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Tag Archives: Nathan Elvery
Commissioners switch email in effort to protect whistleblowers
CROYDON IN CRISIS: After complaints that staff could not trust that their messages to the government-appointed Commissioners would be secure from their council bosses, a MHCLG official has set up an independent channel. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Three months after … Continue reading
Posted in Abi Brown, Commissioners, Croydon Council, Debbie Warren, Elaine Jackson, Ged Curran, Improvement Board, Jackie Belton, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Nathan Elvery, Section 114 notice
Tagged 000 pay-off, Abi Brown, £50, Commissioners, Croydon, Croydon Council, Debbie Warren, Fisher's Folly, Ged Curran, Jackie Belton, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Lindsey Lewis, London Borough of Croydon, MHCLG, Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government, Nathan Elvery
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Council’s latest lame excuse: our phones don’t work properly
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Britain’s rottenest borough is now blaming faulty phone lines for needlessly prosecuting residents over Council Tax, when the householders can’t get through to Fisher’s Folly to make their payments. By STEVEN DOWNES Last month, on the first … Continue reading
Council appoints finance director with links to ex-CEO Elvery
Croydon councillors, including the leader of the Conservative opposition, have agreed to appoint as the council’s finance director someone who previously worked amid a “bullying culture” at another failing local authority. Richard Ennis’s appointment, to one of the most critical … Continue reading
Mystery of £200k council exec points towards BxB’s Lacey
CROYDON IN CRISIS: While the average salary of council employees is a modest £23,000, those at the top of the organisation, even when it was heading for financial collapse, still made sure they awarded themselves cushty pay hikes. By STEVEN … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Guy van Dichele, Hazel Simmonds, Jacqueline Harris-Baker, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Nathan Elvery
Tagged Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Guy van Dichele, Jacqueline Harris-Baker, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Nathan Elvery
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Kerswell in two-horse race for £192,000 council CEO job
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The council’s search for new leadership has not gone very far, nor very wide. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES When the panel convenes next week to interview for the £192,474 post of council chief executive, they will see … Continue reading
The ins and outs of quietly getting rid of a council CEO
Did she jump or was she pushed? Our employment law correspondent, PERRY FREEMASON, delves into the murky world of human resources at Fisher’s Folly to sift through another expensive mess at the council Morale among staff inside Fisher’s Folly is … Continue reading
Posted in Bernard Weatherill House, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Jon Rouse, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman
Tagged Bernard Weatherill House, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, David Wechsler, Fisher's Folly, Jo Negrini, Jon Rouse, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman, Tory
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Man in the EY: how consultants have teamed up with Elvery
Croydon old boy Nathan Elvery, the man who did much to develop the council’s reputation for dodgy procurement processes and arrogant contempt for the public, is back in the news again. Elvery, the former Croydon chief executive, has provided the … Continue reading
£300,000 – the price of failure for one former council chief exec
Nathan Elvery, the controversial Croydon Council chief executive who decided to pop down to the south coast for an easier life, was handed a juicy £265,000 pay-off by his erstwhile employers, West Sussex County Council, it has been reported this … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman
Tagged Croydon Council, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman, West Sussex County Council
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Council’s ex-chief Elvery gets sacked from West Sussex job
Nathan Elvery, for eight years one of Croydon’s most senior council officials, has been sacked from his latest job at West Sussex County Council, where he was chief executive. In 2014, Elvery had been promoted to the role of CEO … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Nathan Elvery
Tagged Nathan Elvery, West Sussex County Council
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Former council chief exec Elvery is placed on ‘gardening leave’
You can take the boy out of Croydon, but can you take Croydon out of the boy? Maybe not, in the case of Nathan Elvery, the former chief exec of the council who it was reported yesterday is taking a … Continue reading
Council office entrance closed because of ‘extreme’ weather
KEN LEE, our newshound on Mint Walk, sniffs out the latest piece of nonsense from the £140m council office building, where the main entrance has been ruled out-of-bounds Further proof, not that any has been needed, that Fisher’s Folly, the … Continue reading
Posted in Bernard Weatherill House, Croydon Council, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman, URV
Tagged Bernard Wetherill House, BWH, CCURV, Fisher's Folly, Mike Fisher, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman
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Elvery’s devoted staff can’t account for his expenses claim
Nathan Elvery, a man who did so much to create the culture and ethos that has been prevalent at Croydon Council during his reign there as chief finance officer, deputy CEO and ultimately as top banana, appears to have taken … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman
Tagged Nathan Elvery, Private Eye, West Sussex County Council
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Ex-CEO Elvery and the mystery of the £47,500 removal perk
Our media monitor, KEN LEE, discovers a former senior council figure courting controversy, again Croydon Council old boy Nathan Elvery is back where he once had a regular home, in the pages of Private Eye. The David Brent beard is … Continue reading
Private Eye’s asking question that Negrini refuses to answer
It has already been a bad week for Tony Newman, Croydon’s council leader, and Jo Negrini, his appointee as the borough clerk. Their handling of the council’s crisis over children’s services after the Ofsted inspectors’ “inadequate” report has not drawn … Continue reading
Council’s £140m offices are to become a glorified Job Centre
WALTER CRONXITE on how the local council has been forced to take in more lodgers in its “prestige” £140m office building Tonight’s council cabinet meeting at the Town Hall is unlikely to uncover quite how the costs of building the … 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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Council was paying £110,000 per year to ‘despicable’ legal firm
Parents of children with special educational needs who have been forced to fight stressful and demanding legal cases to seek proper support from Croydon Council have won a small victory by getting the Town Hall to cancel arrangements for legal … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Jon Rouse, Julie Belvir, Nathan Elvery
Tagged Baker Small, Croydon Council, Education, Nathan Elvery
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Council is paying two £180,000 CEO salaries at same time
Hard-up Croydon Council could be paying the £180,000 per year wages for two chief executives this month. That’s according to an email from the borough’s departing CEO, Nathan Elvery. Elvery’s last day working in the £140million over-priced council offices he … Continue reading
Council pimps out £144m offices in £7.5m 10-year deal
Croydon’s cash-strapped Labour-run council is today celebrating clawing back just £7.5million-worth of the costs of Fisher’s Folly, the borough’s vastly over-priced civic headquarters. Over a period of 10 years. So only another £136 million to go. At this rate, it … Continue reading
Negrini named as interim council CEO in four-month process
Jo Negrini is to be the interim chief executive of Croydon Council once her current boss, the entrepreneurial Nathan Elvery, leaves his job in June. Negrini has been chosen for the onerous task from a field of… err… just one. … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Paul Greenhalgh, Planning, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman, Westfield, Whitgift Foundation
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CEO Elvery causes row in Sussex over ‘offensive’ salary
Nathan Elvery, the £180,000 per year Croydon Council chief executive who never had to apply for his job, has caused a row down in sleepy Sussex by the Sea – and he has not yet even been confirmed in the … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman, Tory
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Chief executive Elvery has quit £180,000 Croydon Council job
The council’s CEO is the third senior executive to announce their departure from Croydon so far this year. WALTER CRONXITE reports Ambitious for Croydon? Hmm, maybe the allure of the £1 billion Hammersfield development is not so attractive after all: … Continue reading
