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Category Archives: Business
Get up on the roof for the new club nights at Costa del Croydon
Westfield has once again turned the top floor of a multi-storey car park next to a shopping centre into a… beach. NADIA AZIZUDDIN went along to try out the new, adults-only Thursday club night For those who are missing the … Continue reading
Open House 2026: from Croydon Town Hall to Downing Street
There are almost 30 venues in Croydon next month, many offering tours of normally off-limit buildings, as part of the annual London Open House Festival. And it is all free! It is one of the better years for getting a … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Croydon Minster, Fairfield Halls, History, Museum of Croydon, Old Palace, Surrey Street, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Town Hall, Fairfield Halls, Greenwich, History, Leadenhall Market, Lloyd's Building, London, London Open House, London Open House Festival, Museum of Croydon, No10 Downing Street, Royal Naval College, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market, Whitgift Almshouses, Whitgift Foundation
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Customer care? With Thames Water, all you get is an AI shrug
After the Teevan Road burst main, when residents in Addiscombe went to fill the kettle or take a shower yesterday, this is the sort of response that they got from a privatised utility company that pays £1m ‘golden hellos’ to … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe East, Addiscombe West, Business, Thames Water
Tagged Addiscombe, Burst water main, Croydon, Lower Addiscombe Road, Teevan Road, Thames Water
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In a drought, Addiscombe suffers flood thanks to Thames Water
PHOTOSTORY: pictures by iC reader THOMAS AELBRECHT. Words by our failing utilities correspondent, JR HARTLEY The road had already been dug up. August, after all, is when so many roads get dug up. It’s supposed to help reduce disruption. But … Continue reading
Passport to Chocolate, workshops at Cocoa Jones, from Aug 6
A D V E R T I S E M E N T For more details, and to book your places, click here
Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Business
Tagged Advertisement, Cocoa Jones, Croydon, Kenley, Purley
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Gloucestershire bakery business in rescue deal for Coughlans
EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The majority of Coughlans bakers’ shops will be re-opening under a new name, after liquidators took less than a month to find a buyer for the long-established Croydon business. The 175 Coughlans staff who were notified … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Coughlan's, Janes Pantry
Tagged Addiscombe, Banstead, Coughlans, Coulsdon, Croydon, Epsom, Forestdale, Horsham, Janes Bakery Ltd, Janes Pantry, Labour, Old Coulsdon, Purley, Romesh Ranganathan, Sean Coughlan, South Croydon, Thornton Heath, Wallington, Warlingham
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South End start-up that tackles scammers wins Innovate award
Verinity, a financial technology company based in South End, has won an Innovate UK Women in Innovation Award for its new approach to preventing authorised push payment fraud. Verinity’s founder, Melody Williams, is one of 61 Innovate UK Women in … Continue reading
Perry drives a black cab through council’s consultation rules
The Croydon Mayor’s latest Trumpian edict, to ingratiate himself with London taxi drivers, is not quite what it seems, as our Town Hall correspondent, KEN LEE, reports Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed Mayor, is now pandering to black cab drivers, allowing … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Schools
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Healthy School Streets, Highways Dept, Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association, London, London Borough of Croydon, LTDA, LTNs, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, PCNs, Penalty Charge Notices, school streets, TfL, Tory, Transport for London
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Children’s home firm based in New Addington fined £100,000
A care company based in New Addington has become the first to be successfully prosecuted and fined for running unregistered children’s homes. Catalyst Care Ltd and its directors, Davidson Lynch-Shyllon and Miriam Ekathor, pleaded guilty to 10 charges at Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Children's Services, Crime
Tagged Catalyst Care Ltd, Children's homes, Davidson Lynch-Shyllon, Medway Council, Miriam Ekathor, Ofsted
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Croydon and Sutton are next to use Met’s anti-shoplifting tech
According to Scotland Yard’s own figures, fewer than one-third of reported shoplifting incidents using a new system result in cautions or convictions Croydon’s high streets are to get new technology which allows the police to turn around CCTV footage of … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Crime
Tagged Bexley, Boots, Bromley, Chief Inspector Rav Pathania, Crime, Croydon, Greggs, High Street, Lewisham, Mark and Spencer, Metropolitan Police, Shoplifting, Sutton
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Passport to Chocolate, workshops at Cocoa Jones, from Aug 6
A D V E R T I S E M E N T For more details, and to book your places, click here
Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Business
Tagged Advertisement, Cocoa Jones, Croydon, Kenley, Purley
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Ansari’s £90m property empire in collapse as receivers move in
In the latest sign of difficulties for businesses in Croydon, one of the borough’s biggest developers and landlords – a political donor to Sadiq Khan and Yvette Cooper in the past – is being forced to sell several properties. EXCLUSIVE … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Leslie Arms, Planning, Property, Pubs
Tagged AA Homes, Addiscombe, Addiscombe West, Anwar Ansari, Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, Croydon Council, Dogs attack, Dr Anwar Ansari, English Heritage, Kangal, Labour, Landlord licensing, Leslie Arms, Lloyd Park, Lower Addiscombe Road, The Victorian Society, Turkish Kangal
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Passport to Chocolate, workshops at Cocoa Jones, from Aug 6
A D V E R T I S E M E N T For more details, and to book your places, click here
Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Business
Tagged Advertisement, Cocoa Jones, Croydon, Kenley, Purley
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Call Drainage and Plumbing Ltd for your drain unblocking
A D V E R T I S E M E N T Click here to visit Drainage and Plumbing’s website to find out about all their services
Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Business
Tagged Advertisement, Bromley, Croydon, Drainage and Pulmbing Ltd, Sutton
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£2.49 for kids’ cinema tickets is definitely one for the album
With tickets for children from as little as £2.49 at the Vue cinema on the Purley Way this summer, families will have plenty of opportunities to spend quality time together as all-time favourites and animated adventures are heading to the … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Business, Cinema, Purley Way, Valley Park
Tagged cinema, Croydon, Grants, Minions, Purley Way, Spider-Man, Toy Story, Vue Purley Way
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Crapita! Thousands of ex-Civil Servants left to wait for pensions
There are more than 6,000 civil servants who work in Croydon today, many of them in the Home Office or Revenue and Customs buildings in Ruskin Square. The borough is also home to thousands more retired civil servants – some … Continue reading
Selsdon hotel’s new owners clear Croydon planning hurdle
Planning consent for the £30million refurbishment project for the Selsdon Park Hotel has been rubber-stamped by Croydon Council. What is little more than administrative approval by the planning authority – works have been underway at the locally listed hotel since … Continue reading
Perry challenge to Khan: ‘Croydon’s Green Belt is sacrosanct’
Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed Mayor, has put himself on a collision course with Lord Sadiq Khan and City Hall over proposals in the draft London Plan to build hundreds of homes on the borough’s Green Belt. “Whilst I am Mayor, … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Addington Hills, Addiscombe West, Andrew Pelling, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, East Croydon, Environment, Housing, Lloyd Park, London Councils, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, New Addington North, New Addington South, Park Hill and Whitgift, Park Hill Recreation Ground, Planning, Sadiq Khan, Selsdon and Addington Village, South Croydon, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Addington Hills, Addiscombe, Andrew Pelling, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon, East Croydon tram stop, Green Belt, Housing, Labour, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, London Mayor, Lord Sadiq Khan, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor Sadiq Khan, New Addington, South Croydon, The Local Plan, The London Plan, Tory
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‘Woeful’ Thames Water hits 10 million with hosepipe ban
A trades unions today described water monopoly Thames Water as “woeful”, as the debt-laden company imposed a hosepipe ban on more than 10million households across London and south-east England. The GMB Union points to Thames Water’s annual report, which admits … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Thames Water
Tagged Cliff Roney, Drought, GMB, GMB Union, heatwave, Hosepipe ban, Thames Water
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Call Drainage and Plumbing Ltd for your drain unblocking
A D V E R T I S E M E N T Click here to visit Drainage and Plumbing’s website to find out about all their services
Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Business
Tagged Advertisement, Bromley, Croydon, Drainage and Pulmbing Ltd, Sutton
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The Whybrew family trade that really put a feather in your cap
CROYDON CHRONICLES: Trades and professions come and go with the passing years, as fashions ebb and flow. Using the Minster’s archive records, DAVID MORGAN discovers another skill, common in Victorian times and used by a local family firm, but which … Continue reading
London’s ‘Lord Mayor’ puts Croydon Green Belt in his plan
Any green space within one mile of a tram stop or railway station might be available for housing development according to Mayor Khan’s draft London Plan. ANDREW PELLING takes a look at the new proposals London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Addington Hills, Addiscombe West, Andrew Pelling, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, East Croydon, Environment, Housing, Lloyd Park, London Councils, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, New Addington North, New Addington South, Park Hill and Whitgift, Park Hill Recreation Ground, Planning, Sadiq Khan, Selsdon and Addington Village, South Croydon, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Addington Hills, Addiscombe, Andrew Pelling, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon, East Croydon tram stop, Green Belt, Housing, Labour, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, London Mayor, Lord Sadiq Khan, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor Sadiq Khan, New Addington, South Croydon, The Local Plan, The London Plan, Tory
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