Category Archives: “Hammersfield”

Financially challenged Purley Way among John Lewis closures

Posted on July 9, 2020 by

The John Lewis At Home store on the Purley Way will never reopen its doors. Croydon shoppers who had made the most of the department store’s limited presence since it opened its out-of-town site had their fears confirmed this morning … Continue reading →

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Electric House gets makeover for Britain’s 95th-best university

Posted on July 5, 2020 by

‘It’s a bit like saying Fulham are one of London’s top football teams.’ Our Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on the latest example of the council over-hyping its performance Unable to deliver the £1.4billion shiny new Westfield shopping mall that … Continue reading →

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Turn Westfield shambles into opportunity to re-shape our town

Posted on June 22, 2020 by

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 →

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Labour councillors signal major Town Hall U-turn over Westfield

Posted on June 19, 2020 by

Croydon Council is preparing to complete a full 180-degree U-turn over their position on Westfield and the long-promised and undelivered £1.4billion temple to consumerism in the town centre. “It makes sense for radical overhaul of the proposals for Croydon,” was … Continue reading →

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Back to the drawing board for new plans for the Whitgift Centre

Posted on June 2, 2020 by

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 →

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£1.4bn scheme loses supporter as Hammerson chief quits

Posted on May 28, 2020 by

Our closed-down-shops-and-malls correspondent, MT WALLETTE, on another potentially damaging turn of events for those who still hold out hope that the town centre might be ‘regenerated’ with a new shopping centre While council leader Tony Newman was gilding the lily … Continue reading →

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Desperate Newman needs Westfield Mk IV to save his skin

Posted on May 27, 2020 by

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, the France-based international shopping mall owners, have given council leader Tony Newman “a very positive letter” about the company’s commitment to Croydon – despite having left the town centre in a state of development blight for almost a decade. … Continue reading →

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Next takes up vacant Debenhams space to enter beauty contest

Posted on May 8, 2020 by

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 →

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Revealed: Council’s plan for town centre is 95th-best university

Posted on May 7, 2020 by

GENE BRODIE, education correspondent, on the increasingly desperate-looking moves to salvage anything from the town centre regeneration Croydon Council’s “cunning plan” to dig the town centre out of the hole created for it by the Whitgift Foundation and Westfield is … Continue reading →

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Centrale’s Debenhams to remain closed after lockdown ends

Posted on May 7, 2020 by

Our demise-of-high-street-retailing correspondent, MT WALLETTE, says that there’s no coming back from the latest hammer blow to the £1.4bn town centre regeneration scheme Coronavirus claimed another victim last night: Debenhams in Croydon. In truth, the department store, which has been … Continue reading →

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