Category Archives: Centrale

£1.4bn Westfield keeps planning committee waiting, yet again

Posted on May 24, 2017 by

There is, of course, one much-anticiapted development application missing from tonight’s meeting of the Croydon Council planning committee: the £1.4billion Westfield project to re-mould the centre of town into a shiny new supermall. This is at least the second time … Continue reading →

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£1.4bn Westfield planning meeting to be held on May 24

Posted on May 11, 2017 by

BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent, names the date. At last The much-delayed application for permission to build a £1.4billion supermall where the Whitgift Centre and Centrale now stand will go before the council’s planning committee at the Town Hall in … Continue reading →

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£1.4bn Westfield: Wait goes on as planning meeting scrapped

Posted on April 20, 2017 by

BARRATT HOLMES reports on the latest delay in long-promised town centre redevelopment More frustrations have been raised about when, if ever, work will begin on the £1.4billion Westfield supermall in Croydon after the council cancelled a planning committee meeting scheduled … Continue reading →

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Reports suggest Westfield wants 1,200 flats in town centre

Posted on April 5, 2017 by

BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent, on the glacially slow progress being made over the Hammersfield project, which is beginning to appear ‘like a residential development with a shopping centre tacked on’ Revised plans for the £1.4billion redevelopment of a large … Continue reading →

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Council gags architecture experts on costly Place Review Panel

Posted on March 30, 2017 by

Croydon’s Place Review Panel has been gagged, just three months since the building design body was set up, at potentially considerable public expense. Once a month, six members of the panel of high-profile architects and designers, who include the celebrity … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Centrale, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Jo Negrini, One Lansdowne Road, Paul Scott, Place Review Panel, Planning, Property, Queens Gardens, Taberner House, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Fairtrade Fortnight is coming to Croydon, Feb 27-Mar 11

Posted on February 14, 2017 by

Farmers around the world get a better deal when they sell their produce on Fairtrade terms. This leads to a better and more stable income and can help them break the cycle of poverty in which they are trapped. The … Continue reading →

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‘We want to review £1.4bn Westfield plans’ says panel co-chair

Posted on December 1, 2016 by

STEVEN DOWNES reports on how a panel of design, engineering and architecture experts assembled by the council might yet be denied the chance to review the biggest regeneration scheme in Croydon for generations One of the co-chairs of the Croydon … Continue reading →

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