Tag Archives: Valo Smart City UK Ltd

TfL spending £3.2m to replace Croydon bus shelters by March

Posted on January 24, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: After four years of waiting in the wind and rain, the borough’s bus passengers are about to have much-missed street furniture replaced – but no thanks to Mayor Perry and our dysfunctional council. PLUS: the official list … Continue reading →

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TfL instals new shelters but 70 Croydon bus stops miss out

Posted on January 7, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Work has begun for the installation of bus shelters replacing street infrastructure removed by Croydon Council almost four years ago. But TfL is only providing shelters for two-thirds of the former sites. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Sir … Continue reading →

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Slow-go Mayor Perry has yet to start tenders for bus shelters

Posted on March 26, 2024 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Three years since the borough’s bus shelters were unceremoniously uprooted after council staff signed the borough up to a dodgy get-rich-quick scheme, and the tendering process to replace the 185 shelters has not yet begun. EXCLUSIVE by … Continue reading →

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After two years Perry claims credit for 4 TfL bus shelters

Posted on January 2, 2024 by insidecroydon

When he’s not providing a platform for vandals to celebrate the destruction of ULEZ infrastructure, Croydon’s hypocritical Mayor is accepting help from Transport for London It’s coming up to three years since Croydon Council had all of its own bus … Continue reading →

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Strike-off scare for company linked to £100m Purley Pool deal

Posted on November 15, 2023 by insidecroydon

Our business correspondent, ROBERT PESTER, reports on some troubling developments at Companies House The fragile nature of Mayor Jason Perry’s dealings with the company that is supposed to deliver a 240-home development in the centre of Purley, and provide – … Continue reading →

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Council confirms Agbabiaka as £127,000 pa highways chief

Posted on November 7, 2023 by insidecroydon

KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, on the latest ins and not-quite-outs on the executive floor at Fisher’s Folly Karen Agbabiaka has been confirmed as Croydon Council’s new £127,684 per year director of streets and environment. The decision was rubber-stamped … Continue reading →

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Mayor refuses to answer questions on Purley Pool’s developer

Posted on October 28, 2023 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Why is the council’s Tory leadership refusing to answer questions over its support for a £100m housing scheme in central Purley that is being proposed by a small, private company that did not exist 15 months ago? … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, Polaska, Polaska Assets Ltd, Property, Purley, Purley Pool | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 17 Comments

Perry in another U-turn over borough’s vanishing bus shelters

Posted on October 16, 2023 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: It’s taken him 18 months to realise it, but the borough’s slow-on-the-uptake Mayor has finally realised that Valo Smart City was never going to deliver on any of its ambitious promises. By STEVEN DOWNES Having told dozens … Continue reading →

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Perry drops action against bus shelter firm and loses £500,000

Posted on October 11, 2023 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Valo Smart City has racked up £1m debts, attracted at least four County Court Judgements and is now cancelling contracts with its suppliers. But after waiting nearly three years for the company to deliver their ‘smart’ bus … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Commuting, Croydon Council, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Opama Khan, Stephen Lawrence-Orumwense, TfL, Transport | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 13 Comments

Mayor Perry threatens legal action over missing bus shelters

Posted on October 24, 2022 by insidecroydon

Jason Perry, the part-time Mayor of Croydon, has promised to take “legal recourse” over the lingering scandal of Croydon’s shelter-less bus stops. The only problem with the dim Mayor’s vacuous undertaking is that there is very probably no one to … Continue reading →

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