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Category Archives: Boxpark
Armageddon! Boxpark predicts 50% businesses won’t survive
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
Posted in Boxpark, Business, Croydon Park Hotel, Fairfield Halls, Tony Newman
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Labour, Roger Wade, Tony Newman
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Negrini draws ridicule for her £81 On The Buses guided tour
Hold very tight please! Our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, is ready to be taken for a ride around Croydon town centre, all in the name of a good cause Croydon’s beleaguered £220,000 per year chief executive has attracted yet more … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Boxpark, Brick by Brick, Business, Centrale, Colm Lacey, CPO, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Heather Cheesbrough, Jo Negrini, Menta Tower, Paul Scott, Property, Purley Way, Ruskin Square, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Heather Cheesbrough, Jo Negrini, London, Paul Scott, Purley Way
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Now even MIPIM doesn’t want to hear Negrini on regeneration
Where was the council’s £220,000-plus per year chief executive, Jo Negrini, yesterday? Was she hard at work at her desk in Fisher’s Folly, finding ways to reduce the council’s £879million total borrowing (according to Croydon Council’s own figures) from the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boxpark, Brick by Brick, Business, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, London Borough of Croydon, MIPIM
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Unhappy tenants say they’re ready to quit loss-making Boxpark
It’s not been a great week for Boozepark. Then again, nor has it been great for Croydon Council, either, as it was they who provided a £3million loan and more than £400,000 in hand-outs of public money to help get … Continue reading
Council apprentices to get a pay rise – five years late
The Labour-run council was elected in 2014 on a promise to pay all its staff fairly. Yet some of the council’s least well-paid workers are only catching up now, and as KEN LEE reports, the Town Hall’s job brokerage service … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Business, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Tony Newman
Tagged Croydon Council, Croydon Works, Jo Negrini, Labour, Tony Newman
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Sleep Out raises £45,000, but rough sleepers were not welcome
STEVEN DOWNES spent Sunday night speaking to the rough sleepers in the town centre who did not have a roof over the heads It is 10.45pm, and a cold, wintry wind whips along George Street as a handful of people … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Boxpark, Brick by Brick, Business, Charity, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Croydon Nightwatch, Evolve, Jad Adams, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Alison Butler, Boxpark, Conservative, Croydon Council, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Tory
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The Big Sleep Out, Croydon town centre, Mar 24
Posted in Boxpark, Charity, Croydon BID, Evolve, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Boxpark, Croydon BID, Evolve Housing + Support, Steve Reed OBE
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Council pays £53m to buy ‘unloved’ Colonnades centre
The business “brains” at Fisher’s Folly have gone out and splurged £53million of public money to buy the freehold of the “unloved” and rarely visited Colonnades retail and leisure park – just as industry experts are warning that 200 such … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boxpark, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Property, Purley Way, Simon Hall, Waddon, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boxpark, Colonnades, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Purley Way, Waddon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Pollard’s manifesto makes election a question of honesty
ELECTION COUNTDOWN: Four years ago, the Conservatives in Croydon demonstrated their contempt for the electorate by not even bothering with a manifesto. This time round, as political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports, what they have produced is simply not very credible … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2018 council elections, Alison Butler, Bernard Weatherill House, Boxpark, Brick by Brick, Carillion, Chris Philp MP, Community associations, Croydon Council, Housing, Jason Perry, Libraries, Maria Gatland, Michael Neal, Mike Fisher, Paul Scott, Planning, Purley, Shirley, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Waste incinerator, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Alison Butler, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, North Shirley, Paul Scott, Purley, South Croydon, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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What a relief! Boxpark traders get helping hand from council
Boxpark, the booze and food outlet in a collection of old shipping containers next to East Croydon Station, has been given yet more help from the council in an attempt to staunch its exodus of tenants. Boxpark’s dwindling number of … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Business, Council Tax, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Jo Negrini, Tony Newman
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Business Rates, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, Tony Newman
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Prize draw: Win a pair of tickets for HotBox with David Rodigan
INSIDE CROYDON is delighted to be able to offer a pair of tickets to the high-demand HotBox launch party, featuring the legend of the turntables, David Rodigan. Being staged at Boxpark on April 28, the event is billed as the … Continue reading
HotBox launch party with David Rodigan, Boxpark, Apr 28
Posted in Activities, Boxpark, Dance, Music
Tagged Boxpark, Croydon, East Croydon station, HotBox
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‘Successful investment’ Boxpark reports a £500,000 loss
Boxpark Croydon made a loss of nearly £500,000 last year, according to accounts filed to Companies House. The operation, renting space to independent outlets selling street food and staging music and other events in a collection of disused shipping containers … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Business, East Croydon, Tony Newman
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Roger Wade, Tony Newman
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Watson ‘backing’ business, after halving his charity’s income
Above is the scene in Surrey Street Market in early afternoon yesterday, Wednesday January 3, 2018. It is about six months since the council, in a plan pushed through by the soon-to-be-ex councillor Mark Watson, spent £1.2million, on “upgrading” the … Continue reading
More food outlets quit Boxpark as the £33 ticket raves go on
Only in Croydon could there be a council-subsidised venue which tries to charge potential customers an entry fee so that they can get in and buy a £10 burger. Town Hall correspondent KEN LEE reports While other bars, pubs and … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Business, East Croydon, Jo Negrini, Planning, Property, Pubs, Restaurants, Tony Newman
Tagged Boxpark, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tony Newman
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Newman could face legal challenge over councillor sackings
WALTER CRONXITE reports on the latest twist to the sackings of two Labour councillors over the borough’s licensing policy Tony Newman, the leader of Croydon’s Labour-run council, may face a legal challenge to his decision to strip councillors Callton Young … Continue reading
Newman sacks two councillors over bashment ban debate
WALTER CRONXITE on the latest power move by Labour’s council leader Tony Newman, the leader of the Labour-held council, with Soprano-esque savagery, has sacked two councillors in the festering dispute over the implementation of a new licensing policy to favour … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Boxpark, Business, Callton Young, Croydon Council, Dance, Jane Avis, Music, Tony Newman
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Callton Young, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Tony Newman, Waddon, Westfield
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Council fails to publish papers for Boxpark licensing meeting
The council’s administration of its public meetings has again fallen short, ahead of a licensing sub-committee due to be held at the Town Hall tomorrow morning. The last licensing committee meeting has become a matter of controversy because neither the … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Business, Croydon Council, Jane Avis
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Jane Avis, Licensing sub-committee
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Owner ‘rises to the challenge’ as businesses quit Boxpark
“Stop sort of complaining about your lot and get on with rising to the challenge, that’s my message to people,” businessman Roger Wade said recently. “You can’t have the council going out trying to protect local businesses.” Wade is the … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Business, East Croydon, Mark Watson, Tony Newman
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Conservative, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Labour, Roger Wade, Tony Newman, Tory
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Town centre social cleansing is back on council’s agenda
WALTER CRONXITE reports on a Town Hall proposal which few people want, and which would provide ‘powers’ which already exist Another week, another lip-service “consultation” from the council. Only this one’s a bit special, possibly the work of a comedy … Continue reading
Council to drop licensing restrictions to make way for Westfield
KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, on the latest move by the council to make it easier for Westfield to rent out space in its supermall to boozers, bars and places flogging £10 burgers There’s an estimated 17,000 people moving … Continue reading
Chicken shops have had their chips if Butler gets her way
Alison Butler, Croydon Council’s deputy leader, has declared war on fast food shops around the borough. In an email sent to her 38 Labour councillor colleagues, seen by Inside Croydon, Butler, the council cabinet member for homes, regeneration and planning, … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Boxpark, Business, Croydon Council, Health, Planning, Surrey Street
Tagged Alison Butler, Boozepark, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Local Plan, Labour
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Boozepark applies to extend bar opening times until 1am
KEN LEE, our Town Hall correspondent, has found some interesting documents on the council’s planning site Within nine months of opening, and Boxpark has been applying to Croydon Council to drop some of the conditions linked to its planning permission … Continue reading
Milestone for Ruskin Square offices as the Taxman moves in
The Taxman has arrived. Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs has this week begun moving into its new office building at 1 Ruskin Square, next to East Croydon Station, the first “regional hub” to become operational in “a major restructuring” (that … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Business, Property, Ruskin Square
Tagged Croydon, East Croydon station, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, HMRC, Ruskin Square
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