Tag Archives: London Borough of Croydon

Inside Croydon editor nominated for charity’s prestigious award

Posted on September 20, 2018 by

Steven Downes, the editor of Inside Croydon, has been nominated for a prestigious award for this website’s campaigning journalism over the provision, or lack of it, for young Croydon residents with autism and special educational needs. Anna Kennedy Online, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Anna Kennedy Online, Charity, Children's Services, Croydon Council, Education, Inside Croydon, Local media, Schools | Tagged , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Relief for Newman as Labour drop leader selection proposal

Posted on September 19, 2018 by

Tony Newman, Croydon’s £55,546 council leader, can breathe easy again. Radical proposals to allow Labour Party members – yes, the members – to decide who is a fit and proper person to be their party leader on the local council … Continue reading →

Posted in Croydon Council, Tony Newman, Woodside | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Renovations in Purley and Coulsdon deliver five new homes

Posted on September 16, 2018 by

Unwittingly, perhaps, but the brains trust in charge of the council’s housing policy – led by Alison “Nothing To Declare” Butler – have gone out and demonstrated quite how inadequate their over-development policy with house-builder Brick by Brick has become. … Continue reading →

Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Housing, Property, Purley | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

Labour councillor alleges planning bias for Brick by Brick

Posted on September 14, 2018 by

Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, on how a Town Hall veteran has broken ranks over some of the council’s inappropriate over-development It is no longer just disgruntled residents, unhappy over the way the council and their slow-motion house-builders, Brick by … Continue reading →

Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Pat Ryan, Paul Scott, Planning, Tony Newman, Upper Norwood | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Croydon missing ‘affordable’ housing target by 1,400 homes

Posted on September 14, 2018 by

Since 2016, less than half of the number of affordable homes have been delivered by developers in Croydon than are required under the Mayor of London’s 40 per cent planning policy targets. That’s according to research carried out by Green … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Brick by Brick, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Sian Berry, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Butt plugs, uncontrolled sphincters and £50,000 council grants

Posted on September 13, 2018 by

Our arts correspondent, BELLA BARTOCK, on some perhaps surprising use of council hand-outs Cash-strapped Croydon Council teamed up with the Arts Council England this summer to hand out public-funded grants totalling more than £50,000 in cash and kind to a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Braithwaite Hall, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Spread Eagle Theatre, Timothy Godfrey, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

BINMAGEDDON!: How our new collection has passed us by

Posted on September 8, 2018 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The first week of Veolia’s new bin collection schedule has been and gone, with varying reports of successful, and less successful, experiences, of still-missing new wheelies, and wheelie bins that have come, and then gone again. Here, South … Continue reading →

Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Kirstie Smith, Refuse collection, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , | 8 Comments