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Electric House gets makeover for Britain’s 95th-best university
‘It’s a bit like saying Fulham are one of London’s top football teams.’ Our Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on the latest example of the council over-hyping its performance Unable to deliver the £1.4billion shiny new Westfield shopping mall that … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Croydon School of Art, Education, Jo Negrini, Planning, South Bank Poly, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Electric House, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, South Bank Poly, Tony Newman, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Revealed: Council’s plan for town centre is 95th-best university
GENE BRODIE, education correspondent, on the increasingly desperate-looking moves to salvage anything from the town centre regeneration Croydon Council’s “cunning plan” to dig the town centre out of the hole created for it by the Whitgift Foundation and Westfield is … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Croydon BID, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Education, Jo Negrini, Planning, Sussex Innovation Centre, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon College, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, South Bank Poly, Tony Newman, University of Sussex, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Coulsdon teachers go on strike over £700m funding shortfall
Teaching union members working at Coulsdon Sixth Form College will be on strike on Wednesday, demanding more funding for their students and their college. Across the country, the National Education Union will be taking strike action at another 33 sixth … Continue reading
Labour warns that education cuts threaten knife crime work
Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner and Croydon MP Sarah Jones have warned that funding cuts to colleges and schools in Croydon risk jeopardising the good work being done in the borough to tackle knife crime. The Labour MPs met staff … Continue reading
Council goes toe-to-toe with College over ‘university’
Croydon College and the University of Sussex have been providing degree courses in the town centre for a decade. Now the council, with its own multi-billion development plans in tatters, has decided to come up with a scheme of its … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Brick by Brick, Business, College Green, Colm Lacey, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Croydon School of Art, Education, Jo Negrini, Planning, South Bank Poly, Sussex Innovation Centre, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, South Bank Poly, University of Sussex, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Exhibition opens to celebrate 150 years of School of Art
An exhibition has opened at the Museum of Croydon in the Clocktower to mark the 150th anniversary of the foundation of Croydon School of Art. The free exhibition is on display until April 14, and includes work from many of … Continue reading
Reverse Jobs Fair matches applicants with employers
A council-backed event for local businesses to hire applicants with disabilities returns in October. The Reverse Jobs Fair, which is open to applicants with disabilities looking for everything from a permanent post to a temporary work placement, will be held … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Business, Charity, Croydon College, Education, Mind in Croydon
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Fairfield Halls CEO was paid in full prior to administration
The financial collapse of the charitable body which managed the Fairfield Halls did not prevent its chief executive, Simon Thomsett, receiving his salary payments in full right up to last Friday. Thomsett, who had worked at Fairfield Halls for six … Continue reading
Car park gallery will force drivers to use Hammersfield spaces
Bit by bit, the Whitgift and Westfield takeover of the town centre continues, aided and abetted as usual by our pliant councillors. It has been announced – via a news report in Architects’ Journal – that part of the Fairfield … Continue reading
Tories demand Newman keeps promise on Fairfield report
Croydon’s Conservative opposition has renewed demands that the council leader, Labour’s Tony Newman, fulfills his public promise to release a confidential report from consultants Mott MacDonald on the multi-million pound refurbishment of the Fairfield Halls and Croydon College. The Tories … Continue reading
We need quality homes, not quantity, to avoid ghettoes
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Location. Location. Location. LEWIS WHITE is less concerned about the need to build flats in the redevelopment at College Green, provided they offer enough open spaces and are of the right quality, and not mega-sized tower blocks David … Continue reading
Can two-bedroom flats really be solution for Fairfield Halls?
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The scheme to redevelop Fairfield Halls and College Green could cost more than £70m, with Council Tax-payers taking much of the risk, says DAVID WICKENS Those that study regeneration and city centre proposals will have noticed that there … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Addiscombe West, Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Education, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Planning, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon College, David Wickens, Fairfield Halls, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Taberner House, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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100 jobs will be lost with two-year Fairfield Halls closure
The battle for Croydon’s cultural future took a twist at the Town Hall last night, with local Tories arguing against job cuts and wanting to spend more public money on the borough’s flagship arts facility, as STEVEN DOWNES reports Croydon’s … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2018 council elections, Alison Butler, Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon College, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Dudley Mead, Education, Environment, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, Housing, Jo Negrini, London Mozart Players, Music, Nathan Elvery, Phil Thomas, Planning, Property, Riesco Collection, Stuart Collins, Theatre, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, URV, Warehouse Theatre, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Fairfield Halls, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Stuart Collins, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield
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Get your hard hat on: central Croydon is about to be closed
Central Croydon looks like it is going to be a ghost town for a couple of years, as its two flagship attractions, the Whitgift Centre and Fairfield Halls, are both closed for redevelopment at the same time. The temporary closure … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Business, Croydon Central, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Environment, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Planning, Timothy Godfrey, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon Central, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Fairfield Halls, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, Timothy Godfrey, Tony Newman, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Croydon College free school proposal gets fobbed off by DfE
GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, reports on the surprising reasoning given by Whitehall to block expansion plans around College Green It’s official: according to the Department for Education, there is no school places crisis in Croydon. That was the reason … Continue reading
Is it time to park ill-considered plans for the Arena Academy?
Councillor ANDREW PELLING suggests that the mounting case against building a secondary academy at the Croydon Arena will get a thorough hearing at tonight’s planning committee My colleagues on the council’s planning committee will want to ask some pertinent questions … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Athletics, Croydon College, Croydon FC, Croydon Harriers, Education, Environment, Oasis Academy, Parking, Planning, Ryelands Primary and Nursery, Schools, South Norwood, Sport, St Andrew's
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Arena, Croydon Council, Labour, Oasis Academy, Oasis Arena, South Norwood, Tory, Waddon
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Ofsted reports signal concerns over College’s free school plan
The school places shortage has already prompted a range of daft ideas in Croydon, from the notion of sticking a primary school in a listed building overlooking a six-lane urban motorway, to building on Metropolitan Open Land with barely a … Continue reading
£150 – price of ‘scrutiny’ at council-backed Tech City ‘summit’
Kit Malthouse, Boris Johnson’s unelected Deputy Mayor of London and a failed candidate to become Conservative MP for Croydon South, is to open a Croydon Tech City “summit” next month, but which the public may attend only if they first … Continue reading
St Giles’s dinner lady offers tasty food for thought
The daily meals on offer to pupils at Croydon’s St Giles Primary on Pampisford Road must be unrecognisable from the over-boiled cabbage and dry spotted dick (stop giggling at the back) that was the stuff usually dished up for school … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon College, Education, St Giles' School
Tagged Croydon, school dinners, South Croydon, St Giles School
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Which councillors attended Town Hall Christmas banquet?
Many thanks to all those who have already expressed support, and donated or offered other help, to Croydon Nightwatch as a result of Inside Croydon’s Christmas appeal. We have noted before the proximity, and stark contrast, between the grinding poverty … Continue reading
