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Tag Archives: Nathan Elvery
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
Council’s newsletter gives the finger to LGBT month
Croydon Council’s press office is staffed, we understand, by six people. One or two used to work at the Sadvertiser, so we’re hardly dealing with Pulitzer prize-winning journalism here. The budget for the department is somewhere north of £500,000 per … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Hayley Lewis, Nathan Elvery
Tagged Croydon Council, Hayley Lewis, LGBT Month, Nathan Elvery
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Council’s £170,000 per year education chief is set to retire
Paul Greenhalgh, one of Croydon Council’s most senior executives, is to retire from his job in Fisher’s Folly this summer. Aged 61, Greenhalgh will step down from his £170,000 per year position as “Executive Director, People” at the end of … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Nathan Elvery, Paul Greenhalgh, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Nathan Elvery, Paul Greenhalgh, schools
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Coulsdon is thrown a CCURV ball: but who is responsible?
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The collapse of the CCURV Coulsdon supermarket project, as we reported yesterday, is a worrying sign about our local authority’s ability to handle development schemes, warns DAVID WICKENS The £25-million “Bridge to Nowhere” at East Croydon broke one … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged CCURV, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Jon Rouse, Nathan Elvery, Westfield
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Coulsdon supermarket deal collapses as CCURV fails again
Croydon’s reliance on retailing for its economic salvation will come under even greater scrutiny after the council’s most senior official overseeing the multi-billion-pound redevelopment schemes around the borough identified the decline of high street shopping for the collapse of a … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Cane Hill, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, Croydon South, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, Jo Negrini, Jon Rouse, Nathan Elvery, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Planning, Tony Newman, URV
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, Nathan Elvery, Tory, Westfield
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Council official who brought Boxpark to Croydon has now got a top job with… Boxpark
A council official who was involved at a high level in key redevelopment schemes, which in the past six months have also included making a £3 million public finance loan to tempt Boxpark to set up next to East Croydon … Continue reading
Council signs up new planning director despite jobs freeze
So much for the freeze on recruitment at Croydon Council. Fisher’s Folly issued a press release today to announce the appointment of another official at director level, the second since the council CEO Nathan Elvery last month invited all current … Continue reading
Croydon in crisis. Councillors watch football on the telly
Inside Croydon’s Editor, STEVEN DOWNES, on the latest shabby episode in the Town Hall chamber This was the scene in Croydon Town Hall during a full meeting of the council last night. Two well-paid local councillors engrossed in the Crystal … Continue reading
Council CEO Elvery tries to gag debate on garden waste cuts
Nathan Elvery, Croydon’s Chief Executive, wanted to shut down all debate at the Town Hall tonight on the axing of the council’s free garden waste collections, despite receiving a petition with the signatures of more than 11,000 residents opposing the … Continue reading
Council hires ex-Newham staffer as public health director
Despite the massive drive for staff redundancies and a recruitment freeze at Fisher’s Folly, news has arrived of another top-tier council appointment, and it is another former employee of Newham Council being recruited by Croydon on a near-six-figure salary. Joining … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boxpark, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Health, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Rachel Flowers
Tagged Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, NHS, Rachel Flowers
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Up to 600 Town Hall jobs at risk in latest council redundancies
Croydon Council yesterday launched another round of voluntary redundancies, as it tries to balance the Town Hall budget from a £3.5 million overspend. Some estimates suggest as many as 600 more council jobs may need to go. The budget short-fall … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Jon Rouse, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman
Tagged Croydon Council, Jon Rouse, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman
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UKIP supporters to face demands for legal costs from council
Croydon Council has begun legal proceedings against a UKIP-dominated group which has refused to return thousands of pounds in an unspent grant. Council officials have decided to pursue the group’s committee members for the costs incurred for recovering that money. … Continue reading
Council CEO: ‘Time for debate is over. Give us our cash back’
The borough’s elected councillors were advised not to attend the annual meeting of the Croydon Communities [sic] Consortium last month because of a possible legal dispute for the recovery of thousands of pounds of public money. The CCC has been … Continue reading
The “continuity council” that rarely meets and barely debates
WALTER CRONXITE welcomes a rare opportunity for Croydon’s councillors to meet at the Town Hall tonight Croydon’s well-rewarded cabinet, the nine Labour councillors hand-picked for his top team by leader Tony Newman, get together in the council chamber at the … Continue reading
Council caves in over enforcement action at The Ship pub
So this is how the local authority planning system works in Croydon in 2015. 1, A speculative developer submits a planning application to the council to turn a popular local amenity, it this case a pub, into a number of … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Nathan Elvery, Norwood Society, Paul Scott, Planning, Pubs, South Norwood, South Norwood Tourist Board, Steve O'Connell
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Nathan Elvery, Save The Ship, South Norwood, Tory
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Boxpark loan deal turns councillors into a bunch of bankers
£3 million. So now we know how much tax-payers’ money it takes to bring a decent-sized business to the town centre. The Croydon Guardian reports that Croydon Council has gone into the banking business, making a £3 million loan to … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Boxpark, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Jo Negrini, Jon Rouse, Nathan Elvery, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Addiscombe West, Boxpark, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, Nathan Elvery, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Judge rejects incinerator appeal as focus turns to Viridor ‘gift’
A High Court judge this morning dismissed the latest, and possibly last, appeal under a Judicial Review by the Stop the Incinerator Campaign against Sutton Council’s decision to grant planning permission for an industrial-scale waste incineration plant to be built … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Julie Belvir, Nathan Elvery, Nick Mattey, Planning, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Tony Newman, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon, Croydon Council, incinerator, Julie Belvir, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Nathan Elvery, Stop The Incinerator Campaign, Tony Newman, Viridor, Waddon
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Duppas Hill Park looks set to make way for new Bee road
The world of unreality that is inhabited by Croydon’s Labour-run council was evident once again in a report to Monday’s council meeting from Kathy Bee, the cabinet member in charge of the borough’s transport. It was just like 1984 all … Continue reading
Developers’ PR company announces the #CroydonTakeover
The Croydon Flyover. The Croydon Facelift. Now we have the Croydon Takeover. Or #CroydonTakeover, as the council’s favouritest PR bunglers, Grey Label, managed to hashtag it when they were off on the jolly to the South of France for the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, CPO, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Planning, Stiles Harold Williams, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Work underway to get Boxpark to pop-up in summer 2016
Boxpark, the pop-up retail centre built from disused shipping containers, will open alongside East Croydon Station with up to 80 shops, fashionable boutiques and cafes next summer, it was confirmed this morning. Work is to begin immediately, and around 200 … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boxpark, Business, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Nathan Elvery, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Tramlink, Transport, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, GLA, Greater London Authority, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Nathan Elvery, Ruskin Square, Schroders, Stanhope, Westfield
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Negrini signs off on £8,000 MIPIM junket to south of France
WHO REALLY IS RUNNING CROYDON (Part 94): Croydon Council is spending nearly £8,000 to send three senior members of staff to the South of France next week on a sales trip – to flog flats and property on behalf of … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London, MIPIM, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Council calls in Ronald McDonald to help pay off £144m bill
It would be a cheap shot to suggest that Fisher’s Folly is run by a bunch of clowns. But Ronald McDonald has registered a presence recently in Croydon Council’s £144 million headquarters building. Desperate to rake back some of the … Continue reading
Democratic control is an alien concept at the Town Hall
CROYDON COMMENTARY: What powers and influence do our elected councillors really have? ROD DAVIES, a local resident and a local authority official in the past, poses the questions Croydon Town Hall’s 70 elected councillors are all dependent on professional officers, … Continue reading
Posted in Bernard Weatherill House, Croydon Council, ECCO, Fairness Commission, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman, URV
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Labour, Nathan Elvery, Tony Newman, Tory
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