Tag Archives: Waddon

Timber! Brick by Brick’s ecological claims come crashing down

Posted on June 19, 2020 by

GEOFF JAMES has been analysing the council-owned builders’ planning applications and discovered that many of the borough’s trees are for the chop, in a crass act of environmental vandalism Inside Croydon recently reported that a tree survey commissioned by the … Continue reading →

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Is Brick by Brick’s Theobald Road ‘Stasi prison’ now kaput?

Posted on June 9, 2020 by

Pressure is growing on the council’s house-builders to drop their ugly plans for a site in Waddon, after a second tree quality survey completely contradicted an earlier report. By BELLE MARSH, our prisons correspondent Brick by Brick, the council’s wholly-owned, … Continue reading →

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LibDem rebels block plan to build on Sheen Way playing fields

Posted on June 4, 2020 by

Our Sutton reporter, CARL SHILTON, on how the council leadership has suffered another damaging knockback A meeting held in Sutton last week proved that it really is possible for a committee to vote down a proposal for overdevelopment backed by … Continue reading →

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Council fails to mention 12,000 flats in its Purley Way survey

Posted on May 31, 2020 by

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 →

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TfL’s cashflow crisis could make Croydon traffic jams worse

Posted on May 14, 2020 by

Our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, on finance problems for Transport for London that could have a profound impact on south London Transport for London’s appeal to the government for £3.2billion to allow it to keep operating in the covid-19 crisis … Continue reading →

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‘Buildable and financially savvy’: BxB’s blitz on the borough

Posted on May 9, 2020 by

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 →

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Even Labour councillors are turning on Brick by Brick plans

Posted on April 30, 2020 by

PAUL LUSHION, our environment correspondent, on how members of the council’s ruling group are now criticising Brick by Brick’s latest attempts to concrete over the borough’s green spaces Croydon Council’s already shaky green credentials are under more pressure following environmental … Continue reading →

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Friends launch crowdfunder for covid doctor’s funeral

Posted on April 23, 2020 by

Family and friends of Dr Krishan Arora have started an online appeal to raise money for the GP’s widow and family. Dr Arora worked as an NHS family doctor at the Violet Lane practice in Waddon for nearly 30 years. … Continue reading →

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65 homes on brownfield site: professionals show how to do it

Posted on April 17, 2020 by

The development novices at Brick by Brick, who managed to sell just eight housing units in 2019, and their slow-working contractors might want to have a chat with the construction professionals who have just completed 65 new homes overlooking the … Continue reading →

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Violet Lane doctor Krishan Arora has died from coronavirus

Posted on April 17, 2020 by

A long-serving and much-admired Croydon GP has died from coronavirus. Dr Krishan Arora was 57 and had worked at the Violet Lane Medical Practice in Waddon for 27 years. Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group confirmed that Dr Arora “tested positive for … Continue reading →

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