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Purley local hits out: ‘It’s always developers before residents’
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
Questions tower over council’s husband and wife planning act
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
Council in cover-up over planning’s husband and wife act
Croydon’s planners have clearly never heard the old saying, ‘when in a hole, stop digging’, as suspicion mounts over the absence of documents to support dubious statements given to a committee, as KEN LEE reports Croydon Council has been accused … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Chris Philp MP, Community associations, Croydon Council, Heather Cheesbrough, Kenley, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Purley
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Heather Cheesbrough, Higher Drive, Kenley, Macar Developments, Paul Scott, Purley, Ross Gentry
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Family fortunes: council suspected of planning cover-up
Heather Cheesbrough, one of Croydon’s most senior directors, has been accused of misleading the public and the elected councillors on the planning committee in a council cover-up over whether one of her staff properly declared an interest in advance over … Continue reading
Neighbours go bats as developers set their axemen on trees
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 Croydon Council, Foxley Residents Association, Higher Drive, Kenley, Purley
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Purley residents consider judicial challenge to planners
Housing correspondent BARRATT HOLMES on the gathering storm over the council’s housing targets, with the administration accused of allowing ‘planning policy in this borough to be hijacked by one or two individuals’ The Town Hall’s under-fire planning department could soon … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Heather Cheesbrough, Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Paul Scott, Planning, Purley, Simon Brew
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Heather Cheesbrough, Higher Drive, London, London Borough of Croydon, Macar Developments, Paul Scott, Purley, Tory
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Purley residents outrage over planning’s ‘husband and wife act’
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
