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Croydon gets a new booze park as council grants café’s licence
‘Vertical drinking’ to be banned in park’s re-opened venue, which is located in a newly extended no-alcohol zone, as council grants licence to its new tenants. By our Town Hall reporter, SANDRA STEAD Croydon Council has managed to grant a … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Friends of Wandle Park, Mayor Jason Perry, Waddon, Wandle Park
Tagged Broad Green, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Friends of Wandle Park, Glen Patnelli, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Patsy Cummings, Reclaim Croydon, Waddon, Wandle Park, Wandle Park cafe
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Council cover-up over security costs for empty community café
CROYDON IN CRISIS: With no prospect of a business taking over the long-vacant Wandle Park café during the busy summer period, the council is spending thousands of pounds on ‘private security’ EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Despite repeated promises by Croydon’s … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Friends of Wandle Park, Mayor Jason Perry, Waddon, Wandle Park
Tagged Broad Green, Broad Green Library, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Friends of Wandle Park, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Perry's PIle, Reclaim Croydon, Waddon, Wandle Park, Wandle Park cafe
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Humiliated Perry gets police to evict Wandle Park squatters
EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES and AUSTEN COOPER Officers from the Metropolitan Police moved in on the squatters at the Wandle Park café this morning – without any prior notice as is usually required to secure an eviction. It is suggested … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Friends of Wandle Park, Mayor Jason Perry, Waddon, Wandle Park
Tagged Broad Green, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Friends of Wandle Park, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Reclaim Croydon, Waddon, Wandle Park, Wandle Park cafe
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Courtroom chaos as council bungles its Reedham eviction
Croydon Council was forced into yet another hugely embarrassing court room climbdown this morning, when a group of homelessness campaigners arrived at Croydon County Court following a summons for squatting in a long-disused children’s home in Reedham. The presiding judge … Continue reading
Council evicts 20 homeless people from squat in Reedham
With the overnight temperatures dropping below zero in the past week, Croydon Council has thrown 22 people out on to the streets, with no alternative accommodation, after serving an eviction notice on people squatting in a council-owned building that had … Continue reading
Squatters force council to switch New Addington polling station
Council officials have been forced to scrap their plans to use a disused community centre in New Addington as a polling station for the General Election on July 4 because the long-abandoned building has been taken over by squatters. The … Continue reading
Posted in 2024 General Election, Croydon Council, Croydon East, Katherine Kerswell, New Addington South
Tagged 2024 General Election, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon East, General Election, General Election 2024, Goldcrest Youth Centre, Katherine Kerswell, New Addington, Reclaim Croydon, Returning Officer, squatters
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Squatters take over centre that has been unused for four years
Squatters have taken over the council-owned Goldcrest Youth Centre in New Addington, for almost a month turning it into a real community centre – and so far have successfully resisted all attempts to remove them. The centre has been closed … Continue reading
Welcome to the House of Fun! Squatters claim court victory
The squatter activist group, Reclaim Croydon, was claiming a victory today after a judge threw out an application to have them evicted from the long-vacant “Fun House” site, under the Croydon Flyover. Reclaim Croydon have turned the unused premises into … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Church and religions, Community associations, Croydon Council, Housing, Libraries, Mayor Jason Perry, Reclaim Croydon, Socco Cheta Community Hub, South Norwood Community Kitchen
Tagged Altyre Road, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Crown Court, Croydon Flyover, Croydon High Street, House of Fun, London, Mayor Jason Perry, Reclaim Croydon, South Norwood Community Kitchen, Tory
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Activists provide winter shelter to 40 people ignored by council
At the start of December, Inside Croydon submitted a formal question to Croydon Council asking what measures they have taken to establish ‘warm spaces’ or other ways of helping the homeless through the worst of the winter weather. The council … Continue reading
Reclaim Croydon’s free bookshop and café closed by bailiffs
The bailiffs moved in this morning to evict Reclaim Croydon from the former electrical store and failed arts café next to West Croydon Station. Reclaim Croydon had been running the former Matthew’s Yard venue as a free coffee community centre … Continue reading
Posted in Business, West Croydon
Tagged Arch Co, Autonomous Café and Bookshop, Brick by Brick, Maplins, Matthews Yard, Reclaim Croydon, squatters, West Croydon
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Squatters do a bunk as bailiffs smash Brick by Brick’s doors
Seven bailiffs, acting as “Representatives of the Owner”, wasted no time in descending on Brick by Brick’s former offices in George Street on Saturday afternoon to evict the squatters who had been occupying the building for almost two weeks. A … Continue reading
Defiant squatters are ordered to leave Brick by Brick’s offices
While security guards peered from the windows of the empty Croydon Park Hotel on Altyre Road, squatters and their supporters were erecting banners in the forecourt of Croydon County Court this morning. The group of squatters calling themselves Reclaim Croydon … Continue reading
Squatters take over Brick by Brick’s abandoned office building
Perhaps this is the start of a people’s fightback against the Croydon Establishment. A group of squatters calling themselves “Reclaim Croydon” has moved in to the abandoned offices of Brick by Brick in the town centre, to show the high … Continue reading
