Category Archives: Place Review Panel

Part-time Mayor Perry to re-boot Negrini’s design review panel

Posted on September 27, 2022 by insidecroydon

The council is looking to re-set its Place Review Panel – now to be renamed the Design Review Panel – and is inviting applications from architecture and design experts to sign up for two or three days’ work each year, … Continue reading →

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This is £12m Fairfield ‘plaza’ that Mayor Perry wants to create

Posted on July 14, 2022 by insidecroydon

Existing designs for a public open space between the town’s major arts centre and Croydon College have been derided as ‘jokey’, ‘crass’ and ‘one gigantic hardscape of pink and grey candy stripe concrete’. By STEVEN DOWNES Mayor Jason Perry’s announcement … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, Heather Cheesbrough, Housing, Jo Negrini, Mayor Jason Perry, Place Review Panel, Planning, Queens Gardens | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 12 Comments

FAT chance of there being any inspired designs for Fair Field

Posted on May 26, 2020 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The council might be broke, but that hasn’t stopped them spaffing another million pounds, maybe more, on a set of architects’ designs which are certain to turn the borough into a laughing stock once more, says SEBASTIAN TILLINGER … Continue reading →

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Borough’s architects’ judge calls for Johnson to lose honour

Posted on October 2, 2019 by insidecroydon

Angela Brady, the co-chair of Croydon Council’s Place Review Panel, has added her influential voice to calls for the Royal Institute of British Architects to strip Boris Johnson of his honorary fellowship. Dublin-born Brady is widely respected in architecture circles. … Continue reading →

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Designers of flawed Bridge To Nowhere now hired by council

Posted on January 5, 2019 by insidecroydon

Inside Croydon reported last week how the £22million Bridge To Nowhere, at East Croydon Station, may be demolished before it is ever completed. Given some serious reservations about the way it was designed and built, that may not be an … Continue reading →

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‘Scrap the High Street’ says designer on Place Review Panel

Posted on May 17, 2018 by insidecroydon

EBONY GORDON reports on some worrying retail trends for town centre developers Westfield and Hammerson Wayne Hemingway, one of the country’s most high-profile designers, and a member of Croydon’s Place Review Panel, says that viewing town centres as venues for … Continue reading →

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Westfield have run down the CPO clock on £1.4bn scheme

Posted on November 14, 2017 by insidecroydon

BARRATT HOLMES on the charade of a planning meeting to take place at the Town Hall tonight The long-delayed re-application for planning permission by Westfield and Hammerson – “The Croydon Partners” – for a £1.4billion redevelop-ment of the ageing Whitgift … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, CPO, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Parking, Paul Scott, Place Review Panel, Planning, Property, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Butler’s all excited for her Big Night Out at The Hurlingham

Posted on August 23, 2017 by insidecroydon

KEN LEE reports on a raft of housing award nominations for a council-owned house-builder which has so far built the grand total of zero homes Council leader Tony Newman, his deputy Alison Butler, council chief exec Jo Negrini and loads … Continue reading →

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Now council’s housing developer snubs its Place Review Panel

Posted on June 28, 2017 by insidecroydon

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 →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Alison Butler, Angela Brady, Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, Mark Watson, Place Review Panel, Planning | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Experts express doubts over £1.1m spent on Surrey Street

Posted on June 23, 2017 by insidecroydon

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 insidecroydon

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 insidecroydon

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 insidecroydon

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 insidecroydon

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 insidecroydon

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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