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Newman calls on Merton to honour Ken’s incinerator pledge
Tony Newman, the leader of the opposition Labour group on Croydon Council, has called on his counterpart at Merton, Stephen Alambritis, to do the decent thing and get his council to withdraw its approval of the south London incinerator planned … Continue reading
Benched: Council still can’t get borough’s greats’ names right
It is almost a year since Inside Croydon highlighted another botched PR effort by our council, the staging of a “public vote” on leading figures from Croydon’s past (and present), to provide three subjects for a “portrait bench” on a … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Cinema, Comedy, Croydon Council, Cycling, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Environment, Fairfield Halls, History, Jason Perry, Music, Transport, Waddon, Walks
Tagged Arthur Conan-Doyle, Croydon, Croydon Council, David Lean, Fairfield Halls, London Borough of Croydon, Ronnie Corbett, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Aerodrome parents staging protest over crossing cuts
Parents at Aerodrome School will be staging a protest this afternoon in support of their lollipop lady, Maureen Seymour, who faces losing her job ensuring the safety of hundreds of children, as Croydon Council looks to make savings of £60,000 … Continue reading
Posted in Aerodrome Primary, Croydon Council, Education, Schools, Waddon
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Borough of Croydon, Parent, Primary school, Waddon
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Croydon gang culture brought to the Town Hall chamber
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Town Hall meetings have become notorious for generating more heat than light, especially on matters of greatest importance tothe borough. SUSAN OLIVER says councillors must clean up their act When the council’s budget meeting was broadcast on Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, England, House of Reeves, London, London Borough of Croydon, Politics
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Redundancies and four-day opening at Upper Norwood library
So much for Croydon Council’s promises of no library closures. The Conservative-controlled council which has already axed the mobile library service and has decided to close New Addington’s purpose-built library to replace it with a few book shelves in the … Continue reading
Purley residents suspicious as campaign posters disappear
A group of residents in Purley are back on a “war footing”, after what they claim has been heavy-handed treatment from Croydon Council over their on-going campaign against a planning application to build a large hospital on the site of … Continue reading
£3.1m on HQ’s furniture is “value for money” in Croydon
Lewis Carroll couldn’t have made this up. There is a proposal going before Croydon Council’s corporate services committee on Wednesday that suggests spending £3.14 million of public money on new furniture and fittings for Bernard Weatherill House, the council headquarters … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Planning, URV
Tagged Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Furniture, Lewis Carroll, London Borough of Croydon, Taberner House
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X marks the spot: Croydon appoints firm in administration
News reaches Inside Croydon of what appears to be yet another epic fail by the leadership at Croydon Council. On February 11, at the Town Hall cabinet meeting, Mike Fisher, the council leader, and his “top team” decided to appoint … Continue reading
Trebles all round? Croydon return pot-less from awards
Four tables booked at a five-star West End hotel. Around 40 councillors and council staff attending. Something like £28,000 spent on a night’s gala dinner, booze and jollity. And not a single award won. That is the summary of this … Continue reading
Council accused of being “out of control” over libraries
Croydon’s Conservative-run council was tonight accused of being “out of control” and mis-spending Council Tax money in an “obscene way”. Timothy Godfrey, the opposition Labour spokesman on libraries, took the opportunity of an emergency meeting at the Town Hall to … Continue reading
Emergency meeting called on sell-off of public libraries
There will be an emergency meeting of Croydon Council on Monday evening, when Tim Pollard will be called to account for the shambolic handling of the Conservative-led administration’s attempts to sell-off the borough’s libraries. The opposition Labour group has called … Continue reading
Croydon’s “only a Championship location” says planning chief
As Gavin Barwell once said, Croydon has an image problem. Our photograph, taken in Cannes yesterday morning, of the White Label-managed stand at the MIPIM commercial property trade exhibition, shows that our south London borough is proving less of a … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Croydon Council, Planning, URV
Tagged Allders, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Guardian, France, London, London Borough of Croydon, MIPIM
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Council extends consultation deadline over Arena academy
After protests from locals that too little time had been offered to respond, Croydon Council has extended the consultation period on its controversial proposals (aka “determined plan”) to build a large secondary school at Croydon Arena in South Norwood. As … Continue reading
White Label’s “no Cannes do” with conference publicity
Whoops. Looks like another clanger dropped by White Label, the PR agency that is ubiquitous in Croydon Council business.
Posted in Business, Cane Hill, Cherry Orchard Gardens, Croydon Council, Housing, Jon Rouse, Planning, Property, URV
Tagged Cannes, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Borough of Croydon, MIPIM, White Label
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PR agents sign up Tesco as cut-price festival sponsors
Tesco, the unwitting purveyors of horse meat with a long-time reputation for doing things on the cheap, and now the proud owners of an “express” store in a South Croydon landmark pub despite local opposition have “generously” agreed to sponsor … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Croydon South, Environment, Fairfield, Parking, Property, Pubs, Restaurants, South Croydon, Waddon, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Brighton Road, Croydon, London, London Borough of Croydon, South Croydon, Tesco, White Label, Whitgift Foundation
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Adult education chief Sloman in abrupt departure from CALAT
Rosemary Sloman, the head of adult learning and skills at the council, in charge of Croydon Adult Learning and Training, or CALAT, left her office for the final time last night, as the cuts now bite into the adult retraining … Continue reading
Posted in CALAT, Education
Tagged Business, Croydon, Croydon Council, England, London, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, Training
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Phoenix club fighting for promotion in their first season
NON-LEAGUE NEWS: Both of the borough’s non-league sides are in midweek action this week, provided Croydon FC‘s opposition don’t manage to try to plough up their pitch half an hour before the game. Tonight in the Combined Counties League Premier … Continue reading
Croydon in a Pickles once more over £50,000 regeneration jobs
Croydon’s Conservative-run council is in the bad books of the Conservative local government minister, “Big” Eric Pickles. Again. Big Eric sometimes appears to be a very reasonable sort of bloke. For instance, he cannot understand how Croydon can be cutting … Continue reading
Off with their heads: time to cut back on councillors
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Politics is broken and we need to fix it, says DAVID CALLAM, as he offers some radical solutions to reduce the costs of democracy at the Town Hall and at City Hall Our institutions need some major surgery … Continue reading
Sign of the times tells of councils, morons and traffic wardens
Our loyal reader has been in touch again, this time after thumbing through the pages of a trade magazine. Oh yes. Things are rarely more exciting. But after pointing out the story (see below), our loyal reader makes a very … Continue reading
