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Tag Archives: Croydon High Street
Losing the plastic straws provides a more perfect cocktail mix
With our resident culture correspondent, Bella Bartock, laid up because of the hot summer weather, her grandson, BILL BARTOCK, strolled along to a town centre cocktail bar to sample their take on typically tropical drinks Since opening two years ago, … Continue reading
Signs of the times: Watson’s whim is now back on message
It has not been in position for two months yet, but Councillor Mark Watson’s whimsy on the newly pedestrianised bit of the High Street has now got a second sign. The art-installation seating, which looks as if it was made … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Mark Watson
Tagged Croydon Council, Croydon High Street, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson
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Council warning that Watson’s whim is dangerous structure
Less than a month since Mark Watson, the senior Labour councillor, heralded it as “a popular addition” to the town centre, his latest costly piece of whimsy in the High Street has now effectively been declared as a hazard and … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Mark Watson, Planning
Tagged Croydon Council, Croydon High Street, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson
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Road works in town centre force bus routes on diversion
Councillor Mark Watson’s whimsy of closing a stretch of the High Street in the town centre has encountered an unforeseen complication since the weekend, as Thames Water has dug up the road on Katharine Street, close to the Town Hall, … Continue reading
Posted in Mark Watson, Planning, TfL, Transport
Tagged Croydon Council, Croydon High Street, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson, TfL, Transport for London
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Disability groups never consulted over latest Watson whim
Members of two bodies which seek to represent the interests and needs of Croydon’s disabled and elderly – one of which is organised by the council itself – have confirmed that there was no consultation held with them before Croydon … Continue reading
‘Elderly and disabled avoid town centre as it is too dangerous’
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Former Labour councillor ADRIAN DENNIS, pictured left, accuses the current Town Hall administration of failing to fulfil its legal responsibilities over the closure to traffic of a short stretch of the High Street While there were very good … Continue reading
Latest ‘Watson whim’ generates ridicule and confusion
As well as little proper consultation over the closure of a stretch of Croydon High Street, there doesn’t appear to have been much thought gone into what Mark Watson, the soon-to-be-ex councillor behind the scheme, and the council intend to … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe, Business, Croydon Council, Mark Watson, Planning, TfL
Tagged Addiscombe, Croydon Council, Croydon High Street, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson
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