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Croydon Council apologises as up to 3,000 overcharged for parking and traffic fines

The blunder may have impacted 3138 PCNs given out between mid-October and the start of December 2023, according to the borough’s mayor

Evening Standard

Government invests £235m in London's roads using funds from HS2

Roads will be resurfaced across the capital over the next 11 years

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Cash-strapped Croydon Council to chase benefit claimants for unpaid council tax

Council plans to recover unpaid tax through orders docking benefits payments

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Lawyer known as Mr Loophole says council needs to repay £1million bus lane fines

It has been called a 'money-making scheme'

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Can you drink in public in London? Croydon Council to issue ban

Croydon Council is expected to start a consultation on a public space protection order

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Croydon council prepares legal action against ex CEO over £430k payout

Evidence of alleged misconduct by ex senior leaders at Croydon council will be handed to the Met Police

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Beleaguered Croydon council faces payroll staff strike over restructure

GMB union claims women would be ‘exclusively’ affected by the cuts that being proposed

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Government puts Croydon Council in special measures as it seeks to write off ‘toxic’ debts

The news came in the same week that Croydon unveiled the art projects it will showcase as London’s Borough of Culture 2023

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Croydon finally signs off 15% council tax rise after legal warning

Bankrupt Croydon Council has agreed a record 15 per cent council tax rise after warnings a budget deadlock would leave the town hall facing legal action and cost the authority £20million a month.

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Croydon Council says it’s too poor to join legal action against Ulez expansion

The bankrupt council is not joining five other councils in their High Court battle

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Croydon residents start petition against ‘staggering’ 15% council tax rise

The bankrupt authority has been given special permission by the government to hike council tax by a record amount

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Bankrupt Croydon council to increase council tax by record 15%

Bankrupt Croydon Council has been given special permission by the government to increase council tax by a “staggering” record amount.

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Croydon gets special permission to put council tax up ‘staggering’ 15%

Residents in south London borough will see council tax bills rise by 15% from April

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Croydon Council issue third bankruptcy notice in just two years

The council is estimating that it would need to reduce spending by £130 million in the next financial year

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Man covers up number plate as council keeps wrongly sending him £130 traffic fines

Wayne Robson, 50, has so far received at least five tickets for entering a restricted area near West Croydon Station, despite living within an exemption zone

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Crystal Palace get go-ahead for £100m Selhurst Park upgrade

Crystal Palace’s redevelopment of Selhurst Park moved a step closer last night, after the club’s updated planning application received unanimous approval.

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Bankrupt Croydon Council faces new £19m finance black hole

Tory mayor says the council’s finances had been “built on sand”

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Crystal Palace owner Steve Parish issues update on £100m Selhurst Park redevelopment

Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish says the club remains “absolutely committed” to the £100million redevelopment of Selhurst Park.

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Family of seven in plea for new home as three-bed house having 'detrimental' effect on all

Corrall Pereira says his wife and children are all struggling with the lack of space

Daily Mirror

Family of seven living in three-bedroom house say they have been 'fobbed off' by council

Corroll Pereira says there is not enough space for his children to do their homework and that they have considered putting a mattress in the kitchen for their son with ADHD because of the lack of room

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Secret Cinema Founder announces plan to take over empty Croydon department store

The founder of Secret Cinema says the “future of art is in the high street” as he announced plans to transform an empty Croydon department store into an arts centre and venue.

Daily Record

Mum stuck in flat covered in mould and slugs accuses council of refusing to help

Evelyn Boaheng says the deteriorating property is so bad that it is putting her children’s health and development at risk, with black and green mould now 'in every room of the house'.

Daily Mirror

Mum has four nervous breakdowns after being hit with sudden £13,000 council tax bill

Debt collectors demanded £2,500 for council tax arrears and her daughter Rachael took out a bank loan to 'put the issue to bed'. But by August 2021 they discovered the actual bill was much larger

Daily Record

Mum's despair as kids forced to eat on floor and bathe in buckets in tiny, mould-ridden flat

Latasha Smith claims she is left in tears everyday over her family's appalling housing conditions - but that the council simply turn a blind eye to their plight.

Daily Mirror

Pregnant mum stuck in a mouldy flat so small kids have to 'eat on the floor'

A 34-year-old woman who is heavily pregnant said she was stuck in a tiny flat that was so small her children had to eat from the floor, and the council would do nothing about it

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