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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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#BoxparkBallsFund: Legal appeal hits its target in just 26 hours
There’s people on the pitch. They think it’s all over. It is now! OK, it may not be quite the same as winning the World Cup, but the generosity and encouragement offered by Inside Croydon’s readers over the past day … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Tony Newman
Tagged #BoxparkBallsFund, Boozepark, Boxpark, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Tony Newman
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May Day: Please help our appeal against Boxpark legal threat
Inside Croydon has been around for nearly seven years, and never before have we asked for any financial help from our loyal reader. Until now. The website has incurred legal bills in defending – successfully, we’re happy to say – … Continue reading
Council’s planning department groaning under workload strain
Croydon’s planning department, confronted with a massive workload in the borough’s relentless drive for redevelopment, is struggling under the strain with an exodus of experienced senior employees from an already understaffed office, and reports of some officials being reduced to … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boxpark, Brick by Brick, Chris Philp MP, CPO, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Heather Cheesbrough, Housing, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Purley, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Heather Cheesbrough, Jo Negrini, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Purley, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Surrey Street plan to use Exchange Square hits a roadblock
Croydon Council’s hopes to begin road works in Surrey Street next month could be thrown into disarray because legal deeds prevent them moving the market traders into Exchange Square, as WALTER CRONXITE reports Croydon Council is considering moving the fruit … Continue reading
Boxpark switches job ad to get round Living Wage rules
Boxpark, the council-subsidised food and booze venue, has dropped its low-pay internship advertisement, after Inside Croydon highlighted how it was offering to pay a miserly £6.50 per hour, well below the London Living Wage. Now, Boozepark has re-jigged the ad, … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Mark Watson, Tony Newman
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Labour, London Living Wage, Mark Watson, Roger Wade, Tony Newman
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Scandal of council-funded Boxpark paying £6.50 per hour
Boxpark, the food and booze outlet set up next to East Croydon Station thanks to £3.5million of loans and grants from Croydon Council, is now recruiting for an events and digital marketing “intern” and offering less than two-thirds of the … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Business, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Tony Newman
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tony Newman
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Council CEO Negrini’s self-promotion is based on half-truths
STEVEN DOWNES, the editor of Inside Croydon, highlights the latest example of shameless self-promotion by the borough’s highest paid public servant You’d be forgiven if you missed it. There was lots of other news around that day, and lots of … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Alison Butler, Boxpark, Brick by Brick, Business, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Mark Watson, Paul Scott, Planning, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Alison Butler, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson, Paul Scott, Tony Newman, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Surrey Street and the £1m questions Watson refuses to answer
The clique of Progress councillors that control Croydon’s Labour-run Town Hall have really taken to this “post-truth” thing, to the point of issuing press releases, through the council’s propaganda department, which are fundamentally untrue. The latest instance is over the … Continue reading
Council refuses to say whether it will prosecute fly-posters
Good as its word, Croydon Council has acted to remove the posters for Boxpark which had been fly-posted around the borough last week. And true to Croydon form, it’s been a bit of a botch job. As Inside Croydon reported, … Continue reading
Council loaned £3m to company not registered for Living Wage
The Labour group which runs the council, and which two years ago was elected on a promise of making Croydon a London living wage borough, has provided a £3 million loan to a business which is not registered as a … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Business, Jeff Boothe, Jo Negrini, Mark Watson, Sadiq Khan, Tony Newman
Tagged Amy Lame, Boxpark, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson, Mayor, Sadiq Khan, Tony Newman
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Boxpark posters draw complaints to council’s clean-up team
Well. This will be embarrassing for Croydon Council leader Tony Newman just as he packs his bucket and spade for a weekend jolly by the seaside on a Labour group “awayday” to Eastbourne. Boxpark, which has been in receipt of … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Business, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Labour, Roger Wade, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Woodside
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Unit rents in Boxpark set to triple following its glitzy opening
Rents for units in Boxpark could be set to triple after initial lease periods, Inside Croydon has been informed. The new soaring rents are understood to be behind the reluctance of some Croydon-based restauranteurs and cafe operators to take space … Continue reading
For she’s a jolly good fellow, but no one seems to know why
Jo Negrini, Croydon Council’s new chief executive, has been made an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Trouble is, no one seems to know quite why… RIBA made its announcement of its latest 18 fellows yesterday, when … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boxpark, Brick by Brick, CPO, Croydon Council, Environment, Housing, Jo Negrini, Mayor of London, Planning, Sadiq Khan, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boxpark, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, RIBA, Saffron Square, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Boxpark opening airbrushes all mention of Ambition Festival
Boxpark Croydon has finally announced its opening dates. Boozepark, which was lured to the site alongside East Croydon Station with a £3 million loan from the Labour-run council, is to stage a two-day “Opening Festival” on October 29 and 30 … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Ambition Festival, Boxpark, Business, Dance, East Croydon, Jo Negrini, Music, Timothy Godfrey
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Jo Negrini, Labour, Roger Wade, Timothy Godfrey
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Open House weekend: see where your money’s spent
Croydon’s somewhat curmudgeonly attitude towards Open House London, the annual opportunity to sneak a peek behind normally firmly closed doors, appears to have been shaken off, finally. But not as far as the not-so-dynamic team in the council’s press office … Continue reading
Boxpark operators still don’t have confirmed opening date
We are halfway through August, with the schools going back for their autumn term in a fortnight. Yet Boxpark Croydon, due to open in “Summer 2016” still has not got a confirmed opening date. The retail operation, on a corner … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Business, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Jo Negrini, Property, Ruskin Square
Tagged Boxpark, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Jo Negrini
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