Category Archives: Centrale

Westfield pulls plug on £15m payment for tram network

Posted on March 22, 2018 by

JEREMY CLACKSON, transport correspondent, on the vanishing millions which Westfield were supposed to provide for improving local infrastructure Westfield and Hammerson have pulled a promised £15million investment in Croydon town centre. The money was to have gone towards the cost … Continue reading →

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Business, police and council unite for knife crime events

Posted on February 9, 2018 by

The schools’ half-term break will see the start of a three-week programme to raise awareness of knife crime and the impact it has on the community. The council’s youth engagement team joins forces with Croydon Business Improvement District (BID), Croydon … Continue reading →

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Westfield takeover is a ‘positive’. Newman’s positive about that

Posted on December 13, 2017 by

MT WALLETTE, our Francophone retailing correspondent, on council efforts to pass off a pig’s ear as a silk purse (there has to be some trading standards regulations about that…) The multi-billion-pound takeover of Westfield, the shopping centre developers who have … Continue reading →

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Westfield’s 20% affordable housing ‘unacceptable’ to GLA

Posted on November 17, 2017 by

BARRATT HOLMES on a serious problem with the £1.4billion development in the town centre which was given planning permission – for a second time – by the council this week London Mayor Sadiq Khan is likely to demand almost twice … Continue reading →

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Feeble council unquestioningly gives green light to Westfield

Posted on November 15, 2017 by

BARRATT HOLMES says ‘I told you so’ The decision of the council’s planning committee to give the go-ahead to the £1.4billion Hammersfield supermall last night was such a foregone conclusion that the Town Hall press team – never known for … Continue reading →

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Westfield have run down the CPO clock on £1.4bn scheme

Posted on November 14, 2017 by

BARRATT HOLMES on the charade of a planning meeting to take place at the Town Hall tonight The long-delayed re-application for planning permission by Westfield and Hammerson – “The Croydon Partners” – for a £1.4billion redevelop-ment of the ageing Whitgift … Continue reading →

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Council sneaks out announcement of Westfield’s planning date

Posted on October 20, 2017 by

WALTER CRONXITE reports on the modest little announcement about what is supposed to be the biggest thing in the borough for half a century Anyone would think that they were smuggling it out when they hoped no one might notice, … Continue reading →

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