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 boroug
This week sees the publication of Croydon Council’s proposed budget for 2021/22 which will seek to claw back the savings necessary after the Labour Administration blew the Council budget over recent years. On top of this year’s cuts to Council services, around £50M of further savings will need to
The government has provided COVID-19 funding for businesses in the form of the Local Restrictions Support Grants (LRSG) and the Additional Restrictions Grants (ARG). The LRSG grants are for those businesses with an NNDR (business rates) account in their local authority area.
A mindless idiot sprayed some green graffiti on the Higher Drive Railway bridge earlier this week. I tried to report it via the LoveCleanstreets app in the usual way but found that this facility has been withdrawn from the application.
Labour Councillors Tony Newman, Simon Hall, Alison Butler and Paul Scott – known in local Labour circles as ‘The Gang of Four’ - have gone into hiding since resigning from their leadership positions in October last year.
In February there was a meeting to scrutinise the decision made by the Council to close Virgo Fidelis School in Upper Norwood. There are many reasons why this school is closing, but there is a significant cost to Croydon Council as a result of its closure. Over the last few years the school has