CROYDON IN CRISIS: Contractors working for the cash-strapped local authority have used ‘recycled waste’ instead of hardcore for a path, leaving shards of glass, pieces of computer motherboard and broken plastic across a cherished local nature reserve Regular users of … Continue reading → Inside Croydon …
Croydon’s calendar year as London’s Borough of Culture has not quite finished, but its dubious legacy appears to be sealed in failure after not one but two established festivals announced that they won’t take place in 2024. Croydon Pride posted … Continue reading → Inside Croydon …
CROYDON IN CRISIS: After an eight-year wait for a new health centre, residents have been shocked to discover the council flogging off the promised site. And now Mayor Perry claims there’s nothing he can do to prevent the sale. EXCLUSIVE … Continue reading → Inside Croydon …
It is not difficult to summon up that feeling of absolute hopelessness that occurred on a morning last autumn when you first heard the news that a 15-year-old schoolgirl, Elianne Andam, had been stabbed to death while on her way … Continue reading → Inside Croydon …
It’s the annual awards that no local council ever wants to feature in. But this year, thanks to Tory double act Jason Perry and Chris Philp, Croydon Council has picked up no fewer than three “gongs” in Private Eye’s much-anticipated … Continue reading → Inside Croydon …
Agency workers claim they have been ‘cheated’ out of pay rises, despite often carrying out exactly the same jobs as their permanent staff colleagues. By our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE Scrooge-like Croydon Council is taking the Ho, Ho, Ho … Continue reading → Inside Croydon …
CROYDON COMMENTARY: As a herd of fibre-glass giraffes are distributed around the borough – paid for at least in part by a £50,000 grant from the Borough of Culture – ETHEL CORDUFF outlines how one of the borough’s oldest arts … Continue reading → Inside Croydon …
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Officials look to cancel supply contract with American-owned tech firm after discovering they could not provide parking enforcement cameras required Croydon Council has moved to cancel a contract for ANPR cameras – Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras … Continue reading → Inside Croydon …