Hoardings and mud or affordable homes? It’s your choice
Croydon has more than 9,000 families on the waiting list for a home, yet the current council administration is refusing to insist that property developers – among them Conservative party donors –...
View ArticlePerry’s double life as building supplier and planning official
BBC London News featured Croydon on its early evening news on Friday, stating that the building industry in the borough is booming. Oh yeah! This is the same south London borough where the number of...
View ArticlePoliticians distrusted? Ask Lambeth’s housing co-ops
Steve Reed OBE, the MP for Croydon North, says that it has taken him a year of working at Westminster to realise… People. Don’t. Trust. Politicians. Is this what the acronym NSS* was invented for?...
View ArticleElection candidate calls Croydon’s modern slums a scandal
Croydon Council’s mishandling of its housing stock – with a rising number of empty council homes despite more than 2,000 families forced to live in temporary accommodation – has been described as a...
View ArticlePlan for 300 homes on Green Belt angers Addington
A packed residents’ meeting in Addington this week heard of developer plans to build 300 homes on Green Belt land at the bottom of Gravel Hill. Conservative councillor Jason Cummings told an audience...
View ArticleOpportunity knocked as council halts office-to-flat conversions
Croydon’s Labour council is putting its pro-business reputation on the line by calling a halt to the often lucrative conversion of the borough’s empty offices into housing. Last week, owners and...
View ArticleRogers calls on planners to build homes in “empty” Croydon
One of the world’s leading architects has called for the radical re-building of central Croydon to provide homes to help meet the national housing crisis. “You could put two new towns in the centre of...
View ArticleCroydon suffering more as London’s poverty gap grows
It’s not just the Scots who are demanding a new financial settlement from central government. Outer London boroughs, especially Croydon, need to get more cash from Westminster for the growing needs of...
View ArticleSelling a dream from £400,000 flats beside railway line
1pm UPDATE: Seems that the nice people at the Redrow marketing department may have had second thoughts about their soft-focus soft-porn for their over-priced London flats. Their two minutes of...
View ArticleTelevision property show is seeking willing victims in Croydon
The Location, Location, Location duo of Phil Spencer and Kirstie All-strop have been teamed together for another property show – this time one not about finding a dream home, but about making the most...
View ArticleCroydon’s ‘MasterPlan’ only makes housing crisis worse
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Last week’s announcement by the Conservative Party that they want to give housing association tenants the Right to Buy has not impressed regular commenter, ROD DAVIES The...
View ArticleTime to make housing a voting issue, one brick at a time
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The council’s “MasterPlan” for housing is a political joke, says DAVID CALLAM The housing MasterPlan would be funny if it wasn’t so serious for so many families who can never afford...
View ArticleLandlords challenge licensing scheme with Judicial Review
Another of Labour’s flagship policies for Croydon, the landlord licensing scheme which was a key part of the manifesto when they won control of the council last year, could be facing a crisis as a...
View ArticleDevelopers are not the answer to London’s housing crisis
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Borough councils, including Croydon, have leant heavily on speculative developments to build new homes. But London needs a far more radical approach, according to CHRISTIAN WOLMAR,...
View ArticleHousing services advice bus, Shirley, Aug 25
Other dates and venues: Tue, September 29 2pm-7pm Waddon (location to be confirmed) Tue, October 27 10am-3pm TBC Tue, November 24 10am-3pm TBC Inside Croydon Events: for dates and links to what’s...
View ArticleIt’s official: Thornton Heath is a property market hot-spot
Croydon’s going through a boom time. Hadn’t you noticed? While the number of people having to work on low-rates, no guarantees, no-rights Zero Hours contracts is reported to have risen by 19 per cent...
View ArticleEmpire-building architects’ department doesn’t add up
CROYDON COMMENTARY: A former member of the borough’s engineering department, DAVID WICKENS wonders why the council is to re-establish an in-house architects’ department I read with interest the...
View Article£2,000 per month two-bed rent in London within four years
The average rent for a two-bed home in London will hit £2,007 a month by January 2020 if rents continue to rise at their current pace, according to research by a London Assembly member. That would mean...
View ArticleCouncil’s new architects’ department consists of one person
When is a borough architects’ department not an architects’ department? When it is in Croydon Council, of course. Claims made last month by one of Croydon’s most senior employees that the council was...
View ArticleHouse prices predicted to continue to rise by 7% in 2016
Home prices in London and south-east England are set to rise by up to 7 per cent in 2016, according to independent property research published today. The speculative property developers who have been...
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