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Tag Archives: Rouse
Croydon Council recruits new CEO – with event for teenagers
Jon Rouse has left the building. The chief executive officer at Croydon Council since 2007 has worked his final day in Taberner House, having cleared his desk and using some untaken annual holiday before he moves on, with a £100,000 … Continue reading
Jon Rouse: an alchemist who turned property into debts
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Former councillor ANDREW PELLING reviews the career of the borough CEO, who last week announced his resignation after almost six years in the job, and suggests that his promised financial wizardry was all a bit Mickey Mouse Since … Continue reading
Posted in Council Tax, Croydon Council, Jon Rouse, Mike Fisher, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, URV
Tagged David Wechsler, Guardian, London Borough of Croydon, Rouse, Taberner House
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Why did Croydon CEO Jon Rouse take a £100k pay cut?
Amid all the hoopla of the £1 billion “Hammerfield” announcement this morning at Fairfield Halls, with the usual dollop of Boris buffoonery as the London Mayor proclaimed the marriage of the two property developers, there stood a figure who went … Continue reading
£248,000 CEO Rouse quits Croydon for Health Dept job
Just after 5pm today, proof positive came through that Croydon Council’s press office routinely dissembles, misleads and lies. Because that is when a press release was issued to confirm that Jon Rouse, Croydon Council’s £248,000 chief executive, had quit his … Continue reading
Croydon, Christmas 2012: council’s foodbank appeal
The following internal message, sent by Croydon Council‘s chief executive Jon Rouse to all staff last Thursday, shows just how difficult life has become for many local residents, including some of the thousands of people who have lost their jobs … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Council, Jon Rouse
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, England, Jon Rouse, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, Rouse
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Croydon’s B&B nightmare: “an indictment of modern Britain”
The BBC’s Newsnight programme has taken Croydon Council’s emergency housing “policy” apart, exposing them as breaking the law twice over, while failing the borough’s homeless, many of them young children, who are forced to stay in squalid, overcrowded and unsuitable … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Health, Housing, Jon Rouse, Mike Fisher, Planning, Property, Tony Newman
Tagged BBC, Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Borough of Croydon, Newsnight, Rouse, Tony Newman
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The £248,000 CEO speaks: Six pages of councilspeak
The latest morale-boosting memo from Jon Rouse, Croydon Council’s £248,000 per year chief executive, reaches Inside Croydon Towers this morning directly from the Planning and Environment department on Taberner House’s seventh floor. The six pages (no attempt at brevity) is … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Jon Rouse
Tagged Consultant, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Jon Rouse, London Borough of Croydon, Rouse, Taberner House
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Croydon’s Budget (Part 1): We’re all in this together
Croydon Council is about to set its budget for the coming financial year. The proposals go before next Monday’s cabinet meeting, prior to the council meeting on February 27. As work continues to build the vanity project that is to … Continue reading
£248,000 CEO speaks: Almost friendless on the “front line”
Inside Croydon is delighted to bring you yet another missive directly from the desk of Jon Rouse, Croydon Council‘s £248,000 per year chief executive. Unfortunately, we find it offers some serious cause for concern. Inexplicably, Rouse appears to be almost … Continue reading
Boris on the wrong track with his PR fund for Croydon
By Andrew Pelling East Dulwich or East Croydon? Ahhh… an easy mistake for an Old Etonian Bullingdon club member to make when venturing deep into south London. Boris Johnson came to Croydon (eventually) yesterday, weighed down with sacks of public … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, Business, Croydon 8/8, Jon Rouse, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Property, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Boris, Boris Johnson, Croydon, East Dulwich, London, Mayor, Rouse
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