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Category Archives: Centrale
TfL’s tram scheme will benefit Westfield, but not passengers
Alerted by a report on Inside Croydon, BERNARD WINCHESTER’s research into Transport for London’s proposal for a new Tramlink loop has some troubling conclusions Do you catch the tram from Harrington Road or Beckenham to West Croydon or Surrey Street … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Addiscombe West, Allders, Boris Johnson, Business, Centrale, Commuting, Croydon Central, Croydon Greens, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Parking, Planning, Property, Surrey Street, Tramlink, Transport, West Croydon, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, East Croydon station, London, TfL, Tory, Tram, Tramlink, Transport for London
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Judge gives all-clear for Viridor to build incinerator
So, Westfield and Hammerson are to build a £1 billion shopping mall in the centre of town, and thousands of new homes are to be built there, too, and they will all have a waste incinerator parked on the borough … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Broad Green, Business, Centrale, Croydon Greens, Environment, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Tony Newman, Waste incinerator, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Broad Green, Conservative, Hammersfield, Hammerson, incinerator, Labour, Shasha Khan, Stuart Collins, Sutton, Tony Newman, Tory, Viridor, Westfield
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BID’s report suggests the impact of loss of Allders and Nestle
CROYDON COMMENTARY: DAVID CALLAM is a fan of business improvement district schemes but reminds the town centre’s elite firms that self-praise is no recommendation All Change! Croydon is the title of the recently published 32-page annual report from Croydon Business … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, David Callam, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Council Tax, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Westfield
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Town centre is a monument to municipal mismanagement
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The honeymoon is over for Tony Newman’s Labour council which was elected in May, says DAVID CALLAM Labour has settled back into power in Croydon Town Hall and many of the same old problems are as intractable as … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Boris Johnson, Business, Centrale, Council Tax, Croydon Council, David Callam, Housing, Jo Negrini, London Assembly, Mayor of London, Planning, RIF, Tony Newman, URV, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Commuters face 18 months’ disruption as bus station closes
West Croydon Bus Station closes this weekend, with 18 months’ worth of disruption ahead for bus, tram and rail passengers as works are undertaken to reconfigure the interchange at the north end of the Whitgift Centre. Each year, eight million … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Broad Green, Centrale, Commuting, Connected Croydon, London-wide issues, Planning, Tramlink, Transport, West Croydon, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Connected Croydon, East Croydon station, Hammerson, TfL, Toni Letts, Transport for London, West Croydon, West Croydon Bus Station, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Building a new Croydon won’t be boring, promises Negrini
Jo Negrini, Croydon Council’s head of planning, this week rejected earlier schemes – drawn up by the previous Conservative council – for Fairfield Halls to be virtually surrounded by high-rise housing as “really, really boring”. Instead, Negrini told hundreds of … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Ashcroft Theatre, Bernard Weatherill House, Business, Centrale, Cinema, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Planning, Taberner House, Tech City, Theatre, URV, Warehouse Theatre, Whitgift Centre
Tagged CCURV, Conservative, Croydon, East Croydon station, Fairfield Halls, Fisher's Folly, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, Roehampton University, Taberner House, Tory, Westfield
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Radically pragmatic Negrini exhibits award-winning chutzpah
Nathan Elvery’s up to his old tricks. And Croydon Council looks like a shoo-in for another empty “award“, to be handed over by the council’s mates in the property market, for being “pragmatic” planners. MIPIM UK is a property developers … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Capita, Centrale, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Planning, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boris Johnson, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Rogers calls on planners to build homes in “empty” Croydon
One of the world’s leading architects has called for the radical re-building of central Croydon to provide homes to help meet the national housing crisis. “You could put two new towns in the centre of Croydon without any problem because … Continue reading
Music At The Unit, Lives Not Knives: Sep 20
Posted in Activities, Centrale, Lives Not Knives, Music
Tagged Centrale, knife crime, Lives Not Knives, LNK, Music
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Mead speaks out at cabinet on behalf of his “inner circle”
In an extraordinary outburst of arrogance, entitlement and pomposity, Dudley Mead, the deputy leader of the Conservative group on Croydon Council, last night underlined exactly why neither he, nor any other councillor with vested interests outside the Town Hall chamber, … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Dudley Mead, Education, Emily Benn, Jo Negrini, Mike Fisher, Planning, Property, Selsdon & Ballards, Steve O'Connell, Tim Pollard, Toni Letts, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Dudley Mead, Hammerson, Labour, Member of parliament, Mike Fisher, Tim Pollard, Toni Letts, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift Trust
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Police question time, at LNK, Centrale, Sep 17
Posted in Centrale, Lives Not Knives, Policing
Tagged Centrale, Lives Not Knives, Metropolitan Police, Police, Policing
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Festival of Code youth competition is coming to Centrale
Children from Croydon with a keen eye for coding are being urged to sign up to a competition taking place across the country between July 28 and August 3. The LNK unit, in Centrale’s Upper Mall, is a host centre … Continue reading
Posted in Centrale, Education, Lives Not Knives, Tech City
Tagged Centrale, coding, Croydon, Lives Not Knives, LNK, Tech City
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Positive Summer Vibes charity event, Centrale, July 26
Posted in Art, Centrale, Charity, Lives Not Knives, Music
Tagged Centrale, Eliza Ribeiro, Lives Not Knives, LNK
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Croydon Careers Fair, North End, June 30
Posted in Business, Centrale, Community associations, Lives Not Knives
Tagged careers, careers fair, Centrale, Croydon, jobs, North End
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Boris calls for ‘punitive’ Council Taxes on empty properties
Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London who has waved through planning consents for projects such as Croydon’s £1 billion Hammersfield development which undertakes to provide a very small amount of “affordable” new homes, is now calling on London boroughs to … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boris Johnson, Business, Cane Hill, Centrale, Cherry Orchard Gardens, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace Park, Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Taberner House, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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£150 – price of ‘scrutiny’ at council-backed Tech City ‘summit’
Kit Malthouse, Boris Johnson’s unelected Deputy Mayor of London and a failed candidate to become Conservative MP for Croydon South, is to open a Croydon Tech City “summit” next month, but which the public may attend only if they first … Continue reading
