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For true Caribbean taste, visit Thornton Heath’s Patty Palace
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Mayfield Stadium takes special measures for return of fans
NON-LEAGUE NEWS by ANDREW SINCLAIR Football fans can return to stadiums to watch their favourite non-league sides, it was announced last week. If only Croydon FC had a stadium that was open and operating where they might be able to … Continue reading
Get a taste of the Caribbean at Patty Palace, Thornton Heath
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Croydon Athletic summer camp, Thornton Heath, Jul 21-Aug 20
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Tributes paid to Don Weller, Croydon’s award-winning musician
The jazz world is mourning the death of leading sax player Don Weller, who died at the end of May, aged 79. Thornton Heath-born Weller was a well-known performer in the pubs and clubs of Croydon, London and beyond for … Continue reading
Amazing lockdown efforts as school starts Parcels for Pupils
Schools and businesses continue to raise money and collect donations of food to support families around the borough whose circumstances have been affected by coronavirus and a loss of earnings. In Thornton Heath, the Paxton Academy primary school has identified … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Paxton Academy, Purley Way, Schools, Thornton Heath
Tagged Amazon, coronavirus, Covid-19, Paxton Academy, Purley, Purley Way, Thornton Heath
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Council fails to mention 12,000 flats in its Purley Way survey
It is, even by Croydon Council standards, an extraordinarily vacuous and transparently misleading public consultation announcement. The council says it is seeking “the public’s likes, dislikes, memories, opinions and ideas” on the Purley Way. In the honey-dripped soothing words of … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Paul Scott, Planning, Purley Way, Waddon
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Labour, Paul Scott, Purley, Purley Way, Thornton Heath, Waddon
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Pavements to be widened in South Norwood and Crystal Palace
Seven more Croydon roads, in Crystal Palace, South Norwood and Thornton Heath, are to undergo pavement widening measures next week as part of the council’s Streetspace scheme that aims to make it easier to walk or cycle during the coronavirus … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Environment, Fairfield, Parking, South Norwood, Stephen Mann, Thornton Heath, Transport
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, South Croydon, South Norwood, Stephen Mann, Thornton Heath
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One arrest after six SPAC Nation houses raided by police
Police yesterday made their first arrest over serious allegations of fraud made against some leading members of the SPAC Nation evangelical church – “the Church of Bling” – as was first reported by Inside Croydon last year. The arrest of … Continue reading
Posted in Church and religions, Crime, Croydon North, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Conservative, Mario Creatura, Metropolitan Police, Shirley, SPAC Nation, Thornton Heath, Tobi Adeboyega, Tory
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Council keeps bakers shops waiting six weeks for their dough
One of the borough’s best-known food retailers, Coughlans the bakers, are demanding to know what Croydon Council has done with their dough. Coughlans is the family-run chain of shops which has its head office in Thornton Heath. All its shops … Continue reading
‘Buildable and financially savvy’: BxB’s blitz on the borough
Brick by Brick is demonstrating some desperate-looking urgency over its next wave of 24 sites around the borough by announcing them during the coronavirus emergency lockdown – making it impossible for them to stage what anyone would recognise as proper … Continue reading
Council’s sitting on £33m of unpaid grants for local businesses
Five weeks after the council promised to get grants to businesses ‘within seven days’, more than half of the borough’s firms are still waiting to receive a penny, as MT WALLETTE reports Hundreds of traders in Croydon have been left … Continue reading
Wider pavements and slower cars: King makes road changes
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
Adrian Dennis: ‘A legacy of honesty, integrity and decency’
Tributes to the life and works of Adrian Dennis, the former Thornton Heath Labour councillor who died last week, have flooded in from a wide range of former colleagues and friends, including a former Deputy Mayor of London. Dennis, who … Continue reading
Alderman Adrian Dennis, who scolded ‘Lord Tea Bag’, has died
Adrian Dennis, the former Labour councillor, a Freeman of the Borough and Honorary Alderman, has died. He was 67. Dennis was one of three councillors to take the Thornton Heath ward in 1986 from the Ratepayers’ Alliance, a grouping with … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Matthew Kyeremeh, Thornton Heath
Tagged Adrian Dennis, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Thornton Heath, Tory
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Athletic cleared over racism allegations in Fisher match
There could be serious recriminations for a team of non-league footballers who walked off the pitch mid-game in Thornton Heath last month after the London FA handed down a ruling which cleared AFC Croydon Athletic and their players of all … Continue reading
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Brick by Brick forced to suspend sales of dozens of new homes
Inside Croydon’s editor, STEVEN DOWNES, reports on the latest massive set-back to the council’s loss-making house-builder Brick by Brick, Croydon Council’s controversial in-house house-builder, has been forced to suspend all sales of shared ownership homes. The delay in selling the … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Flora Court, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman
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Victory for Friends’ group as council abandons park land sale
Thousands of objections from residents have forced Croydon Council into a U-turn on its scheme to flog off a Victorian park lodge and a strip of Grangewood Park. But as our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, has discovered, despite declaring … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Callton Young, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Friends of Grangewood Park, Karen Jewitt, Pat Clouder, Property, Simon Hall, Thornton Heath
Tagged Callton Young, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Friends of Grangewood Park, Grangewood Park, Karen Jewitt, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Pat Clouder, Thornton Heath
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‘Sly’ council sneaks out park land sale notice over Christmas
And so it came to pass… No, not the re-telling of the Christmas story, but the local council flogging off a packet of park land in Thornton Heath. The sale of the land, plus a Victorian parkkeeper’s lodge in Grangewood … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon parks, Environment, Friends of Grangewood Park, Paul Scott, Planning, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Alison Butler, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Friends of Grangewood Park, Grangewood Park, Labour, Paul Scott, Steve Reed OBE, Thornton Heath
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At last! Croydon Council builds first council home in six years
BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent, on how a Town Hall announcement proves that senior councillors have been lying for four years about the delivery of council homes Put the bunting out! Trebles all round! Croydon Council, and their loss-making private … Continue reading
Butler caught out in another lie over sale of public park land
Two years ago, the council’s deputy leader gave her word that all the borough’s parks and open spaces would be protected from development. So guess what the Labour-run council has been caught out trying to do with a much-loved park … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon parks, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Environment, Friends of Grangewood Park, Housing, Planning, Property, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Thornton Heath
Tagged Alison Butler, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Grangewood Park, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Thornton Heath
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