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Report calls urban sprawl ‘forgotten disaster of last 50 years’
A report from CPRE London published today says successive governments over the past half-century have actively enabled urban sprawl into the countryside. Urban sprawl means building low-density housing outside of towns, on green fields, and far from shops, schools and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Parking, Planning, Property
Tagged Alice Roberts, Campaign to Protect Rural England, CPRE, CPRE London, Parking, Property
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‘We’re simply trying to encourage more people to shop locally’
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Our report earlier this week about the plaintive plea for customers, made by the owner of a business in Coulsdon, generated a huge response from readers, and some important insights on the challenges facing the retail sector from … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Town
Tagged Ashley Cooke, Coulsdon, Cozy Glow, Cozy Glow Candles, Croydon, Parking, RingGo
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Motoring penalty charges to increase to £160 in Croydon
Conservative councils in London – which potentially incudes Croydon’s Tory Mayor Jason Perry – wanted to hike the cost of parking tickets to £180 a pop. That’s according to a report by the London Standard, as the capital seeks to … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, London Councils, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Parking
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Liberal Democrats, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor Sadiq Khan, Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan, Parking, PCN, Penalty Charge Notices, Sir Sadiq Khan, Tory, Transport for London
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Croydon EV drivers are short-circuited as Perry pulls the plug
While world leaders discuss the climate emergency in Baku, here in Croydon, the local Conservative council is making it more difficult for people to reduce their emissions and save the planet. By our south of the borough correspondent, PEARL LEE … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Old Coulsdon, Parking, Planning, Purley, Samir Dwesar, Transport, ULEZ, ULEZ expansion
Tagged Climate Crisis, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Electric vehicles, EV chargers, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Parking, Purley, Purley and Woodcote, Samir Dwesar, Tory
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Contractor repaid £3.25m to council over school streets failure
CROYDON IN CRISIS: After the council bought number-plate recognition cameras that did not work, it managed to get a refund – after losing an estimated £16m income. By our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE Failures in Croydon Council’s procurement processes … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Parking, Steve Iles
Tagged ANPR, Automatic Number PLate Recognition, car parking, Conduent Public Sector UK Ltd, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Healthy School Streets, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Parking, PCN, Penalty Charge Notices, school streets, Steve Iles, Tory, Trellint
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Perry parked parking changes to boost his Tory mate Philp
Volunteers in the borough’s hard-pressed residents’ associations were given less than six hours’ notice of the switch-off of Croydon’s parking meters. By JEREMY CLACKSON, motoring correspondent In the latest controversial move by Jason Perry, the borough’s Conservative Mayor, Croydon Council … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Jayne Rusbatch, Mayor Jason Perry, Parking, Transport
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Jayne Rusbatch, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Parking, RingGo, Tory
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Mayor sneaks in night-time parking charges across borough
Our motoring correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, goes through the small print of the Tory council’s latest wheeze to make an extra £1m a year from residents – including charging drivers of zero-emissions cars seven times more than previously One of the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, Environment, Mayor Jason Perry, Nick Hibberd, Old Coulsdon, Parking, Scott Roche
Tagged Alasdair Stewart, Charlie King, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, ECRA, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Parking, Scott Roche, Tory
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Perry imposes smartphone parking system – from next week
Car-loving Croydon Mayor Jason Perry is going ahead with the removal of all the borough’s parking meters and is imposing the use of a third-party smartphone app which charges users even for “free” parking. The council will start turning off … Continue reading
Croydon’s new parking app is victim of worldwide data hack
Barely had the news from Croydon Council trickled out that they are to impose a smartphone app system on people parking their cars in New Addington, Addiscombe and Purley from next week than their chosen provider, the operators of RingGo, … Continue reading
Council ignores the public and rolls out cashless parking trials
The generation of Croydon residents who have always thought RingGo was the drummer in The Beatles could be in for a nasty, and expensive, shock if they park their car in New Addington, Purley or Addiscombe come the new year, … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe East, Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Mayor Jason Perry, New Addington South, Parking, Purley, Scott Roche
Tagged Addiscombe West, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, New Addington, Parking, Purley, RingGo, Scott Roche, Tory
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Wider pavements and slower cars: King makes road changes
The council has announced a range of measures on the streets in West Croydon and Woodside to assist social distancing for pedestrians, improve road conditions for cycling, while suspending parking bays and announcing the intention of enforcing speed restrictions on … Continue reading
Newman discovers climate emergency but offers little to fix it
Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, was at the council’s ‘sustainability summit’ – staged in an unsustainable venue where guests were drinking from single-use cardboard cups – and found it to be full of contradictions Tony Newman, the Labour leader of … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Croydon Council, Croydon Friends of the Earth, Croydon parks, Education, Environment, Extinction Rebellion, Planning, Refuse collection, Shifa Mustafa, Tony Newman, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Boxpark, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Parking, Residents parking permits, Tony Newman, Westfield
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Council fails to write to permit-holders over parking charge hike
Croydon is being accused of deliberately suppressing details of its on-going parking consultation from the people most affected: the 9,000-plus residents who already have permits for on-street parking issued by the council each year. “We’re earning a deserved reputation for … Continue reading
Scott puts forward proposals to raise parking fees by 375%
“The problem isn’t with cars being parked, it’s with cars being driven.” Croydon’s Labour-run council is putting forward proposals for £300 per year resident parking permits which will hit the poor and the elderly hardest, as transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON … Continue reading
Council looking to hike parking permit fees for older vehicles
JEREMY CLACKSON, our transport correspondent, on how Croydon’s air-polluting council is now coming after the elderly and poorer car owners More car-free zones around schools and discounts on resident parking permits for those using low-emission vehicles are among proposals which … Continue reading
Beware councils bearing gifts: traffic wardens get two days off
Croydon Council called it “an early Christmas present”, after they announced a suspension of car parking fees and pay-and-display charges to “make it easier for residents to prepare for and enjoy the festive season”. The truth, inevitably, is a somewhat … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Parking
Tagged car parks, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Parking
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Parking the tow trucks is another sign that cuts don’t work
WALTER CRONXITE on another cut in council services which seems to offer irresponsible drivers free rein to park their cars wherever they like What follows is a sentence that has never before appeared on Inside Croydon: We agree with Phil … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Kathy Bee, Parking, Phil Thomas
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Kathy Bee, Labour, Parking, Phil Thomas, Selsdon, Tory
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‘I feel ripped off after being towed away on a Sunday’
The “Do as we say, not as we do” attitude of some Croydon Council contractors has caused our loyal reader to submit another image demonstrating a somewhat casual attitude to the rules of the road. “Maybe it is not illegal … Continue reading
Now Pickles axes Croydon’s ‘over-zealous’ spy cars
More good news, as those ludicrous little spy cars, the bounty hunters of the kerbside, are to be banned. This will please those who are increasingly exasperated by how the CCTV spy cars – driven by the council Traffic Enforcement … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Commuting, Crime, Croydon Council, Environment, Parking, Transport
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Parking, Waddon
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£900 a year’s worth of free parking: time to take the tram
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, with a population estimated to be around 520,000, manages to survive with just 60 politicians in its own parliament. That is 50 per cent more people than in Croydon, and 10 fewer paid politicians. Croydon’s … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Parking
Tagged car parking, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Parking
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Shirley residents and shops demand one-hour free parking
Activists in Shirley yesterday delivered a petition to Transport for London signed by more than 1,200 local residents calling for one-hour free parking at key points in their neighbourhood. When Marzia Nicodemi and Said Otmani delivered the petition, they were … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Parking, Shirley North
Tagged Croydon, Labour, Mike Fisher, Parking, Shirley
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Croydon’s secret tax on car parking that divides the borough
CROYDON COMMENTARY: For a town that has built itself around the demands of the motor car, parking the vehicles is an ever-growing problem, and Croydon Council has yet to find the right, or fair, way of dealing with it, CHARLOTTE … Continue reading
