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Politics & Community

Could you be an 'Appropriate Adult' volunteer in Croydon?

A plastic-free month in Croydon – are you up for the challenge?

Croydon's new planning guidelines: great leap forward or stumble to uncertainty? (part 2)

How was the <em>Croydon Citizen</em> made?

Croydon's new planning guidelines: great leap forward or stumble to uncertainty? (part 1)

Farewell, citizens of Croydon

Summer 2018 in brief

Why Croydon needs a visitor centre, and how it could pay for itself

It's time for Croydon to talk about death

Ignore the many: Croydon's bins cause a crisis

Is Croydon regenerating its way to water shortages?

Croydon respite plans are closed until further notice

Understanding the other: the Coulsdon and Purley Debating Society

Croydon's sustainability challenge

The Croydon Forum's back, so why not get involved in shaping our town's future?

Taxing conversations in Croydon

A new voice for Croydon's trams?

Through the keyhole: what the doctor sees

The price of taking pride

How Croatia thrashed Croydon 3–0 in the litter-collecting World Cup

Why row over military budgets when Croydon needs more police?

Croydon's National Rheumatoid Arthritis group helps me to live my life to the full

June 2018 in brief

How a city-wide women's community movement began in Croydon

The Reader's Shared Reading groups come to Croydon

How many bins do we need in Croydon?

Battling over Brexit in Croydon

Voices of Croydon's veterans

Croydon's parks and open spaces: who should look after them?

Croydon Drop In celebrates forty years of serving Croydon

Croydon High Street: a new hope?

What can Croydon do for Israel and Palestine?

Can't give any more: volunteer fatigue in Croydon (part 1)

Norbury Hall Park's squirrels need you!

More thoughts on tackling gangs and knife crime in Croydon

My hopes and fears for Croydon's young mayor

What I learned when I attended a Croydon death café

Memories of Croydon, explored in the 'Wall of Recall'

Croydon Environmental Fair 2018 in Wandle Park

Two years on and Brexit is still going strong

May 2018 in brief

Carers Week 2018: why we need more conversations about Croydon carers

Supporting Croydon's homeless people with the Salvation Army

Looking back: Croydon's local elections, 1968

Thornton Heath rallies for youth support in Croydon

Calling all Croydon veterans, whatever your age

Let's keep talking, Croydon

Standing up to knife crime in Croydon

Four more reasons why you should write for the <em>Croydon Citizen</em>

Regenerating Croydon from the ground up

April 2018 in brief

Reflections on the Croydon council elections 2018

A three-course meal fit for an MP at FoodCycle Norwood Junction

What next for Croydon's re-elected Labour council?

The local community unites to save the Glamorgan pub

Do Croydon's children and young people have enough space at home?

LIVEBLOG: Croydon Council Election 2018

Local elections 2018: what does each party stand for?

Fly-tipping isn't just Croydon's problem

Mayor Sadiq Khan visits the People's Republic of Croydon

Croydon Credit Union: a co-operative alternative to loan sharks

The Croydon parks getting lost under Labour

Croydon needs housing for the many, not the few

The EU referendum is not a done deal

Vote Green this May for a cleaner, safer, happier Croydon

Is Boxpark's boss right about Croydon town centre? (Part two)

Croydon's council elections aren't just about who's the best manager

Potholes and pointless art

Is Boxpark's boss right about Croydon town centre? (Part one)

Croydon's Labour-led council just isn't listening

The new timetable will radically change Croydon's rail services

Strategies for combatting knife crime in Croydon

Croydon Soroptimist International's public speaking competition helps girls to be Loud And Proud

Sex, lies and online affairs: why Croydon is the adultery capital of London

The Croydon Manifesto 2018

March 2018 in brief

How to vote: everything that you need to know

The Public Gallery: 2018 election special

Press for progress: how Croydon celebrated Women’s History Month

Labour politicians just can’t get their heads around non-confrontational politics

International Women's Day: Greta Scacchi helps fundraise for period poverty

Tribunal rules that Citiscape residents are responsible for costs of Grenfell-style cladding

London Road's Green Mile links West Croydon to Thornton Heath – with flowers

Are we damaging our children through learning?

Unifying refugee families could have a positive effect on Croydon

William Awomoyi is elected Croydon's first Young Mayor

How local young people, politicians, and educators view youth political involvement in Croydon

The councillor's charter

What is an Asset of Community Value and does it even matter?

The way forward

Croydon groups team up to raise awareness of knife crime in three-week programme

Croydon debates: is social media good for local government?

Why East Coulsdon Residents' Association is supporting Brick By Brick developments

The Croydon Conservatives' voluntary tax proposals are an appeal to a better nature that Croydonians simply don’t have

Croydon’s first Young Mayor election is underway after campaign launch

What the M25 Cat Killer teaches us about the value of human life

Residents and politicians respond to cladding charges at Citiscape

CRZero 2020: how can we end homelessness in Croydon?

Veganuary 2018: I lived on plants for a month in Croydon

Three missed opportunities to sort out children's social care

Winter in brief

New year's resolutions for Croydon in 2018

Croydon Saffron Central will feature on BBC Radio 4's Food Programme this Sunday, 28th January

The Croydon Forum: a catalyst for positive change

My Croydon – southern powerhouse

#dadlife – how a new Croydon dad is learning on the job

The community well-being open day at Ashburton Hall, Saturday 20th January 2018

Could you re-home a cat in Croydon?

Thinking globally, acting locally in Croydon: a peaceful world for all

Let's have even more solutions journalism in Croydon

Croydon’s place in the #MeToo debate

Liberalising Croydon’s night-time economy

A decision made at speed: 20mph zones revisited

Croydon is for community, not commuting

My Christmas in Croydon University Hospital

Twice Madam Mayor: an interview with Toni Letts

Ending the year on a brighter note: the Lighthouse Educational Society Christmas dinner

Christmas spirit and community cheer in CR7

Get involved: how to build a better Croydon community

November 2017 in brief

'I would make Croydon better by...', one year on

What does Croydon need in 2018?

The potential benefits of our controversial green spaces

How I took over Croydon's police service for a day

The growing political conflict over green spaces

The Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation: saving young lives in our son's name

The devil is in the detail as we wait for Westfield to arrive

Why Carers’ Rights Day is so important to Croydon

We've a long way to go before Westfield arrives

Groundhog Day for Westfield

Review: Coffee Loft, Thornton Heath

Beware: American property developers are coming to Croydon

As elections loom, what kind of Croydon do you want?

Five years in the life of an extraordinary borough

Empowering the youth in Croydon with a 'young mayor'

West Croydon station: fast-track the feelgood factor...

London's first Natural Health Service launches in Croydon, using nature to reduce demand on NHS

The de-gentrification of West Croydon

Croydon Council rejects attempted expansion of Queens Hotel

Croydon Soroptimist International celebrates ninety years of friendship and fundraising

Print archive: September 2017 – From borough to gallery

Print archive: July-August 2017 – Use it or lose it, Croydon

Lives Not Knives provides young people guidance as knife crime surges

In praise of moving and opportunity

I escaped from modern slavery: a Croydon resident's story

How you can help Croydon Refugee Day Centre

The council must take responsibility for the children's services debacle

Hope, warm-heartedness and a takeaway: the third annual interfaith symposium, Sunday 10th September

Mosque holds interfaith forum on religious unity

Last chance to improve the Croydon Local Plan

Knife crime and police numbers

Who stole Croydon Town Hall?

Crystal Palace FC must pay a real living wage to all its staff

The dilemma of knife crime in Croydon

Re-using bikes: in Croydon, recycling means exactly what it says

The mental health crisis of Croydon's children

Summer 2017 in brief

What Croydon's politicians had to say about the general election result

The challenges facing Croydon's interfaith initiatives

More cash for Croydon's schools, but not everybody is happy

Event review: Open Day at Old Town fire station

Bring them back: the Thornton Heath trolley dilemma

The tireless work of Croydon Community Against Trafficking – and how you can help

"It’s a hugely humbling position to be in – and very scary": Sarah Jones on being Croydon's newest MP

The Croydon interfaith bike ride 2017

Why isn't the council building more homes?

Print archive: June 2017 – The many festivals of Croydon

Print archive: May 2017 – Political rubbish

Where Croydon stands after the Grenfell Tower investigation

June 2017 in brief

Announcing Croydon's Epic Play Street, Saturday 15th July

Your invitation to be part of Croydon's first festival of peace

Croydon Debate Club's first season

Now is the time for all politicians to be radical

Croydon’s Air Quality Action Plan: answers are blowing in the wind

The campaign for Brexit: one year on

Losing stinks – but the Croydon Conservatives will be back

Council: "Join our drive making Croydon cleaner and greener"

Will Labour listen on Croydon's planning?

Why the inspector should reject Croydon's Local Plan

Let's make Croydon's GP services carer-friendly

Sarah Jones has gained Croydon Central for Labour

Crisis, chaos, and utter Brexit complacency

Event review: The Asylum Monologues at Theatre Utopia

I attended the Croydon Central hustings

Croydon's fake news problem

Croydon should vote Labour to protect the Green Belt and Planning Control

TONIGHT: Croydon Central hustings livetweet

TONIGHT: Croydon South hustings livetweet

TONIGHT: Croydon North hustings livetweet

Croydon Council struggles to defend its Local Plan

The Brexit effect on Croydon's general election

POSTPONED: Croydon Central hustings livetweet

A day spent listening to the voices of Croydon

Print archive: April 2017 – Still: When?

Print archive: February-March 2017 – The light of innovation

Print archive: December 2016-January 2017 – It's up to us now

Searching for an answer to Croydon’s rubbish problem

Why you should vote in this election, more than ever before

The Wandle pollution scandal isn't going away

April 2017 in brief

Croydon housing crisis? What crisis?

Croydon refugee child

The long road to self-care

Running into brick walls around Fairfield Halls

Croydon is hung out to dry, re-drawn and quartered

An opportunity to reach across Croydon's faith divide

From the SS Windrush to Croydon: the life of Alex Elden

The Broad Green community spring clean, Monday 17th April

What the Old Testament book of Nehemiah can teach us about modern day Croydon

We're all thinking it: will Westfield ever happen?

In #GE2017, decisions made in Croydon will matter

Welcome to Croydon: the borough’s newest residents shine bright

Are you aware of autism?

An invitation to contribute to the Croydon Conservative manifesto

The Reker Ahmed attack was about mob violence

But <em>is</em> this Croydon? Reflections on the attack on asylum seeker Reker Ahmed

Planning betrayal at Green Dragon House

Blazing a trail

Lessons from the attack on asylum seeker Reker Ahmed

Olympia has fallen... to the Croydon ReUse Organisation

Instagram Croydon: the social network for Croydon's new influencers

How I want Croydon's community to respond to fly-tipping

How Croydon's Ahmadiyya Muslim community responded to the terrorist attack in Westminster

Speeding towards a decision?

Do the numbers add up for Croydon grammar schools?

Why Croydon's new ward boundaries look rather close to the Conservative proposal

The emotional impact of fly-tipping

What's polluting the river Wandle?

No ifs, no buts, gentlemen: get your PSA tested

Through the door... of the Seventh Day Adventist church Croydon

Like talking to a Brick by Brick wall

Labour is delivering more with less

A truly frightening budget

St Giles: a very special school indeed

Winter in brief

A voice from the south

Interview with Roger Wade, founder and CEO of Boxpark

Croydon and the referendum: how we voted

Launching ‘I would make Croydon better by: The Collected Ideas’

A very real housing crisis

Smoothing the way for Croydon’s rough sleepers

Why I'm running the London Marathon for MIND in Croydon

20mph: wisdom or waste of money?

Boxpark from the inside out

An energy garden for West Croydon station

Perception versus punishment? Croydon’s new crime plan

How joining a gym made me part of Croydon's community

Does democracy travel at 20mph?

'I would make Croydon better by': the next stage

Consultations: are they worth the paper that they’re written on?

What I think of Boxpark, by one of its neighbours

How Muslims for Humanity kicked off 2017 by cleaning Croydon's streets

Purley is now a friend to dementia sufferers

Stripping for the community in White Horse Park

Getting to grips with crime in Croydon

Croydon Christmas on a budget

How robust is the council's evidence base for parks policy?

November 2016 in brief

Improving safety on our trams

What a load of rubbish: debating Croydon’s fly-tipping troubles

The case for more free schools in Croydon

Print archive: November 2016 – When will it end?

A Christmas prayer for Croydon

Why I founded the Friends of White Horse Park

"Isn't Boxpark great?", she cried. I answered: "No".

The council appears to be listening on technical concerns about refurbishment of Fairfield Halls

When will the saga of Southern end?

Develop Croydon ostracises the very community that makes Croydon worth developing

I invite all Croydonians to have a say in shaping our future

On the land where Boxpark stands

Is Croydon Council's question time now more transparent and open?

Occupy the Gatwick Express

A Croydon commuter's tale

October 2016 in brief

Croydon can help to save the rainforest

Print archive: October 2016 – The local economy is booming

Learning to love where you live – even if it’s Croydon

How should Croydon support its young carers?

The bottom line

To whom is Brick by Brick accountable?

A report on Croydon Health Service Trust's Annual General Meeting

I would make Croydon better by... October 2016

Representing Croydon at the Garden Organic Community Volunteer Conference

September 2016 in brief

Homelessness and hunger in boomtown Croydon

Celebration of regeneration at the Minster's Season of Creation

Print archive: September 2016 – Edgy City

What's going on at 1 Lansdowne Road?

Flood risk Croydon

A positive case for a Croydon grammar school

Down but not out – it’s time for our borough to take a lead on homelessness

Who's really responsible for the 'saga of Southern'?

I would make Croydon better by... September 2016

Croydon's boundary reforms: what you need to know

When #20IsPlenty came to north east Croydon

"I want Croydon to bid to be London Borough of Culture": Sadiq Khan's long walk

The Croydon Plan fails to let the public participate in strategy

Print archive: Summer 2016 – Crexit

The ‘cool kids’ are taking a shine to Croydon again

News in brief summer 2016

The day that 'Sing for Water' came to Croydon

Croydon Council goes into property development

How we created a haven for Croydon's bees

How you can help Evolve to end homelessness in Croydon

Rainbows Across Borders LGBT Asylum Seekers Choir leads the way at Croydon's first PrideFest

What five years of running Purley Breakfast Club has taught me about Croydon

Should Croydon even get a new grammar school?

Let's protect Croydon's pioneering libraries

Why we blessed Reeves Corner, five years on from Croydon's riots

How the Transition Towns movement can help Croydon to thrive

Is this how a council is meant to function?

Event report: Croydon's young people's Use Your Voice initiative, Tuesday 2nd August

RIP the Croydon Advertiser – I can’t say that I am surprised

Brexit: a brighter future for a great town

How we founded Croydon's first rooftop community garden

Croydon didn't vote the way you think it did on Europe

The world is ready for the National Trust's tours of Croydon

Where next for Fairfield Halls' supporters?

Event report: Croydon Environmental Fair, Saturday 11th June 2016

How I did my first ever week's work in Croydon

Two Holocaust survivors visit Norbury Manor Business and Enterprise College

In what sense, if at all, is Croydon a community – and are you even a part of it?

Croydon College: another piece of our civic heritage will be destroyed

In defence of Croydon's street preachers

Another referendum: an executive mayor for Croydon?

How Brexit threatens Croydon

I would make Croydon better by... June 2016

Do Croydon's carers get the help that they need to balance care and work?

Why the learning revolution starts in Croydon

The real Crexit

I'm positive about leaving

May 2016 in brief

The cost of Crexit

Looking back at Carers Week in Croydon

What do Croydon's children think about libraries?

It's time for Croydon to get carer-friendly

Whither Waddon?

Croydon Council: bottom of the league for young and old alike

Print archive: May 2016 – The mental health edition

Election 2016: What do the results tell us about Croydon?

The case for a naked Croydon

Event report: the South Croydon Community Association's Q&A on Croydon's changing town centre

Election 2016: How did Croydon vote?

Print archive: April 2016 – Election 2016

Rubbish smokescreens: performance indicators and flytipping

Mental health, loneliness and the needs of Croydon

How Zac lost, why Sadiq won, and what's next

News in brief May 2016

I would make Croydon better by... May 2016

Crexit or cremain? Should the people of Croydon vote to leave the EU?

Maybe a two year closure is best for the Fairfield Halls

The community bands together to stop Croydon's litter epidemic

The Croydon Manifesto

Croydon's autism army is on the march

Why Croydon's trades unionists and workers will march for rights and progress

Croydon town centre is changing: how will it affect you?

How safe are you on Croydon's trains?

What's happening to our democracy? Croydon deserves better

Fast-tracked at Croydon University Hospital: what happened next?

Croydon's litter crisis should make us all angry

How autism awareness is growing in Croydon

How 'five a day for the mind' can help Croydonians to combat depression

Where are the articles defending the Fairfield Halls' closure?

Fairfield belongs to the people, not the politicians

Save Our Fairfield... from a slow and agonising death

"I believe in community politics and local decision making": interview with Amna Ahmad, Liberal Democrat candidate for the London Assembly

Empty chairs and serious concerns at the Save Our Fairfield Halls meeting

What's wrong with the Fairfield closure, by a civil engineer

"Running through all our policies like a stick of rock is climate change": interview with Tracey Hague, Green Party candidate for the London Assembly

March 2016 in brief

The reality of being a Croydon carer

Volunteering won't fix Croydon

I would make Croydon better by... April 2016

Croydon’s politicians are rude, incompetent, corrupt and heartless – just like you

Book review: How To Win A Marginal Seat, by Croydon Central MP Gavin Barwell

A deafening silence surrounds young male suicide

"I want to make Croydon an area to be proud of": interview with Peter Staveley, UKIP's candidate for the London Assembly

Should Croydon have a directly elected mayor?

Farewell to Coulsdon CALAT

46 reasons to be thankful for Christians in Croydon

Croydon needs to get creative about affordable housing

Croydon's new corruption

Can a digital revolution save Croydon Council meetings?

"As mayor, I will stand up for London and work to make it greater still": interview with Zac Goldsmith, Conservative candidate for Mayor of London

Out of the EU and back on track

The first casualty of office is transparency

Learn from MoveIn: how you can transform your 'patch' in Croydon

Croydon is covered in rubbish. So what are we going to do?

Croydon elections to the UK Youth Parliament

Patience required – the saga of Southern

What part should social enterprise play in running Croydon?

We, 'the people'

Is discrimination harming Croydon's night-time economy?

News in brief February 2016

How Croydon will seek universal suffrage by 18th April 2016

"Croydon needs the opportunity to fulfil its potential": interview with Sadiq Khan, Labour's candidate for Mayor of London

"I am committed to being a champion for my two boroughs": interview with Steve O'Connell, Conservative candidate for the London Assembly

Singing therapy in Croydon

Staying in the EU is all about control

The challenges of implementing the Croydon Fairness Commission report

Salute Croydon's clean and green champions, but more must be done

Why worry about Croydon town centre's night-time economy?

Censorship rules at Croydon Council

Renationalisation can't save Croydon's railways. But can TfL?

"I can be a rottweiler when necessary": interview with Marina Ahmad, Labour's candidate for the London Assembly

Croydon's fly-tipping performance in 2015

Protestors launch campaign to 'save Shirley's green spaces'

What can be done to stop the Croydon cat killer?

I would make Croydon better by... January 2016

Dying in Croydon in the age of social media

Croydon's street population

Should Donald Trump be barred from entering Croydon?

News in brief December 2015 / January 2016

Tackling childhood obesity in Croydon

Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of Croydon

Campaign for a nuclear free Croydon

Four things that I learnt about Croydon by launching a start-up community

What can be done about low wages and child poverty in Croydon?

Why I decided to strike, by a Croydon junior doctor

The young Muslims who cleaned up Croydon

Some new year resolutions for Croydon

A new Fairfield Halls

'I would make Croydon better by...' – December 2015's suggestions

Cathy Newman reports back to the young women of Norbury on a career in journalism

The Public Gallery: 9 things you need to know about the Fairfield Halls

Croydon councillor gets in a pickle, Croydon Council makes a Horlicks

News in brief: November

Refugee Tales comes to Croydon

Are travelling communities welcome in Croydon?

Coherent education policy for Croydon, or moving the chairs on the Titanic?

Container crates, Croydon and me, by Mr Boxpark

Don't push Croydon to the back of the housing queue

Why Croydon's children should study GCSE Migration

Has pantomime season come early for the Fairfield Halls?

Croydon Central MP responds to Living Wage criticism

How Norbury's Chicken and Chat challenges domestic abuse

Go ON Croydon is getting Croydon residents online

The unintentional volunteer

Whose voice will be heard at the Develop Croydon forum?

The Freedom Pass, London, and me

Selection by ability is not how you build a fair education system

What the Opportunity and Fairness Commission's interim report is for, by its chair

October news in brief

Let’s get organised to win the REAL Living Wage!

The Croydon buildings that point to the cosmos

So, what is a progressive anyway?

So far so good from the Croydon Opportunity and Fairness Commission

Poise and perineums: discovering the joy of pilates in Croydon

The case for more grammar school places in Croydon

Help Croydon's bees – please

Why is the Citizen so left wing?

Opportunity Croydon: The first step to a better Croydon is more volunteers

Croydon's cuts begin to kick in

From Croydon to the Tory conference and back again

Crocus valley blooms again

Could a religious revival save Croydon from itself?

Danger in the dormitory

I would make Croydon better by... October 2015

Transparency, housing and the Croydon Local Plan

September news in brief

There's an allotment in my garden

The Corbyn Citizen: How it might just work

Print archive: September 2015 – Dormitory town?

How many flats can fit into Croydon town centre?

The Corbyn Citizen: How it might go wrong

Outer London is rising to power, if you believe Will Self

Help celebrate International Peace Day 2015 in Croydon

Alphabetism is dominating Croydon

Chris Philp MP replies to an open letter on assisted dying

Summer news in brief

Goodbye London, I’m leaving you... for Croydon

Boxpark is coming... don't panic!

It's time to consult on Croydon Local Plan

Public consultations are a waste of time and a barrier to Croydon's progress

In memory of the soldiers of Cane Hill

Climate change in Croydon and beyond

What does the future hold for further education in Croydon?

An open letter to Chris Philp, MP

Controlling, influencing and subverting the media’s portrayal of Croydon

Let's change the way that we elect our council

Watching out for Croydon’s interests in parliamentary legislation

Corbyn comes to Croydon, and brings the Tardis with him

Should Gavin Barwell be worried about the 'Corboom'?

What difference would the red Tories make to Croydon?

Croydon politicians should write more, not less

We will make Croydon the transport hub of the south, but don’t worry if you miss your connection

Croydon's rubbish performance (pun intended)

How a church's vision for Norbury brought tribulation on its local community

Where is ‘Ambition for Croydon’?

What can Lord Glasman teach the disadvantaged of Croydon?

I would make Croydon better by... July 2015

How to spot a troll

Croydon 'til they die: Andy Miller and John Grindrod in conversation

Polite White Flight: coming to a Croydon suburb near you?

Thinking global, acting local: environmental action in Croydon

June in brief

#Datablog: How the general election was won and lost in Croydon

Three weeks in summer: a young Croydonian takes the National Citizen Service Challenge

In defence of the suburbs

Croydon's appetite for self-destruction

Croydon's landlord licensing scheme is under challenge (again)

Event report: how to make Croydon Disability Confident

Where are all those canvassers that told us how much they love Croydon now?

Pre-school places in Croydon – what to look for

Not In My BackYard: A celebration of Croydon's NIMBYs

Is life fair, and will a fairness commission change things if it isn't?

Regaining the lost art of being neighbourly in Croydon

Where are the bon mots of yesteryear?

Love Thy Neighbour: combatting the epidemic of loneliness in Croydon

May in brief

I would make Croydon better by... June 2015

#GE2020: Seven seismic changes that will shape the next battle for Croydon Central

Do the stats really say that twenty is plenty?

Vintage cycles, cactus and cake at carnival Addiscombe-style

Did the general election just prove that Croydon’s media doesn’t matter?

The Public Gallery: The aftermath

A better place? Croydon's new Place Directorate gets to work on Thornton Heath High Street

The role of faith schools in Croydon

Election 2015: Croydon's new MPs

The polls are open

April in brief

I would make Croydon better by... May 2015

Political Croydon: The Nineties

#CitizenDebate: Download the podcast now

Strangers on a train: Why don't we talk to our fellow Croydon commuters?

Croydon: Affordable housing is not as important as the homeless

Are we there yet? Measuring success in reducing flytipping

The Public Gallery: Hustingsmania and a few minutes with the PM

Head-to-head: Gavin Barwell and Sarah Jones answer our questions

Through the doors of... Croydon University Hospital chaplaincy

Black praise, white politics: Ed Miliband comes to Croydon

Croydon: Let's paint the town red. And blue. And green.

The Public Gallery: Labour brings music and Miliband to the campaign trail

Central government does nothing for Croydon

How should Croydon's progressives vote in the general election?

Taberner House: story of a demolition

Fear and self-loathing in Croydon

The choice facing Croydon

The Public Gallery: Too close to call

How I would regenerate Surrey Street market

There are no wasted votes – only unused ones

Croydon: Forget skyscrapers, why not build down?

In praise of politics

Cogito Ergo Sum: Croydon and the death of the 'Big Idea'

Croydon goes to the London Peace Symposium, Baitul Futuh Mosque, 14th March 2015

I would make Croydon better by... April 2015

The Public Gallery: The campaign begins

March in brief

Croydon's rising skyline – an opportunity not to be missed

Let's make Croydon less boring

The Public Gallery: What the next government could mean for Croydon

Croydon’s Opportunity and Fairness Commission gets off to a bumpy start

The Public Gallery: Jones plays Jack Bauer and Barwell makes the front page as Labour's Croydon lead narrows

Croydon on the climate change march, Saturday 7th March 2015

Fairness Commission shows how not to run a meeting

The Public Gallery: Big beasts a-roarin' as UKIP demotes McKenzie

March's submissions to 'I would make Croydon better by...'

All yuppie apartments and no family homes – a risk for central Croydon?

The Public Gallery: It's quiet. Too quiet

February in brief

Croydon Council approves the budget, to the surprise of no-one

Our youth services will be the first to go – consider the greater cost

The Public Gallery: Seventy days

Croydon still isn’t gentrified

It's time to reform council meetings

Croydon tackles flytipping – a progress report

Traces of Croydon

February's submissions to "I would make Croydon better by..."

How to make the most of the Croydon Fairness Commission

Minerva's no Roman goddess: a closer look at one of Croydon's developers

Taking to the airwaves to care for Croydon's carers

Making good choices – how to get better at making decisions

If Henry VIII had used disposable nappies, they wouldn't have decomposed yet

Through the door of... Croydon gurdwara

Politics is in flux: Good! We can do better.

Opportunity knocks? The Croydon Opportunity and Fairness Commission begins its work

Croydon Now: The case for Croydon becoming an independent nation state

Tales from a Croydon Christmas community volunteer

The Public Gallery: Three little letters

Croydon election hustings in 2015: time for community groups to 'put up or shut up'

Leading ourselves up the garden path – confirmation bias and Croydon

What reading the classics can do for Croydon

Five new year resolutions for Croydon

The Festive Gallery: The politics of Purley Pool

Gentrification and the heart of Croydon

Event review: Croydon Amnesty 'Write for Rights 2014', Saturday 29th November

What do Labour's cuts for 2015/16 mean for services?

The Public Gallery: Generation Rent, Opportunity Croydon, and a visit from Cameron

December's submissions for "I would make Croydon better by..."

The Public Gallery: from Cherry Orchard Road to Westminster and Hong Kong

Betting, fast food and the protection of heritage – can Croydon learn from Wandsworth?

Croydon's residents' associations: power to the people, or routinely ignored?

The Public Gallery: No Kippers for Barwell

Supported housing in Croydon

The Public Gallery: What exactly is going to happen to Croydon's playing fields?

The twain shall meet: how Westfield could bring East and West Croydon together

Is it growth for all or for developers' profits?

The Public Gallery: Suspensions and appeals

November's submissions for "I would make Croydon better by..."

How can Croydon foster equality and combat hate?

The Public Gallery: Labour in the lead in Croydon Central as Zone 4 united front falters

Croydon Assembly: building a campaign for Croydon residents' real needs

The Public Gallery: Fares and Fairfield

One day for a better world: Croydon marks World Vegan Day

Planting wild flowers at Wandle Park

The work of Croydon Amnesty

The Public Gallery: Slow cars and slower judicial reviews

The Public Gallery: The civil servants are coming

Croydon is the new Corinth

Working in limbo: an axe hangs over a Croydon business community

Political Croydon: The Eighties

The Public Gallery: Barwell and Jones at odds over selective licensing

Croydon's autism champion wants your input

A delicious judicious review

A campaign launch like no other

The Public Gallery: When is an endorsement not an endorsement?

The Public Gallery: Thirty-two Thursdays

"I would make Croydon better by..."

The Public Gallery: Gone fishin'

How clean is Croydon's air?

Croydon's school places crisis: the parental dilemma

Voters of Croydon – are you wasting your time?

Befriending Church Alley

How sustainable can Croydon become?

The dirty world of promoting

Girl power since 1927: how Croydon Soroptimists work to transform the lives of women

How Labour improves on public participation and scrutiny in decision-making in Croydon

Croydon's council leader promises a new relationship with voluntary sector

Buy now – Croydon will not be this pocket friendly for long

Are we being misled over Croydon‘s school places shortfall?

How suitable is Segas House for a new central Croydon primary school?

Should we pity London Road?

The Public Gallery: Cheerio, but not goodbye

Should more community hubs be developed in Croydon?

The Public Gallery: Ashburton library is back in the news

#VoteVidhi – Are Croydon Conservatives scraping the pork-barrel?

I would make Croydon better by...

The Public Gallery: Fairness commissions and fareless buses

How can we build a stronger community in Croydon?

The Public Gallery: Benn a shoo-in for Labour in Croydon South

What matters to you in your community?

The Public Gallery: Tough on raves, tough on the causes of raves

The Public Gallery: Adjusting to power (and to opposition)

Our modern heritage: why Croydon's concrete architecture should be admired

The Public Gallery: A new mayor and a new administration

The challenges facing Labour in Croydon

The Public Gallery: Were you still up for Kellett?

Labour wins Croydon council elections

Election 2014 LIVE

The Public Gallery: Don't forget to vote

The Public Gallery: Eve of Election Special

The day I got caught up in a UKIP 'mini-carnival'

Who should lead Croydon? Mike Fisher and Tony Newman go head-to-head

The Public Gallery: Boris and Lucas on the campaign trail '14

Halal meat on Croydon's school menus: striking a difficult balance

Inspiring youth at Momentum 2014

The Public Gallery: New battlegrounds, deprivation and my chat with Ed Miliband

Croydon’s SEGAS House: a listed building under threat

The Public Gallery: Three weeks to go

The Conservative Future of Croydon

Is it too late to stop knife crime?

The Public Gallery: What's Europe ever done for Croydon?

Old Town Masterplan: I have a dream

Contact counts: the Croydon charity tackling later-life loneliness

The Public Gallery: No green peace for the left

There's a storm coming, Croydon

The Public Gallery: Free speech, smears and non-debates

'I know exactly how I'd attack me': Croydon Central MP Gavin Barwell on Lillian's Law, real-time tweeting and life outside Westminster

The Public Gallery: Will our local election be decided nationally?

She's a Monroe-esque sort of pond

Croydon Council's last meeting before the local elections: calm before the storm?

The Public Gallery: Careless tweets cost... votes?

What next for Croydon libraries?

The Public Gallery: Remembering Tony Benn

Diversity in Croydon's politics: Just an exercise in point-scoring

Let's build a more co-operative Croydon

The Public Gallery: What Croydon's politicians could learn from Boris Johnson

East Croydon's leaky artery: a transport hub on life support

Somewhere to call home

The Public Gallery: Parachutes spotted all over Croydon

Meet Eliza, Founder of Lives Not Knives

Croydon's other riots, ten years on

Croydon's politicians need to engage young people

Grammar schools: For hard working children?

The Public Gallery: How our MPs have changed the law

"Rebels don't make jokes about how excellent it is to have bishops in the House of Lords": An interview with John O'Farrell

Grammar schools: Learning from the past to avoid repeating mistakes

Floods show the best of Croydon

The Public Gallery: Rubbish, reports and regionalism

Why I launched a legal challenge against the incinerator

Street serenade: The Croydon North Streets Commission presents its report

The battle against hunger

The Public Gallery: Over to you

Why Croydon needs community-owned energy

The Public Gallery: What are full council meetings actually for?

Dingwall Road deadbeat: nine months unemployed in Croydon

Why UKIP won't have a local party whip

The Public Gallery: The Other Guys

Croydon’s growing problem that is being swept under the rug

The Public Gallery: Is it Labour's year?

The Public Gallery: Happy Blue Year?

The CR0-besity problem: how can Croydon keep its new year get-slim resolutions?

The top ten Croydon political Twitter bloopers of 2013

The Festive Gallery: A 2013 round robin from Croydon

East Croydon Post Office move: have we just forgotten?

"We can become what we used to be - the hub for south London": An interview with Steve Reed MP

My mother's dream

The Public Gallery: Party games for riot victims, and the ambitious Mr Pelling

The Young Future of Croydon

The Public Gallery: Full council, live from the actual public gallery

Crazy in Croydon

Enough is enough: Let's put Ashburton Park first

The Public Gallery: The politics of Hammerfield

Ashburton Park is for people, not politics

The Public Gallery: The UK Independents Party (sic)

The Public Gallery: And the winner is...

The Public Gallery Special: Croydon South's Next MP

Friends of Ashburton Park gather opinions at public meeting

The Public Gallery: The u-turn that wasn't and the pay packet that isn't

Grammar Schools: Croydon can learn from Sutton's example

Ten weeks to change a life

Four storeys on Portland Road: hotel or hostel?

The Public Gallery: I am Croydon, hear me roar

The impossible, admirable crusade against slang

Meet Mike Huddart, Mencap Co-ordinator for Croydon

Obama mentor to aid Friends of Ashburton Park

Thinking About Thinking: Croydon's students must be taught philosophy at school

The Public Gallery: Street cleans are made of this

Almshouses - the future of elderly care?

Whatever's happening, it ain't gentrification

Riot From Wrong left me desperately seeking insight

The Public Gallery: Reshufflemania in the Confederate States of Croydon

Don’t Fear The Yuppie – Imagined gentrification and the perils of groundless debate

Caring in Croydon: The Legal Bits

The Public Gallery: Is there less to Croydon Village Outlet than meets the eye?

An Invitation to the Croydon Arts Debate

The gentrification of Croydon and why we’re all to blame

The Public Gallery: 'Lettergate' and the peculiar politics of Tech City

Croydon: a victim of the riots or a triumph in the aftermath?

The Public Gallery: Who says people don't get off the sofa anymore?

Making a difference in Ashburton

Peace Day on the Citizen

Senior Police Officer criticises use of prisons to detain mentally ill

The Public Gallery: Who will Croydon be sending to Westminster in 2015?

Let's hear it for Tesco Town Croydon

Old town, new ideas: The master plan, part 3

Old town, new ideas: The master plan, part 2

The Issue of Prison Trays and Dignity in the School Dining Hall

Dives not knives: fundraising in freefall

The Problem with Politics – perhaps we should look within?

Let the EVF show the world how unpleasant they are

We will reject the poison of the EVF

The EVF will not undermine Croydon's success story

Central Planning?

6,000 miles to Bolivia

Local sixth form student hopeful of making a difference with mental health charity

Connectin Croydon

Local support group seeks to help students struggling with depression and bullying

In defence of the busy-body

Ashburton Park remains a priority

New Addington: The edge of London

We can still save Ashburton Park

Jackson's daughter's suicide attempt highlights need to talk about mental health

Why I started the Croydon Green Fair

For and Against: The Riesco Sell-Off

Caring in Croydon

Why I can't stand football but still cheered for Palace

Into the fire

My Magnificent Journey

Going Green with Grace

The concerning rise of French Situationism in Thornton Heath

Croydon Fairtrade Network

Why I Stand Up For Labour

Gambling shops, loan sharks, desperation, and debt

Shock Deferral of the Beddington Lane Incinerator: As It Happened

Village People: The Battle For Broad Green

The Incinerator: Smouldering Resentment

Of Martyrs and Satyrs: A Look at Croydon’s chattering classes

Why the bike needs to be at the top of the pecking order

How to be a Croydon Citizen

The Curious Case of Croydon's House Prices

Leaflets, libel and livetweets: Gavin Barwell's Welfare Meeting

Croydon Council's Finances: An Analysis

Vox populi, vox dei? Not in Croydon's Twittersphere

Love Food Hate Waste Part 2 - A Cold Wind Blowing

Love Food Hate Waste Part One - Think Globally, Act Croydon

Close The Door Mate, It's Still Freezing

Why I Edit The Croydon Citizen (even though I'm not a Croydon citizen)

Why I Edit The Croydon Citizen

Reasons To Be Cheerful

RIP Croydon 1086 - 2012

Let's Spread Some Hope in 2013

Close the door mate, it's freezing

Middle Class Flight is Not All it's Cracked-Up to Be

Snowman in the Cronx

PermaCroydon

Complacency and bad weather: the key to predicting the Croydon North by-election?

If 50,000 people in Croydon North don't vote...

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