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Tag Archives: Mark Watson
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
Artful’s Grenfell tribute removed while council backs graffiti
Croydon Council’s attempts to paint itself, literally, as a hip and happening location for street art is, at you might have guessed, more than a bit bogus and ripe with hypocrisy and blatant double standards. Because in the same week … Continue reading
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
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
Only half the stalls return to Surrey Street after £1.1m scheme
26 That’s how many stalls were trading on Surrey Street on Saturday, the first weekend of trading since the 10-week closure for a £1.1million council revamp of the street market. The market was once the home to more than 100 … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Mark Watson, Pubs, Surrey Street
Tagged Croydon Council, Labour, Mark Watson, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Council unveils grenade sculpture days after terror attack
STEVEN DOWNES, editor of Inside Croydon, on the crass insensitivity of a senior councillor over an ‘artwork’ revealed off Surrey Street Market Residents, business owners and even senior figures on Croydon’s Labour-run council were embarrassed and angry when, within days … Continue reading
‘Council is destroying my business’ says Surrey St stall-holder
Fewer than 30 traders were allowed to transfer their stalls from Surrey Street to the temporary market on North End while £1.1million road resurfacing works goes on, Inside Croydon has discovered. All other, casual stall-holders were told that they could … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Mark Watson, Surrey Street
Tagged Croydon Council, Labour, Mark Watson, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Surrey Street shops losing £800 a day during council works
The word on the street – Surrey Street – is that shopkeepers are suffering huge losses of trade while the council conducts its bout of largely cosmetic road works in Croydon’s ancient market. WALTER CRONXITE reports “Good progress is being … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Mark Watson, Surrey Street, Tony Newman
Tagged Croydon Council, Labour, Mark Watson, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market, Tony Newman
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Croydon ‘Works’ – at a cost of £1,230 for every job placement
WALTER CRONXITE reports that a council job brokerage scheme has spent just £1,000 in the past year on training for unemployed local residents, but paid more than £100,000 on staff to manage the project Croydon Council last month issued a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Mark Watson, Tony Newman
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Works, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson, Tony Newman
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Surrey Street traders to move to North End for 10 weeks
The future of Surrey Street Market, if it is to have a future at all, may be determined over the next three months, after the council announced yesterday that the regular stall-holders will be displaced to North End for 10 … Continue reading
Posted in Mark Watson, Surrey Street, Tony Newman
Tagged Kier, Mark Watson, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Croydon and ‘delivery’, Part 1: Surrey Street’s Sunday Market
This is Surrey Street’s Sunday “market”, as seen from the High Street just after noon this week, the sort of time when you might expect a truly vibrant and successful market to be buzzing with lunchtime trade. The Sunday market … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Mark Watson, Surrey Street
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Mark Watson, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market, Tony Newman
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Watson’s shambolic meeting leaves Surrey Street in the dark
£10,000 That’s how much Mark Watson, the councillor in charge of the gentrification project around Surrey Street, reckons it has cost to install the first piece of “street art” on the footbridge that crosses the old street market. And this … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Connected Croydon, Croydon Council, Environment, Fairfield, Jo Negrini, Mark Watson, Planning, Rise Gallery, Street lighting, Surrey Street, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market, Tony Newman, Tory
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‘A spruple hello could lead to a Millran hinge’. But is it art?
When does vandalism become “street art”? Is it only when Croydon Council says so? That’s a question which has been raised this week by the South Norwood Tourist Board, and which seems likely to be brought up at tonight’s public … Continue reading
Surrey Street stalls declare Exchange Square a no-go zone
With the closure of Surrey Street for carriageway works just a few weeks away, as part of a £1.1million regeneration scheme, a meeting held yesterday learned that the council still doesn’t know where the stall-holders are to be displaced for … Continue reading
Council calls in TfL for full traffic study on Addiscombe roads
A new consultation into the network of residential streets that run between Addiscombe and Cherry Orchard roads could be extended to include modelling of the traffic in the whole area, involving Transport for London, and even look again at the … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, East Croydon, HOME, Mark Watson, TACRA, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Addiscombe West, Lebanon Road, Mark Watson
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Surrey Street Market ‘engagement event’, Feb 23
Posted in Mark Watson, Surrey Street
Tagged Croydon Council, Mark Watson, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Watson’s moving speech homes in on a Labour weakness
WALTER CRONXITE on what could turn out to be another boost for local estate agents, unwittingly provided by Croydon Council Mark Watson is going nowhere – and that’s official. Well, at least that’s what the under-pressure Addiscombe councillor told a … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Bensham Manor, Bernadette Khan, Broad Green, Coulsdon, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Hamida Ali, Jane Avis, Manju Shahul Hameed, Mark Watson, Patricia Hay-Justice, Paul Scott, Purley, Shirley North, South Croydon, South Norwood, Steve Reed MP, Stuart Collins, Stuart King, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, Waddon, West Thornton, Woodside
Tagged Addiscombe West, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Labour, Mark Watson, Purley, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Tory, Waddon
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No longer Taboo: Addiscombe gets signs of its East India past
Finally, after nearly a decade, it’s in black and white: the East India Estate Conservation Area is there for all to see on road signs in that part of Addiscombe. Special road signs were unveiled last month in the presence … Continue reading
Council’s U-turn creates a road block to residents’ complaints
A council report to this Wednesday’s traffic management committee at the Town Hall recommends a U-turn on the controversial one-way system on residential streets between Addiscombe Road and Cherry Orchard Road which has caused distress and dismay for hundreds of … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Community associations, Croydon Council, Lebanon Road Residents' Association, Mark Watson, Shifa Mustafa, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Addiscombe West, Croydon Council, Labour, Lebanon Road, Mark Watson, Shifa Mustafa, TACRA, Tunstall and Addiscombe Court Residents' Association
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Fraud conviction gives context to councillor’s desperation
Inside Croydon’s Editor STEVEN DOWNES on how some leading local Labour politicians have become enthusiastic adopters of “post-truth” It was Tom Lehrer, the comedian, who famously declared that political satire was dead the day that Henry Kissinger won the Nobel … Continue reading
Writing’s on the walls in Thornton Heath over £2.7m murals
The picture left shows an example of the kind of public artwork that two of the borough’s most senior councillors suggest, “will bring huge benefits to both residents and businesses in Thornton Heath”, and “continue to boost growth in the … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Art, Bensham Manor, Connected Croydon, Mark Watson, Thornton Heath
Tagged Alison Butler, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Mark Watson, Thornton Heath, Tory
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Lebanon Road rat running starts councillor’s chicken run
Candidate selections for next year’s Town Hall elections are still a long way off, as Croydon’s political parties await the deliberations of the Boundary Commissioners on the re-drawn map of the borough’s council wards. But the “chicken run” – where … Continue reading
Council-funded group promotes Tory campaign against 20mph
A “community” group that claims to be “apolitical” and which has received thousands of pounds of grant funding from the council, has promoted the campaign making the case against the council’s policy of introducing 20mph zones across the borough. It … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Hamida Ali, Mark Watson, Nathan Elvery, South Croydon Community Association, Tony Newman
Tagged 20mph zones, CCC, Conservative, Croydon Communities Consortium, Croydon Council, Elizabeth Ash, Hamida Ali, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson, Nathan Elvery, Peter Morgan, Tony Newman, Tory, UKIP
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