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Tag Archives: London Borough of Croydon
Boozepark applies to extend bar opening times until 1am
KEN LEE, our Town Hall correspondent, has found some interesting documents on the council’s planning site Within nine months of opening, and Boxpark has been applying to Croydon Council to drop some of the conditions linked to its planning permission … Continue reading
Cummings wins by-election as Labour increase vote share
WALTER CRONXITE on the very predictable outcome of yesterday’s council vote And so, as no one ever doubted, it is now Councillor Patsy Cummings, following the by-election in the safe Labour ward of South Norwood yesterday. That restores Labour’s tally … Continue reading
Council claims ‘immediate action’ taken on children services
Croydon Council this morning claimed that it “has taken immediate action to improve its children’s services after an Ofsted inspection rated some areas of the service inadequate”. The council statement made no mention of the departure of two senior figures … Continue reading
Negrini tells staff: ‘There are some things that we don’t do well’
While the government has had to step in to safeguard vulnerable children in the borough, Jo Negrini, Croydon’s £185,000 a year chief executive, has failed to apologise for her organisation’s failings nor taken responsibility for the shortcomings highlighted in today’s … Continue reading
Planners wave away environmental tests on 44-storey prefabs
The planning department at Croydon Council has decided to allow proposals for a 44-storey residential tower block at East Croydon to go into the planning process without undergoing any independent Environmental Impact Assessment. One planning expert contacted by Inside Croydon … Continue reading
Wanted: horizon scanner who actually answers CEO’s emails
KEN LEE reports on another juicy job on offer in Fisher’s Folly: looking after the chief exec Are you “ambitious”? Can you “horizon scan”? Can you spot a split infinitive, yet are “able to confidently work on your own initiative … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Jo Negrini
Tagged Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, London Borough of Croydon
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Fraudsters targeting residents using false council emails
Croydon Council has issued a warning to the public, after fraudsters used what appeared to be a council email address to con more than £1,000 each from at least six vulnerable local residents. The scam involves an email sent using … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Croydon Council
Tagged Croydon Council, Fraud, London Borough of Croydon, Spoofing
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Butler’s all excited for her Big Night Out at The Hurlingham
KEN LEE reports on a raft of housing award nominations for a council-owned house-builder which has so far built the grand total of zero homes Council leader Tony Newman, his deputy Alison Butler, council chief exec Jo Negrini and loads … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, Mayor of London, Paul Scott, Place Review Panel, Planning, Sadiq Khan, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, South Norwood, Tony Newman
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Brick by Brick building no social rent homes with Mayor money
BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent, on City Hall figures that show Croydon Council’s house-building strategy is letting the housing market take its course New figures from City Hall show that Brick by Brick, the private housing developer owned by Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Property, Sadiq Khan
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Sadiq Khan
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Croydon just about ‘average’ for delivering ‘affordable’ homes
Croydon’s only just about average when it comes to delivering affordable housing. That’s according to figures from the Mayor of London, which shows Croydon outside the top 10 London boroughs for building housing that is “affordable” (which of itself is … Continue reading
Planners ignored equalities law for South Norwood flats
The council’s under-fire planning department may have broken the law in its rush to push through a controversial Brick by Brick development on a social housing estate in South Norwood. Residents around Church Road, Auckland Rise and Sylvan Hill maintain … Continue reading
Consultants’ parks plan to ‘manage them at less or no cost’
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The borough’s parks will soon only receive funding if they manage to make money, through running private events and clubs. PERCY (not their real name*), someone with close links to the council’s parks department, offers this insider’s point … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Quadron
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, idVerde, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Quadron, Tory
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LFB: ‘Devastating consequences’ of schools without sprinklers
The London Fire Brigade says that the failure to fit sprinklers in schools could have “potentially devastating consequences”. Inside Croydon has revealed that not a single one of 35 school builds in Croydon in the past five years have had … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, London Fire Brigade, Schools
Tagged Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, schools, Tony Newman
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Motorists’ body in High Court challenge to 20mph zones
Our transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON gets up to speed with the latest Judicial Review brought against Croydon Council from a fringe group that is supported by UKIP’s Godfrey “Bongo Bongo Land” Bloom Croydon faces the threat of a second High … Continue reading
Posted in Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Environment, Policing, Stuart King, Tony Newman, Transport
Tagged Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Peter Morgan, Tony Newman, Tory, UKIP
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Has Negrini’s appointee just admitted she can’t do the job?
WALTER CRONXITE reports on a secretive multi-million pound deal to come out of the Town Hall At lunchtime today, one of Croydon’s most senior executive officers got a “key decision” passed, without any discussion by our elected representatives at any … Continue reading
Tory ministers ignore councils’ pleas for help on fire safety
The Tory government is refusing calls to provide funding to help make residential tower blocks safer following the Grenfell Tower fire. Croydon Council has committed to spending £10million of public money on retro-fitting sprinklers in the borough’s residential blocks, a … Continue reading
Who stole the town hall? Latham’s book offers some clues
Former GLC and Croydon councillor DAVID WHITE reviews an important new book on local government which raises familiar concerns about control of our councils Local government today is not in a healthy state. Most local councillors have little power while … Continue reading
‘Pound a croissant!’ Council continues to artwash Surrey Street
Croydon’s Labour-run council is not even trying to hide its gentrification agenda for Surrey Street any longer. Having ripped the guts out of the traditional street market through neglect of its traders and an enforced two-month closure, all done at … Continue reading
Council planner admits: we didn’t report consultation findings
KEN LEE reports on the latest shocking development (cough) surrounding the failures of the council planning department Croydon Council has failed to fulfill its statutory, legal obligations over planning applications. Who says? The head of Croydon Council’s planning department, that’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Housing, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Pete Smith, Planning, Property, Purley, Sanderstead
Tagged Croydon Council, Croydon South, Derrick Avenue, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Norman Avenue, Purley, Purley Oaks Station, Sabderstead
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Ex-planning chair: council broke law over Coulsdon cottages
CROYDON COMMENTARY: A borough alderman and former chair of the council planning committee, ADRIAN DENNIS, pictured right, suggests that the council may have failed to follow the letter of the law in the planning notification for Well Cottages Apart from … Continue reading
Negrini’s gamble on housing is facing a Brexit downturn
WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, on troubling reports for a council which has staked so much capital on profiting from the housing market With local elections just 10 months away, there’s a couple of brief reports just out which ought … Continue reading
