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Tag Archives: Mark Watson
Surrey Street plan to use Exchange Square hits a roadblock
Croydon Council’s hopes to begin road works in Surrey Street next month could be thrown into disarray because legal deeds prevent them moving the market traders into Exchange Square, as WALTER CRONXITE reports Croydon Council is considering moving the fruit … Continue reading
Boxpark switches job ad to get round Living Wage rules
Boxpark, the council-subsidised food and booze venue, has dropped its low-pay internship advertisement, after Inside Croydon highlighted how it was offering to pay a miserly £6.50 per hour, well below the London Living Wage. Now, Boozepark has re-jigged the ad, … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Mark Watson, Tony Newman
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Labour, London Living Wage, Mark Watson, Roger Wade, Tony Newman
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Exclusion of Dog and Bull throws more light on market mess
That’s the problem when you hold public meetings – the public might actually express some opinions. WALTER CRONXITE on how poorly presented plans for Surrey Street appear to be unravelling already Less than 48 hours after senior councillor Mark Watson … Continue reading
Council plans for ‘tatty’ Surrey Street market fail to impress
It was a long night at Tuesday’s council scrutiny meeting, but the wait for the “big reveal” of the £1million plans for the borough’s cherished market was a bit of a waste of time, as WALTER CRONXITE reports Residents living … Continue reading
Posted in Carole Bonner, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Helen Pollard, Joy Prince, Mark Watson, Planning, Sean Fitzsimons, Surrey Street
Tagged Addiscombe West, Croydon, Croydon Council, Helen Pollard, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson, Sean Fitzsimons, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Watson: There’s nothing council can do over £1.4bn Westfield
WALTER CRONXITE, who watches council meetings so that you don’t have to, on the latest Town Hall scrutiny committee meeting The council has no “leverage” to encourage Westfield and Hammerson to speed up the delivery of their £1.4billion redevelopment of … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon Council, Joy Prince, Mark Watson, Planning, Sean Fitzsimons, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Addiscombe West, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson, reeves corner, Sean Fitzsimons, West Croydon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Councillor has had 300 books taken from book ‘exchange’
A senior Croydon councillor told a Town Hall meeting last night that he had donated 300 books to a book “exchange” in Surrey Street, and that they had all been taken and never replaced or exchanged. “I’m hoping that some … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Mark Watson, Rise Gallery, Surrey Street
Tagged Mark Watson, Rise Gallery, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Watson and mystery of market plans for £1m of public dough
Croydon Council today abandoned any pretence that it does not have a gentrifying agenda for the regeneration of the borough when it issued an advertisement, dressed up as a press release, on behalf of … an artisan baker. The council’s … Continue reading
Council gives one week’s notice of its latest Surrey St meeting
Sshhh! Don’t tell everyone, but Croydon Council is staging a meeting next week to explain how it is going to spend £1million of your money on one of the most historically important areas of the borough. The “informal” meeting, about … Continue reading
Council CEO Negrini’s self-promotion is based on half-truths
STEVEN DOWNES, the editor of Inside Croydon, highlights the latest example of shameless self-promotion by the borough’s highest paid public servant You’d be forgiven if you missed it. There was lots of other news around that day, and lots of … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Alison Butler, Boxpark, Brick by Brick, Business, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Mark Watson, Paul Scott, Planning, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Alison Butler, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson, Paul Scott, Tony Newman, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Surrey Street and the £1m questions Watson refuses to answer
The clique of Progress councillors that control Croydon’s Labour-run Town Hall have really taken to this “post-truth” thing, to the point of issuing press releases, through the council’s propaganda department, which are fundamentally untrue. The latest instance is over the … Continue reading
Council loaned £3m to company not registered for Living Wage
The Labour group which runs the council, and which two years ago was elected on a promise of making Croydon a London living wage borough, has provided a £3 million loan to a business which is not registered as a … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Business, Jeff Boothe, Jo Negrini, Mark Watson, Sadiq Khan, Tony Newman
Tagged Amy Lame, Boxpark, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson, Mayor, Sadiq Khan, Tony Newman
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Sorry Street: No sign of improvements for Croydon market
Croydon Council’s boast of investing half a million pounds to rejuvenate the flagging fortunes of Surrey Street Market so far shows few signs of being backed up with actions, as its Sunday market brainchild struggles to establish itself.
Posted in Business, Mark Watson, Surrey Street
Tagged Croydon Council, Labour, Mark Watson, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Council forced to keep phone hotline in war against fly-tippers
The Labour-run council has been forced to back down from an attempt to quietly drop one of his key election manifesto promises, to provide a fly tipping hotline. Labour leader Tony Newman fought the 2014 Town Hall elections on a … Continue reading
Posted in Capita, Crime, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Fly-tipping, Labour, Mark Watson, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Tory
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Sunday market in Surrey Street will stretch council’s limits
Flushed with the success of last week’s Pridefest, Croydon Council launches its Sunday market in Surrey Street this weekend, where “£8 a loaf” artisan bread seems likely to replace the regular market stall-holders’ cries of “Pound a bowl!” “As part … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Mark Watson, Surrey Street
Tagged Labour, Mark Watson, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market, Tony Newman
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More questions over £500,000 bid to gentrify Surrey Street
Some traders and residents based in or around Surrey Street are beginning to question whether Croydon Council is steamrollering them into a future for the 700-year-old market which few, if any, of them want or are happy with. Mark Watson, … Continue reading
Labour members seize their chance to show support for Corbyn
Labour members in Croydon North, eventually given the opportunity to attend a nomination meeting over the party’s leadership, voted overwhelmingly in favour of Jeremy Corbyn last night. For the second time in 12 months. Steve Reed OBE, the Progress MP … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Mark Watson, Paul Scott, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Eddie Izzard, Labour, Mark Watson, Paul Scott, Steve Reed OBE, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman
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Surrey Street residents stage meeting over Sunday market
Residents of Surrey Street and Church Street and the immediate area around Croydon’s 750-year-old street market are planning on holding an emergency meeting this weekend to discuss the council’s plans, announced this week, to introduce Sunday trading in September. “Sunday’s … Continue reading
Surrey Street stall-holders banned from Sunday trading plan
Surrey Street’s long-suffering and loyal traders are to be banned by Croydon Council from the opportunity of selling their wares when regular Sunday trading is introduced to the market for the first time in its 750-year history in September. The … Continue reading
Football-watching councillors are rewarded with promotions
WALTER CRONXITE, our man outside the Town Hall with a Yorkie bar and Mike Fisher’s discarded copy of the Racing Post, sees a clear message in the latest council cabinet reshuffle: mediocrity will be rewarded in Croydon Tony Newman, Croydon’s … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Alison Butler, Callton Young, Croydon Council, David Wood, Hamida Ali, John Wentworth, Kathy Bee, Matthew Kyeremeh, Pat Ryan, Paul Scott, Planning, Stuart King, Toni Letts, Tony Newman, Transport, Woodside
Tagged Alison Butler, Croydon Council, John Wentworth, Labour, Mark Watson, Pat Ryan, Paul Scott, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman
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Newman looks for Plan B on roads as Bee is moved on
Kathy Bee, the councillor in charge of the state of the roads in the borough, looks set to be another casualty of Tony “Soprano” Newman’s inadvertent reshuffle of Town Hall top jobs expected to be undertaken at a Labour group … Continue reading
Bungling Newman sets up Collins for deputy leader contest
Tony Newman, Croydon’s Labour council leader, seems primed to torpedo his councillors’ own local election prospects with his latest piece of old pals’ act patronage. In the past 18 months, through poorly presented and badly timed policy announcements issued from Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 London elections, 2018 council elections, Addiscombe West, Alison Butler, Broad Green, Croydon Council, John Wentworth, Maddie Henson, Mark Watson, Oliver Lewis, Pat Clouder, Patricia Hay-Justice, Paul Scott, Sarah Jones MP, Stuart Collins, Toni Letts, Tony Newman
Tagged Addiscombe West, Alison Butler, Croydon Council, Labour, Mark Watson, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman
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Chip in to save money with your dog at Wandle Park, Mar 11
Croydon Council’s dog wardens are offering free micro-chipping at Wandle Park this Friday, March 11, providing a service to residents – and their pets – which might usually cost as much as £20. The event, from 11am to 4pm, is … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Charity, Croydon Council, Waddon, Wandle Park
Tagged Dogs Trust, Mark Watson, Wandle Park
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