Property & Planning

LANDLORDS FINED AND FACE BOROUGHWIDE BAN – Croydon spend £22,000 making house safe   A pair of private landlords who rented out a damp and mouldy Croydon house to a family of four have been fined £4,000 each by a judge and face a ban from letting properties in the borough.   Cro

PRIVATE RENTED SECTOR “UNFIT FOR PURPOSE” – MP backs plans to ban letting agent fees to tenants. The private rented sector is “entirely unfit for purpose” and in need of wholesale reform” says MP Helen Hayes.  The Dulwich and West Norwood MP says: T

“BLACKLISTING FIRMS SHOULD NOT GET PUBIC CONTRACTS UNTIL THEY SAY SORRY” – MP No firm involved in historical blacklisting should be given public contracts until they “demonstrate regret for their actions” by supporting a public inquiry into what went on,

DEVELOPERS FOCUS IS ON CUTTING COSTS – MP The UK land market allows far too much speculation, driving up land prices and artificially inflating the amount of money many developers believe they have to make as profit before they will build a scheme, says MP Helen Hayes. This resu

MAJOR NEW DEVELOPMENT SCHEME FOR COLLECTABLES AND FOOD MARKETS Major plans which would see the hugely popular collectables market and Crystal Palace food market in Haynes Lane at the heart of a new mixed retail and housing development were unveiled yesterday (Thursday). Thje plans for

MP STEVE REED OBJECTS TO QUEENS HOTEL REDEVELOPMENT PLANS – “Bigger than Park Lane Hilton” Croydon North MP Steve Reed has joined the growing numbers of those objecting to the proposed redevelopment at the Queens hotel, Church Road, Crystal Palace. Mr Reed, in whose

QUEENS HOTEL: RESIDENTS QUOTE CASE LAW AS THEY OBJECT TO PLANS / NEW APPLICATIONS FOR FITZROY GARDENS HOUSES Residents of Fitzroy and Wakefield Gardens have raised case law in their objections to the Queens hotel plans. They say that in order for Croydon council to grant consent for t

NORWOOD SOCIETY OPPOSE QUEENS HOTEL PLANS – QUESTION BUILDING’S FUTURE USE The Norwood Society have voiced their opposition to major development plans at the historic Queens hotel on Church Road saying there is no mention of restaurants, meeting rooms, conference and banqu

AUCKLAND RISE: CONTROVERSIAL PLANS SET TO BE APPROVED DESPITE NUMEROUS REASONS FOR ‘NO DEVELOPMENT’ Controversial plans to build infill homes on the Auckland Rise estate are set to get the go-ahead at a Croydon council planning committee tomorrow evening (Wednesday). A myr