Tag Archives: Permitted Development

Property billionaire in £30m swoop for Apollo and Lunar House

Posted on December 5, 2025 by insidecroydon

Housing correspondent BARRATT HOLMES on how Criterion Capital have scooped a cut-price bargain on two landmark Croydon buildings, as they plan to deliver the country’s largest office-to-resi development Croydon’s 1960s landmark buildings Apollo House and Lunar House have been sold … Continue reading →

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Seifert’s Croydon landmark set to be converted into 250 flats

Posted on August 7, 2024 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Architecture and heritage campaigners have expressed concerns over plans to turn 24-storey No1 Croydon at East Croydon from office use to residential – and the local council won’t do anything about it. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The … Continue reading →

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Green Dragon residents shocked by £7,000 service charge bills

Posted on February 14, 2024 by insidecroydon

Croydon is reckoned to already have around 1,000 flats in converted office blocks, thanks to Tory relaxation of planning rules. Now residents in one block are facing the nightmare of service charges doubling to pay for safety works. By BARRATT … Continue reading →

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Philp gets caught flat out by Chancellor’s development plan

Posted on November 25, 2023 by insidecroydon

By JOHNNY DOBBYN, housing writer The campaign against flat developments in the south of the borough that has been led by Tories Chris Philp and Jason Perry has been dealt a severe blow by… the Conservative Chancellor’s Autumn Statement. Buried … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Chris Philp MP, Croydon South, Environment, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, Property, Purley, Purley Oaks and Riddlesdown, Purley Pool | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 11 Comments

Slums of the Future: Croydon has capital’s smallest micro-flat

Posted on May 31, 2019 by insidecroydon

Thousands of Croydon families are finding themselves in “cramped, substandard, and unaffordable homes” due to “flawed” government planning regulations, research published today claims. The report by London Assembly Member Tom Copley highlights Croydon has having more permitted development flats than … Continue reading →

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When Croydon homes inspired lyricism from England’s poets

Posted on January 28, 2019 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: First we mentioned Philip Larkin, then Alan Bennett. Now GEORGE WRIGHT reminds us that the Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman once had something to say, in verse, about Croydon. And he was never as horrible about the town … Continue reading →

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Shelter warns of housing ‘black hole’ over conversion schemes

Posted on December 6, 2018 by insidecroydon

Affordable housing in Croydon may be under threat from a government proposal which risks “supercharging” a social housing get-out clause, according to the housing charity Shelter. Currently developers do not have to pay contributions to the council for social housing … Continue reading →

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