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Tag Archives: London Borough of Croydon
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
None of Croydon’s new school buildings have sprinklers fitted
Not a single school building constructed or planned in Croydon over the past five years has been fitted with a sprinkler system, despite building regulations going back for a decade having an “expectation” that sprinklers should be included in all … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Harris Primary Purley Way, Howard Primary, London Fire Brigade, Oasis Academy, Planning, Purley Way, Schools, South Norwood
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Harris Federation, Harris Purley Way Primary, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Oasis Academy Arena, South Croydon, South Norwood, Tory
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Croydon fined for abandoning autistic boy and his grandmother
Croydon Council has been ordered to pay £11,250 in compensation and has been sharply criticised by the Local Government Ombudsman for abandoning a grandmother with no help in caring for her disabled grandson for two years. The Local Government and … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Croydon Council, Education, Tony Newman
Tagged Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, SEND, Tony Newman
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Cost of New Addington Leisure Centre hiked by £8m in a year
WALTER CRONXITE reports on a worrying 50 per cent inflation rate on one key council building project The cost of building the new swimming pool and leisure centre in New Addington has gone up by £8million in less than 12 … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Jon Rouse, New Addington, Planning, Taberner House, Tony Newman, URV
Tagged CCURV, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, New Addington Leisure Centre, Tony Newman, Tory
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Read all about it: animals at centre of summer library challenge
Croydon libraries’ summer reading challenge starts tomorrow. Running until September 16, the scheme challenges children aged from four to 11 to finish six books in a little more than two months. Children can sign up at their local library and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Libraries, Timothy Godfrey
Tagged Croydon Council, Croydon Libraries, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Timothy Godfrey
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Upper Norwood Library re-opens with funding unannounced
GENE BRODIE, our libraries correspondent, reports on the delayed re-opening of the Uppper Norwood Library, as doubts remain on the 116-year-old community asset’s funding arrangements from Lambeth and Croydon councils Upper Norwood Library – or the “Hub on the Hill” … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Education, Lambeth Council, Libraries, Timothy Godfrey, Upper Norwood Library Trust
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, London Borough of Croydon, Robert Gibson, Timothy Godfrey, Upper Norwood Joint Library, Upper Norwood Library Trust
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Council confirms sprinklers won’t be ready until spring 2018
One month on from the worst fire disaster in this country since World War II, and Croydon Council has issued a press release clarifying that work to fulfil its promise to retro-fit sprinklers in its residential towers won’t start for … Continue reading
What a load of rubbish: guilty fly-tipper gets fined… £110
What Croydon Council was today claiming to be the latest example of success for their campaign against fly-tipping might, when looked at through less-rosy-spectacles, simply demonstrate what a thorough-going, long-term slog the local authority faces in bringing even the most … Continue reading
London’s borough leaders make call for more police funding
Tony Newman, the leader of Croydon Council, has joined with the mayors and leaders of 19 other London boroughs to call on the Government to halt the damaging cuts to spending on the Metropolitan Police. Under Tory Boris Johnson as … Continue reading
Labour pains as rival right-wing groups cling to control
WALTER CRONXITE on the north-south divide over candidate selection for next year’s council elections A war of words has broken out between rival right-wingers in Croydon’s Labour Party, as they fight to retain positions, patronage and power following their stunning … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Alisa Flemming, Andrew Fisher, Clive Fraser, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, David White, Emily Benn, Patsy Cummings, Paul Scott, Sarah Jones MP, Tony Newman, Waddon
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Andy Bagnall, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Jo Milligan, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Tony Newman
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Incinerating council wants to ban back garden bonfires
Croydon is a borough council where its officials think nothing of providing false and misleading reports to planning committees, claiming that there is no air pollution issues on the A23 Purley Way near the Fiveways Junction. This happened when the … Continue reading
Tories lose their local election wish list in council carve-up
WALTER CRONXITE reports on how the local boundary Commissioners have had a change of heart over ward changes ahead of next year’s Town Hall elections Next May’s local elections, with 70 Town Hall seats to be contested, will be determined … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Addiscombe West, Ashburton, Bensham Manor, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Paul Scott, Tony Newman
Tagged Addiscombe West, Conservative, Croydon Council, Labour, Local Government Boundary Commission, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Tony Newman, Tory
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‘Residents will be thrilled’ after Fairfield Halls’ £30m refit
A year since its closure, and there’s no perceptible signs outside the Fairfield Halls of much in the way of progress in its £30million redevelopment project. But Timothy Godfrey, the council’s cabinet member for arts and culture, says that, with … Continue reading
Now council’s housing developer snubs its Place Review Panel
BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent, on how the borough’s Council Tax-payers are providing another nice little earner for the Town Hall CEO’s chums In the eight months since council chief executive Jo Negrini unveiled Croydon’s Place Review Panel, it has … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Alison Butler, Angela Brady, Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, Mark Watson, Place Review Panel, Planning
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Something smells about council’s Surrey Street party flop
M.T. WALLETTE, our shopping correspondent, bolstered the numbers attending Councillor Mark Watson’s cosy little soiree on Surrey Street on Saturday, when even the offer of free drinks couldn’t pull in the crowds It was a fitting metaphor for the whole … Continue reading
Appeal for witnesses to Upper Norwood’s midnight tipper
Keeping Croydon’s streets clean and free of fly-tips continues to be a constant battle, as demonstrated by one illegal dumper last week when they left a lorry-load of their old crap that blocked a road in Upper Norwood. The council … Continue reading
Council writes to residents to state its blocks are safe
A senior Croydon Council official has written to all residents in the borough’s residential blocks to reassure them and confirm that the hazardous cladding which is suspected of contributing to so much death and destruction in the Grenfell Tower blaze … Continue reading
Brick by Brick’s profitable Blairite response to Right to Buy
The tragedy of the Grenfell Tower fire has, rightly, focused attention on safety around the nation’s low-cost housing. But underlining the lack of attention given to the conditions of such homes and the ongoing under-investment in council housing has been … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Business, Chris Philp MP, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Housing, Jennifer Brathwaite, Lambeth Council, London-wide issues, Planning, Property, Southwark Council, Steve Reed MP, Taberner House, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Architects for Social Housing, Brick by Brick, Croydon, Croydon Council, Housing, Hub Residential, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Steve Reed OBE, Taberner House, Tony Newman
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Experts express doubts over £1.1m spent on Surrey Street
The council’s own set of architecture and design experts have suggested that much of the Town Hall’s £1.1million spend on the gentrification of Surrey Street Market may have not been the best use of public money, Inside Croydon has learned. … Continue reading
Ashburton Park vision event, Jun 25
Posted in Ashburton, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment
Tagged Ashburton, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon
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Watson plans ‘giveaways’ at ‘launch’ for 700-year-old market
There’s less than a week to go before Croydon Council’s Mark Watson spunks away more public money on a “launch party” for a street market that’s been around for 700 years. Yet still the life and soul of Surrey Street … Continue reading
‘Right to Buy is an organised high-yield industry’
“Artwashing”. “Estate regeneration”. “Gentrification”. Profit. All words which have been used, accusingly, against other London local authorities, Labour- and Tory-run, and which are increasingly being used to describe aspects of Croydon’s plans. SIMON ELMER is a leading figure in ASH, … Continue reading
