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Category Archives: Ruskin Square
Amazon invites you to check out its store with no check-outs
A new supermarket opened in central Croydon this morning that promises value products and, with the use of Amazon technology, no queues and no check-outs. There’s also introductory money-off offers that can save first-time shoppers £10. Amazon Fresh has opened … Continue reading
Posted in Business, East Croydon, Property, Ruskin Square
Tagged Amazon, Amazon Fresh, East Croydon station, George Street, Ruskin Square, Waitrose
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Call for objections to scheme that threatens No1 Croydon
Councillors in Addiscombe are asking the public to lodge objections to a planning application for a tall tower block – another one – close to East Croydon Station. Developers Fifth State want to demolish the unprepossessing CityLink House office building … Continue reading
Posted in 101 George Street, Addiscombe West, East Croydon, Jerry Fitzpatrick, Menta Tower, No1 Croydon, Patricia Hay-Justice, Property, Ruskin Square, Sean Fitzsimons
Tagged Addiscombe, Addiscombe West, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon, East Croydon station, NLA Tower, No1 Croydon, Planning, Sean Fitzsimons
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Legacy Youth Zone boosted by £150,000 pledge from patron
Ruskin Square has increased its donation to Croydon’s Legacy Youth Zone by £50,000 a year over the next three years. Ruskin Square is the mixed-used development at East Croydon, developed by Stanhope and Schroders. They were one of the “Founder … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Council, Ruskin Square
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Legacy Youth Zone, Ruskin Square, Stanhope Schroders
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Ruskin Square signs government tenant in £300m deal
Schroders have announced a multi-million-pound deal with Whitehall to build and rent out a second large office block at Ruskin Square, their £500million development next to East Croydon Station. And in doing so, they may well have pulled the rug … Continue reading
Negrini draws ridicule for her £81 On The Buses guided tour
Hold very tight please! Our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, is ready to be taken for a ride around Croydon town centre, all in the name of a good cause Croydon’s beleaguered £220,000 per year chief executive has attracted yet more … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Boxpark, Brick by Brick, Business, Centrale, Colm Lacey, CPO, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Heather Cheesbrough, Jo Negrini, Menta Tower, Paul Scott, Property, Purley Way, Ruskin Square, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Heather Cheesbrough, Jo Negrini, London, Paul Scott, Purley Way
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Unhappy tenants say they’re ready to quit loss-making Boxpark
It’s not been a great week for Boozepark. Then again, nor has it been great for Croydon Council, either, as it was they who provided a £3million loan and more than £400,000 in hand-outs of public money to help get … Continue reading
Ruskin Square and Westfield in battle to secure Home Office
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
Schroders’ £500m Ruskin Square stalls over Westfield doubts
Big business is getting twitchy over the slow pace of developments in Croydon, as KEN LEE reports The agenda for the Croydon Labour group brainstorming weekend in Eastbourne this weekend is said to be “thin”. That may be deliberate to … Continue reading
Pankhurst plays part in HMRC’s Suffrage Flag relay in Croydon
A human chain of 56 people delivered the Suffrage Flag to Croydon yesterday. HM Revenue and Customs staff – and some of their children on half-term holiday – joined the flag relay from East Croydon Station to the nearby office … Continue reading
Taxman moves in to hi-tech new offices at Ruskin Square
The taxman opened its new Croydon offices yesterday, with the ribbon-cutting ceremony at 1 Ruskin Square. The offices, built as part of Stanhope and Schroders development of the “Croydon Gateway” site next to East Croydon Station, will provide work space … Continue reading
Posted in Business, East Croydon, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square
Tagged HMRC, Ruskin Square, Stanhope Schroders
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Boozepark applies to extend bar opening times until 1am
KEN LEE, our Town Hall correspondent, has found some interesting documents on the council’s planning site Within nine months of opening, and Boxpark has been applying to Croydon Council to drop some of the conditions linked to its planning permission … Continue reading
Milestone for Ruskin Square offices as the Taxman moves in
The Taxman has arrived. Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs has this week begun moving into its new office building at 1 Ruskin Square, next to East Croydon Station, the first “regional hub” to become operational in “a major restructuring” (that … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Business, Property, Ruskin Square
Tagged Croydon, East Croydon station, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, HMRC, Ruskin Square
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Ruskin Square’s first offices are handed over to HMRC
When the John Gent of their generation comes to write up a passage on the 21st century redevelopment of Croydon, December 13 2016 may warrant more than a footnote in their account, because today is the day that Ruskin Square … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Property, Ruskin Square
Tagged Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Jo Negrini, Ruskin Square, Stanhope Schroders
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Open House weekend: see where your money’s spent
Croydon’s somewhat curmudgeonly attitude towards Open House London, the annual opportunity to sneak a peek behind normally firmly closed doors, appears to have been shaken off, finally. But not as far as the not-so-dynamic team in the council’s press office … Continue reading
Boxpark operators still don’t have confirmed opening date
We are halfway through August, with the schools going back for their autumn term in a fortnight. Yet Boxpark Croydon, due to open in “Summer 2016” still has not got a confirmed opening date. The retail operation, on a corner … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Business, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Jo Negrini, Property, Ruskin Square
Tagged Boxpark, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Jo Negrini
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The Taxman cometh: HMRC signs £200m office lease
The Taxman cometh. HM Revenue and Customs has today signed a 25-year lease for the whole of the first office block to be completed in the Ruskin Square development. The deal could be worth more than £200 million for the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Housing, Parking, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square
Tagged East Croydon station, HMRC, Ruskin Square, Stanhope Schroders
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Brexit means ‘business as usual’. Which may be not so good
Could Croydon Council be getting the jitters over the post-referendum prospects for the town centre’s redevelopment? WALTER CRONXITE looks at a cabinet report which tries to look on the bright side, but cannot disguise the uncertainties Croydon faces “significant challenges … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Brick by Brick, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Taberner House, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Brexit, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tony Newman, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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After £3m loan, now council lays on festival for Boxpark
Croydon Council today went some way to confirming – inadvertently, of course – that Boxpark, the publicly subsidised retail outlet alongside East Croydon Station, won’t be ready to open as planned this summer. Inside Croydon was first to report the … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Boxpark, Business, Croydon Council, Dance, East Croydon, Jo Negrini, Music, Ruskin Square
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, Tony Newman
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International marketing firm handed contract for Platform
Grey Label, the Croydon-based marketing firm which has, inexplicably, somehow got a stranglehold on lucrative council and developers’ promotion contracts in and around the borough, has lost its deal for one of the town centre’s key developments. The Croydon firm … Continue reading
Negrini and her staff ready for sunny reunions at MIPIM
“It’s a junket on the taxpayers and people don’t want to see highly paid council officials swanning around the French Riviera.” That’s what Tony Newman said six years ago, when the Croydon Labour leader was in opposition and was rightly … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boxpark, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield
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Boxpark’s £3m loan under threat if summer opening is delayed
It’s not just the trains which are running late at East Croydon. So is the planned opening date for Boxpark. Croydon was chosen to be the second location of the retail mall made from shipping containers, following the original Boxpark … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Business, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Jo Negrini, Property, Ruskin Square, Tony Newman
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Jo Negrini, Labour, Roger Wade, Ruskin Square, Tony Newman
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Council official who brought Boxpark to Croydon has now got a top job with… Boxpark
A council official who was involved at a high level in key redevelopment schemes, which in the past six months have also included making a £3 million public finance loan to tempt Boxpark to set up next to East Croydon … Continue reading
TfL’s loopy scheme will strangle town centre to a stand-still
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Multi-million pound proposals for the trams in the town centre could see the Croydon road network being gridlocked, says bus passenger VALERIE HUNTER According to Transport for London, the improvements – new platforms and more frequent services – … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Addiscombe West, Business, Commuting, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Cycling, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, New Addington, One Lansdowne Road, Planning, Ruskin Square, Tramlink, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Hammersfield, Hammerson, TfL, Transport for London, Wellesley Road, West Croydon, Westfield
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