Category Archives: “Hammersfield”

Buck-ing the trend: Croydon Labour staffer challenges Mayor

Posted on December 14, 2018 by

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports on wranglings within Labour in south London over the social cleansing of working class areas An employee of the Labour Party in Croydon has condemned Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan for having a gentrification agenda … Continue reading →

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Planning chair prejudices position with speech for developers

Posted on December 7, 2018 by

The charge that Croydon’s Blairite council leadership is too cosy with property developers and their architect chums has been given even greater weight, after the chair of the borough’s planning committee gave a rousing speech at a launch event for … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Leon House, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Toni Letts, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Schroders’ £500m Ruskin Square stalls over Westfield doubts

Posted on November 23, 2018 by

Big business is getting twitchy over the slow pace of developments in Croydon, as KEN LEE reports The agenda for the Croydon Labour group brainstorming weekend in Eastbourne this weekend is said to be “thin”. That may be deliberate to … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Jo Negrini, Ruskin Square, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Centrale is getting itself all lit-up for Christmas, Nov 15

Posted on November 8, 2018 by

Croydon shopping malls Centrale and Whitgift are gearing themselves for the annual Christmas business surge, with a big lights switch-on planned for 6pm at Centrale’s Christmas Tree next Thursday, November 15. This might, just, be the last Christmas when the … Continue reading →

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Colonnades purchase is massive gamble with public money

Posted on November 2, 2018 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Spending millions to buy a private business risks feather bedding property speculators, says DEREK THROWER Under a Conservative government, local authorities, including Croydon Council, are being given public cash to nationalise private assets and land. That’s quite extraordinary … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Colonnades, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Purley Way, Waddon, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Council pays £53m to buy ‘unloved’ Colonnades centre

Posted on November 1, 2018 by

The business “brains” at Fisher’s Folly have gone out and splurged £53million of public money to buy the freehold of the “unloved” and rarely visited Colonnades retail and leisure park – just as industry experts are warning that 200 such … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Boxpark, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Property, Purley Way, Simon Hall, Waddon, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 10 Comments

More retailers in peril as Green scandal hits the High Street

Posted on October 27, 2018 by

It may yet become known among retailers as “Black Thursday”, the day when the doomed fate of Britain’s High Street was sealed. It was certainly a day when the business case for the long-delayed £1.4billion redevelopment of the Whitgift and … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Debenhams, House of Fraser, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments