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Britain’s building standards are now so bad, even the super-rich are facing housing misery | Phineas Harper
Residents of the UK’s most expensive flats have won a court case over defective pipework. If their homes are shoddily built, what hope do the rest of us have, asks writer and curator Phineas Harper
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February 11, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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33% Council Tax increase: Mayor Perry's legacy for Croydon insidecroydon.com/2026/02/11/3... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #CouncilTax #LocalElections2026
February 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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Trinity submits planning application for £40m co-ed conversion insidecroydon.com/2026/02/11/t... #Croydon #Education #OldPalace @neunion.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social
Trinity submits planning application for £40m co-ed conversion
Less than a year after announcing the £30,000 a year fee-paying school would start offering places to girls, plans have gone in for works that will see its expansion to 1,400 pupils. By STEVEN DOWN…
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February 11, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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Royal Fail: MP Philp calls on business secretary to intervene
Last year, only 7-in-10 first-class post items arrived the next day in Croydon. Now, iC readers from Coulsdon to South Norwood say that their postal service has got even worse Royal Mail’s th…
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February 11, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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Read in full MP’s email of complaint to Royal Mail boss
With some addresses in the borough getting only one postal delivery every fortnight, Croydon South Conservative MP has written to Alistair Cochrane, Royal Mail’s interim CEO: ‘This&#823…
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February 11, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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Competition! Win tickets for London Mozart Players’ concert
The London Mozart Players first concert at the Fairfield Halls of 2026 is taking place on March 8, and Inside Croydon is delighted to be able to offer three pairs of tickets as prizes in a terrific…
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February 10, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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33% Council Tax increase: Mayor Perry's legacy for Croydon insidecroydon.com/2026/02/11/3... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #CouncilTax #LocalElections2026
February 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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Read in full MP’s email of complaint to Royal Mail boss
With some addresses in the borough getting only one postal delivery every fortnight, Croydon South Conservative MP has written to Alistair Cochrane, Royal Mail’s interim CEO: ‘This&#823…
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February 11, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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Royal Fail: MP Philp calls on business secretary to intervene
Last year, only 7-in-10 first-class post items arrived the next day in Croydon. Now, iC readers from Coulsdon to South Norwood say that their postal service has got even worse Royal Mail’s th…
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February 11, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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Trinity submits planning application for £40m co-ed conversion insidecroydon.com/2026/02/11/t... #Croydon #Education #OldPalace @neunion.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social
Trinity submits planning application for £40m co-ed conversion
Less than a year after announcing the £30,000 a year fee-paying school would start offering places to girls, plans have gone in for works that will see its expansion to 1,400 pupils. By STEVEN DOWN…
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February 11, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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Podcast: From toxic air to the soured atmosphere at Selhurst insidecroydon.com/2026/02/03/p... #Croydon #CPFC #CPO #Beddington #Viridor @cleanaircatf.bsky.social @holmesdaleusa.bsky.social
Podcast: From toxic air to the soured atmosphere at Selhurst
Our first Croydon Insider podcast of 2026 is here – with a panel of readers and contributors delving behind the headlines on the stories that matter to you. Discussing how the highs of Wemble…
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February 3, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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New Addington residents' worries over farm pit of 'toxic sludge' insidecroydon.com/2026/02/10/n... #Bromley #Croydon #NewAddington
New Addington residents’ worries over farm pit of ‘toxic sludge’
‘If an adult was to slip, trip or fall into it… they would not be able to escape. A child would have absolutely no chance of surviving’ Serious concerns are being raised by reside…
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February 10, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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GMB to hold strike ballot over weighting pay in Merton schools insidecroydon.com/2026/02/10/g... #Merton #Strike #Schools @gmb.org.uk @gmblondonregion.bsky.social @neunion.bsky.social
GMB to hold strike ballot over weighting pay in Merton schools
Support staff working at schools in Merton are to be balloted for strike action over a long-standing pay discrepancy. Teaching Assistants and school support staff in Merton receive London Weighting…
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February 10, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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Britain’s building standards are now so bad, even the super-rich are facing housing misery | Phineas Harper
Residents of the UK’s most expensive flats have won a court case over defective pipework. If their homes are shoddily built, what hope do the rest of us have, asks writer and curator Phineas Harper
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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Oh... remember the @uklabour.bsky.social staffer who worked in Croydon and got elected in Hackney. insidecroydon.com/2023/08/15/e... His former ward colleague Polly Billington is, of course, now an MP...
Ex-Labour staffer spared jail over child exploitation pictures
Tom Dewey’s now former party colleagues continue to deny any knowledge of his collecting illegal and ‘sadistic’ images that dated back to 2008 Tom Dewey, the former borough organi…
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Lots of not too unsubtle hints from Burnham at his Resolution Foundation speech today...."recent events have drawn a heavy line under a political culture that was too close to wealth and power, and too distant from the people we’re talking about today.”
February 10, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Competition! Win tickets for London Mozart Players’ concert
The London Mozart Players first concert at the Fairfield Halls of 2026 is taking place on March 8, and Inside Croydon is delighted to be able to offer three pairs of tickets as prizes in a terrific…
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February 10, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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New Addington residents' worries over farm pit of 'toxic sludge' insidecroydon.com/2026/02/10/n... #Bromley #Croydon #NewAddington
New Addington residents’ worries over farm pit of ‘toxic sludge’
‘If an adult was to slip, trip or fall into it… they would not be able to escape. A child would have absolutely no chance of surviving’ Serious concerns are being raised by reside…
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February 10, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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GMB to hold strike ballot over weighting pay in Merton schools insidecroydon.com/2026/02/10/g... #Merton #Strike #Schools @gmb.org.uk @gmblondonregion.bsky.social @neunion.bsky.social
GMB to hold strike ballot over weighting pay in Merton schools
Support staff working at schools in Merton are to be balloted for strike action over a long-standing pay discrepancy. Teaching Assistants and school support staff in Merton receive London Weighting…
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February 10, 2026 at 10:24 AM