Croydon Council to relocate housing and homelessness services amid High Court challenge

The South London council says the move is a change of location only, with appointments remaining mandatory for residents ...

Croydon faces High Court date as judge grants judicial review over housing walk-in service closure

The claimants believe the case could have wider implications for councils across the UK that have closed face-to-face housing ...
Your Local Guardian

Croydon Council in court over homelessness service closure

A Croydon resident has won the right to challenge the council in court over its decision to close a walk-in service for ...
Inside Housing

Croydon Council set to remove housing company directors from board following critical report

Under-fire Croydon Council looks set to remove two directors from its housing company board after an independent review found Brick by Brick (BBB) had “significantly underperformed”. Croydon Council ...
Inside Housing

Croydon Council criticised for response to ‘catastrophic customer services failure’ on housing

Croydon Council’s efforts to improve its under-fire housing services have been branded “at best embryonic and at worst weak” by an independent review of the local authority. Croydon Council’s efforts ...
Architects' Journal

Croydon unveils blueprint for a new kind of council housing

NEWS FEATURE: Using its own private development company, the south London borough is set to build architect-designed housing on council-owned sites, writes Richard Waite Plans for hundreds of new ...