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Tag Archives: Home Office
Mayor hopeful’s £40,000 Home Office fine for migrant worker
2026 LOCAL ELECTIONS: Market trader was removed as chair of the Croydon Business Association last October, and is now running as an independent candidate after quitting Labour and Reform in the first three months of this year Jose Joseph, the … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Business, Croydon Business Association, Fairfield, Jose Joseph, Surrey Street
Tagged asylum seeker, CBA, Croydon, Croydon Business Association, Croydon Council, Home Office, immigration, Jose Joseph, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Reform Ltd, Reform UK, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Croydon man among six charged with stealing from immigrants
A man from Croydon is among six immigration officers who have appeared in court facing various charges related to them stealing money from people arriving in Britain after having crossed the Channel in small boats. David Grundy, 43, from Croydon, … Continue reading
Posted in Crime
Tagged David Grundy, Dover, Home Office, immigrants, immigration, Immigration officers, Immigration officials, small boats
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Developers seek views on last parts of Ruskin Square jigsaw
The development partnership which has taken two decades to deliver a couple of office buildings, plus Boozepark and a block of flats on the nine-acre “gateway” site next to East Croydon Station, is now seeking public opinion on what they … Continue reading
Posted in Business, East Croydon, Housing, Property, Ruskin Square
Tagged 1 Ruskin Square, 2 Ruskin Square, 4 Ruskin Square, C3PO, Croydon, East Croydon station, HM Revenue and Customs, HMRC, Home Office, R2D2, ro2, ro3, Ruskin Square, Schroder, Stanhope, Stanhope-Schroder, Visa and Immigration Centre
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Police seize counterfeit goods and cash from Croydon shops
Shops in Croydon and in Brixton have been among 30 sites raided by the Metropolitan Police, seizing hundreds of thousands of pounds-worth of counterfeit goods and suspected illegal cash as part of an operation to disrupt money laundering and the … Continue reading
How we’ve managed to make a bad, sad situation much worse
There’s a new level of toxicity around the intertwined issues of race, immigration and asylum seekers, and in this latest Andrew Fisher Interview, our columnist talks to Dr Maya Goodfellow, the academic and writer, about how far-right rhetoric has been … Continue reading
Now Perry tries dog-whistle politics over asylum-seeker hotels
Always keen to jump on any populist passing bandwagon, Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed Mayor, last night made it known that he has got the geniuses in the council’s legal department working overtime to see if he can shut down any … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry
Tagged asylum seekers, Bell Hotel, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Refugees and New Communities Forum, Croydon South, Epping, High Court, Home Office, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Orpington, refugees, Tory
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Two town centre office blocks set for conversion into 630 flats
Two more of Croydon’s 1960s brutalist landmark buildings are set to be converted into flats, in further residential intensification of the town centre. Singaporean investor Ho Bee Land bought government office blocks Apollo House and Lunar House for £99million in … Continue reading
Law centre offering free advice to apply for Home Office eVisas
A government policy shift towards digital immigration checks and using eVisas from 2025 means that all Biometric Residence Permits and most Biometric Residence Cards will expire on December 31. The South West London Law Centres, with an office in Croydon, … Continue reading
Croydon and Sutton at centre of Met’s zombie knife amnesty
Owners of dangerous machetes and similar large-bladed weapons can claim ‘compensation’ if they surrender them to the police before a ban comes in on September 24 With the long-promised ban on zombie knives and machetes not due to come into … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Knife crime, Policing
Tagged Bromley, Croydon, Home Office, Machete, Metropolitan Police, Sutton, Zombie knife amnesty, Zombie knives
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More than 100 Afghans in Croydon protest against deportations
A crowd of more than 100 Afghan refugees gathered outside the Home Office’s Lunar House in central Croydon today to protest at the Government’s policy of deportation to Rwanda. The protestors included some who served with the British military, usually … Continue reading
Posted in Fairfield
Tagged Afghan refugees, Afghanistan, Afghans, Home Office, Lunar House, refugees, Rwanda, Taliban
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From Croydon to Peckham, activists stand by asylum seekers
The civil disobedience action aimed at frustrating, delaying or even stopping altogether the removal of asylum seekers from their accommodation in south London on to other locations, including deportation to Rwanda, has shifted from Croydon’s Lunar House to Peckham today. … Continue reading
Asylum seekers tricked at Lunar House for Rwanda removal
The first potential deportees under the Tory Government’s controversial Rwanda scheme were taken from a Home Office building in Croydon at the dead of night, after having arrived at Lunar House for what they had been misled to believe was … Continue reading
Posted in Fairfield, Ria Patel
Tagged Green Party, Home Office, Lunar House, Ria Patel, Rwanda
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Social initiative has sports club punching above their Wates
A community sports group based in Norbury Park is having its boxing gym fitted out by property maintenance firm Wates as a “social value initiative”. Gloves Not Gunz is a boxing club which aims to prevent and divert young people … Continue reading
Youth charities to benefit as Wates finish off 2 Ruskin Square
The Government Property Agency has appointed Wates to carry out the fit-out of 2 Ruskin Square at East Croydon, with the building firm undertaking to work with local youth and anti-crime groups while they are working on the project. Ruskin … Continue reading
Posted in Business, East Croydon, Property, Ruskin Square
Tagged 2 Ruskin Square, Apollo House, East Croydon, Government Property Agency, GPA, HMRC, Home Office, Lunar House, Ruskin Square, Wates
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Council needs a better plan to help refugees arriving here
CROYDON COMMENTARY: After organising a vigil at Lunar House last night, Councillor RIA PATEL says that this borough needs more help from Whitehall to deal with a homelessness crisis being created by Government Last week in Parliament, the Prime Minister … Continue reading
Council to use Home Office grant for BID’s privatised policing
The council has announced that it has secured £165,000 through the government’s Safer Streets Fund to tackle crime in the town centre. The grant comes from the Home Office where, at least until this morning, Tory MP for Croydon South, … Continue reading
Ruskin Square move will bring transfer of immigration centre
The Home Office will soon be moving more than 5,000 civil servants into its new, state-of-the-art office building – or “Government Hub”, as they call it – at 2 Ruskin Square, close by East Croydon Station. The Government Property Agency … Continue reading
Developers sell latest East Croydon office block for £267m
At least one development project in Croydon town centre has managed to be completed ‘on time and under budget’ Schroders, the investors behind the Ruskin Square development next to East Croydon Station, have sold their latest office block in a … Continue reading
MP Philp could miss deadline for 20,000 extra police officers
The Tory government’s luke-warm commitment to increasing the number of serving police officers saw an increase in 2022 – but many “new” officers were in fact PCSOs and special constables, as erstwhile “hobby bobbies” opted to go full-time. The government … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Crime, Policing
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon South, Home Office, Metropolitan Police, Tory
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No room at the inn? Home Office policies created migrant crisis
As we approach Christmas, ANDREW FISHER suggests that it’s worth recalling something of its true meaning Shortly after the birth of Jesus, an angel appeared to Joseph and urged him to seek refuge: “Get up! Take the Child and His … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Fisher, Business, Charity, Chris Philp MP, Community associations, Croydon South, Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mike Bonello, Purley Way
Tagged Asylum, asylum seekers, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Aerodrome, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Hallmark Aerodrome Hotel, Home Office, Manston, Mayor Jason Perry, Mike Bonello, Purley Way, Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman, Tory
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Tory Security Bill will ‘criminalise public interest journalism’
Britain under the self-proclaimed “compassionate Conservatives” moved much closer to becoming a police state this week with the passing of Priti Patel’s National Security Bill in the House of Commons. Warnings have been raised that the bill as it stands … Continue reading
Government to pay £2.3m of borough’s asylum children’s costs
The Home Office will pay an additional £2.3million to Croydon this year to cover the rising costs to the borough of being a first stop in this country for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. The cash-strapped borough last month threatened to copy … Continue reading
Croydon warns Whitehall it will end taking child asylum-seekers
Just as the US-backed government in Afghanistan collapsed under assault from the Taliban, with potentially tens of thousands of people urgently seeking refuge outside their homeland, so Croydon Council has announced that it will refuse to take any more unaccompanied … Continue reading
£50m shortfall in Home Office payments for asylum children
The council says that the government has underpaid it by around £50million, money which it says is owed for taking care of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children who arrive in the UK in Croydon. The council claims that over the past decade … Continue reading
Bediako released from detention centre after 24-day battle
Joey Bediako, the Thornton Heath man facing forced deportation, was given an 11th-hour reprieve last night when he was released from the notorious Brook House detention centre near Gatwick Airport. The news was announced just after 8pm last night by … Continue reading
Posted in Thornton Heath
Tagged Brook House, Home Office, Joey Bediako, Priti Patel, Thornton Heath
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