Category Archives: Place Review Panel

Now council’s housing developer snubs its Place Review Panel

Posted on June 28, 2017 by

BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent, on how the borough’s Council Tax-payers are providing another nice little earner for the Town Hall  CEO’s chums In the eight months since council chief executive Jo Negrini unveiled Croydon’s Place Review Panel, it has … Continue reading →

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Experts express doubts over £1.1m spent on Surrey Street

Posted on June 23, 2017 by

The council’s own set of architecture and design experts have suggested that much of the Town Hall’s £1.1million spend on the gentrification of Surrey Street Market may have not been the best use of public money, Inside Croydon has learned. … Continue reading →

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£1.4bn Westfield: Wait goes on as planning meeting scrapped

Posted on April 20, 2017 by

BARRATT HOLMES reports on the latest delay in long-promised town centre redevelopment More frustrations have been raised about when, if ever, work will begin on the £1.4billion Westfield supermall in Croydon after the council cancelled a planning committee meeting scheduled … Continue reading →

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Westfield set to snub CEO Negrini’s costly Place Review Panel

Posted on April 13, 2017 by

In an embarrassing snub for the council’s chief executive, the developers proposing the £1.4billion Westfield and Hammerson regeneration of Croydon town centre have no immediate intention to submit their plans for review by the borough’s much-touted Place Review Panel. The … Continue reading →

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Council gags architecture experts on costly Place Review Panel

Posted on March 30, 2017 by

Croydon’s Place Review Panel has been gagged, just three months since the building design body was set up, at potentially considerable public expense. Once a month, six members of the panel of high-profile architects and designers, who include the celebrity … Continue reading →

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Architecture review panel could cost council £100,000 a year

Posted on December 30, 2016 by

Fears that Croydon’s Place Review Panel could amount to little more than an expensive exercise to flatter council CEO Jo Negrini, with Council Tax-payers picking up the tab, are mounting – with some Katharine Street insiders predicting that the architects’ … Continue reading →

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‘We want to review £1.4bn Westfield plans’ says panel co-chair

Posted on December 1, 2016 by

STEVEN DOWNES reports on how a panel of design, engineering and architecture experts assembled by the council might yet be denied the chance to review the biggest regeneration scheme in Croydon for generations One of the co-chairs of the Croydon … Continue reading →

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