Tag Archives: Allders
Minerva threaten legal challenge over Hammersfield scheme
The £1 billion Hammersfield redevelopment of Croydon town centre could yet face a bloody legal battle, a report in the latest edition of Property Week confirms. The problem, as has been so often the case with town centre developments in … Continue reading
Help break the chains of human trafficking: Sep 28
On Saturday September 28, members of Croydon Community Against Trafficking, or CCAT, will be completing a 10-kilometre (a little more than six miles) walk chained together to raise awareness about victims of human trafficking. The walk will start at noon … Continue reading
Croydon’s “only a Championship location” says planning chief
As Gavin Barwell once said, Croydon has an image problem. Our photograph, taken in Cannes yesterday morning, of the White Label-managed stand at the MIPIM commercial property trade exhibition, shows that our south London borough is proving less of a … Continue reading
Chance to reboot your old computer for a good cause
A local charity group, wants to take any old, unwanted computers off your hands. Loyal reader Anita Davison writes to Inside Croydon: “If anyone was lucky enough to receive a new PC for Christmas and is still undecided with what … Continue reading
Take your hats off to battling Croydon business Hatz
It is fair to say that 2012 was not the greatest year in the business careers of hatmakers Margaret Chatelier and Monique Rebeiro. As the family-run business Hatz, in common with several other concessions that used to operate out of … Continue reading
Pick of posts of 2012: Allders, comics and sinking ships
Yesterday, we listed our 20 most-read posts of 2012. We also asked some of our readers and contributors for a more subjective selection and to choose their favourite articles from the past 12 months. Here’s some of their answers: If … Continue reading
Imagine: wishes for 2013 to see a better, safer Croydon
LEE WEBSTER outlines her new year’s wishes for Croydon – with safety and proper representation top of her list Sorry to burst the bubble of holiday joy, but it’s hard to look forward with too much hope to the coming … Continue reading
Time to fight back against council’s arrogance and neglect
TONY NEWMAN, the leader of Croydon’s Labour group on the council, says local people demand change at the Town Hall Croydon has been shaken to its core by recent events, from the riots of August 2011, the unprecedented economic downturn … Continue reading
Bah humbug! Tory councillor complains at ‘too early’ Christmas
One of Croydon’s Conservative councillors wants to stop the town’s retailers from starting their Christmas sales campaigns too early. Ashburton councillor Adam Kellett put forward his own forthright views in a question to the council leader Mike Fisher at the … Continue reading
Newman: “Plan is too little, too late to help economy”
After five years saying that they would not intervene in the local economy, the Conservatives who run Croydon Council are about to launch an economic plan. For TONY NEWMAN, the leader of the Labour opposition group, this is an admission … Continue reading
Collapsing retail sector hits Croydon hardest, says BBC
Croydon has suffered the worst rate of retail store closures in the whole of London, the BBC is reporting. BBC London accessed the figures from a nationwide survey on retail trends for the first six months of 2012. The worrying … Continue reading
Don’t be a heel: take a long walk to help fight sex slavery
Men of Croydon: tomorrow is your chance to do something you’ve probably not dared to consider since before you first went to school, the last time you tried on your mother’s high heels. Croydon Community Against Trafficking – CCAT – … Continue reading
End of an era: the final days of Allders
Here’s some pictures taken in the third-largest department store in Britain over the weekend. Poignant, and in one case, so very fitting. Click here to read The end of Allders: a timeline to oblivion
The end of Allders: a timeline to oblivion
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The decline of Allders is partly a story of Croydon itself. ANDREW PELLING looks at the council’s role in the final days and asks if more could have been done by the Town Hall to save the near-1,000 … Continue reading
Westfield swoops in early with planning application for Croydon
Anyone mention the phrase “unseemly haste”? Do images of vultures come to mind when it is reported that property developers Westfield, urged on by their mates, the multi-million-pound landowners the Whitgift Foundation, have just submitted their planning application for central … Continue reading
What a waste! Landfill tax forces firm to shut, with 70 jobs lost
Another 70 local workers were told today that they are to lose their jobs, as Country Waste Management, the recycling company based on Beddington Lane, opted to lay off its entire staff because of the 2,500 per cent increase in … Continue reading
Allders announces it is to close for a final time on Sep 22
10.50am UPDATE Allders is to close in two weeks’ time, the management announced to staff in a meeting just before 10am today. Administrators were called-in in June for the 150-year-old department store that is so closely associated with central Croydon. … Continue reading
