Tag Archives: Fair Field

This is £12m Fairfield ‘plaza’ that Mayor Perry wants to create

Posted on July 14, 2022 by insidecroydon

Existing designs for a public open space between the town’s major arts centre and Croydon College have been derided as ‘jokey’, ‘crass’ and ‘one gigantic hardscape of pink and grey candy stripe concrete’. By STEVEN DOWNES Mayor Jason Perry’s announcement … Continue reading →

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FAT chance of there being any inspired designs for Fair Field

Posted on May 26, 2020 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The council might be broke, but that hasn’t stopped them spaffing another million pounds, maybe more, on a set of architects’ designs which are certain to turn the borough into a laughing stock once more, says SEBASTIAN TILLINGER … Continue reading →

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Only 16% of council’s Fairfield flats project will be affordable

Posted on April 18, 2020 by insidecroydon

Our housing correspondent BARRATT HOLMES on the latest signs of desperation to fix Brick by Brick’s failing finances The planning application being considered by the charade that will pass for a planning committee meeting next Thursday is for a scheme … Continue reading →

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How CEO Negrini used council money to promote herself

Posted on December 11, 2018 by insidecroydon

Here is the text of the ‘sponsored competition’ which appeared on the website of the Architect’s Journal on December 5, just after the publication was announcing that Croydon Council’s Brick by Brick house-builder (which has yet to build a single … Continue reading →

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