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Tag Archives: Purley Oaks
Four-mile ramble lets you see the wood for Purley’s beech trees
WANDLE WANDERER: Going just off the beaten track once again, KEN TOWL embarks from East Croydon and to check out another multi-park walking route for the weekend I found myself on a grey March morning standing on Platform 6 at … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon parks, Environment, Ken Towl, Kenley, Purley, Walks, Wandle Wanderer, Wildlife
Tagged Ken Towl, Kenley, London LOOP, Purley Beeches, Purley Oaks
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Council could face High Court challenge over traveller site
BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent, on the latest challenge to the Labour-run council’s Block by Block strategy At least one of the more controversial decisions taken recently by the council’s planning committee, egged on by eager Town Hall officials and … Continue reading
Scott’s account doesn’t tally with video record of meeting
CROYDON COMMENTARY: At Paul Scott’s planning meetings, the public, even MPs, are sometimes denied an opportunity to put their case, while the committee chairman is observed acting as an advocate for his architect colleagues. Inside Croydon recently published Councillor Scott’s … Continue reading
What’s the point of planning committee with Scott in charge?
CROYDON COMMENTARY: A senior councillor’s arrogant dismissal of residents who have sought to protect and defend their neighbourhoods from crass over-development is among the most-read articles on the site this week. Here, Purley resident TOM MOORHOUSE responds and provides some … Continue reading
Negrini refuses to act on ‘conflicts of interest’ over planning
Jo Negrini, the chief executive of Croydon Council, has refused to intervene over complaints, from the public and one of the borough’s MPs, over potential conflicts of interest of senior councillors in the planning process. Croydon’s cabinet member for housing … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning
Tagged Alison Butler, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon Council, Labour, Paul Scott, Purley, Purley Oaks, Tory
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Council leader complains to Surrey over its rubbish ‘exports’
Croydon Tories are campaigning against the Conservative Government’s austerity cuts, in particular those which have seen this borough importing rubbish in the back of wealthy Surrey residents’ 4x4s, causing long queues and inconvenience at our local dumps. Surrey, which has … Continue reading
