Category Archives: Centrale

MP holds urgent Westfield meetings with Chancellor and Mayor

Posted on April 10, 2019 by

Our retailing correspondent, MT WALLETTE, hears Sarah Jones spouting the developers’ platitudes, while the council leader has so far failed to publish the full contents of a letter of assurance from the Croydon Partners Sarah Jones, the MP for Croydon … Continue reading →

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Debenhams administration puts Centrale store under threat

Posted on April 9, 2019 by

Another day, another body blow to the prospects of Croydon’s town centre getting the retail regeneration that has been promised for the past seven years or more. Today’s latest nail in the coffin for high street retailing is the news … Continue reading →

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Mothercare quits Whitgift Centre as traders face CPO limbo

Posted on April 8, 2019 by

Mothercare is the latest large store to quit the Whitgift Centre, as the continuing uncertainty over the shopping mall’s future is making business increasingly tough for the few traders forced to remain. The large mother and baby store closed its … Continue reading →

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Newman sends out distress signals over Westfield scheme

Posted on March 25, 2019 by

Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on the latest non-statement on lack of progress from the council leader Is Tony Newman, the leader of Croydon Council, panicked by the lack of progress over Westfield’s long-promised £1.4billion redevelopment of the town centre? … Continue reading →

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Ruskin Square and Westfield in battle to secure Home Office

Posted on March 15, 2019 by

Multi-billion-pound developments in central Croydon could be forced to go head-to-head in a battle to secure the Home Office as tenants for their office buildings. According to a report published this morning by Property Week magazine, the Home Office is … Continue reading →

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Hammerson raise more fears for £1.4bn Croydon scheme

Posted on February 25, 2019 by

Hammerson, the owners of Centrale, and one corporate half of the “Croydon Partnership” which was supposed to be starting work on the £1.4billion redevelopment of the Whitgift Centre in central Croydon this autumn, has this morning announced that it has … Continue reading →

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Barwell, Brexit and Croydon’s troubled Westfield dream

Posted on February 15, 2019 by

STEVEN DOWNES on how the meddling of Tory politicians and the Croydon Establishment managed to ensure that the redevelopment of Croydon town centre was never going to run smoothly Questions were asked in the House of Commons last night which … Continue reading →

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