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20,000 homes in Croydon to be hit by Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’
What parts of Croydon are likely to be hit by the ‘mansion tax’? Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, peers through the estate agents’ window… Pearls were being well and truly clutched at the Bog Standard this week, as the full … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry
Tagged Addington Hills, Addington Palace, Bishops Walk, Budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves, Evening Standard, Gideon Osborne, Gravel Hill, Homes and Property, house prices, London Standard, Mansion Tax, Property price inflation, Property prices, Purley, Right-to-buy, Selsdon, South Croydon, Upper Woodcote Village, Waddon
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Now Tory newspaper turns against Tories’ fringe candidate Hall
Even the right-wing press doesn’t much care for the Harrow hairdresser. By our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE At the 11th hour, and after some wavering in the final days before tomorrow’s London elections, the Evening Standard has said it supports … Continue reading
Posted in 2024 London elections, Evening Boris, Housing, Local media, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Susan Hall
Tagged 2024 London elections, Conservative, Croydon, Evening Boris, Evening Standard, Labour, London, London Assembly, London elections 2024, Mayor, Mayor Sadiq Khan, Sadiq Khan, Susan Hall, Tory
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Shared ownership is an unaffordable joke, says Standard
Things must be bad when even London estate agents’ weekly booster pages identify how one of the housing market’s on-trend deals is failing to deliver. Today’s Homes and Property advertorial section in the Evening Standard (Editor: Gideon Osborne) lays into … Continue reading
House prices are falling just as Brick by Brick comes to market
A collapse in house prices, even in London and the south-east, could put more pressure on the Town Hall’s creaking finances, thanks to chief exec Jo “We’re Not Stupid” Negrini’s cunning plan of spending public money on building 1,000 homes … Continue reading
Standard practice: tram extension story goes off the rails
Transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON on the difference between what is really happening, and what an advertising feature in the rag edited by trainee journalist Gideon Osborne says Transport for London has spent the past 24 hours trying to calmly damp … Continue reading
Posted in Evening Boris, Merton, Sutton Council, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Evening Standard, London, Mayor, Merton Council, Sadiq Khan, Sutton Council, TfL, Transport for London
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Miserable Croydon ranked near bottom of happiness table
It’s official: Croydon is one of the most miserable places to live in London. Well, when we say “official”, we actually mean that the Evening Boris says so. But they did get their source statistics from the Office for National … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Evening Boris, Tony Newman
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Evening Boris, Evening Standard, London
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Please join us in the fight to save Croydon’s arts and heritage
CHARLOTTE DAVIES, pictured right, has started legal proceedings to stop Croydon Council selling the most valuable pieces of the publicly owned Riesco Collection of Chinese procelain. The case has the support of the Museums Association, the Croydon Natural History and … Continue reading
Croydon anti-crime charities receive £40,000 from Standard
Two strong and courageous women, both with inspiring Croydon stories to tell, were featured in the Evening Standard this week, as Tracey Ford, the founder of the JAGS Foundation, an anti-crime charity, and Eliza Rebeiro, the founder of Lives Not … Continue reading
Slow down, where’s the fire? It might be in Westminster
Croydon’s reputation according to one of the borough’s MPs, “for rather unwelcoming 1960s architecture and for crime and anti-social behaviour”, had another negative lumped on to it yesterday, with the Evening Standard branding the borough as “London’s arson hotspot” (you … Continue reading
