Croydon Council has been told to pay more than £2,000 to a social worker who was accused of housing and tenancy fraud. The payout was settled last week after an employment tribunal held in 2019.

A council sub-committee heard £9.5m a year had been taken from Croydon's Housing Revenue Account A ... loan by central government and now needs to pay £47m a year to meet its £1.6bn debt.

Renters in Croydon have to fork out almost five weeks’ pay each time they ... “No London council has consistently delivered 50 per cent affordable housing in years.” What are your ...

Our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, on another year where our council is close to the top of a league table – for most upheld ...

A London council forced to declare bankruptcy less ... parking charges and traffic fines as well as mistakes in the housing benefit budget which “should have been recognised earlier” and ...

After council chiefs admitted that they ‘cannot deliver a balanced budget’, DAVID WICKENS says that their ‘Stabilisation Plan ...

Cash-strapped Croydon Council plans to chase benefit claimants for unpaid council tax as it claws its way out of bankruptcy. The Conservative-run council is proposing to seek legal orders to have ...

The social housing regulator has lifted its regulatory notice on Croydon Council four years after it was marred in scandal over the state of its housing stock. The decision follows evidence of ...

A south London council ... Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) for comment. The department this week announced that £69bn in funding had been confirmed for England's councils ...

A group of “hidden homeless” tenants living in “uninhabitable” temporary housing have written to Croydon Council to demand better living conditions amid complaints of pests, bedbug-ridden furniture ...

The authority was ordered to pay nearly £4,000 in compensation. The woman, who uses a wheelchair and relies on care staff to meet her needs, received funding from Croydon Council for paid ...