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Tag Archives: Croydon High Street
Primark’s Croydon and Sutton stores in click and collect trial
Primark stores in central Croydon and Sutton are part of a London-wide trial of a new click and collect service. The trial’s launch comes as Primark announces plans to lower prices on hundreds of its autumn-winter range of kidswear products. … Continue reading
Posted in Business
Tagged Croydon, Croydon High Street, North End, Primark, St Nicholas Centre, Sutton, Tooting
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Chinese police station on High Street leaves MP Philp spooked
Two Croydon MPs clashed in the House of Commons yesterday, as the Tory Government faced criticism from security services and its own backbenches over its failure to act against infiltration by the Chinese state. By WALTER CRONXITE, political editor Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Chris Philp MP, Crime, Croydon Central, Croydon South, Sarah Jones MP
Tagged All Eat, Boris Johnson, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon High Street, Croydon South, Iain Duncan Smith, John Crace, Labour, MI5, Ruiyou Lin, Sarah Jones MP, Theresa May, Tory
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Serious concerns after latest spate of youth knife crimes
A fight involving a large group of young teens outside a burger restaurant and two other violent incidents have prompted the Metropolitan Police to order special measures for the town centre A teenager was in hospital fighting for his life … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Crime, Knife crime, Policing
Tagged Church Street, Croydon High Street, knife crime, McDonald's, Metropolitan Police, Nando's, New Addington, youth knife crime
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Not everything’s going to plan after High Street roadworks
Our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, finds the council facing another possible U-turn on one of its street schemes There’s a degree of chaos and confusion in the streets around the Town Hall, even more so than usual, after more … Continue reading
High Street’s Caribbean restaurant lines up Valentine’s specials
Turtle Bay, the Caribbean restaurant and bar on Croydon High Street, has launched a celebration of love for Valentine’s season with friendship and romance taking equal billing as Galentine’s and Valentine’s Bottomless Dinners on the menu. Turtle Bay’s Galentine’s Bottomless … Continue reading
All change! Town centre one-way system to get re-opened
After repeated calls to unlock the poorly-implemented covid one-way system and the pedestrianised zone around Croydon High Street – including criticisms raised here on Inside Croydon – the council has today announced a re-routing scheme for buses and cycle lanes … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Commuting, Croydon Council, Cycling, Fairfield, Mayor Jason Perry, TfL, Transport
Tagged Conservative, covid lockdown, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Flyover, Croydon High Street, Fell Road, Katharine Street, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, TfL, Tory, Transport for London
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BID rangers called ‘bullies in high-viz’ after High Street incident
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Serious questions have been raised about the behaviour of the Mayor-backed security staff drafted into the town centre supposedly to deter anti-social behaviour. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES An investigation is being conducted into the behaviour of a … Continue reading
Caribbean bar is still recruiting ahead of delayed reopening
After a near-two-year closure, Croydon High Street’s Turtle Bay Caribbean-themed cocktail bar and restaurant is set to reopen, just in time for Christmas… The Croydon branch is the last of the 40-or-so Turtle Bay chain to reopen after the enforced … Continue reading
Covid emergency road changes set to be made permanent
Croydon Council, a local authority that pays £10million per year to burn the borough’s rubbish in an environmentally harmful incinerator, is trying to jump on the COP26 bandwagon by announcing that it is making permanent what it describes as “successful … Continue reading
Maybe Tomorrow? Digital collective finds new way of working
It’s fair to suggest that no one considered a global pandemic when they came up with one of the wizard business ideas of the past decade: renting out and servicing shared workspace. Covid-19 quickly put an end to the trendy … Continue reading
Posted in Business, TMRW
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon High Street, TMRW, TMRW Hub
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Whoops! Road works wreck High Street’s ‘bold’ ground art
KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, digs up another embarrassing piece of public money wasted by the council The council’s ability for not quite thinking things through was highlighted again last week, as the pneumatic drills and JCB diggers were … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Croydon Council, Fairfield
Tagged Croydon Council, Croydon High Street, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson
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Council abandons ban on kids’ bikes on World Car-Free Day
Inside Croydon has made a difference, yet again, after Croydon Council was forced to drop its ban on scooters and bikes from the play street it has planned for the High Street this Saturday. Inside Croydon yesterday highlighted the imbecility … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Cycling, Transport
Tagged Croydon High Street, Emma Hope-Fitch, Love Lane, Woodside
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Council killjoys ban bikes and scooters from play street
Saturday is World Car-Free Day, though Croydon Council’s efforts to mark the event are hardly fun-filled. There’s no grand gesture, no scheme to close off the Croydon Flyover, that monument to the primacy of the internal combustion engine. Somewhat more … Continue reading
Posted in Fairfield, Stuart King, Transport
Tagged Croydon Council, Croydon High Street, STUART KING
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Londonist website accuses Croydon of being boring… in 1896
Londonist.com, which often takes a sideways glance at matters in and around the capital, has clearly enjoyed the produce of Surrey Street Market, or its ancient public house, the Dog and Bull, a little too much… Someone at the website … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fairfield, History
Tagged Croydon High Street, Frederick Edridge, Londonist, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Losing the plastic straws provides a more perfect cocktail mix
With our resident culture correspondent, Bella Bartock, laid up because of the hot summer weather, her grandson, BILL BARTOCK, strolled along to a town centre cocktail bar to sample their take on typically tropical drinks Since opening two years ago, … Continue reading
Signs of the times: Watson’s whim is now back on message
It has not been in position for two months yet, but Councillor Mark Watson’s whimsy on the newly pedestrianised bit of the High Street has now got a second sign. The art-installation seating, which looks as if it was made … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Mark Watson
Tagged Croydon Council, Croydon High Street, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson
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Council warning that Watson’s whim is dangerous structure
Less than a month since Mark Watson, the senior Labour councillor, heralded it as “a popular addition” to the town centre, his latest costly piece of whimsy in the High Street has now effectively been declared as a hazard and … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Mark Watson, Planning
Tagged Croydon Council, Croydon High Street, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson
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Road works in town centre force bus routes on diversion
Councillor Mark Watson’s whimsy of closing a stretch of the High Street in the town centre has encountered an unforeseen complication since the weekend, as Thames Water has dug up the road on Katharine Street, close to the Town Hall, … Continue reading
Posted in Mark Watson, Planning, TfL, Transport
Tagged Croydon Council, Croydon High Street, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson, TfL, Transport for London
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Disability groups never consulted over latest Watson whim
Members of two bodies which seek to represent the interests and needs of Croydon’s disabled and elderly – one of which is organised by the council itself – have confirmed that there was no consultation held with them before Croydon … Continue reading
‘Elderly and disabled avoid town centre as it is too dangerous’
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Former Labour councillor ADRIAN DENNIS, pictured left, accuses the current Town Hall administration of failing to fulfil its legal responsibilities over the closure to traffic of a short stretch of the High Street While there were very good … Continue reading
Latest ‘Watson whim’ generates ridicule and confusion
As well as little proper consultation over the closure of a stretch of Croydon High Street, there doesn’t appear to have been much thought gone into what Mark Watson, the soon-to-be-ex councillor behind the scheme, and the council intend to … Continue reading
High Street closure to be permanent, says council consultant
The closure of Croydon High Street, between Park Street and Katharine Street, imposed on the town centre in October after only the briefest of “consultations”, is intended to be permanent, according to correspondence obtained by Inside Croydon. When it was … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Fairfield, Jo Negrini, Mark Watson, Planning, Pubs, Restaurants, TfL, Tony Newman, Transport
Tagged Croydon Council, Croydon High Street, Fairfield, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson, Rise Gallery, St George's Walk, Tony Newman
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