What does the Council going bankrupt mean for you?

What does it mean

Croydon Council is over £1.5 billion in debt - caused by the irresponsible decisions of the Labour Administration. They are now embarking on a series of terrible, and avoidable, cuts that will affects every single person living in Croydon.

Here we look at what these cuts actually mean for your services, and all the residents who rely upon them.

Campaigns

Save our Recycling Centres!

Croydon’s Labour Council intends to close up to two of our three recycling centres at Factory Lane, Fishers Farm (New Addington) or Purley Oaks. This will mean longer waiting times and congested roads at whichever centre remains open and will increase flytipping across our Borough. Residents rely

News

We picked the litter but Council didn't collect

Last Saturday I arranged a litter pick in Ashburton Park and we were joined by lots of marvellous folk who helped out. Several bags were collected and it was agreed with the Council that they would pick up those bags that same day. This is the norm with such community litter picks.

Croydon's Libraries Devastated

Are libraries important? We all have childhood memories of our local libraries. For me, I remember reading Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Hobbit for the first time.

Croydon Labour are still not listening - says Regina Road resident 

At last night’s Cabinet Meeting Ms Fransoy Hewitt, the lady whose Regina Road mould-ridden soaking wet flat, was filmed by ITV News in March, gave the Labour Council an update on the leak and disrepairs affecting her home.    In an emotional speech and through som

The clock is counting down to the local elections in May 2022

Last night, 17th May, saw yet another Cabinet meeting and yet another exercise in ensuring that there was no opposition to the dreadful choices of Croydon’s failing Labour Council.  Last night’s agenda included matters costing Croydon’s Council Taxpayers £millions, and yet the Labour Cabi

Regina Road - the report that Croydon Labour didn’t want voters to see 

Croydon Conservatives Response to the Independent Investigation into the Regina Road flats   So just hours after the polls closed for the five by-elections being held in Croydon on 6th May, Croydon Labour eventually published the ARK report – the independent report commissioned to find ou

Closed and Secretive Labour Refuses to Publish Vital Information

In 2014, Croydon Labour’s manifesto promised that a Labour Administration would be “the most open and transparent council in the history of Croydon” - a phrase oft repeated by their long-time Leader Cllr Tony Newman. There followed years of insults and obfuscation when anyone asked even the most ba

Impact of Labour's cuts to Children's Services  

This has been such a dark year for so many people due to Covid-19.   Children and young people have been profoundly affected in many ways.   This is a time when residents would look to à responsible Council to protect and safeguard the most vulnera

Labour are cutting Adult Social Care Packages and Disability Services

It is a very sad day for residents in Croydon and a particularly sad day for any residents living in the borough who are in receipt of adult social care services for it is these residents who are going to be disproportionately impacted by this budget.  It is these residents who are unable to ca

Labour's Budget means a broken promise on local libraries

This years Council budget is very grim reading, over 6 years of financial mismanagement has resulted in merging, cutting, and reducing council services across the board, including vitally important frontline services such as the protection and investment in our library provision across the