’s architecture. The programme drew parallels with a French film noir called Alphaville, a dystopian vision. … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Art, Business, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Environment, History, Housing, Jo Negrini, London-wide issues, Planning, Property
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Hammersfield, Hammerson, London Borough of Croydon, Sir Richard Rogers, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Island tries to block out memories of seven-year hitch
It has been such a long time since the IYLO BUILDING last penned a column for this site, that they return now after a makeover and with a new name, though the developers probably don’t want you to regard the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Environment, Housing, IYLO, Planning, Property, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Island, IYLO, Tory, Westfield
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Croydon primary school performance among worst in London
GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, has been crunching some numbers ahead of the new term. It doesn’t make encouraging reading If you are short of things to do in the New Year, there might be nothing more interesting to do … Continue reading
Selling a dream from £400,000 flats beside railway line
1pm UPDATE: Seems that the nice people at the Redrow marketing department may have had second thoughts about their soft-focus soft-porn for their over-priced London flats. Their two minutes of carefully crafted advertisement video appears to have vanished from the … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Cherry Orchard Gardens, East Croydon, Housing, Menta Tower, Planning, Property
Tagged Addiscombe West, Croydon Council, Housing, Menta, Redrow
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Oasis governors cleared to rule on academy planning decision
Croydon Council’s highly paid legal eagles see nothing wrong with current and former governors from an Oasis academy in the borough being part of a planning committee that is to decide on an application to build a six-forms-of-entry Oasis academy … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon North, Environment, Hamida Ali, Julie Belvir, Nathan Elvery, Oasis Academy, Paul Scott, Planning, Schools, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Arena Academy, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Arena, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Labour, Oasis, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Tory, Woodside
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Labour recycles a Christmas policy that invites fly-tipping
The “ambition” of Tony Newman, Croydon’s new council leader, to make the borough the “cleanest and greenest” in London will be undermined by his own actions once again in the coming days, despite some residents doing as their council asks … Continue reading
Developers’ ‘affordable’ homes do little for housing crisis
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The housing crisis shows no sign of easing, as home sale prices and rents in London, and Croydon, continue to rise. DAVID CALLAM identifies a worrying possibility over the council’s action on the Menta development of more yuppie … Continue reading
