Has Tony Newman woken up to the need for allies over Government forced cuts?

‘yup hate the word summit but let’s have one A

SAP Croydon’s future still in our hands’ it

to would be up good to have a ‘summit’

– ‘Croydon’s future still in our hands’.

This is Tony Newman’s Twitter response on 26 November to a passionate appeal on the Matthews Yard website that the developers must be made to meet the real needs of Croydon.

http://matthewsyard.com/croydon-deserves-more-than-cookie-cutter-regeneration/

So the big question Tony is given the Government enforced cuts and the weakness of the draft Local Plan in terms of reining in the developers, HOW?

The day before he tweeted about the Chancellor’s Autumn statement:

‘Ongoing Cuts to Croydon Council funding by Govt outrageous & London’s affordable housing supply crisis not addressed by Osborne’s statement’

 

About seancreighton1947

I have lived in Norbury since July 2011. I blog on Croydon, Norbury and history events,news and issues. I have been active on local economy, housing and environment issues with Croydon TUC and Croydon Assembly. I have submitted views to Council Committees and gave evidence against the Whitgift Centre CPO and to the Local Plan Inquiry. I am a member of Norbury Village Residents Association and Chair of Norbury Community Land Trust, and represent both on the Love Norbury community organisations partnership Committee. I used to write for the former web/print Croydon Citizen. I co-ordinate the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Croydon Radical History Networks and edit the North East Popular Politics history database. I give history talks and lead history walks. I retired in 2012 having worked in the community/voluntary sector and on heritage projects. My history interests include labour, radical and suffrage movements, mutuality, Black British, slavery & abolition, Edwardian roller skating and the social and political use of music and song. I have a particular interest in the histories of Battersea and Wandsworth, Croydon and Lambeth. I have a publishing imprint History & Social Action Publications.
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