Tag Archives: Fairfield Halls

Benched: Council still can’t get borough’s greats’ names right

Posted on April 24, 2013 by

It is almost a year since Inside Croydon highlighted another botched PR effort by our council, the staging of a “public vote” on leading figures from Croydon’s past (and present), to provide three subjects for a “portrait bench” on a … Continue reading →

Posted in Transport, Fairfield Halls, Comedy, Activities, Art, Music, Croydon Council, Environment, History, Waddon, Walks, Jason Perry, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Cinema, Cycling | Tagged , , , , , , ,

Croydon’s homes crisis is borough’s bitter Thatcher legacy

Posted on April 18, 2013 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: DAVID CALLAM says that the council lost much of its ability to manage its own policies on business and housing to a premiership of 30 years ago Margaret Thatcher is portrayed as a darling of the Home Counties … Continue reading →

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Fairfield in discussions over cinema use of new studio threatre

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

Supporters of two of the borough’s neglected arts venues, the David Lean Cinema and the Warehouse Theatre, are expected to be very concerned that management at Fairfield Halls have been holding meetings with cinema operators over the possible use of … Continue reading →

Posted in Fairfield Halls, Comedy, Property, Art, Timothy Godfrey, Margaret Mead, Planning, Fairfield, Dudley Mead, Ruskin Square, URV, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Theatre, Cinema, Warehouse Theatre | Tagged , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Bidders for David Lean Cinema deterred by council delays

Posted on February 26, 2013 by

£5,000 – that’s the amount of money Croydon Council will have to spend to “re-calibrate” the borough’s own digital cinema projector, after Town Hall staff were ordered to move the £20,000 piece of kit from the council-owned David Lean Cinema … Continue reading →

Posted in Activities, Art, Business, Cinema, Council Tax, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Fairfield Halls, Pubs, Sara Bashford | Tagged , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Mini-movie-maker makes the final of One-minute Oscars

Posted on February 24, 2013 by

Croydon’s mini-movie-maker, Michael Hall, has done it again. Hall, the sometime stand-up comedian and leading light in the borough’s top am-dram group, CODA, has made it to the short-list of 20 finalists in Empire magazine’s annual “Done in 60 Seconds” … Continue reading →

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Trashed: incinerator campaigners stage free screening

Posted on February 24, 2013 by

The Stop the Incinerator Campaign, the Sutton and Croydon group opposed to the £1billion scheme to burn rubbish for profit planned for Beddington Lane, is staging a free screening of Trashed – No Place for Waste, the award-winning documentary. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Activities, Art, Cinema, Community associations, Croydon Greens, Environment, Fairfield Halls, Health, Waste incinerator | Tagged , , , , , , ,

Public meeting to discuss future of Fairfield Halls: Mar 21

Posted on February 15, 2013 by

The South Croydon Community Association is staging an open meeting on March 21 to discuss the future of the Fairfield Halls arts complex. The meeting will take pace in St Michael’s Church Hall on Poplar Walk from 7pm. “The meeting … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Community associations, Fairfield Halls, Music, South Croydon Community Association, Theatre | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

Sign of the Times I: the Bridge to Nowhere

Posted on February 10, 2013 by

Here it is: the admission by the station operators at East Croydon that the £22 million Bridge to Nowhere really does lead to… well, nowhere. The signs appeared in the past fortnight, and are a welcome and belated addition that … Continue reading →

Posted in Addiscombe, Commuting, East Croydon, Transport | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Croydon Council recruits new CEO – with event for teenagers

Posted on February 6, 2013 by

Jon Rouse has left the building. The chief executive officer at Croydon Council since 2007 has worked his final day in Taberner House, having cleared his desk and using some untaken annual holiday before he moves on, with a £100,000 … Continue reading →

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Failing Fairfield Halls is limping along on borrowed time

Posted on January 31, 2013 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Long gone are the days when the Fairfield Halls could attract some of the biggest acts in the world, such as the Rolling Stones or the Beatles, says DAVID CALLAM. These days, the only beetles at the arts … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Cinema, Comedy, Dance, Fairfield Halls, Music, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre | Tagged , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

In to the Valley: Croydon’s wrong turn on road to future

Posted on January 21, 2013 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: So a massive retail-based regeneration scheme in the centre of town will go ahead. DAVID CALLAM says it may yet prove to be yesterday’s solution for tomorrow’s problems Behold Boris Johnson, Croydon’s saviour, appearing in person at the … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, Ikea, Valley Park, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , | 16 Comments

The Croydon man at the heart of the Hammersfield deal

Posted on January 18, 2013 by

The £1 billion deal to redevelop the Whitgift Centre and Centrale needs, among its many objectives, to rekindle Croydon’s community spirit according to the chairman of one of the companies in the big-money joint venture. John Nelson was born in … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Shot-gun marriage provides £1bn Croydon facelift

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

ANDREW PELLING was a guest at the wedding feast this morning to announce the £1 billion Hammerfield union. He’s not sure it will last The risk of having a London Mayor who thinks he is a top-class joker is that … Continue reading →

Posted in Allders, Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, Business, Centrale, Housing, Mayor of London, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Why did Croydon CEO Jon Rouse take a £100k pay cut?

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

Amid all the hoopla of the £1 billion “Hammerfield” announcement this morning at Fairfield Halls, with the usual dollop of Boris buffoonery as the London Mayor proclaimed the marriage of the two property developers, there stood a figure who went … Continue reading →

Posted in Council Tax, Croydon Council, Hayley Lewis, Jon Rouse | Tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Taking the Miki for Ashcroft’s audience of just 50

Posted on January 13, 2013 by

BELLA BARTOCK has been out again, this time accompanied by a responsible child to see Miki at the Ashcroft Theatre The story of Inuit girl Miki, her friends Penguin and Polar Bear and Miki’s adventures below the sea ice as … Continue reading →

Posted in Activities, Art, Education, Fairfield Halls, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre | Tagged , , , , , , , | 5 Comments