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Boxpark boss wants to take on Whitgift Centre redevelopment
Our retailing correspondent, MT WALLETTE, on the latest opportunistic comments from a business owner who claims a ‘track record’ of handling the local council The entrepreneur behind Boxpark claims that he is ready to step in and take over the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boxpark, Business, Centrale, CPO, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Roger Wade, Tony Newman, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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By taking away the buses, they’ve cut off shops in town centre
CROYDON COMMENTARY: As the council abandons 10 years of delusion over the retail regeneration of the town centre, regular reader LEWIS WHITE, right, goes on a shopping trip to witness the state of the Whitgift Centre for himself I popped … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, Croydon BID, Debenhams, Surrey Street, TfL, Transport, West Croydon, Whitgift Centre
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Lewis White, West Croydon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Centrale flips out with £2m adventure park planned for summer
Around 75 jobs will be created by turning unwanted retail space into a ‘family fun centre’ It might not be the whole solution to the sorry plight of Croydon town centre, where a year-long lockdown has compounded storeowners’ troubles with … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale
Tagged Centrale, Croydon, Flip Out, Hammersfield, Hammerson
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Turn Westfield shambles into opportunity to re-shape our town
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The clear change in approach from senior figures at the Town Hall, previously cheerleaders for Westfield, over the abandoned plans for a £1.4bn redevelopment of the Whitgift and Centrale shopping centres represent a welcome opportunity to remodel the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Surrey Street, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Back to the drawing board for new plans for the Whitgift Centre
The council has today issued documents that admit the era of big, shiny shopping centres is over and that the £1.4bn Westfield development is ‘unlikely to be implemented as consented’. Our unbuilt shopping centre correspondent, MT WALLETTE, reports Less than … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, CPO, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Planning, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Tony Newman, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Shopping centres will put limit on visitors when they reopen
Croydon town centre’s two major shopping malls will reopen for business after the coronavirus lockdown in two weeks’ time, it was confirmed today. But it will not be “business as usual” for a while, as pandemic measures will include controlling … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Centrale, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, coronavirus, Covid-19, Whitgift Centre
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Next takes up vacant Debenhams space to enter beauty contest
When we reported the demise of Croydon’s Debenhams store yesterday, the question posed was “who might move into the large store space next?” And the answer soon offered up was: Next. Hammerson was able to play hardball over the second … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Debenhams
Tagged Centrale, Debenhams, Hammerson, Next, The Beauty Hall from Next
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Debenhams administration is another blow to Hammerson
The coronavirus lockdown looks about to claim another casualty, as department store Debenhams announced this morning that it is to call in the financial administrators. It will the second time in a year that Debenhams has gone into administration. The … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Debenhams, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Croydon, Debenhams, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Chancellor is taking an axe to councils’ magic money tree
Croydon Council has more than £1bn of borrowings – half of which has gone on Brick by Brick and the purchase of some commercial properties. Proposals contained in the Budget this week could put an end to that, as KEN … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Bernard Weatherill House, Brick by Brick, Business, Centrale, Colonnades, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Croydon parks, Jo Negrini, New Addington, Planning, Property, Queens Gardens, Simon Hall, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Brick by Brick, Colonnades, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Selco, Simon Hall, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Concrete-coated Brexit is a disaster for Croydon’s Westfield
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Britain’s exit from Europe has played a major part in the collapse of the town’s Westfield scheme, says SIMON SPRAGUE During the General Election campaign in December, I made the perhaps unwise decision to join Twitter. I set … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, CPO, Croydon Central, Mario Creatura, Simon Sprague, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Hammerson, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Mario Creatura, Simon Sprague, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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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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Council to debate Westfield after Newman’s pointless meeting
KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, on an attempt to block any discussion of the crisis for the town centre at next week’s full council meeting Tony Newman came back from his meeting with Westfield at City Hall yesterday empty-handed … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Jacqueline Harris-Baker, Jo Negrini, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Hammerson’s £781m loss points to end of the shopping mall
MT WALLETTE, our unbuilt shopping malls correspondent, on the latest doom-laden annual report from one of the Croydon ‘partners’ Anyone clinging to the faint hope that the publication this morning of Hammerson’s annual report would offer encouragement about the prospects … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Hammersfield, Hammerson, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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They survived world wars and riots. They can survive Westfield
Leading Croydon businesses, who have been trading for more than 150 years, are angry at the ‘complete dereliction of duty, mismanagement and incompetence in every single aspect’ over the non-development of the town centre. And they offer some prospect of … Continue reading
Hammerson’s annual report could be bad news for Croydon
BARRATT HOLMES, our over-development correspondent, has been skimming through the trade press and found a damning verdict on the prospects for Croydon town centre One of the best-read commentators on the commercial property market says that he cannot ever see … Continue reading
