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Tag Archives: Boozepark
Owner ‘rises to the challenge’ as businesses quit Boxpark
“Stop sort of complaining about your lot and get on with rising to the challenge, that’s my message to people,” businessman Roger Wade said recently. “You can’t have the council going out trying to protect local businesses.” Wade is the … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Business, East Croydon, Mark Watson, Tony Newman
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Conservative, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Labour, Roger Wade, Tony Newman, Tory
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Chicken shops have had their chips if Butler gets her way
Alison Butler, Croydon Council’s deputy leader, has declared war on fast food shops around the borough. In an email sent to her 38 Labour councillor colleagues, seen by Inside Croydon, Butler, the council cabinet member for homes, regeneration and planning, … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Boxpark, Business, Croydon Council, Health, Planning, Surrey Street
Tagged Alison Butler, Boozepark, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Local Plan, Labour
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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
#BoxparkBallsFund: Legal appeal hits its target in just 26 hours
There’s people on the pitch. They think it’s all over. It is now! OK, it may not be quite the same as winning the World Cup, but the generosity and encouragement offered by Inside Croydon’s readers over the past day … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Tony Newman
Tagged #BoxparkBallsFund, Boozepark, Boxpark, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Tony Newman
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May Day: Please help our appeal against Boxpark legal threat
Inside Croydon has been around for nearly seven years, and never before have we asked for any financial help from our loyal reader. Until now. The website has incurred legal bills in defending – successfully, we’re happy to say – … Continue reading
Croydon ‘Works’ – at a cost of £1,230 for every job placement
WALTER CRONXITE reports that a council job brokerage scheme has spent just £1,000 in the past year on training for unemployed local residents, but paid more than £100,000 on staff to manage the project Croydon Council last month issued a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Mark Watson, Tony Newman
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Works, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson, Tony Newman
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Boxpark switches job ad to get round Living Wage rules
Boxpark, the council-subsidised food and booze venue, has dropped its low-pay internship advertisement, after Inside Croydon highlighted how it was offering to pay a miserly £6.50 per hour, well below the London Living Wage. Now, Boozepark has re-jigged the ad, … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Mark Watson, Tony Newman
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Labour, London Living Wage, Mark Watson, Roger Wade, Tony Newman
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Scandal of council-funded Boxpark paying £6.50 per hour
Boxpark, the food and booze outlet set up next to East Croydon Station thanks to £3.5million of loans and grants from Croydon Council, is now recruiting for an events and digital marketing “intern” and offering less than two-thirds of the … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Business, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Tony Newman
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tony Newman
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Council gives one week’s notice of its latest Surrey St meeting
Sshhh! Don’t tell everyone, but Croydon Council is staging a meeting next week to explain how it is going to spend £1million of your money on one of the most historically important areas of the borough. The “informal” meeting, about … Continue reading
Council refuses to say whether it will prosecute fly-posters
Good as its word, Croydon Council has acted to remove the posters for Boxpark which had been fly-posted around the borough last week. And true to Croydon form, it’s been a bit of a botch job. As Inside Croydon reported, … Continue reading
Boxpark posters draw complaints to council’s clean-up team
Well. This will be embarrassing for Croydon Council leader Tony Newman just as he packs his bucket and spade for a weekend jolly by the seaside on a Labour group “awayday” to Eastbourne. Boxpark, which has been in receipt of … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Business, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Labour, Roger Wade, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Woodside
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Unit rents in Boxpark set to triple following its glitzy opening
Rents for units in Boxpark could be set to triple after initial lease periods, Inside Croydon has been informed. The new soaring rents are understood to be behind the reluctance of some Croydon-based restauranteurs and cafe operators to take space … Continue reading
Newman breaks manifesto promise over Boxpark festival
Tony Newman’s Labour council has broken one of its 2014 manifesto commitments, after diverting £160,000 of public money from its intended free annual music festival to pay towards private business Boozepark’s opening shindig next month. The council-run Ambition Festival was … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, 2018 council elections, Ambition Festival, Art, Ashcroft Theatre, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Fairfield Halls, Music, Riesco Collection, Theatre, Timothy Godfrey, Tony Newman, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Conservative, East Croydon station, Fairfield Halls, Labour, Mayor, Sadiq Khan, Tony Newman, Tory
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Boxpark opening airbrushes all mention of Ambition Festival
Boxpark Croydon has finally announced its opening dates. Boozepark, which was lured to the site alongside East Croydon Station with a £3 million loan from the Labour-run council, is to stage a two-day “Opening Festival” on October 29 and 30 … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Ambition Festival, Boxpark, Business, Dance, East Croydon, Jo Negrini, Music, Timothy Godfrey
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Jo Negrini, Labour, Roger Wade, Timothy Godfrey
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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 delays could see Ambition Festival staged in October
BELLA BARTOCK, arts correspondent, reports on how a council-backed arts fest can’t fix a date in the diary It’s just a few weeks since Croydon Council made the announcement that it would use £160,000 of Council Tax-payers’ money to stage … Continue reading
Posted in Ambition Festival, Art, Boxpark, Business
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Roger Wade, Timothy Godfrey, Tony Newman
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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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Council starts chucking cash about to disguise its blunders
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Suddenly, Croydon is being showered in money from the local council. STEVEN DOWNES suggests that it is the Town Hall leadership paying for their mistakes, usually with your money Council leader Tony Newman may be thinking he’s giddy … Continue reading
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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Tiger Tiger faces extinction as town centre closes down
Tiger Tiger, burning not so bright. The Sadvertiser is reporting that one of Croydon town centre’s principal night clubs is to close this weekend, something which will be regretted only by those under 25 years old who cannot get served … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boxpark, Business, Crime, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Jo Negrini, Policing, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Grants, Labour, Tiger Tiger
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