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Jon Rouse: an alchemist who turned property into debts
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Former councillor ANDREW PELLING reviews the career of the borough CEO, who last week announced his resignation after almost six years in the job, and suggests that his promised financial wizardry was all a bit Mickey Mouse Since … Continue reading
Posted in Council Tax, Croydon Council, Jon Rouse, Mike Fisher, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, URV
Tagged David Wechsler, Guardian, London Borough of Croydon, Rouse, Taberner House
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Get a grit, Croydon (part II): will you get to work on Monday?
Further to our post yesterday, asking for your reports on the state of your street or road in Croydon, we reproduce here the statement of service for winter road gritting from the council’s own website in respect of the clearing … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, London, London Borough of Croydon
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Laings give up on URV schemes due to lack of interest
Croydon Council’s “innovative” £450 million urban regeneration vehicle will not be copied by any other local authority any time soon, as their partners in the scheme, John Laing, have announced that they will not be bidding for any more such … Continue reading
Why did Croydon CEO Jon Rouse take a £100k pay cut?
Amid all the hoopla of the £1 billion “Hammerfield” announcement this morning at Fairfield Halls, with the usual dollop of Boris buffoonery as the London Mayor proclaimed the marriage of the two property developers, there stood a figure who went … Continue reading
£248,000 CEO Rouse quits Croydon for Health Dept job
Just after 5pm today, proof positive came through that Croydon Council’s press office routinely dissembles, misleads and lies. Because that is when a press release was issued to confirm that Jon Rouse, Croydon Council’s £248,000 chief executive, had quit his … Continue reading
Chance to reboot your old computer for a good cause
A local charity group, wants to take any old, unwanted computers off your hands. Loyal reader Anita Davison writes to Inside Croydon: “If anyone was lucky enough to receive a new PC for Christmas and is still undecided with what … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Community associations, Croydon Greens, Environment
Tagged Allders, Christmas, Conservative, Croydon, England, London, London Borough of Croydon, Religion
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Budget consultation condemned as just “meaningless jargon”
Croydon Council’s “budget consultation” closed last night. Those residents who managed to find this under-publicised online exercise condemned it broadly for its use of impenetrable language and its many meaningless questions. Some complained to Eric Pickles, the local government minister. … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Community associations, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Council, Education, Environment, Football, Health, History, Libraries, Sport, Tim Pollard, Youth Services
Tagged Big Society, Croydon, Croydon Council, Disability, Eric Pickles, Local government, London Borough of Croydon, Norbury
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Newman will “blow open the books” on £140m council HQ
Tony Newman, the leader of the opposition group on Croydon Council, has pledged that if Labour wins control of the Town Hall in the 2014 local elections, he “will blow open the books” to expose the hundreds of million pounds … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Radio, Housing, Mike Fisher, Planning, Property, Tony Newman, URV, Waste incinerator, Woodside
Tagged Council Tax, Croydon, Google, Labour, Labour Council, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Fisher, Tony Newman
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Thorn in taxman’s side is named in accountancy power list
Mention of the council’s woebegone attempts to get the Croydon Gateway site developed with at least a little style and some substance prompted recollection of another local campaigner, Ken Frost, who this month has been named in Accountancy Age‘s Financial … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Housing, Planning, Ruskin Square, URV, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Brighton, Croydon, East Croydon, East Croydon station, Google, Ken Frost, London, London Borough of Croydon
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Twelve hours to try to save what’s left of Croydon culture
Today sees the deadline for submissions to a Croydon Council consultation on spending cuts over the next two years. What do you mean, you were not aware of Croydon Council running such a consultation? After all, our council – motto: … Continue reading
Posted in Council Tax, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Education, Environment, History, John Laing Integrated Services, Libraries, Margaret Mead, Parking, Tim Pollard
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Integrated services, London, London Borough of Croydon, Margaret Mead, Seat of local government, Taberner House
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Gateway’s uninspired opening with a couple of blocks of flats
According to ANDREW PELLING, the first phase of development proposed for the long-vacant Ruskin Square site, in a town crying out for family housing, consists of a couple of ugly blocks of flats that even the architects admit are not … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Andrew Pelling, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, Housing, IYLO, Jon Rouse, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Transport, URV
Tagged Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Croydon, East Croydon station, London, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Schroders
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Bridge to Nowhere opens and offers a Stairway to Heaven
It is seven days now since the £22 million bridge at the north end of the platforms at East Croydon station was opened, at least partially. The video from engineers BAM Nuttall is a terrific view of the impressive work … Continue reading
Gutted! But Athletic look for quick return to Mayfield Road
NON-LEAGUE NEWS: AFC Croydon Athletic could return to its Mayfield Road home ground by the start of next season in August, in spite of the fire which completely gutted the clubhouse at the Keith Tuckey Stadium last week. References to … Continue reading
Croydon needs to keep a proper grasp of its history
Norbury resident SEAN CREIGHTON expresses concern over Croydon’s proposed cuts to the local studies centre, as first reported by Inside Croydon Croydon Council plans to disengage from cultural intervention as part of the next phase of its spending cuts. This … Continue reading
Council’s “secret” consultation over plans to erase our history
Another flaw in the omnishambles of Croydon’s library privatisation process emerges, with a £105,000 cut to the budget of the borough’s local studies and archives service proposed by the culture-free-zone that is our council. The proposal is, in effect, a … Continue reading
Croydon councillor predicts growing queues at food banks
CROYDON’S UNCARING COUNCIL (part 94): Sara Bashford, the Croydon Councillor who has a “day job” as an employee in the constituency office of Gavin Barwell MP, has admitted that the government’s economic policies are failing. In a bulletin issued in … Continue reading
Posted in Sara Bashford
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon North, England, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon
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Aww diddums: Dudley’s hard done by over housing criticisms
CROYDON’S UNCARING COUNCIL (part 94): As first reported by Inside Croydon, our council has been roundly criticised by the Local Government Ombudsman over its callous treatment of the homeless. Now Dudley Mead, the councillor responsible for housing, has responded. While … Continue reading
Exploitation TV coming to a coffee shop near you
It’s always good to watch out when the national media comes to Croydon. Laden with preconceptions and unfortunate stereotypes, their tone is normally unhelpful about Croydon’s difficulties. Another exploitative effort comes from Channel 4 on Tuesday night, when the second … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Business, Health, Surrey Street
Tagged Channel 4, Conservative, Croydon, Elephant Man, England, John Merrick, London Borough of Croydon
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New Year rave has too much latitude as flat is trashed
Trashing the place appears to be the new Croydon past time. After our report of the mindless vandalism in Wandle Park, news reaches Inside Croydon Towers of a how a “rave” over new year has left one of the “luxury … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Housing, Property, URV
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, England, Gerrymandering, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, Twitter
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Over the hill: Lloyd Park to stage a true sporting spectacular
Forget the FA Cup third round or (another) darts world championship, the big sporting weekend of the first weekend of January is happening right on our doorstep, with the Surrey Cross-country Championships in Lloyd Park. Don’t underestimate it, this is … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Athletics, Croydon Harriers, Sport
Tagged Brockwell Park, Croydon, Gordon Pirie, John Gladwin, London, London Borough of Croydon, South Croydon, Surrey
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Take your hats off to battling Croydon business Hatz
It is fair to say that 2012 was not the greatest year in the business careers of hatmakers Margaret Chatelier and Monique Rebeiro. As the family-run business Hatz, in common with several other concessions that used to operate out of … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Allders, Business, Music
Tagged Allders, Croydon, England, London, London Borough of Croydon, New Year's Day Parade
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Is Boris the man to make prefabs sprout in London?
CROYDON COMMENTARY: DAVID CALLAM muses over the mess our council has made of one of its most important community responsibilities Housing in Croydon is in crisis. A combination of lazy politicians and greedy developers has brought us to a parlous … Continue reading
Taberner House lights up Croydon for one final time
An email from Michael Buckley, who describes himself as “a very long-term Addiscombe resident”, whizzes in to Inside Croydon Towers to praise Croydon Council for illuminating windows around Taberner House to fashion a seasonal Christmas tree. “Surely this must be … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Croydon Council, URV
Tagged Addiscombe West, Christmas tree, Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Borough of Croydon, Taberner House
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Calling the council? Try this number if you can’t get through…
Services provided by Croydon Council continue to be axed. From next week, our “Proud to Swerve” council will make it even more difficult for Council Tax-payers to register a complaint about shortcomings in borough services, as the staffing of the … Continue reading
