Tag Archives: STUART KING

Five roads are to be closed under emergency covid measures

Posted on May 1, 2020 by

Five Croydon roads are to be closed to motor traffic from Sunday under special coronavirus emergency legislation, in efforts to make streets more pedestrian and cyclist-friendly and to open up new cycle routes for use by key workers riding bikes … Continue reading →

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Wider pavements and slower cars: King makes road changes

Posted on April 29, 2020 by

The council has announced a range of measures on the streets in West Croydon and Woodside to assist social distancing for pedestrians, improve road conditions for cycling, while suspending parking bays and announcing the intention of enforcing speed restrictions on … Continue reading →

Posted in Croydon Greens, Environment, Mayday Hospital, Parking, Peter Underwood, Stuart King, West Croydon, Woodside | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Residents feeling drained as roads blocked again by flooding

Posted on October 18, 2019 by

This, left, was the scene on Kenley Lane last night. For residents in that part of the borough, it is an all too familiar a scene whenever there is a heavier-than-usual rainfall. It is not as if Croydon Council and … Continue reading →

Posted in Chris Clark, Croydon Council, Environment, Kenley, Purley, TfL, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Sutton backs scheme to route 60,000 lorries through Croydon

Posted on September 4, 2019 by

BELLE MONT on how the environmental vandals running Sutton Council are pushing a scheme for another industrial plant on Beddington Lane Just a matter of weeks since declaring a climate emergency, Sutton Council is tonight backing a Beddington Lane waste … Continue reading →

Posted in Andrew Pelling, Broad Green, Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Planning, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Stuart King, Suez waste treatment plant, Sutton Council, Waddon, Waste incinerator, West Thornton | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Council forced into speedy U-turn on councillor parking permits

Posted on August 5, 2019 by

PAUL LUSHION, our environment correspondent, reports on how a decision passed at a Town Hall committee just a few days ago didn’t manage to survive a phone call from the news desk of The S*n Croydon’s Labour-run council leadership has … Continue reading →

Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, London-wide issues, Parking, Stuart King, Tony Newman, Waste incinerator | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Croydon CLP backs elected mayor over ‘dysfunctional’ council

Posted on August 1, 2019 by

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports on what Mrs Merton might have called ‘a heated debate’ The simmering internal conflict within the Labour Party in Croydon seems unlikely to cool off during the Town Hall’s summer recess, after members in Croydon … Continue reading →

Posted in Andrew Pelling, Croydon South, Hamida Ali, Jane Avis, Paul Scott, Robert Canning, Stuart King, Tony Newman, Waddon | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

£300 parking tax agreed but councillors will keep their freebies

Posted on July 28, 2019 by

Croydon Council is back in Orwellian mode again. Transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, on the latest stealth tax imposed on the borough’s residents, but from which its councillors are spared Croydon residents’ parking permits are to be hiked to up to … Continue reading →

Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Parking, Peter Underwood, Stuart King, Transport, Waste incinerator | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Works to begin to instal segregated cycle lane at Bedford Park

Posted on July 20, 2019 by

A new cycle lane and signalling improvements will make it easier for cyclists to access central Croydon. The work on Bedford Park will begin on Monday. Once the lane is installed, cyclists will be able to safely cycle against the … Continue reading →

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How Lime puts the squeeze on bike riders, at 15p per minute

Posted on June 10, 2019 by

KEN TOWL took a ride on one of the new dockless e-bikes that can be found in the borough, so that you don’t have to… The future has arrived in Croydon, and the future is green. Lime green. The future … Continue reading →

Posted in Commuting, Cycling, Ken Towl, Lime bicycles, Transport | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments

Council fails to write to permit-holders over parking charge hike

Posted on June 7, 2019 by

Croydon is being accused of deliberately suppressing details of its on-going parking consultation from the people most affected: the 9,000-plus residents who already have permits for on-street parking issued by the council each year. “We’re earning a deserved reputation for … Continue reading →

Posted in Croydon Council, Parking, Stuart King | Tagged , , , , , , | 6 Comments