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Tag Archives: Colonnades
Colonnades management cuts customers’ free parking by half
EXCLUSIVE: Regular users of the gym, DIY centre or kids’ play areas at the ‘leisure park’ off the Purley Way no longer have the benefit of three hours’ free car parking. By our motoring correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON Shoppers and gym … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Colonnades, Mayor Jason Perry, Parking, Purley Way, Transport, Waddon
Tagged 9Yards, Colonnades, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Purley Way, Tory
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Colonnades Pizza Hut among 68 restaurants forced to close
Croydon is one of the locations that will be losing its branch of Pizza Hut, it was confirmed yesterday. Pizza Hut in the Colonnades, the Purley Way venue for building supplies, takeaway coffees and a trampoline park, is among the … Continue reading
Purley Way’s trampoline park offers big value summer passport
Oxygen trampoline park, in the Colonnades off the Purley Way, has launched its summer Passport to Play, giving families the chance to check-in to the park all summer long for just £30. And Oxygen has also teamed up with icelolly.com, … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Business, Colonnades, Sport
Tagged Colonnades, Oxygen, Oxygen Croydon, Oxygen Trampolining Park
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Take a deep breath this half-term with Oxygen’s special offers
Oxygen, the trampoline and activities park at the Colonnades off the Purley Way, is offering a five-day bounce pass, which includes one hour of open play on each day of the half term, for just £30. From tiny tots to … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Purley Way
Tagged Colonnades, Oxygen Croydon, Oxygen Trampolining Park
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Oxygen offers breath of fresh air with summer activity clubs
Oxygen, the kids’ trampoline park at Croydon’s Colonnades, off the Purley Way, is getting into the sporty spirit with a programme of special activities for the school holidays. Oxygen Croydon features interconnected trampolines, soft play for toddlers, a dodgeball arena … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Business, Colonnades
Tagged Colonnades, Croydon, Olympics, Oxygen, Purley Way
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Colonnades sold by council for £25m under purchase price
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The Government-enforced fire sale of council assets is about to see the borough lose even more money, on a commercial property that has been making millions for the borough. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Croydon’s Mayor and Tory … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Improvement Board, Jane West, Property, Purley Way, Simon Hall, Tony McArdle, Waddon
Tagged Boxpark, Colonnades, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Improvement and Assurance Panel, Improvement Panel, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Purley Way, Waddon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Police seek witnesses to stabbing of teenager at Colonnades
The Metropolitan Police are asking for witnesses to come forward after a 15-year-old boy was stabbed in broad daylight yesterday at a bus stop outside The Colonnades, by the busy A23 Purley Way. The victim was rushed to hospital after … Continue reading
Posted in Colonnades, Crime, Knife crime, Waddon
Tagged Colonnades, knife crime, Metropolitan Police, Purley Way, youth knife crime
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Trampoline park bounces into a new era after £1.2m refurb
A local Croydon family, the Joys, presided over the official reopening this week of Oxygen Croydon, following a £1.23million upgrade and refurbishment. Henry Joy, 18, and his sisters, Izzy, 15, and Libby, 14, cut the ribbon at Oxygen’s launch event, … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Business, Purley Way, Waddon
Tagged Colonnades, Oxygen Croydon, Oxygen Trampolining Park, Purley Way
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Oxygen provides a breath of fresh air for kids’ holiday activities
Inside Croydon is putting some real bounce into kids’ Easter holidays, offering 12 free jump passes for the bigger, better and bouncier Oxygen Croydon trampoline park at the Colonnades, off the Purley Way. Oxygen Croydon is having the finishing touches … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Business, Colonnades, Purley Way, South Croydon
Tagged Colonnades, Easter, Oxygen Croydon, Oxygen Trampolining Park, Purley Way
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£100m questions on Ali’s ‘transparent, open and honest’ pledge
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on the growing row over council secrecy over Brick by Brick and the fire sale of property assets The secrecy over the consequences of the council’s plan to wind-down failed housing developer Brick … Continue reading
Jenrick issues ‘strongly-worded’ warning over property deals
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Government minister targets bankrupt borough when he tells LGA conference ‘Councils shouldn’t make investments for which they are not well-equipped’. By WALTER CRONXITE It seems increasingly likely that Whitehall will insist on Croydon flogging off many of … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Colonnades, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Section 114 notice
Tagged Brick by Brick, Colonnades, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, London Borough of Croydon, MHCLG, Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government, Robert Jenrick, S114, Section 114
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Wood comes knocking with brief to investigate Brick by Brick
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Can it really just be coincidence that the troubleshooter appointed to conduct an urgent review of the council also has extensive experience working at one of Jo Negrini’s former boroughs? WALTER CRONXITE reports It seems almost certain … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Colonnades, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Property, Report in the Public Interest, Tony Newman
Tagged Brick by Brick, Chris Wood, Colonnades, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, MHCLG, Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government, Robert Jenrick, Tony Newman
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Chancellor is taking an axe to councils’ magic money tree
Croydon Council has more than £1bn of borrowings – half of which has gone on Brick by Brick and the purchase of some commercial properties. Proposals contained in the Budget this week could put an end to that, as KEN … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Bernard Weatherill House, Brick by Brick, Business, Centrale, Colonnades, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Croydon parks, Jo Negrini, New Addington, Planning, Property, Queens Gardens, Simon Hall, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Brick by Brick, Colonnades, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Selco, Simon Hall, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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£29m: Croydon tops the table for flogging off public assets
With inflated claims of returns from the council’s house-builder being compared to a Ponzi scheme, a former council official says, ‘We are in uncertain times and the risks being taken with public money are huge compared to the marginal potential … Continue reading
Councils’ property deals are ‘gambling with public money’
Councils across England – including Croydon and Sutton – have between them borrowed billions of pounds of public money to finance the purchase of real estate and commercial properties, a policy which could place some at risk of financial collapse, … Continue reading
Colonnades purchase is massive gamble with public money
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Spending millions to buy a private business risks feather bedding property speculators, says DEREK THROWER Under a Conservative government, local authorities, including Croydon Council, are being given public cash to nationalise private assets and land. That’s quite extraordinary … Continue reading
Council pays £53m to buy ‘unloved’ Colonnades centre
The business “brains” at Fisher’s Folly have gone out and splurged £53million of public money to buy the freehold of the “unloved” and rarely visited Colonnades retail and leisure park – just as industry experts are warning that 200 such … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boxpark, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Property, Purley Way, Simon Hall, Waddon, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boxpark, Colonnades, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Purley Way, Waddon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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TfL pushes through bus route changes despite opposition
Transport for London, after running a public consultation which found that a majority of respondents opposed changes to bus routes serving the Purley Way shops and Colonnades, has announced that it will go ahead with its proposals anyway. It means … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Chris Philp MP, Croydon South, Joy Prince, Purley Way, Robert Canning, Steve O'Connell, TfL, Transport, Waddon
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Colonnades, Conservative, Labour, Purley Way, Steve O'Connell, TfL, Tory, Transport for London
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Colonnades new centre will have you flying through the air
Croydon’s new trampoline park opens today. MATTHEW GLINSKI put it to the test I spent my weekend flying through the air. I was at the Oxygen Freejumping trampoline park at The Colonnades off the Purley Way, where I found myself … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Croydon Trampoline Park, Sport
Tagged Colonnades, Oxygen Trampolining Park, Purley Way, Waddon
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Trampoline park puts the bounce back into the Colonnades
There’s been a new spring being put into the Colonnades Leisure Park this spring, with a trampoline centre opening there next month.
Posted in Activities, Sport, Waddon
Tagged Colonnades, Oxygen Trampolining Park, Purley Way, Waddon
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