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Tag Archives: Labour
Community safety meeting, South Norwood, Jul 19
Posted in Crime, Croydon Central, Hamida Ali, Knife crime, Sarah Jones MP, South Norwood
Tagged Hamida Ali, Labour, Sarah Jones MP, South Norwood
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Council survey on future of green spaces is shutting people out
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Is the council’s consultation on green spaces simply an exercise in providing planners with excuses to build on our less-loved parks? KIRSTIE SMITH, for one, is cynical about the exercise, which she says potentially excludes a large number … Continue reading
Brick by Brick chief admits failing to meet 50% affordable target
Colm Lacey, the head of the council’s house-builders, says that that there will be no council homes built and that he is missing his ‘affordable’ housing targets. BARRATT HOLMES, housing correspondent, reports Colm Lacey, the former council employee who has … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Housing, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, BxB, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Paul Scott, Tony Newman
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Newman and Scott to push through a power grab on planning
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports on how the de facto chair of the council’s planning committee will tonight be made even more powerful, while being made even less accountable Buried in the lengthy agenda for tonight’s meeting of the full … Continue reading
Governance review costs soar as Newman nobbles the panel
A report on the way in which Croydon Council is governed, already three months late, will now not be finished until the end of the year, and is costing four times its original budget. The Croydon governance review – a … Continue reading
Cherish your ‘local green space’ and take part in consultation
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Less than two years after Croydon’s Local Plan was signed off by government officials, and the council is running a new consultation that looks to change it. PETER UNDERWOOD, right, explains how it is important that as many … Continue reading
Residents gather to bring an end to ‘Tony and his cronies’
Our political correspondent WALTER CRONXITE reports that moves to have Tony Newman replaced by a more accountable, directly elected Mayor, are gathering pace Tony Newman’s having a mayor. Around 60 people turned up at Christchurch, Purley, last night for the … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Paul Scott, Tony Newman
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Member of parliament, Purley, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Tory
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Former colleagues express worries over new Croydon director
The real reasons for the abrupt resignation of a leader of a London council were part of a local authority ‘cover-up’. KEN LEE reports on serious reservations expressed by Labour councillors and Camden staff over the past conduct of the … Continue reading
Whitehall says council did not seek permission for sales to BxB
STEVEN DOWNES reports on how Croydon Council has failed to comply with the law by selling land to its in-house house-builders for just £250, where terraced houses are now on private sale for £600,000 each Croydon Council did not obtain … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Business, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Chris Philp MP, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Jo Negrini, Kit Malthouse, Labour, London Borough of Croydon
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Brick by Brick’s homes prove too expensive for Croydon locals
Housing correspondent BARRATT HOLMES on how the council-owned housing company is struggling to sell its new homes The first batch of Brick by Brick homes, which the council promised were being built using public land and public money to help … Continue reading
Micro-flat developers have helped to fund Labour council
Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, on how a pair of developers investigated for making millions from housing benefits, paid as rents on under-sized flats, have also been generous donors or sponsors of council-run events or to Labour councillors, including Paul … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Alison Butler, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Humayun Kabir, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Paul Scott, Planning, Sadiq Khan, Sean Fitzsimons, Tony Newman
Tagged AA Homes, Alison Butler, Anwar Ansari, Caridon Property Group, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mario Carrozzo, Paul Scott, Sadiq Khan, Tony Newman, Tory
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Newman’s councillors set to give themselves another 2% raise
KEN LEE reports on the latest hike for the councillors’ allowances Tony Newman, Croydon’s Labour council leader, and Prime Minister Theresa Mayhem appear to agree on at least one point: austerity is over. At least it is if you’re among … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Louisa Woodley, Paul Scott, Tony Newman
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Louisa Woodley, Paul Scott, Tony Newman
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Westfield woe as high street sales fall ‘worst since the crash’
The prospects of Westfield ever making good on their promise to redevelop the town centre appear to be receding by the week, while Croydon’s Labour-run council cravenly gives in to the developers by withholding vital information about the long-delayed project. … Continue reading
Newman’s Town Hall power is challenged by residents’ groups
EXCLUSIVE: Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports on how neighbourhood associations have decided that they won’t any longer accept being ‘contemptuously ignored’ by those in power in the borough Council leader Tony Newman and the troika who control the Town Hall … Continue reading
Posted in Addington, Addington Residents' Association, Alison Butler, Chris Philp MP, Community associations, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Jacqueline Harris-Baker, Jo Negrini, Mario Creatura, Paul Scott, Planning, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Mike Fisher, Paul Scott, Tony Newman, Tory
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How local association member asks for support for Mayor vote
Here is the full text of the email distributed at the weekend by Paul Bearman, who has been an RA committee member and who signed himself as “a member of the Addington Residents Association”: Dear All, I am a member … Continue reading
Posted in Addington, Addington Residents' Association, Community associations, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Old Coulsdon, Planning
Tagged Addington, Addington Residents' Association, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Directly Elected Mayor, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tony Newman, Tory
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Scott unveils secret plan to build 12,000 flats beside Purley Way
EXCLUSIVE: Under pressure over rising housing targets, has Paul Scott found his get-out-of-jail-free card alongside the A23? KEN LEE reports Having spent the past five years excusing the overdevelopment of neighbourhoods throughout the borough by claiming that there are no … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Broad Green, Business, Colonnades, Cycling, Environment, Harris Primary Purley Way, Housing, Ikea, Joy Prince, Manju Shahul Hameed, Mayor of London, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Purley Way, Robert Canning, Stuart Collins, TfL, Transport, Waddon, Waste incinerator, Wing Yip
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Broad Green, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Joy Prince, Labour, Manju Shahul Hameed, Paul Scott, Purley Way, Robert Canning, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Waddon
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‘Blue Labour royalty’ steps forward for Assembly selection
WALTER CRONXITE, political editor, on the latest developments in the race to become Croydon and Sutton’s next London Assembly Member Rowenna Davis, a Croydon Labour Party member with a national profile, is to seek selection to be her party’s candidate … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 London elections, Jamie Audsley, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Neil Garratt, Rowenna Davis, Sadiq Khan, Sutton Council, Waddon
Tagged Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Neil Garratt, Patsy Cummings, Rowenna Davis, Steve O'Connell, Sutton Council, Tory
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Newman discovers climate emergency but offers little to fix it
Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, was at the council’s ‘sustainability summit’ – staged in an unsustainable venue where guests were drinking from single-use cardboard cups – and found it to be full of contradictions Tony Newman, the Labour leader of … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Croydon Council, Croydon Friends of the Earth, Croydon parks, Education, Environment, Extinction Rebellion, Planning, Refuse collection, Shifa Mustafa, Tony Newman, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Boxpark, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Parking, Residents parking permits, Tony Newman, Westfield
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‘Chilling and concerning’ rise in number of rough sleepers
A Labour London Assembly Member has described Croydon’s growing homelessness problem as “chilling and profoundly concerning”. Rough sleeping has increased by 17 per cent in Croydon in the past year, according to figures released in the latest series of Greater … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Tom Copley
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London, London Assembly, Sadiq Khan, Tom Copley
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Norbury residents angry at ‘underhand’ Brick by Brick scheme
The council’s attempt to cover-up which plots of land are to be flogged off to in-house house-builder Brick by Brick has been described as “underhand and sneaky” by residents in Norbury who have started to fight back over the threat … Continue reading
MPs asked to declare as Labour goes on election footing
Sarah Jones and Steve Reed OBE have been given a fortnight to decide whether they want to be a parliamentary candidate at the next election and to inform Labour, as the party led by Jeremy Corbyn gets itself ready to … Continue reading
Council’s prestige £6.5m youth project opening gets delayed
Four years after they announced the project in a flurry of mutual back-slapping, the council’s leadership has gone quiet as the Legacy Youth Zone has missed its deadline, reports KEN LEE There has been an unusual, for him, silence from … Continue reading
Fears grow among residents over plans for libraries and parks
Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on grumbling discontent among Labour’s grassroots members over their council leadership’s bungling, incompetence and lack of reliability Ollie Lewis, Croydon Labour’s cabinet member for butt plugs and shit shows, is to face a grilling from … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Coulsdon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Libraries, Old Coulsdon, Paul Scott, Purley, Sanderstead, Sarah Jones MP, Shirley North, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Central, Croydon South, Labour, Oliver Lewis, Paul Scott, Sarah Jones MP, Tony Newman, Tory
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