Fury as hospital developers bulldoze onwards at Higher Drive
There’s renewed outrage on Higher Drive, where despite Croydon Council rejecting a planning application to build a hospital in a residential area of Kenley, developers have gone ahead with work on the...
View ArticleCarehome support came from nurse who left job two years ago
Inside Croydon has discovered that one of the letters submitted in support of the controversial hospital development at Higher Drive in Kenley was “signed” on behalf of an inner London NHS hospital by...
View ArticlePeople Power II: campaigning against mental Menta Tower
The simple question Inside Croydon would like to put to any of the wealthy architects, developers or Croydon politicians advocating building the disproportionately tall 55-storey Jenga Tower… sorry,...
View ArticlePeople Power III: more from the Higher Drive front line
More on the battle between ordinary residents of a suburban street in Kenley, and the ruthless ambition of a millionaire developer, who is literally bulldozing his way through the planning regulations....
View ArticleRouse calls inquiry into corruption allegations on Higher Drive
Jon Rouse, the chief executive of Croydon Council, has been forced to call an internal inquiry into the handling of the planning process of a controversial scheme in the south of the borough. Rouse,...
View ArticleHigher Drive residents celebrate victory in planning battle
Congratulations to the residents of Higher Drive in Kenley, who tonight were toasting their success in their long-running battle with John Whelan, the millionaire former video shop-owner who wanted to...
View ArticleKenley residents threaten Council Tax boycott over planning
Despite winning the arguments, both moral and planning, and getting a decision from the government’s Planning Inspector supporting them by refusing the development of a medium-sized hospital on a...
View ArticleCouncil planning to keep residents in the dark on planning
Times must be hard at Croydon Council. For while they can afford to help finance the lovely new HQ building as part of an ambitious £450 million redevelopment scheme, or find £20million a year to hire...
View ArticleCroydon starts to gag councillors over planning bids
Another one of Croydon Council’s more ludicrous internal memos reaches us here at Inside Croydon. This one, from the council’s official solicitor, seeks to forbid councillors from talking to local...
View ArticleVillage green dream to be bulldozed by council
Mike Fisher, the leader of Conservative-run Croydon Council, once referred to New Addington‘s Central Parade as “little more than a dog toilet”. But a resident is now using legislation that was...
View ArticleMEPs condemn “dangerous” Beddington incinerator proposals
The Greens and the Labour party in Sutton are keeping up the pressure as the proposed Viridor Beddington Lane planning application gets set to be considered (and passed) by the pro-incinerator...
View ArticleIncinerator campaigners demonstrate that money talks
The Development Committee on Sutton Council thought they were holding a routine meeting last night, until a number of Stop The Incinerator protestors drawn from across Sutton and Croydon entered with...
View ArticleSutton now apologising for Croydon on incinerator plans
A consultation in Croydon and Sutton on amendments to the planning application for the £1 billion Beddington Lane incinerator scheme has been extended by a month – because of the latest administrative...
View Article£1bn incinerator “replay” meeting hurriedly set-up for May 15
Sutton Council’s anxiety to push through proposals to build a waste incinerator in the midst of a highly populated residential area in Beddington Lane was demonstrated today with the announcement that...
View ArticleSutton Council looking to run energy company with Viridor
Sutton Council has been trying to register a commercial company that would manage the energy produced by the Beddington Lane incinerator – even before the proposals from Viridor have received planning...
View ArticleHigher Drive celebrates as latest hospital plan is rejected
The bunting was out on Higher Drive in Purley yesterday, and not just to celebrate the royal wedding. Residents had another cause to celebrate, after Thursday night’s planning meeting at the Town Hall...
View ArticleCroydon’s planners out-strip other boroughs in permissions
EXCLUSIVE: Research based on government figures confirms that Croydon’s planning department has been out-stripping other south London boroughs in giving permission to property developers – at times by...
View ArticleBrick by Brick abandons its planning consents and 23 sites
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The council this week set light to a ‘bonfire of the vanities’, abandoning planning applications on 477 homes around the borough in development proposals by their failed house...
View ArticleHow the council’s planners help developers dodge conditions
The case of 158 Purley Downs Road is an object lesson in what lengths some senior council staff will go to in order to help property developers circumvent building regulations and bamboozle councillors...
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