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More than 200 families split up by council’s housing department
CROYDON IN CRISIS: As it struggles to find suitable accommodation for the borough’s homeless families, official figures show that the council has split up one family placed in temporary accommodation for 12 years. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Official council figures, … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, Stuart King, Susmita Sen
Tagged Concord House, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Gilroy Court, Housing, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, STUART KING, Temporary accommodation, Thornton Heath, Tory, Windsor House
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Tenants in challenge to Mayor Perry over ‘uninhabitable’ flats
A group of residents placed in what they describe as “uninhabitable” temporary accommodation by Croydon Council have issued their own Christmas message – and a challenge to Tory Mayor Jason Perry. “Change needs to happen now,” says the Croydon Temporary … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Housing, Lynne Hale, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury, South West London Law Centres, Susmita Sen, Thornton Heath
Tagged BBC Newsnight, Concord House, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Temporary Accommodation Campaign, Gilroy Court, Homelessness, Housing, London Borough of Croydon, London Road, Lynne Hale, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury, South West London Law Centre, Susmita Sen, SWLLC, Sycamore House, Thornton Heath, Tory, Windsor House
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Lawyers start to look into Croydon’s temporary accommodation
A public meeting today with public interest lawyers could represent the start of a potentially long campaign to get better living conditions for hundreds of families currently housed in three former office blocks on London Road between Thornton Heath and … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Housing, Socco Cheta Community Hub, South Norwood Community Kitchen, South West London Law Centres
Tagged Concord House, London Road, Norbury, Socco Cheta, South Norwood Community Kitchen, South West London Law Centre, Sycamore House, Thornton Heath, Windsor House
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Blaze in laundry room of council block that failed inspection
The Fire Brigade was called out to a block of flats on London Road on Saturday – a council-run block which five years ago was deemed to be a fire risk. Concord House is one of three blocks – previously … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Housing, London Fire Brigade, Norbury
Tagged Concord House, Croydon, Croydon Council, LFB, London Fire Brigade, London Road, Sycamore House, Windsor House
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Residents living in fear of fire in council-run housing blocks
Despite condemning office-to-flat conversions, Croydon Council has been using three such buildings to provide temporary housing. A year after a Fire Brigade inspection found the blocks unsafe, improvement works have still not finished, leaving residents forced to live on a … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Croydon Council, Croydon North, London Fire Brigade, Norbury, Planning, Thornton Heath
Tagged Allison Butler, Concord House, Croydon, Croydon Council, Grenfell Tower, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Norbury, Steve Reed OBE, Sycamore House, Thornton Heath, Windsor House
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This House of Windsor has far from palatial accommodation
Such is the scale of the homelessness crisis in Croydon that the Labour-run council – which last month blocked future “permitted developments” of offices being converted into flats – is to utilise a third ex-office block to provide short-term accommodation. … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Norbury, Planning
Tagged Alison Butler, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Labour, landlords, London Borough of Croydon, Norbury, Windsor House
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