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Eight Brick by Brick-built flats issued with fire safety order
EXCLUSIVE: More problems for residents who have shared-ownership in homes built by the council’s omnishambles of a development company. By housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES Eight flats built by Brick by Brick, Croydon Council’s useless housing company that helped to bankrupt … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Housing, Jo Negrini, Mayor Jason Perry
Tagged Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Grenfell Tower, Heathfield Gardens, LFB, London Borough of Croydon, London Fire Brigade, Mayor Jason Perry, Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, South Croydon
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Brick by Brick’s unsold homes are costing Croydon a fortune
Despite there being a ‘housing crisis’, the council’s failed development company is struggling to sell dozens of its homes. As housing correspondent BARRATT HOLMES reports, £440,000 for a two-bed shared-ownership flat is putting off buyers There’s good reason that loss-making … Continue reading
‘Disgrace’ as £110m of Brick by Brick homes stand empty
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Research conducted by a residents’ group has confirmed that more than 200 new homes, built with public cash by the council-owned company, remain vacant, in some cases for more than a year. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES and … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Business, Chris Philp MP, Colm Lacey, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Housing, Old Coulsdon, Planning, Property, South Croydon, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Waddon
Tagged Brick by Brick, Chris Philp MP, Colm Lacey, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Drummond Road, Emma Gardiner, Heathfield Gardens, Lion Green Road, Pimp House, Pump House, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Croydon, South Norwood, Waddon
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‘Godzilla weed’ could make Brick by Brick homes unsaleable
Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, reports on how a notorious invasive plant Japanese knotweed could render flats in a Brick by Brick development unmortgageable Colm Lacey, the Croydon employee who styles himself as “CEO” of Brick by Brick, has confirmed … Continue reading
Tenants told to quit weeks before planning permission granted
BARRATT HOLMES reports on the latest tacky little twist from Croydon’s Labour-run council in its drive to build more than 500 homes for profit, regardless of the consequences for existing residents Further proof, if any further proof was necessary, that … Continue reading
Brick by Brick angers more residents with latest ‘ugly’ plans
One of central Croydon’s few remaining Georgian buildings of note is under threat of being overshadowed by one of the latest pieces of “in-fill” overdevelopment by the council’s profit-hungry private housing company, Brick by Brick. The council-backed developers are even … Continue reading
