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Tag Archives: Kenley
Residents’ associations angrily reject Scott’s concrete plans
Croydon’s housing targets are out-of-step with the Mayor’s London Plan, and residents are on the warpath against the Town Hall’s planning chief, reports BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent When Paul Scott, the architect behind Croydon’s disastrous planning and housing policies, … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Community associations, Croydon Council, Geoff James, HADRA, Housing, Kenley, Mayor of London, Old Coulsdon, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Paul Scott, Planning, Purley, Purley Oaks and Riddlesdown, Purley Way, Sadiq Khan, Sanderstead
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, HADRA, KENDRA, Kenley, Labour, London, Mayor, OCRA, Old Coulsdon, Paul Scott, Purley, Robert Jenrick, Sadiq Khan, Sanderstead, SRA, Tory
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Residents plan legal action to save green from Brick by Brick
A group of residents in Kenley and Purley are getting financially “tooled up” to take on the council’s planning committee and the in-house house-builder Brick by Brick by raising money through a crowd-funder for a possible Judicial Review of a … Continue reading
Council accused of ‘wildlife vandalism’ to help Brick by Brick
Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, on suspicions that a rare wildlife habitat in suburban Kenley has suffered the cruellest cut The council has been accused of an act of “wildlife vandalism”, with some angry residents of Wontford Road and Roffey … Continue reading
Timber! Brick by Brick’s ecological claims come crashing down
GEOFF JAMES has been analysing the council-owned builders’ planning applications and discovered that many of the borough’s trees are for the chop, in a crass act of environmental vandalism Inside Croydon recently reported that a tree survey commissioned by the … Continue reading
BxB’s daylight robbery and the magic vanishing trees of Kenley
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Brick by Brick spends thousands on specialist reports to support its planning applications – if only the claims made in one set of documents they submit did not contradict the solemn statements made elsewhere. GEOFF JAMES has done … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Geoff James, Housing, Kenley, Planning, Purley
Tagged Brick by Brick, Croydon, Croydon Council, Geoff James, Kempsfield House, Kenley, London Borough of Croydon, Purley
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Soaring costs of unviable schemes should sound alarm bells
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Brick by Brick have been patting themselves on the back, but their high-staffing levels, low-experience levels and expensive schemes ought to be deeply concerning, according to SEBASTIAN TILLINGER Alarm bells should be ringing all over Croydon Council about … 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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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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Kenley, Coulsdon, Purley and South Croydon put on flood alert
The Environment Agency has issued a flood alert for south-east London, including Coulsdon, Kenley, Purley and South Croydon. It is six years since the major flooding in Kenley and Purley, when emergency services had to work around the clock to … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Kenley, Purley, South Croydon
Tagged Coulsdon, Environment Agency, flooding, Kenley, Purley, South Croydon
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Hundreds turn out to join campaign for directly elected mayor
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on the mounting numbers behind a campaign seeking to change the way the council is run The patronage that keeps Croydon’s Town Hall troika of Tony Newman, Alison Butler and Paul Scott in power is looking … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Chris Philp MP, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Paul Scott, Planning, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, DEMOC, Kenley, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Paul Scott, Sanderstead, Tony Newman, Tory
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