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Perry’s ‘caught on camera’ fly-tipper is following council’s rules
EXCLUSIVE: Mayor’s ‘zero tolerance’ approach to fly-tipping is to feature on local television news tonight, as council videos ‘exposes’ a local trader doing what they have been instructed to do by… the council! Jason Perry, the incompetent Mayor of Croydon, … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Haily Cluff, Litter Free Norbury, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury, Refuse collection, Tony Hooker, Veolia
Tagged Braithwaite Hall, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Graham Mitchell, Haily Cluff, Litter Free Norbury, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury, Residents' Association Forums, Thornton Heath, Tony Hooker, Tory, Town Hall
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Study shows that ULEZ helps improve children’s lung health
Latest scientific report on the adverse effects of vehicle emissions on the health of young children is timely in Croydon, writes our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION ULEZ – the Ultra-Low Emissions Zone – improves the health of children. That’s according … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Environment, Health, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Transport, ULEZ, ULEZ expansion
Tagged Anti-ULEZ, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon say no to ULEZ expansion, London, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of Londpn, Oxford University, Professor Chris Griffiths, Queen Mary University London, Sadiq Khan, Tory, ULEZ, ULEZ expansion
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Petty Perry blocks residents’ groups from RA rubbish meeting
EXCLUSIVE: Croydon’s answer to Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s Supreme Leader, is making a public appearance tonight where only residents’ associations who meet his approval are allowed to attend. By KEN LEE, our Town Hall correspondent Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed … Continue reading
Posted in Alasdair Stewart, Community associations, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Haily Cluff, Litter Free Norbury, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury, Ola Kolade, Refuse collection, Robert Ward, Tony Hooker, Veolia
Tagged Braithwaite Hall, Cllr Alasdair Stewart, Cllr Robert Ward, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Graham Mitchell, Haily Cluff, Jeet Bains, Katharine Street, Litter Free Norbury, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury, Ola Kolade, Residents' Association Forums, Thornton Heath, Tony Hooker, Tory, Town Hall
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Exposed: New CEO’s role in Norfolk’s £30m incinerator scandal
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Did Mayor Perry’s appointments committee bother to conduct a full background check into the employment record of the man they have just handed the council’s top job and £1,500 per day pay? A big Croydon welcome to … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioners, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Elaine Jackson, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Mike Jackson, Section 114 notice
Tagged Bernard Weatherill House, Chief executive officer, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Elaine Jackson, Fisher's Folly, incinerator, Interiim chief executive, Katherine Kerswell, Kings Lynn, Kings Lynn incinerator, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Jackson, Norfolk, Norfolk County Council, Tory
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As Brandt Report warned, we can’t afford to be small-minded
We need to break out of our cycle of doom, despair and decline to become a confident, outward-looking country again, says ANDREW FISHER Our planet is more connected than ever. We switch on the television and see events from all … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Fisher, Chris Philp MP
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Andy Burnham, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Labour, Nigel Farage, Prime Minister Andy Burnham, Robert McNamara, small boats, The Andrew Fisher Column, The Brandt Report, The Independent Commission on International Development Issues, Tory, Willy Brandt
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Secretive MP Philp’s shares in wife’s company raise questions
INSIDE CROYDON INVESTIGATES: Nigel Farage is fighting a by-election in Clacton tomorrow because he wanted to avoid parliamentary scrutiny over his political donations. Here, we take a detailed look at the declarations being made by one of Croydon’s MPs There … Continue reading
In a drought, Addiscombe suffers flood thanks to Thames Water
PHOTOSTORY: pictures by iC reader THOMAS AELBRECHT. Words by our failing utilities correspondent, JR HARTLEY The road had already been dug up. August, after all, is when so many roads get dug up. It’s supposed to help reduce disruption. But … Continue reading
Council agrees to take closer look at Grange Road speedsters
Transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON on a small victory for residents of Upper Norwood after more than a decade of lobbying their council Steve Reed is claiming his first success in his newly restored role as a backbench MP. The Labour … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Mayor Jason Perry, Policing, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon East, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Grange Road, Labour, Labour Together, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Spa Hill, Steve Reed OBE, Streatham and Croydon North, Tory
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New £5,000 fines for fly-tipping – but will Perry catch offenders?
Where there’s muck, there’s brass, as the old saying goes, and someone in government may have stumbled across a sure-fire way of Croydon Council paying off some of its debts. Whitehall has approved hiking fines for fly-tipping to a new … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Refuse collection, Veolia
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, DEFRA, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, fly-tip, Fly-tipping, Litter Free Norbury, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Tory
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Perry drives a black cab through council’s consultation rules
The Croydon Mayor’s latest Trumpian edict, to ingratiate himself with London taxi drivers, is not quite what it seems, as our Town Hall correspondent, KEN LEE, reports Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed Mayor, is now pandering to black cab drivers, allowing … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Schools
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Healthy School Streets, Highways Dept, Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association, London, London Borough of Croydon, LTDA, LTNs, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, PCNs, Penalty Charge Notices, school streets, TfL, Tory, Transport for London
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Complaints against Perry’s council soar by 51% in two years
Croydon, under its Tory Mayor, is getting worse, not better, judging by the number of complaints upheld by the Local Government Ombudsman in the last year. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Croydon continues to be among the country’s most rotten boroughs, … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Bromley Council, Children's Services, Croydon Council, Housing, Katherine Kerswell, Lambeth Council, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, SEND, Surrey, Sutton Council
Tagged Bromley, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Katherine Kerswell, Lambeth, League tables, Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman, Local Government Ombudsman, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Rotten Boroughs, Rotten boroughs league tables 2025-2026, Sutton, Tory
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£1,500 per day for bankrupt council’s third CEO in 10 months
EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The propaganda department at cash-strapped Croydon Council waited until just before 6pm to sneak out the announcement of its latest interim chief exec. What they failed to mention is that Mike Jackson, who is to be … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioners, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Elaine Jackson, Katherine Kerswell, Mike Jackson, Section 114 notice
Tagged Chief executive officer, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Elaine Jackson, Interiim chief executive, Katherine Kerswell, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Jackson, Tory
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Cabinet post puts Fahnbulleh’s climate credentials on the line
PETER UNDERWOOD on a less-heralded Croydon connection to the new Prime Minister’s Cabinet There is a lot of talk in the press about “Manchesterism”, new Prime Minister Andy Burnham bringing the ideas he developed while Mayor of Manchester to his … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Crisis Commission, Croydon Council, Environment, Peter Underwood
Tagged Andy Burnham, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Climate Crisis Commission, Croydon Council, IPPR, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Manchesterism, Mayor Jason Perry, Miatta Fahnbulleh, NEF, New Economics Foundation, Peter Underwood, Prime Minister Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Tory
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Police dispersal notice in clampdown on crime-ridden… Purley
Tory councillor ‘delighted’ by Met’s work, where just four arrests were made following nearly 30 stop and searches conducted over the weekend, as special powers have been introduced to allow exclusion on suspicion that someone might be ‘likely’ to commit … Continue reading
Philp all at sea as he claims French shot at him in the Channel
The French navy appears to have come up with a novel way of dealing with small boats in the English Channel: shoot at them. Or, at least, get a matelot to fire a gun somewhere in the general vicinity of … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Croydon South
Tagged BBC, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon South, English Channel, French Navy, Gun shots, immigration, small boats, Tory
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Perry’s plan: More borrowing. More debt. And £58m more cuts
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Reports sneaked out ahead of next Wednesday’s council cabinet meeting talk of ‘difficult decisions’, after residents have already suffered six years of the consequences of ‘difficult decisions’. By STEVEN DOWNES Less than six months since he pushed … Continue reading
Posted in 'Future Croydon', Adult Social Care, Children's Services, Claire Bonham, Commissioners, Conrad Hall, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Elaine Jackson, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Paul Ainscough, SEND, Stabilisation Plan, Stuart King
Tagged Cllr Claire Bonham, Cllr Paul Ainscough, Cllr Stuart King, Conrad Hall, Conservative, Council debt, Croydon, Croydon Council, EFS, Exceptional financial support, HM Treasury, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, MHCLG, Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government, Section 114 Notice, The Green Party, Tory
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Perry’s cycle lane sabotage looks to cost Croydon another £7m
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, on how the council kept secret another devastating ruling over the Tory Mayor’s bungling over the borough’s roads Not content with making Croydon’s streets less healthy and more dangerous, Croydon’s failed Mayor Jason … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, Croydon Council, Cycling, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Stuart King, TfL, Transport
Tagged Brighton Road, Brighton Road Cycle Corridor, Cllr Stuart King, Cllr Tom Bowell, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Cycle lanes, Labour, LIP funding, Local Implementation Plan, London, London Borough of Croydon, London Road, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, TfL, Tory, Transport for London
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Perry’s latest bright idea: a begging letter to new PM Burnham
CROYDON IN CRISIS: After four years of record Council Tax rises and record borrowing from central government, the borough’s bungling Mayor appears to think that the new occupier of No10 Downing Street might solve his problems. By our Town Hall … Continue reading
Perry challenge to Khan: ‘Croydon’s Green Belt is sacrosanct’
Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed Mayor, has put himself on a collision course with Lord Sadiq Khan and City Hall over proposals in the draft London Plan to build hundreds of homes on the borough’s Green Belt. “Whilst I am Mayor, … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Addington Hills, Addiscombe West, Andrew Pelling, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, East Croydon, Environment, Housing, Lloyd Park, London Councils, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, New Addington North, New Addington South, Park Hill and Whitgift, Park Hill Recreation Ground, Planning, Sadiq Khan, Selsdon and Addington Village, South Croydon, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Addington Hills, Addiscombe, Andrew Pelling, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon, East Croydon tram stop, Green Belt, Housing, Labour, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, London Mayor, Lord Sadiq Khan, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor Sadiq Khan, New Addington, South Croydon, The Local Plan, The London Plan, Tory
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Council spent thousands to pay-off its own staff driving fines
Cash-strapped Croydon Council, under failed Mayor Jason Perry, has been spending thousands of pounds of tax-payers’ money to pay off staff and contractors’ parking fines – while at the same time boasting about a “zero tolerance” crackdown on illegal parking. … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Croydon Council, Lewisham, Mayor Jason Perry, Parking, Wandsworth Council
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hackney, Labour, Lewisham, London, London Borough of Croydon, LTN, LTN fine refunds, LTN refunds, Mayor Jason Perry, parking fines, Tory, Wandsworth
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London’s ‘Lord Mayor’ puts Croydon Green Belt in his plan
Any green space within one mile of a tram stop or railway station might be available for housing development according to Mayor Khan’s draft London Plan. ANDREW PELLING takes a look at the new proposals London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Addington Hills, Addiscombe West, Andrew Pelling, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, East Croydon, Environment, Housing, Lloyd Park, London Councils, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, New Addington North, New Addington South, Park Hill and Whitgift, Park Hill Recreation Ground, Planning, Sadiq Khan, Selsdon and Addington Village, South Croydon, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Addington Hills, Addiscombe, Andrew Pelling, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon, East Croydon tram stop, Green Belt, Housing, Labour, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, London Mayor, Lord Sadiq Khan, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor Sadiq Khan, New Addington, South Croydon, The Local Plan, The London Plan, Tory
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Perry’s council to face Judicial Review over Access Croydon
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Failed Mayor Jason Perry probably ought to get a season ticket for the High Court, as his council is facing yet another legal challenge over his decision to close the public access service inside Fisher’s Folly. By … Continue reading
Posted in Bernard Weatherill House, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Housing, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry
Tagged Access Croydon, Bernard Weatherill House, BWH, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon BME Forum, Croydon Council, Fisher's Folly, Homelessness, Katherine Kerswell, London Renters' Union, Mayor Jason Perry, PILC, Public Interest Law Centre, Public Services Delivery Hub, Tory
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Croydon drops into London’s Healthy Streets ‘relegation zone’
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Since Jason Perry became Mayor of Croydon, the borough’s streets have become more polluted, dirtier and more dangerous places. PETER UNDERWOOD takes a look at the figures This year’s healthy streets scorecard has just been published – here … Continue reading
Posted in Bexley, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Cycling, Environment, Health, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Parking, Peter Underwood, Transport
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Cycling, Healthy Streets Coalition, London, London Borough Healthy Streets Scorecard, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Peter Underwood, Tory
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Perry promises – again – Bridge to Nowhere to open ‘next year’
Fifteen years since he was the cabinet member responsible for the botched legal agreement with developers that allowed Menta to deny public bodies necessary access to complete the £22million pedestrian bridge at East Croydon, and Jason Perry, now the Mayor … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Commuting, East Croydon, Jerry Fitzpatrick, Mayor Jason Perry, Menta Tower, Property, Transport
Tagged Bridge to Nowhere, Cherry Orchard Road, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Menta Tower, Network Rail, The Bridge to Nowhere, Tory
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