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Westfield now want a data centre plus 4,000 flats in town centre

Posted on October 5, 2026 by insidecroydon

After more than 15 years of non-development, Paris-based developers are seriously considering building a data centre close to the town centre’s conservation area, as they crank up plans for 45-storey tower blocks. By STEVEN DOWNES Fifteen years after Westfield first … Continue reading →

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Westfield consult public for 6th time and deliver more delays

Posted on March 12, 2026 by insidecroydon

Paris-based multi-bilion developers URW today begin another public consultation over the future of the town centre – Consultation No6 – which means that their latest planning application, already two years late, won’t see the light of day until long after … Continue reading →

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Planning application for Westfield scheme stalled to mid-2026

Posted on October 28, 2025 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: ‘”Rome wasn’t built in a day”, but it never took this long’. More broken promises from the Paris-based developers as their housing scheme for the town centre is delayed again. By STEVEN DOWNES  Their planning application was supposed to … Continue reading →

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Waiting for Westfield leaves us Urban Room for improvement

Posted on November 14, 2024 by insidecroydon

With not a moment to lose, KEN TOWL dashed down to the Whitgift Centre to try to discover what the multi-national developers might have in store for the town centre, amid their models made of cereal packets and design briefs … Continue reading →

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Westfield wants to build five times as many flats in town centre

Posted on November 13, 2024 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The one-time shopping mall developer is shapeshifting its business towards residential property, but appears in no hurry to action any of its promises after more than a decade of blight to North End. By our housing correspondent, … Continue reading →

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Westfield appoints firm that oversaw King’s Cross scheme

Posted on November 12, 2024 by insidecroydon

Westfield has today begun what they call “a year-long programme of engagement”, before the Paris-based shopping mall developers finally put together a planning application, by our reckoning the third, for what was once a £1.4billion regeneration scheme in Croydon town … Continue reading →

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