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Tag Archives: Allders
Financially challenged Purley Way among John Lewis closures
The John Lewis At Home store on the Purley Way will never reopen its doors. Croydon shoppers who had made the most of the department store’s limited presence since it opened its out-of-town site had their fears confirmed this morning … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Purley Way
Tagged Allders, Croydon, Hammersfield, Hammerson, John Lewis, Purley Way, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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How wait for Westfield is turning North End into Hooky Street
Serious doubts exist over Westfield’s plans to redevelop in the town centre. Yet while the council does its best to close down legitimate high street businesses, or mismanages one of the country’s oldest traditional street markets and drives away stall-holders, … Continue reading
Council’s CPO move on Allders building faces court challenge
Croydon Council was being taken to court this afternoon by lawyers acting for the lease-holder of Croydon Outlet Village – based in the building better remembered as Allders – in what has become an increasingly acrimonious dispute over the ownership … Continue reading
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
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Boris Johnson, Croydon, Hammerson, London, Minerva, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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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
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Croydon Council, Planning, URV
Tagged Allders, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Guardian, France, London, London Borough of Croydon, MIPIM
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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
Posted in Charity, Community associations, Croydon Greens, Environment
Tagged Allders, Christmas, Conservative, Croydon, England, London, London Borough of Croydon, Religion
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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
Posted in Activities, Allders, Business, Music
Tagged Allders, Croydon, England, London, London Borough of Croydon, New Year's Day Parade
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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
Posted in Activities, Allders, Andrew Pelling, Art, CODA, Comedy, Croydon Council, Housing, John Laing Integrated Services, Libraries, Mike Fisher, Phil Thomas, Planning, URV
Tagged Allders, Andrew Pelling, Croydon, Edinburgh Festival, London, Seat of local government, Surrey Opera, Town Hall
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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
Posted in Boris Johnson, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Steve O'Connell, Tony Newman, Tramlink
Tagged Allders, Boris Johnson, Croydon, Croydon North, Elections, Labour, London, Steve Reed
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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
Posted in Adam Kellett, Allders, Avril Slipper, Business, Centrale, Mike Fisher, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Christmas, Croydon, Ebenezer Scrooge, London Borough of Croydon, Remembrance Day, Tory
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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
Posted in Allders, Business, Centrale, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Council, Jon Rouse, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Bank of America, Croydon, Hammerson, Labour, Labour Council, London, Tory
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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
Posted in Allders, Business, Centrale, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, BBC, Croydon, Hammerson, Local Data Company, London, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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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
Posted in Allders, Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, Business, Centrale, Coulsdon, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Fairfield, History, Ikea, Ken Livingstone, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Mike Fisher, Parking, Policing, Property, Purley, Purley Way, Richard Ottaway MP, Ruskin Square, Surrey Street, Transport, URV, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Allders, Centrale, Croydon, East Croydon station, Ken Livingstone, London, Minerva, Purley Way
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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
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Environment, London-wide issues, Sutton Council, Waddon, Waste incinerator
Tagged Allders, Bank of America, Croydon, Dublin, England, Recycling, Waste, Waste management
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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
Posted in Allders, Business, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Fairfield, Planning, Property, Surrey Street, West Croydon
Tagged Allders, £1 billion, Company, Croydon, Department store, Hammerson, London, Westfield
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Hammerson: Handsome half-year figures and takeover talk
As previously suggested by Inside Croydon, Hammerson, the owner of Centrale and potential developers of the Whitgift Centre, is a takeover target for other developers – including their Whitgift rivals, Westfield. The takeover talk emerged from Australia in May, according … Continue reading
Posted in Allders, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Jon Rouse, Planning, Property, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Jon Rouse, Purley Way, Ruskin Square, West Croydon station, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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