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There’s help, and some hope, on offer to renters this week
Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, on what changes await renters during Renters’ Rights Awareness Week Renters in Croydon are about to have their experience transformed. At least, that’s what the Labour government would have us believe as their Renters ’ … Continue reading
Posted in 101 George Street/Ten Degrees, College Tower/Enclave, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Exchange Square, Fairfield Homes, Housing, Inspired Homes, London-wide issues, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Regina Road redevelopment, Tapestry Croydon, The Fold
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Generation Rent, Green Party, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, Regina Road, Renters Rights Bill, The Fold, Tory, Zack Polanski
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Regina Road redevelopment council update, Tue Oct 14
Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Community associations, Croydon Council, Housing, Planning, Property, Regina Road redevelopment, South Norwood, Susmita Sen
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Housing, London Borough of Croydon, Norwood Junction, Regina Road, Regina Road redevelopment, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
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After 4 years, Croydon’s housing taken out of special measures
The ‘slum-like’ conditions of ‘dangerous squalor’ in council flats on Regina Road caused a national scandal in 2021. Only now, and £30m of spending later, is the housing regulator satisfied that council housing in the borough meets proper standards. EXCLUSIVE … Continue reading
Council to spend £10.5m to deal with housing repairs backlog
Cash-strapped Croydon Council is increasing its repairs budget to £10.5million this year “to address backlogs” in its works programme. The increased spending will also be used, the council says, to “tackle damp and mould and improve living conditions”. The increased … Continue reading
Ombudsman report shows council getting worse under Perry
Croydon Council was forced to pay out TEN TIMES more in compensation to its tenants last year under Tory Mayor Jason Perry than it had done in the previous 12-month period. That’s the astonishing findings of the official, annual report … Continue reading
Posted in Claire Bonham, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry
Tagged Claire Bonham, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Housing, Housing Improvement Board, Housing Ombudsman, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road, South Norwood, Tory
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Complacent council managers miss important housing event
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The head of an independent panel appointed to check on progress with housing following the Regina Road scandal suggests senior managers in Fisher’s Folly are not doing enough to get the borough out of special measures. EXCLUSIVE … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Housing, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, Susmita Sen
Tagged Housing, Housing Improvement Board, Housing Ombudsman, Katherine Kerswell, Lynne Hale, Martin Wheatley, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road, Social Housing Regulator
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All Hale the chief: £125,000 job ad raises laughs at Town Hall
EXCLUSIVE: Council is recruiting for director-level official to oversee the redevelopment of notorious Regina Road council flats. By our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES Cash-strapped Croydon Council is recruiting again for another six-figure-salaried director, although whoever wrote the job ad for … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Housing, London-wide issues, Lynne Hale, Planning, Property, Regina Road redevelopment, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, Susmita Sen
Tagged Conservative, Council housing, Croydon, Croydon Council, director of housing: new build and estate regeneration, GLA, Greater London Authority, London Borough of Croydon, Lynne Hale, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road, Regina Road redevelopment, Susmita Sen, Tory
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Council claims its housing reforms are beginning to work
Croydon Council claims that reforms of its housing department has seen the authority reduce its costs by £13.5million a year, receive an additional £4.5million in benefit payments, and halve its homelessness assessment waiting times by more than half. The reforms … Continue reading
Regina Road demolition set to begin, thanks to £54m GLA grant
The next stage of the demolition and replacement of the notorious council blocks on Regina Road will be discussed at a Town Hall meeting on Monday night – with Croydon’s Tory Mayor about to deliver around 200 council homes which … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Planning, Regina Road redevelopment, Sadiq Khan, South Norwood, Susmita Sen, Wates
Tagged Conservative, council homes, Council housing, Croydon, Croydon Council, GLA, Greater London Authority, Labour, London, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road, Regina Road redevelopment, South Norwood, Tory
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Council chief Kerswell has doubled up on £140,000+ executives
CROYDON IN CRISIS: While more than 400 frontline jobs have been axed since 2020, the executive suite in Fisher’s Folly has barely been touched. But the council CEO is spending even more on ‘cost-cutting’ consultants. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Katherine … Continue reading
Posted in Council Tax, Croydon Council, Improvement Board, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Section 114 notice
Tagged 15% Council Tax hike, Conservative, Corporate directors, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Elaine Jackson, Executive directors, Hamida Ali, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road, Tony Newman, Tory
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London Mayor steps in with £53.8m grant for Regina Road
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has agreed to provide £53.8million to Croydon Council towards the costs of demolishing the Regina Road estate in South Norwood and building homes to replace the notorious 1960s tower blocks. Croydon’s Mayor, Jason Perry, … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Housing, London-wide issues, Property, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, Sadiq Khan, South Norwood, South Norwood Community Kitchen, Susmita Sen, Wates
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Mayor Sadiq Khan, Regina Road, Regina Road redevelopment, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, Tom Copley
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Wanted: ‘storyteller’ to spin CEO Kerswell’s recruitment binge
CROYDON IN CRISIS: ‘History,’ said Marx (Karl, not Groucho), ‘repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.’ At our cash-strapped council, we appear to have arrived at the farcical stage. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES How good is your “story-telling”? £50,000 … Continue reading
Posted in Council Tax, Croydon Council, Housing, Improvement Board, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Section 114 notice, Tony McArdle
Tagged 15% Council Tax hike, Conservative, Corporate directors, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Elaine Jackson, Executive directors, Hamida Ali, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road, Tony Newman, Tory
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No tears shed by council or tenants as Axis makes its exit
Without any fanfare, and conspicuously no statement of great achievements by Croydon’s Mayor, the borough’s £21m per year repairs contractor that was mired at the centre of the Regina Road scandal has been quietly replaced It was perhaps a surprise … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Housing, K&T Heating, Mears, Wates
Tagged Alison Butler, Axis, Croydon Council, K&T Heating, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Mears, Regina Road, Robert Ward, South Norwood, Wates
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Perry to hand key Regina Road contract to Negrini’s employers
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Having said he would begin legal proceedings to recover some of the former CEO’s £437,000 ‘Golden Handshake’, the Tory Mayor is now hiring the company that has appointed the self-acclaimed regeneration expert as a director. EXCLUSIVE by … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, Property, Regina Road redevelopment, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
Tagged 15% Council Tax hike, Arup, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road, Regina Road redevelopment, Tory
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Greens and LibDems to be given seats at scrutiny committees
Tonight’s scrutiny committee meeting will also see significant changes in approach, and a small crack appearing in the granite-like control of power held by Croydon’s political duopoly, reports WALTER CRONXITE More than two years after the slum-like conditions in Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Claire Bonham, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Environment, Housing, Leila Ben-Hassel, Ria Patel, Rowenna Davis
Tagged Claire Bonham, Conservative, Green Party, Housing, Labour, Leila Ben-Hassel, Liberal Democrats, Regina Road, Ria Patel, Rowenna Davis, Scrutiny and Overview Committee, Scrutiny committee, Tory
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Podcast: What do other Londoners think about Croydon?
How do other Londoners see Croydon? In the latest episode of our Croydon Insider podcast, we branch out a bit, in a quest to discover what people around the capital perceive of Croydon and the financial crisis our politicians and … Continue reading
88% Regina Road residents vote in favour of demolition
In a poll result that will surprise no one, the long-suffering residents of Regina Road in South Norwood, who have endured some of the worst housing conditions ever seen in 21st Century Britain, have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Housing, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road, South Norwood, Tory
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Regina Road residents to be balloted over estate demolition
The 100-or-so households living in council tower blocks and surrounding properties on Regina Road are to be balloted in the next month over whether the damp and mould-blighted buildings should be demolished. The decision to go-ahead with the estate ballot … Continue reading
Croydon put in special measures: ‘Worst of all possible worlds’
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Announcements from Westminster and Whitehall today put the borough under the control of unelected bureaucrats who are answerable only to a Tory Government minister – in a scheme that the Mayor has helped plot for months. By … Continue reading
Posted in Council Tax, Croydon Council, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Report in the Public Interest, RIPI II: Fairfield Halls, Section 114 notice, The Penn Report
Tagged 15% Council Tax hike, Brick by Brick, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Department for Levelling Up, DLUHC, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Lee Rowley, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Michael Gove, Regina Road, S114, Section 114 Notice, Tory
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Housing board’s report warns of ‘years of hard work’ ahead
Nearly two years since the Regina Road council homes scandal broke, an independent panel appointed to oversee the Town Hall’s housing efforts has noted the beginnings of improvement Getting Croydon’s housing service to an acceptable standard “will take several years … Continue reading
‘I had to put my kids on inhalers because of the black mould’
EMMA GARDINER reports that the findings of a Coroner’s court in Rochdale over the cause of death of a toddler needs to lead to profound changes in the way social housing stock is managed The shocking announcement this week from … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Health, Housing, London-wide issues, Property, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood
Tagged Awaab Ishak, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Emma Gardiner, London Borough of Croydon, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, Rochdale Coroner's Court, South Norwood
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Council opts to demolish blocks at centre of squalor scandal
The South Norwood flats which were so badly maintained that they caused a national scandal ‘are no longer fit for purpose’ according to a report from the cash-strapped council. By STEVEN DOWNES Croydon Council wants to demolish the three tower … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood, Susmita Sen
Tagged Council housing, Croydon, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood, Susmita Sen
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