That policy will not change, no matter who is in charge, because of the housebuilding targets that have been set by the government.

Like taking away prime office space in the town centre and permitting s***ty flats to be built.

I get the idea, more flats, more council tax. But in Croydon's case its, more flats, more DSS, a greater burden on services and less income.

The people councils really want to attract is young professionals with money to spend and no kids or health problems. Unfortunately, Croydon's just not fashionable enough and we are getting the dregs of people pushed out from "gentrified" areas, whilst the type of people they want are moving away.

Would be better to build bigger dwellings for families and people with greater income, it must be decades since a half decent housing estate has been built anywhere in Croydon (Shirley Oaks possibly). They aren't quite the young professional gold mine councils want, but a pretty safe bet. To do this, they'll probably need to sort out the transport links to places like Shirley, Selsdon, Sanderstead etc.

This is not entirely true, at least not for the city centre. Croydon is starting to get a larger share of the YP market, not less. Balham, Streatham and Brixton used to be exactly as you've described but now has ridiculous house prices and large pockets of young professionals.

More and more of these people are being priced out of those places and are moving either here, Kent (screw that) or areas of East London that are yet to be hackneyed.

I am exactly that demographic, albeit the older end of the 'young professional spectrum' – there are plenty of family houses in south croydon – building family housing in central doesn't make any sense to me.

What I meant was build more family houses on the outskirt of the town. I'm guessing you probably live in a converted house or small to medium size block of flats in south croydon, rather than the huge high rises they are building in the town centre?

Whilst there are a lot of family homes, these less family homes on the market and more and more 1 and 2 bedroom flats being built. There doesn't seem to be anywhere for the people wishing to move out of those flats available to move in too when they end up settling down, whilst there's an oversupply of flats in the town centre.

South Croydon and Purley are quite nice places for YP's. Decent transport links and good gyms and pubs near by. The town centre is just barron.

Not going after anything, just stating a fact

No we’re not but if you’re being selective with stats be prepared for comparisons to give context. And in this case South Kensington had 1230 to 1136. It’s London generally.

As terrible as your experiences are, they’re extreme - you’d be hard pushed to claim it as the average for every resident - also, if you live near to council estates or concentrated areas of impoverishment anywhere in London, what do you expect?

Some parts of west Croydon are undoubtably terrible, but there are areas equal to or worse than across London. Just because of that, does it mean the entirety of Croydon is the same? No. It’s a massive borough. I think you mean central and west Croydon. And even then, specific parts of it.