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“Favoured” Halls, £4.5m debts and the commercial interests

Using the Fairfield Halls’ trustees’ own annual reports and accounts since 2010, together with official council documents, SEAN CREIGHTON examines what is going on at the town’s arts venue… more →

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"Favoured" Halls, £4.5m debts and the commercial interests — 3 comments

insidecroydon wrote 1 month ago: Using the Fairfield Halls’ trustees’ own annual reports and accounts since 2010, together with … more →

Tags: Fairfield Halls, Comedy, Property, Art, Music, Dance, Business, Croydon Council, Whitgift Centre

Council silent as HR chief Parkes heads for the exit — 5 comments

insidecroydon wrote 1 month ago: Croydon’s Council Tax-payers look to be facing another expensive six-figure pay-off, after an … more →

Tags: Council Tax, Croydon Council, Hayley Lewis, nathan elvery, Stephen McDonald, Croydon, damian-roberts, London, Taberner House

White Label's "no Cannes do" with conference publicity — 2 comments

insidecroydon wrote 2 months ago: Whoops. Looks like another clanger dropped by White Label, the PR agency that is ubiquitous in Croyd … more →

Tags: Business, Cane Hill, Cherry Orchard Gardens, Croydon Council, housing, Planning, Property, urv, cannes

Whoops... Council setting the agenda for blunders

insidecroydon wrote 3 months ago: Croydon’s Council Tax increase comes while record amounts are being spent in Taberner House on … more →

Tags: Croydon Council, Council Tax, urv, London, Croydon, London Borough Of Croydon, England, Tory, Religion

Council to get glitzy slap on the back from its contractors again

insidecroydon wrote 3 months ago: The leadership at Croydon Council – motto “Proud to Swerve” – has so little … more →

Tags: Croydon Council, John Laing Integrated Services, nathan elvery, urv, Andrew Pelling, Croydon, London, London Borough Of Croydon, Mike Fisher

Croydon Council recruits new CEO - with event for teenagers

insidecroydon wrote 3 months ago: Jon Rouse has left the building. The chief executive officer at Croydon Council since 2007 has worke … more →

Tags: Education, nathan elvery, Chief Executive Officer, Croydon, Fairfield Halls, London, London Borough Of Croydon, Rouse, Seat of local government

Council's Ministry of Truth spends record amounts on staff — 1 comment

insidecroydon wrote 3 months ago: Hayley Lewis, the trained psychologist who Croydon employs as its “Head of customer communicat … more →

Tags: Croydon Council, Danny Brierley, Hayley Lewis, Local Media, Mike Fisher, Croydon, Eric Pickles, Independent Police Complaints Commission, London Borough Of Croydon

Jon Rouse: an alchemist who turned property into debts — 4 comments

insidecroydon wrote 3 months ago: CROYDON COMMENTARY: Former councillor ANDREW PELLING reviews the career of the borough CEO, who last … more →

Tags: Council Tax, Croydon Council, Mike Fisher, Planning, Property, ruskin square, urv, David Wechsler, Guardian

Laings give up on URV schemes due to lack of interest — 1 comment

insidecroydon wrote 4 months ago: Croydon Council’s “innovative” £450 million urban regeneration vehicle will not be … more →

Tags: Croydon Council, Fusion, John Laing Integrated Services, Leisure Services, Planning, Property, Purley Way, Sport, urv

Why did Croydon CEO Jon Rouse take a £100k pay cut? — 4 comments

insidecroydon wrote 4 months ago: Amid all the hoopla of the £1 billion “Hammerfield” announcement this morning at Fairfie … more →

Tags: Council Tax, Croydon Council, Hayley Lewis, Croydon, Department of Health, Fairfield Halls, London, London Borough Of Croydon, Rouse

£248,000 CEO Rouse quits Croydon for Health Dept job — 3 comments

insidecroydon wrote 4 months ago: Just after 5pm today, proof positive came through that Croydon Council’s press office routinel … more →

Tags: Croydon Council, Hayley Lewis, nathan elvery, Stephen McDonald, urv, Croydon, Department of Health, London Borough Of Croydon, McDonald

Gateway's uninspired opening with a couple of blocks of flats — 1 comment

insidecroydon wrote 4 months ago: According to ANDREW PELLING, the first phase of development proposed for the long-vacant Ruskin Squa … more →

Tags: Addiscombe, Andrew Pelling, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, housing, IYLO, Menta Tower, Planning

Croydon gets hit in the Eye, the Standard and the Guardian

insidecroydon wrote 4 months ago: Looks like our loyal reader is not the only one reading Inside Croydon. So far this week, the Evenin … more →

Tags: Gavin Barwell MP, Crime, Croydon Council, Libraries, urv, Policing, John Laing Integrated Services, Croydon, London Borough Of Croydon

Davis House's £5m losses and council's secret £1m loan — 2 comments

insidecroydon wrote 5 months ago: Croydon Council last year was forced to make a near-£1 million loan to a private operating company w … more →

Tags: Property, Croydon Council, Mike Fisher, Planning, Tim Pollard, urv, Croydon, Council Tax, London Borough Of Croydon

Croydon, Christmas 2012: Scrooge is in charge of the Town Hall — 2 comments

insidecroydon wrote 5 months ago: CROYDON COMMENTARY: ANDREW PELLING is appalled at the hypocrisy of the borough’s leading polit … more →

Tags: Andrew Pelling, Charity, church, community associations, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell MP, housing, London-wide issues

Croydon's CEO refuses to allow press to attend public meeting — 2 comments

insidecroydon wrote 5 months ago: Only in the dystopian, secretive world of Croydon in 2012 could an open meeting begin with a public … more →

Tags: Croydon 8/8, 8/8: London Road stories, West Croydon Community Forum, London, Croydon, Taberner House, London Borough Of Croydon, Croydon Council, london road

Croydon, Christmas 2012: council's foodbank appeal — 1 comment

insidecroydon wrote 5 months ago: Croydon CEO Jon Rouse: canned? The following internal message, sent by Croydon Council‘s chief … more →

Tags: Croydon Council, Charity, London, Croydon, London Borough Of Croydon, Labour, England, Rouse

Croydon in a Pickles again over its rubbish service — 2 comments

insidecroydon wrote 6 months ago: Croydon could be penalised by having its public grant cut significantly over the move made by its Co … more →

Tags: Croydon Council, Environment, Mike Fisher, Conservatives, Croydon, Eric Pickles, Labour, Local Government, Northcliffe Media

Secrets and libraries: Croydon adds to shabby reputation — 8 comments

insidecroydon wrote 6 months ago: And so a decision to spend £30 million of public money was taken at Croydon Town Hall last night by … more →

Tags: Croydon Council, greenwich leisure, John Laing Integrated Services, Libraries, Mike Fisher, Property, Tim Pollard, urv, Croydon


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