Tag Archives: South Croydon

Council sells off public green space to Brick by Brick for just £1

Posted on March 20, 2019 by

Croydon Council has sold at least three packages of publicly owned property – in Waddon, South Croydon and Fairfield wards – to Brick by Brick, its house-building company, for just £1 each. And last year the Labour-run council also flogged … Continue reading →

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Soul Symphony Choir spring concert, South Croydon, Apr 6

Posted on March 16, 2019 by
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Book and Cake Sale, St Peter’s Church, South Croydon, Mar 9

Posted on March 5, 2019 by
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Build delays will keep Coombe Wood in cabins for another year

Posted on February 11, 2019 by

Our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE, on the slow progress at Croydon’s new selective school South Croydon residents were shocked last week when street notices appeared, followed by letters through their doors, announcing an unexpected new planning application not only to … Continue reading →

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St Peter’s Gardeners Big Lunch, South Croydon, Jun 1

Posted on February 4, 2019 by
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Wetherspoons boss’s Croydon no-show on his Brexit pub crawl

Posted on December 7, 2018 by

Tim Martin, the boss of the JD Wetherspoons pub chain, failed to turn up for his own Brexit talk at one of his pubs in Croydon this afternoon. Martin, the founder and chairman of the cut-price pub chain, was due … Continue reading →

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Leon House given new purpose as its flats go up for sale

Posted on December 4, 2018 by

BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent, goes to the top of a Croydon landmark and finds some merit in conversions Even on a day when a winter storm is scudding through just above our heads, from the 22nd floor roof garden … Continue reading →

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