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Category Archives: Whitgift Centre
Builders brand Gove’s latest CPO reforms as ‘desperation’
Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, on how a ‘very un-Conservative’ policy shift has probably come too late to save Croydon town centre New powers handed to local authorities by the Conservative Government could, just, open the way for Croydon Council … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, CPO, Croydon Council, Housing, London-wide issues, Planning, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, London Borough of Croydon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Exciting Easter lined up for visitors to Centrale and Whitgift
This Easter, Centrale and Whitgift shopping centres in Croydon town centre will be hosting a roster of interactive activities for families – and helping to raise funds for a local arts charity. From April 1 to 5, you and the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Activities, Business, Centrale, House of Fraser, Stanley Halls, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Croydon, Easter, Stanley Halls, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Authors talk about pirates, pigeons and patchwork unicorns
Our latest Under The Flyover podcast is a World Book Day Special, where we meet three local authors who have helped to inspire thousands of local schoolchildren from Croydon primary schools through their books and their readings at Waterstones bookstore … Continue reading
2,000 primary pupils inspired by star authors at Waterstones
Almost 2,000 pupils from Croydon primary schools have this week come with their classes to Waterstones in the Whitgift Centre to celebrate World Book Day in an impressive and inspiring series of talks and events featuring locally-based authors. The youngsters … Continue reading
Body Shop confirms Whitgift Centre branch among closures
Our retailing disaster correspondent, MT WALLETTE, on the latest body blow to claims that the town centre’s shopping mall is doing thriving business The Body Shop is to close its branch in the Whitgift Centre, the struggling cosmetics retailer has … Continue reading
Much-loved Whitgift Centre café to shut down on Saturday
This Saturday will be your last chance to enjoy a decent cup of coffee, maybe a sandwich or a bit of cake, in what claims to be the best café in the Whitgift Centre. The Camden Coffee House has announced … Continue reading
Puerile attempt to design town centre with sticky-back plastic
Patronising and puerile, the council’s latest attempt to “engage” the public has reached a new low, even by the subterranean standards of Fisher’s Folly. The cash-strapped council is now trying to pretend it is doing something about the state of … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Environment, Mayor Jason Perry, Turf Projects, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, London Borough of Croydon, North End Quarter, Tory, Turf Projects, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Whitgift’s The Body Shop in peril as administrators called in
Staff in Croydon store wait to hear their fate, while Foot Locker announces it is moving to bigger premises The future of another shop in the Whitgift Centre is under threat, following the collapse into administration this week of The … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Administration, Croydon, Foot Locker, North End, Retailing, The Body Shop, Whitgift Centre
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Croydon escapes worst effects of Gove’s ‘Developers’ Charter’
Tory minister takes a swipe at London Mayor as he moves to reduce planning restrictions and allow ‘some incredibly poor quality homes which should not have been built’ Croydon and Sutton might just escape the worst excesses of Michael Gove’s … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2024 London elections, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Property, Sadiq Khan, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Department for Levelling Up, George Clarke, Housing, Labour, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Michael Gove, Paul Scott, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Tories warn residents: don’t be ‘negative’ about Allders murals
The hard-working volunteers of a local community association have been harshly criticised by their Tory ward councillor for not being as obsequious and fawning as required over the latest artwashing exploits in the town centre. Tory councillor Michael Neal – … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Art, Business, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Michael Neal, Planning, South Croydon, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Michael Neal, South Croydon, South Croydon Community Association, Tory, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, URW, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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While admiring town centre’s new art, try not to get arrested
The newly installed street art around the town centre has its appeal, the overtly hostile security policy in Centrale less so, says KEN TOWL It was quite a thrill to be described as “the IC1 male taking pictures with a … Continue reading
Westfield begins ‘cover-up’ at Allders – with pop art hoardings
STEVEN DOWNES on the latest efforts by Westfield to make up for more than a decade of development blight After a 12-year wait, Westfield has finally started constructing something in Croydon town centre. Nothing as substantive, or as lasting, as … Continue reading
Another Whitgift shock as second head teacher decides to quit
CROYDON IN CRISIS: To lose one head teacher in a single academic year is unfortunate. For Croydon’s biggest landowners to lose two from their private schools is beginning to appear worrying. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Christopher Ramsey, the headmaster of … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Christopher Ramsey, Education, Jane Burton, Old Palace, Schools, South Croydon, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Christopher Ramsey, Croydon, Haling Park, Hammersfield, Old Palace, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, South Croydon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Croydon in 2023: Murder, school closures and Westfield blight
THE YEAR IN REVIEW Part 3 – September to December It’s not like there’s ever any shortage of stories to cover in Croydon. But even by this area’s usual standards, the news that Inside Croydon reported, often exclusively, in the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Art, Business, Crime, Croydon Council, History, Inside Croydon, Knife crime, Mayor Jason Perry, Whitgift Centre
Tagged 15% Council Tax hike, Brick by Brick, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Elianne Andam, Employment Tribunal, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Katherine Kerswell, knife crime, Labour, Mayor Jason Perry, murder, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Palace School, Purley Way, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Croydon 2023: the Penn Report, dog attacks and those giraffes
THE YEAR IN REVIEW Part 2 – May to August If there was one good thing to come out of Croydon Council this year, then it must have been the Penn Report. Katherine Kerswell, the council’s chief executive, had held … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Art, Borough of Culture 2023, Business, Crime, Croydon Council, Heathfield House, History, Inside Croydon, Knife crime, Mayor Jason Perry, Sarah Jones MP, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Borough of Culture, CODA, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, David Morgan, giraffes, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Ian Hislop, Ken Towl, Labour, Mayor Jason Perry, Private Eye, Purley Way, Tory, Utah, Wastefield, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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2023 in Croydon – as told through our best-read articles
THE YEAR IN REVIEW Part 1 – January to April The parlous state of the council’s finances would remain a thorny issue throughout the year, after Tory Mayor Jason Perry issued a Section 114 notice of his own in November … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Birch (Selsdon), Business, Centrale, Crime, Croydon Council, Heathfield House, History, Inside Croydon, Knife crime, Mayor Jason Perry, Sarah Jones MP, Selsdon Park Hotel, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Anglo-Saxon England, Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Wulfred, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Marks and Spencer, Mayor Jason Perry, Purley Way, Sarah Jones MP, Tory, Wastefield, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Mayor Perry is told to wait for £18.5m Levelling Up boost
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Business interests in the town centre will benefit from Government cash for cycling and walking schemes. But doubts surround whether Mayor Perry will manage to deliver a six-year-old Labour plan to open up College Green. By our … Continue reading
Posted in Business, College Green, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Cycling, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield Halls, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, Waddon, West Croydon, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Department for Levelling Up, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Levelling Up Fund, Matthew Sims, Mayor Jason Perry, Michael Gove, Paul Scott, Tory, Waddon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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£7,000 ‘bribes’ prompt pupil exodus from doomed school
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Fewer than 300 girls returned to Old Palace after half-term, as the charitable foundation that runs the school offered cash inducements to their parents to withdraw their daughters promptly. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Around half of the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Charity, Education, Old Palace, Old Palace Parents' Alliance, Schools, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Archbishop of Canterbury, Charity Commission, Christopher Houlding, Croydon, Justin Welby, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Palace Parents Alliance, Old Palace School, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Whitgift Centre getting some new tunes from an old organ
Croydon has a working pipe organ providing music in a shopping centre, as our organs in shopping centre correspondent, DAVID MORGAN, reports The promo video produced by the London Mozart Players ahead of last weekend’s Mozart at the Minster concert … Continue reading
Tory Perry launches ‘Urban Room’ where nothing’s happening
Our retailing correspondent, MT WALLETTE, reports on the latest half-cock initiative from the council to ‘revive’ the ailing town centre: an insta account and a desperate plea for ideas from the public Mayor Jason Perry’s latest feeble effort to somehow … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Andrew Pelling, Business, Centrale, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Environment, Fairfield, Growth Zone, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Peter Underwood, Planning, Ria Patel, Secret Cinema, Stiles Harold Williams, TfL, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Develop Croydon, Growth Zone, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, North End, Secret Cinema, TfL, Tory, Transport for London, Urban Room, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Millionaire pulls plug on Mayor Perry’s ‘big idea’ for Allders
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The businessman behind Secret Cinema folded five companies in August, as ambitious plans for the ‘turning point for the future of entertainment’ in Croydon’s dilapidated town centre are abandoned. By STEVEN DOWNES Jason Perry put on his … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Secret Cinema, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Develop Croydon, Fabien Riggall, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, Mayor Jason Perry, Secret Cinema, Tory, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, URW, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Foundation abandoned new school plan after taking £70m loan
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The decision to close Old Palace marked a rapid U-turn on all previous policy at the property-owning charity, according to documents obtained by this website. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES As recently as last year, the Whitgift Foundation … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Education, Jane Burton, Old Palace, Schools, Trinity School, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Christopher Houlding, Croydon, Hammersfield, Jane Burton, Old Palace School, Old Town, Trinity School, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Westfield, the incinerator, NHS and Croydon’s Gaza response
Posted in "Hammersfield", Andrew Fisher, Business, Croydon Insider, Donna Fraser, Inside Croydon, Under The Flyover, Waste incinerator, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Annabel Smith, Beddington incinerator, Croydon, Croydon Insider, Donna Fraser, Gaza, London, NHS, Sanjana Idnani, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Diwali festival of light set to brighten up the Whitgift Centre
The Whitgift shopping centre is inviting Croydon residents to join in the festivities as they celebrate Diwali, the Festival of Light, on Saturday November 4. Diwali is one of the most significant festivals in Hinduism, symbolising the triumph of light … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Centrale, Church and religions, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Diwali, Whitgift Centre
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