Tag Archives: Foxley Residents Association

Purley local hits out: ‘It’s always developers before residents’

Posted on August 26, 2021 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: This week BRIAN WATSON, a leading member of the Foxley Residents’ Association, vented his frustrations at the inappropriate building works and overdevelopment being allowed in his corner of the borough by writing a letter to the council leader, … Continue reading →

Posted in Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Katherine Kerswell, Kenley, Planning, Property, Purley | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 19 Comments

Questions tower over council’s husband and wife planning act

Posted on August 27, 2020 by insidecroydon

Angry residents are seeking a full and independent investigation into the role played by a senior member of the council’s planning department in a £300million tower development that was granted planning permission in central Croydon – when the wife of … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Heather Cheesbrough, Housing, One Lansdowne Road, Planning, Property, Purley | Tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Neighbours go bats as developers set their axemen on trees

Posted on February 27, 2020 by insidecroydon

Further complaints about the council’s planning department suggest that they are reluctant to apply enforcement action, whether in Purley or South Croydon, as KEN LEE reports Croydon Council has declared a climate emergency, yet continues to receive sponsorship and to … Continue reading →

Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Kenley, Planning, Property, Purley, Wildlife | Tagged , , , , | 7 Comments

Patronised residents decry Scott’s planning committee ‘farce’

Posted on January 22, 2020 by insidecroydon

Croydon Council’s planning committee is “a farce”, and “an avenue for Councillor Scott to push through his anti-suburbia agenda”. That – referring to Paul Scott, the Labour councillor who is all-powerful on planning matters in Croydon – is the strongly … Continue reading →

Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Paul Scott, Planning, Purley, Toni Letts | Tagged , , , , , | 3 Comments

Purley residents outrage over planning’s ‘husband and wife act’

Posted on December 18, 2019 by insidecroydon

Croydon Council’s planning committee has had an application for a development in Purley rushed on to its agenda for tomorrow, its last meeting of 2019, with a scheme submitted from a company whose “development director” is married to a senior … Continue reading →

Posted in Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Purley, Toni Letts | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments