Category Archives: Fairfield Halls

Fears grow at Fairfield Halls over operator’s unsigned lease

Posted on June 30, 2020 by

The Fairfield Halls may be in “hibernation” until next year because of coronavirus, but Croydon Council is now facing another crisis over its ill-fated £43million refurbishment project, with growing fears that the company appointed to manage the arts complex could … Continue reading →

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Croydon in crisis: Contractors in £9m row over Fairfield Halls

Posted on June 24, 2020 by

EXCLUSIVE: The council’s blundering house-builders Brick by Brick face the threat of a multi-million-pound legal action in a payments dispute over the refurbishment of the town centre’s arts venue. By STEVEN DOWNES The building contractors who carried out the refurbishment … Continue reading →

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Armageddon! Boxpark predicts 50% businesses won’t survive

Posted on June 19, 2020 by

KEN LEE reports on how one heavily subsidised private landlord in the town centre is now lobbying for yet more public funding Half of Croydon’s retail and hospitality businesses won’t survive the coronavirus lockdown, according to Roger Wade, the owner … Continue reading →

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80 casual staff laid off as Fairfield Halls goes ‘into hibernation’

Posted on June 17, 2020 by

EXCLUSIVE: Our unfurloughed arts correspondent, BELLA BARTOCK, on dark times for Croydon’s major arts venue Fairfield Halls’ casual staff, who have been furloughed since the arts venue closed its doors for the coronavirus lockdown in March, have been told that … Continue reading →

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Facing uncertain future, Fairfield Halls returns all its pianos

Posted on June 3, 2020 by

The Fairfield Halls had the removal men in yesterday – taking away the arts venue’s pianos. Inside Croydon understands that the pianos – nine in total, including two grand pianos – have been returned to their makers after the venue … Continue reading →

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FAT chance of there being any inspired designs for Fair Field

Posted on May 26, 2020 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The council might be broke, but that hasn’t stopped them spaffing another million pounds, maybe more, on a set of architects’ designs which are certain to turn the borough into a laughing stock once more, says SEBASTIAN TILLINGER … Continue reading →

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Army goes on attack at the Fairfield Halls against coronavirus

Posted on April 30, 2020 by

Croydon is to get a covid-19 testing centre – for three days, anyway. The government announced this morning that a temporary, drive-in testing centre, staffed by the Army, is being set up in the car park behind the Fairfield Halls. … Continue reading →

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Only 16% of council’s Fairfield flats project will be affordable

Posted on April 18, 2020 by

Our housing correspondent BARRATT HOLMES on the latest signs of desperation to fix Brick by Brick’s failing finances The planning application being considered by the charade that will pass for a planning committee meeting next Thursday is for a scheme … Continue reading →

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Council ordered to use public buildings as emergency shelters

Posted on March 27, 2020 by

Parts of the Fairfield Halls, the borough’s leisure centres and even Fisher’s Folly could be transformed over the weekend into emergency shelters for rough sleepers, under the latest government edict in an effort to limit the spread of the deadly … Continue reading →

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Culture deals with covid-19 without making a song and dance

Posted on March 24, 2020 by

The sense of doom and gloom caused by the covid-19 pandemic had well and truly taken hold of London by the middle of last week. There was a dark humour about the place reflected by the public address system at … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Ashcroft Theatre, BH Live, Cinema, Croydon Bach Choir, Croydon Male Voice Choir, Croydon Philharmonic Choir, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Fairfield Halls, Music, Talawa Theatre Company, Theatre, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment