Crime
Croydon College Lockdown: Police Seek Teen Seen With Blade
No one was hurt and the lockdown at John Ruskin College on Selsdon Park Road has been lifted. Police are still looking for a teenager seen with a blade.
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Business
Croydon Empty Shop Grants: Half the £10,000 Awards Gone
Five Croydon businesses have had £10,000 to reopen empty shops, half of the ten on offer. Who can apply for the rest, and what the shop front grants pay.
Crime
Croydon Stop and Search on Children Rises to 1,262 a Year
Police stop and searches on Croydon children rose from about 930 to 1,262 in a year, the youth justice plan shows. Reoffending is below the London rate.
Council
Croydon SEND Deficit Set to Hit £96m When Cover Ends
Croydon's high needs budget overspends by £45m this year, and the council's own report puts the deficit at £96m when the statutory override ends in 2028.
Children's Services
Croydon Tendered Children's Home Before Ending Contract
The replacement tender went out on 24 July, two weeks before the council decided to terminate. The new operator was chosen without any competition.
Croydon
Croydon Remembrance Sunday: 8 November, Katharine Street
Croydon Remembrance Sunday is 8 November. Last year's wreath-laying at the Katharine Street Cenotaph began at 10.30am, with the Minster service at 3pm.
South Norwood
Stanley Halls Restoration: Your Say Closes End of October
Four funders have backed a restoration of the Grade II South Norwood hall, running to 2029. The public consultation survey closes at the end of October.
Children's Services
Croydon Ends £8.6m Children's Home Deal Months After Opening
Croydon has ended the £8.6m Precious House contract. Children moved there had breakdowns or hospital admissions, and two empty beds cost £11,666 a week.
South Norwood
South Norwood Festival Cancelled for 2027 After 15 Years
A record 16,000 came in July, but the free festival will not return in 2027. Costs went from £11,000 to over £25,000, and 10 of 100 volunteers showed up.
Addiscombe
Addiscombe Road Fire: 60 Firefighters, Roof Destroyed
Sixty firefighters fought a derelict house fire on Addiscombe Road from 4.32am Thursday. The roof was destroyed, nobody hurt, cause under investigation.
Surrey Street
Surrey Street at 750: New Gateway and an 18m Mural
A seven-metre gateway and an 18-metre Vic Lee mural mark 750 years of Surrey Street Market. Signs, trees and trader power upgrades come next in the £4.4m project.
Housing
Croydon Joins Airbnb Data Deal: Five Cases Flagged
Croydon is now matching council tenancy records against Airbnb listings. Five possible cases sit with its fraud team, and 34 homes were recovered last year.
Purley
Purley Pool: Council Says Administration Won't Stall Rebuild
Croydon Council says Polaska put its BVI arm into administration as part of a restructuring the council itself required, and the rebuild is unaffected.
Norbury to New Addington. Crystal Palace to Coulsdon. Thornton Heath to Sanderstead. Croydon is big enough that people living at one end of it rarely have much cause to visit the other, and the tram is about the only thing that stitches the whole borough together. Most coverage of the place arrives from outside and leaves again the same afternoon.
Croydon Today stays put. We read what the council publishes, the planning register, licensing notices, committee papers and spending, plus what the police and the inspectors put out alongside it, and then set down what those documents say. Every fact links to its source. Nothing gets stretched to make a better story, and we always say which part of the borough we are talking about, because a decision in Waddon is not news in Selsdon. In between all that we keep the pages people search for at eleven at night.
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- Local Info: bin collection days, parking and council tax bands.
- News: the record, ward by ward, including planning applications.
- What’s On: what is worth going to this week, in the town centre and well outside it.