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A decade on and Croydon’s Island offers stark lessons
It stands to the north of Croydon town centre like a monument to the flaws of the housing market, a broken tooth of a tower block in the middle of a busy south London roundabout. Construction work began a decade … Continue reading
Island tries to block out memories of seven-year hitch
It has been such a long time since the IYLO BUILDING last penned a column for this site, that they return now after a makeover and with a new name, though the developers probably don’t want you to regard the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Environment, Housing, IYLO, Planning, Property, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Island, IYLO, Tory, Westfield
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Inflation, Inflation, Inflation: C4 gives house prices a bump
BUMP! There. Did you feel that? That was the sensation of property prices in Croydon jumping another one, two, even 10 grand following the latest visit from that estate agents’ wet dream which is Channel 4’s Location, Location, Location. In … Continue reading
I am a rock! But new kids on building blocks have problems
The IYLO BUILDING has awoken from its slumbers… The construction crane is back and builders in hi-viz jackets, like worker ants, are climbing all over it. But the oft neglected, unfinished tower in the middle of a suburban roundabout has … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Altitude 25, Broad Green, Business, Centrale, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Environment, IYLO, Planning, Property, Riesco Collection, Ruskin Square, Thornton Heath, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Hammerson, IYLO BUILDING, London, Ruskin Square, Saffron Square, Shard, Westfield
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Londoners being priced out of London by social cleansing
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Building thousands of high-rise high-priced “luxury apartments” to be bought by overseas investors may enhance the bottom line of private property developers, but will do nothing to solve the borough’s housing crisis. By STEVEN DOWNES London, and Croydon, … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2014 council elections, Altitude 25, Business, Cane Hill, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Housing, IYLO, Lambeth Council, Menta Tower, Paul Spooner, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Steve Reed MP, Taberner House, URV, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Flyover, Croydon North, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, Tory, Whitgift Foundation
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Gateway’s uninspired opening with a couple of blocks of flats
According to ANDREW PELLING, the first phase of development proposed for the long-vacant Ruskin Square site, in a town crying out for family housing, consists of a couple of ugly blocks of flats that even the architects admit are not … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Andrew Pelling, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, Housing, IYLO, Jon Rouse, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Transport, URV
Tagged Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Croydon, East Croydon station, London, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Schroders
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Boris’s cunning plan: too high, too many, too central
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The Mayor of London’s “cunning plan” for Croydon is flawed in important respects, says ANDREW PELLING – too much housing crammed into the centre of the borough, in too many high-rise blocks, and by ignoring other parts of … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Ashburton, Boris Johnson, Broad Green, Cane Hill, Cherry Orchard Gardens, Commuting, Coulsdon, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, Health, Housing, IYLO, London Assembly, London Road Traders Association, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Purley, Ruskin Square, Schools, Transport, URV, Vidhi Mohan, West Croydon, West Croydon Community Forum
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor
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Altitude 25 looks to off-load unsold flats as short-term lets
A new planning application for the Altitude 25 development at East Croydon, seeking to allow short-term, serviced lets of some of the unsold apartments, has cast further doubts on the council’s grand plans to build a city in the sky. … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Boris Johnson, Cherry Orchard Gardens, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Fairfield, IYLO, London Assembly, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Steve O'Connell
Tagged Altitude 25, Boris Johnson, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Ken Livingstone, London, Steve O'Connell
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Time to cast off Croydon’s Concrete Jungle image
Prominent Purley-based architect TARSEM FLORA has seen many visions for the borough left to gather dust. But he believes that Croydon can shed its reputation for brutalist architecture I am convinced that the public perception of Croydon as a concrete … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Housing, IYLO, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Purley, Ruskin Square, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Big Society, Croydon, Ruskin Square, Saffron Square, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Upstart building was taught valuable lesson on night of riots
The IYLO BUILDING is fast becoming a Croydon “icon”, in all the wrong ways – unfinished, neglected and now the victim of vandals. Yet in its latest column for Inside Croydon, IYLO tells us of the lessons learned from another … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon 8/8, Environment, IYLO, Planning, Property, Thornton Heath
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Twitter
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Young architects highlight real need for human scale
ANDREW PELLING sat in on an ideas session at the architecture exhibition at Fairfield Halls, and was unsurprised by what he heard The London Festival of Architecture programme, which includes an exhibit of “New Croydon” at the Fairfield Halls through … Continue reading
Confessions of a Croydon building project gone wrong
The IYLO BUILDING, a “landmark development” for all the wrong reasons, has taken to Twitter to ease its angst. Here it explains what it’s like to be the centre of a roundabout and not the centre of attention Listen up … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Comedy, Environment, IYLO, Planning, Property, West Croydon
Tagged Addiscombe West, Croydon, London, London Borough of Croydon, Lord Byron, Ruskin Square, Twitter
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