So sign your name to our petition and join me in telling the government: it’s time Croydon got its fair share.
While our neighbours get more support, Croydon households have been with stretched services and a 27% hike in Council Tax from Conservative Mayor Jason Perry. The Conservatives in Westminster had 14 years to sort this out and never did.
We’ve seen what the current Labour government can do for our borough, including the recent £1.5 million investment for town centre.
This support is welcome, but Croydon needs more than one-off funding announcements. We deserve a fair, consistent deal that reflects the real needs of our community.
So sign your name to our petition and join me in telling the government: it’s time Croydon got its fair share.
CROYDON DESERVES FAIR FUNDING NOW
Croydon is the victim of unjust and unfair funding. From 2022-2023, Croydon received £4,650 in funding per head, while our neighbours in Lambeth received £5,077. In Southwark, the number was even higher - £5,378.
While our neighbours get more support, Croydon households have been with stretched services and a 27% hike in Council Tax from Conservative Mayor Jason Perry. The Conservatives in Westminster had 14 years to sort this out and never did.
We’ve seen what the current Labour government can do for our borough, including the recent £1.5 million investment for town centre.This support is welcome, but Croydon needs more than one-off funding announcements. We deserve a fair, consistent deal that reflects the real needs of our community..
CAMPAIGNS
SIGN OUR PETITION TO GET THE MAYOR TO CLEAN UP CROYDON
Croydon has been declared the fly-tipping capital of the UK . It’s a shocking and unhygienic disgrace to see our streets left like this.
The problem is the current Mayor has put NO enforcement in place to catch the criminals that do this. Our money is used to clear up their dumping, but no one is there to catch them, punish them or make sure they do it again!
This is why I launched this petition with Cllr Chris Herman and the Croydon Labour group - to urge our current Mayor to adopt 5 solutions that could clean up our streets:
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Employ two enforcement officers to allow the Council to take enforcement action against fly-tipping vandals.
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Introduce ‘Mega Skip Days’ to areas where there is low car ownership and high rates of fly-tipping.
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Allow private companies to take enforcement action against fly-tippers. These companies would be allowed to keep the fines they raise to pay for their costs e.g. CCTV, with no expense to the taxpayer.
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Publicly name and shame anyone who is caught for fly-tipping, to act as a deterrent.
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Design out’ fly-tipping in hot-spots, for example using trees and benches to block off areas of repeat offence. Fly-tipping is dangerous, unhygienic, and a criminal act that should not go unpunished.
Please sign this petition to urge the Mayor to take action!
Don’t ever let anyone tell you campaigning like this doesn’t make a difference. Last year the Mayor told us he couldn’t clean up the dumpside on Purley Way near the war memorial because it was on private land. My ward colleague Ellily Ponnuthurai and I campaigned for a year to get it sorted, and now it is. The dumping ground has been cleared and new shops and businesses are set to open on site soon.
GET CROYDON OPEN FOR BUSINESS:
RE-OPEN WANDLE PARK CAFÉ!
We’ve been fighting alongside residents to get the café at Wandle Park reopened for years now. To raise awareness about this, we supported residents with a pop-up café last December, just outside the closed café which included hot drinks, cakes, wreath making and general merriment.
After more than a year of applying pressure to the mayor, the café will FINALLY reopen its doors in December 2025. This comes YEARS after the 2023 date promised by the mayor, but what else would you expect ...
This is such a win Croydon. Well done and thank you to everyone who signed our petition. Special shoutout to my ward colleague Cllr. Ellily Ponnuthurai who challenged the mayor on this issue during our Full Council meeting – all the way back in May!
