Tag Archives: MyCroydon app

Council kills off the crap app – after wasting up to £500,000

Posted on May 19, 2018 by insidecroydon

For five years, this website has reported on the failings of the council’s procurement and operation of MyCroydon, including paying £787 per day to the ‘mastermind’ behind the smartphone app. STEVEN DOWNES reports, the council has now finally binned the … Continue reading →

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Company behind council’s crap app faces winding up order

Posted on November 28, 2016 by insidecroydon

Croydon Council’s crap app – MyCroydon – could be about to crash, as the company which operates it, Sensemble, was facing winding up proceedings in the High Court today over around £100,000 in unpaid tax bills. The winding up order … Continue reading →

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Un-Appy ‘Arry gets all wound-up in court action over debt

Posted on July 24, 2015 by insidecroydon

Red-faces all-round in Fisher’s Folly, the council’s over-expensive offices, after the company which was set up to provide a smart phone app to help keep rubbish off the borough’s streets has been dragged through the courts after just 18 months … Continue reading →

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Costs mount on council’s rubbish MyCroydon app

Posted on July 8, 2015 by insidecroydon

A tech worker who carried out work on the MyCroydon app has told Inside Croydon that the company which was given the contract by the council, “is not really an ‘app developer’ or ‘software developer’. All it has done is … Continue reading →

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