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Category Archives: Centrale
Free beer: House of Fraser’s sports lounge event: May 30
There’s beer on the House (of Fraser) in central Croydon tonight. The sports lounge at Croydon’s House of Fraser is hosting a special promotion this evening, Thursday May 30, from 6.30pm to 9.30pm, offering free beer, nibbles and a goody … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Activities, Business, Centrale
Tagged Croydon, England, Fraser, Harrods, House of Fraser, London, Sports Direct
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Portas Pilot one year on: more shops have closed in Croydon
The state of Surrey Street and Church Street markets in Croydon are worse now than 12 months ago, when the area was awarded a £100,000 grant by the local government department as part of the Portas Pilot scheme, according to … Continue reading
Hammersfield choose architects for Croydon’s re-design
The architects selected to redesign the Whitgift Centre and Centrale were named today as London firms Allies and Morrison and Leonard Design Architects, as a brief news story in Property Week suggested that the joint scheme between developers Hammerson and … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Hammerson, London, Property Week, Royal Festival Hall, Westfield, Westfield Bradford, Whitgift Centre
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“Corruption of punishment” coming to Croydon high streets
As our council redoubles its efforts to make shopping in central Croydon an increasingly unattractive experience, the Town Hall is poised to hire a private police force that will, if experience elsewhere is a guide, go to great money-grubbing lengths … Continue reading
In to the Valley: Croydon’s wrong turn on road to future
CROYDON COMMENTARY: So a massive retail-based regeneration scheme in the centre of town will go ahead. DAVID CALLAM says it may yet prove to be yesterday’s solution for tomorrow’s problems Behold Boris Johnson, Croydon’s saviour, appearing in person at the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, Ikea, Valley Park, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Gatwick Airport, Hammerson, London, Purley Way, Taberner House, Whitgift Centre
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The Croydon man at the heart of the Hammersfield deal
The £1 billion deal to redevelop the Whitgift Centre and Centrale needs, among its many objectives, to rekindle Croydon’s community spirit according to the chairman of one of the companies in the big-money joint venture. John Nelson was born in … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Hammerson, London, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Shot-gun marriage provides £1bn Croydon facelift
ANDREW PELLING was a guest at the wedding feast this morning to announce the £1 billion Hammerfield union. He’s not sure it will last The risk of having a London Mayor who thinks he is a top-class joker is that … Continue reading
Posted in Allders, Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, Business, Centrale, Housing, Mayor of London, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boris Johnson, Centrale, Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Frank Lowy, Hammerson, London, Westfield
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Bah humbug! Tory councillor complains at ‘too early’ Christmas
One of Croydon’s Conservative councillors wants to stop the town’s retailers from starting their Christmas sales campaigns too early. Ashburton councillor Adam Kellett put forward his own forthright views in a question to the council leader Mike Fisher at the … Continue reading
Posted in Adam Kellett, Allders, Avril Slipper, Business, Centrale, Mike Fisher, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Christmas, Croydon, Ebenezer Scrooge, London Borough of Croydon, Remembrance Day, Tory
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Newman: “Plan is too little, too late to help economy”
After five years saying that they would not intervene in the local economy, the Conservatives who run Croydon Council are about to launch an economic plan. For TONY NEWMAN, the leader of the Labour opposition group, this is an admission … Continue reading
Posted in Allders, Business, Centrale, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Council, Jon Rouse, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Bank of America, Croydon, Hammerson, Labour, Labour Council, London, Tory
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Palace players and Brit School backing for cancer pop-up shop
Croydon’s Get to Know Cancer information and advice pop-up shop at the Centrale shopping centre is open for just one more week. The campaign is a trial scheme, to offer the public the chance to ask questions about cancer and … Continue reading
Car park failure is dire warning for Croydon’s casino economics
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Another week, another multi-million pound company goes into administration. ANDREW PELLING says that the collapse of financial scheme behind a car park operator will have lasting repercussions for Croydon There’s been a lot of action this week that … Continue reading
Posted in Allders, Andrew Pelling, Business, Centrale, Commuting, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, Jon Rouse, Parking, Property, South Croydon, Transport, Waddon, Whitgift Centre
Tagged BBC, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield, London, London Borough of Croydon, Royal Bank of Scotland, Westfield
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“Wastefield” finally plugs the £200m Hole in Bradford
Another straw in the wind for Croydon Council’s dependency on high street retail this morning, as the Telegraph and Argus is reporting that Westfield has cashed its chips on the controversial land holding in Bradford, where a vast, water-filled crater … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Centrale, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Estates Gazette, George Galloway, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mary Portas, Westfield, Yorkshire
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Collapsing retail sector hits Croydon hardest, says BBC
Croydon has suffered the worst rate of retail store closures in the whole of London, the BBC is reporting. BBC London accessed the figures from a nationwide survey on retail trends for the first six months of 2012. The worrying … Continue reading
Posted in Allders, Business, Centrale, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, BBC, Croydon, Hammerson, Local Data Company, London, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Centrale pop-up shop to pilot London-wide cancer scheme
Croydon is to pilot a cancer pop-up shop, which will open tomorrow. The scheme is run with the council and one of London Mayor Boris Johnson’s projects, the London Health Improvement Board. Croydon’s shop will be on the ground floor … Continue reading
Hammerson stakes £65m in latest round of battle for Whitgift
Ding ding! Seconds out, Round Three… Hammerson, one of the two heavyweight contenders in the battle for central Croydon, put its money where its mouth is over the weekend, staking £65 million to buy-out one of the leaseholders of the … Continue reading
End of an era: the final days of Allders
Here’s some pictures taken in the third-largest department store in Britain over the weekend. Poignant, and in one case, so very fitting. Click here to read The end of Allders: a timeline to oblivion
The end of Allders: a timeline to oblivion
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The decline of Allders is partly a story of Croydon itself. ANDREW PELLING looks at the council’s role in the final days and asks if more could have been done by the Town Hall to save the near-1,000 … Continue reading
Posted in Allders, Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, Business, Centrale, Coulsdon, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Fairfield, History, Ikea, Ken Livingstone, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Mike Fisher, Parking, Policing, Property, Purley, Purley Way, Richard Ottaway MP, Ruskin Square, Surrey Street, Transport, URV, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Allders, Centrale, Croydon, East Croydon station, Ken Livingstone, London, Minerva, Purley Way
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Westfield swoops in early with planning application for Croydon
Anyone mention the phrase “unseemly haste”? Do images of vultures come to mind when it is reported that property developers Westfield, urged on by their mates, the multi-million-pound landowners the Whitgift Foundation, have just submitted their planning application for central … Continue reading
Hammerson: Handsome half-year figures and takeover talk
As previously suggested by Inside Croydon, Hammerson, the owner of Centrale and potential developers of the Whitgift Centre, is a takeover target for other developers – including their Whitgift rivals, Westfield. The takeover talk emerged from Australia in May, according … Continue reading
Posted in Allders, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Jon Rouse, Planning, Property, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Jon Rouse, Purley Way, Ruskin Square, West Croydon station, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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