Plans to build dozens of new homes in Purley have been given the go-ahead by Croydon Council despite hundreds of residents objecting to the proposal and the local MP claiming they will "look like a prison block" The proposal to create 17 new flats and 19 new homes on land off Kingsdown Avenue and Montpelier Road is part of the council's commitment to build 1,000 affordable homes by 2018 - through a company wholly owned by the council called Brick by Brick.
Planning permission has now...
