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Council dumps disastrous idVerde outsourced parks contract
This was not what was meant when ‘taking back control’ was coined as a slogan, but this week in Croydon, our council has moved in to relieve a French firm of its responsibilities in our parks, as KEN LEE reports … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Carillion, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Duppas Hill Park, Environment, idVerde, Kingston, Libraries, Lloyd Park, Merton, Stuart Collins, Veolia, Wandle Park
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, idVerde, Kingston, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Merton, Phil Thomas, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Stuart Collins, Timothy Godfrey, Tory, Veolia
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Collins backs free Christmas tree collection service for 2018
WALTER CRONXITE reports from the council chamber on the first giveaways of the 2018 election campaign Stuart Collins, the deputy leader of Croydon’s Labour-run council, put an early present under every household’s Christmas tree in the borough last night. Collins … Continue reading
Senior Tory councillor quits Town Hall but keeps it all quiet
KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, on the disappearing act performed by one of the local Tories’ former leading lights Unannounced at the Town Hall, and unmentioned to the people of Selsdon and Ballards ward she was supposed to be … Continue reading
Let there be light: Skanska finish the job, only four months late
Under the council’s newly embossed letter-headings of “Delivering for Croydon”, this probably counts as a Pyrrhic victory: Skanska has finally finished installing street lights across the borough – only four months behind schedule. Given that, as recently as May 2014 … Continue reading
Company behind council’s crap app faces winding up order
Croydon Council’s crap app – MyCroydon – could be about to crash, as the company which operates it, Sensemble, was facing winding up proceedings in the High Court today over around £100,000 in unpaid tax bills. The winding up order … Continue reading
TfL’s £7.6m grant for 20mph zones and road ‘improvements’
Croydon’s councillors will have an opportunity next Monday to demonstrate that they have grasped Einstein’s definition of insanity, and that they won’t be doing the same thing and expecting different results over the spending of millions of pounds on often … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Connected Croydon, Croydon Council, Cycling, Environment, Fairfield, Parking, Purley Way, South Norwood, Stuart King, TfL, Transport
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, East Croydon station, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Phil Thomas, Purley Way, South Norwood, STUART KING, Westfield
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Any way the wind blows, doesn’t really matter to Tory Thomas
If anyone sees Croydon Tory councillor Phil Thomas, can they give him a copy of this chart please? The chart shows how the fall-out – because that’s what it will be – of toxic particulates from the Beddington Lane incinerator … Continue reading
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Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Conservative, Croydon Council, Phil "Two Permits" Thomas, Phil Thomas, Tory, Viridor, Waddon
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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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Un-Appy ‘Arry gets all wound-up in court action over debt
Red-faces all-round in Fisher’s Folly, the council’s over-expensive offices, after the company which was set up to provide a smart phone app to help keep rubbish off the borough’s streets has been dragged through the courts after just 18 months … Continue reading
Costs mount on council’s rubbish MyCroydon app
A tech worker who carried out work on the MyCroydon app has told Inside Croydon that the company which was given the contract by the council, “is not really an ‘app developer’ or ‘software developer’. All it has done is … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Capita, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Graham Cadle, Phil Thomas, Refuse collection
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Graham Cadle, Harry Singh, MyCroydon app, Phil Thomas, Tech Hub, Tory
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Kiely leaves council planning post with barely a mention
Last week, one Redhill-based publication devoted two complete pages to the retirement of one of its own staff. But we have been unable to find a single word in its pages about the departure from Croydon of the council’s planning … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Anthony Brooks, Croydon Council, Environment, Housing, Jo Negrini, Planning, Property, Tramlink, Transport, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Fisher's Folly, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Kiely, Phil Thomas, Planning, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Labour cuts and pastes Tory plans for a very bleak midwinter
Tough luck. That’s the message from Croydon Council if we have a bad winter. As commuters battle their way home through what’s left of Hurricane Gonzalo, winter seems to be with us already. Snow and ice cannot be too far … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Commuting, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Environment, Health, Kathy Bee, Mayday Hospital, Purley Way, Transport
Tagged Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Kathy Bee, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Fisher, Phil Thomas, Tony Newman, Tory
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Councillors are not ‘Appy with MyCroydon’s performance
The MyCroydon smartphone app, a vital part of Labour’s new council administration’s “Don’t Mess With Croydon” T-shirt and slogans campaign, doesn’t work properly. Who says so? A group of Labour councillors, including the deputy cabinet member for T-shirts and slogans. … Continue reading
Spot the difference: Crapita sponsors Labour Mayor’s banquet
STEVEN DOWNES, editor of Inside Croydon, suggests that the borough’s new council has allowed itself to be compromised by the council’s senior staff, developers and big business even before it has been in office for a month Spot the difference. … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2014 council elections, Bernard Weatherill House, Business, Capita, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Environment, Fairfield Halls, Fly tipping, Julie Belvir, Manju Shahul Hameed, Mike Fisher, Nathan Elvery, Phil Thomas, Planning, Refuse collection, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman, URV, Waste incinerator, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Labour, Mayor, Mike Fisher, Phil Thomas, Tony Newman, Tory
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Council spends £200,000 on dropped kerbs in flood-risk area
Senior Conservative politicians have ordered Croydon Council staff to cold-call house-holders in a marginal ward to offer to build dropped kerbs with a hefty discount provided on the rates. At the same time that council staff and the emergency services … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Andrew Pelling, Bensham Manor, Clare Hilley, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Environment, Joy Prince, Parking, Phil Thomas, Property, Robert Canning, Simon Hoar, Tony Harris, Transport, Waddon
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Labour, Phil Thomas, Tory, Waddon
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Town Hall bruiser Thomas, lies and a Tory power struggle
Inside Croydon editor STEVEN DOWNES on another demoralising three hours of his life that he will never get back – spent at last night’s council budget meeting Croydon Tories, who have been in charge of the council for eight years, … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Environment, Fly tipping, Mike Fisher, Phil Thomas, Refuse collection, Selsdon & Ballards, Shirley North, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Labour, Mayor, Phil Thomas, Selsdon and Ballards, Tory, Waddon
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