Category Archives: CPO

MP holds urgent Westfield meetings with Chancellor and Mayor

Posted on April 10, 2019 by

Our retailing correspondent, MT WALLETTE, hears Sarah Jones spouting the developers’ platitudes, while the council leader has so far failed to publish the full contents of a letter of assurance from the Croydon Partners Sarah Jones, the MP for Croydon … Continue reading →

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Mothercare quits Whitgift Centre as traders face CPO limbo

Posted on April 8, 2019 by

Mothercare is the latest large store to quit the Whitgift Centre, as the continuing uncertainty over the shopping mall’s future is making business increasingly tough for the few traders forced to remain. The large mother and baby store closed its … Continue reading →

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Ruskin Square and Westfield in battle to secure Home Office

Posted on March 15, 2019 by

Multi-billion-pound developments in central Croydon could be forced to go head-to-head in a battle to secure the Home Office as tenants for their office buildings. According to a report published this morning by Property Week magazine, the Home Office is … Continue reading →

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Barwell, Brexit and Croydon’s troubled Westfield dream

Posted on February 15, 2019 by

STEVEN DOWNES on how the meddling of Tory politicians and the Croydon Establishment managed to ensure that the redevelopment of Croydon town centre was never going to run smoothly Questions were asked in the House of Commons last night which … Continue reading →

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Further Westfield delays put more pressure on CEO Negrini

Posted on January 17, 2019 by

It is six years to the day since Westfield and Hammerson said that, jointly, they would redevelop central Croydon. KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, on the increasingly beleaguered mood among senior council figures Croydon Council’s chief executive, Jo Negrini, … Continue reading →

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Ghosts of Christmas past come to haunt the Whitgift Centre

Posted on December 21, 2018 by

Were we just imagining it, or was the crackling muzak in the Whitgift Centre really playing a version of Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas’? Perhaps it was someone’s idea of a joke. Meanwhile, KEN TOWL has gone all Bob Cratchit on us … Continue reading →

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Newman hails ‘key milestone’ as CPO begins for Westfield

Posted on September 7, 2018 by

WALTER CRONXITE reports on the council’s latest, detail-lite announcement on the £1.4bn Hammersfield scheme The council has finally started buying up the parcels of land around the Whitgift Centre, to allow work to begin on the £1.4billion Hammersfield redevelopment. It … Continue reading →

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