Category Archives: North End Quarter

The Masterplan has just one aim, to make money for Westfield

Posted on March 9, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The Town Hall planners handing over Masterplan responsibilities for the town centre to Westfield, as Inside Croydon reported this week, has left reader CARL LUCAS angry that our council will be missing a significant opportunity for a sustainable … Continue reading →

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Perry’s council endorses scheme for 3,000 flats in town centre

Posted on March 3, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Getting rid of two-thirds of the retail space in the town centre and replacing it with flats is about all that execs from Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield were prepared to share to a council committee, reports our housing correspondent, BARRATT … Continue reading →

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Westfield’s latest charm offensive: £1,000 to handful of groups

Posted on January 13, 2025 by insidecroydon

Westfield, part of the multi-national Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield property group which is worth many billions, last month announced an “important strand of our community strategy”: doling out some modest grants to community groups and charities in the borough. It is more than … Continue reading →

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Here’s our wish-list for a better Croydon and Sutton in 2025

Posted on January 1, 2025 by insidecroydon

What do you want for Croydon, and Sutton, in 2025? We approached a wide range of figures, including loyal readers, religious leaders, educators and business people for their thoughts – and hopes – for the New Year Ken Towl Addiscombe … Continue reading →

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Westfield need to rebuild Croydon credibility before all else

Posted on December 18, 2024 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Following the brief, tokenistic ‘engagement’ with the public over plans for the town centre, TED GUSH says that the whole approach offered by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield and the council to the so-called ‘North End Quarter’ needs to be seriously challenged … Continue reading →

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Waiting for Westfield leaves us Urban Room for improvement

Posted on November 14, 2024 by insidecroydon

With not a moment to lose, KEN TOWL dashed down to the Whitgift Centre to try to discover what the multi-national developers might have in store for the town centre, amid their models made of cereal packets and design briefs … Continue reading →

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Westfield wants to build five times as many flats in town centre

Posted on November 13, 2024 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The one-time shopping mall developer is shapeshifting its business towards residential property, but appears in no hurry to action any of its promises after more than a decade of blight to North End. By our housing correspondent, … Continue reading →

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Westfield appoints firm that oversaw King’s Cross scheme

Posted on November 12, 2024 by insidecroydon

Westfield has today begun what they call “a year-long programme of engagement”, before the Paris-based shopping mall developers finally put together a planning application, by our reckoning the third, for what was once a £1.4billion regeneration scheme in Croydon town … Continue reading →

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Westfield reveal consultation and more delays on ‘masterplan’

Posted on October 30, 2024 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: After being crushed by developer blight for more than a decade, the town centre faces an even longer wait for the big reveal of Paris-based multi-national’s latest proposals. By STEVEN DOWNES It could be more than a … Continue reading →

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