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Builders go with the (over)flow in rush to finish £30m school
Residents in South Croydon have had their road closed off and streams of muddy water flowing down their street, as the construction of Coombe Wood School has created another flood of complaints. GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, reports “I suppose … Continue reading
Posted in Coombe Wood School, Croydon Council, Paul Scott, Planning, Schools, South Croydon
Tagged Coombe Wood School, Croydon, Croydon Council, Melville Avenue, Paul Scott
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Hundreds turn out to join campaign for directly elected mayor
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on the mounting numbers behind a campaign seeking to change the way the council is run The patronage that keeps Croydon’s Town Hall troika of Tony Newman, Alison Butler and Paul Scott in power is looking … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Chris Philp MP, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Paul Scott, Planning, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, DEMOC, Kenley, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Paul Scott, Sanderstead, Tony Newman, Tory
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New Addington, Purley, George St: protests mount against BxB
The spin is in. Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, on how the council is responding to gathering disquiet by spending thousands on a London PR firm They were there again yesterday, despite the stormy February weather. They’ve been turning up … Continue reading
If you had the choice, would you want a flat or a house?
CROYDON COMMENTARY: As the Labour-run council and its planning department continues its unrelenting drive for overdevelopment, one resident from the south of the borough, LUCIA BRIAULT, asks whether what is being built is what the public actually wants Let me … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Housing, Paul Scott, Planning, Property
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Paul Scott
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Builders’ traffic blamed for child’s near-miss on Woodside road
A small child was hit by a car on their way to school in Woodside yesterday morning, after being forced to walk in the road because of building works and pavement parking. The incident occurred at the junction of Longhurst … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Paul Scott, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Woodside
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Council deputy Butler fails to declare company directorship
WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, on the nexus of connections between a senior Town Hall figure, an ex-councillor’s charity and local Tories It almost looks like she’s getting the old gang together again. There today, in the official records of … Continue reading
Our neighbourhoods are under attack. It’s time to fight back
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Aggressively acquisitive developers, operating mainly across the suburban southern parts of the borough, allied to a council planning department that seems to wave through most of their schemes for blocks of flats, is causing great distress for existing … Continue reading
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Tagged Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Purley, Sanderstead
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