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Croydon riots 10 years on: Arson land put up for sale at £2m
It is being marketed as a “design and build opportunity”, a patch of land close to the town centre, less than one-fifth of an acre, on the market this summer from the borough’s largest landowners, for a mere £2million. It … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Crime, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Council, Stiles Harold Williams, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged 8/8, 8/8 Riots, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Riots, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Maurice Reeves, reeves corner, Trevor Reeves, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Business leader issues plea to government for financial help
The government needs to provide greater support for those firms worst-hit by the extension of the covid-19 lockdown or risk losing Croydon’s “beating heart”, according to the head of the largest business group in the borough. Matthew Sims is the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Croydon BID, Health, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boris Johnson, coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon BID, Hammersfield, Matthew Sims, Whitgift Centre
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Business body asks town centre traders: do we have a future?
Croydon BID, the town centre’s Business Improvement District, is conducting a survey of companies and traders in the area in preparation for next year, when it is required to submit a renewal plan for its next five years. “Help us … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon BID
Tagged Croydon, Croydon BID, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Centrale flips out with £2m adventure park planned for summer
Around 75 jobs will be created by turning unwanted retail space into a ‘family fun centre’ It might not be the whole solution to the sorry plight of Croydon town centre, where a year-long lockdown has compounded storeowners’ troubles with … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale
Tagged Centrale, Croydon, Flip Out, Hammersfield, Hammerson
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Future of the high street: young filmmakers offer bleak take
A project by Historic England – The Future of the High Street – has released a short film made in Croydon. If anyone needed any further reinforcement of the notion that Croydon town centre had become run-down and neglected after … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Art, Business, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Turf Projects, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Developer digs in to keep planning consent for £500m tower
After already suffering a decade of development blight in the town centre because of the on-off-on-off-again aborted Westfield scheme, now a key site off Wellesley Road is about to be turned into a hole in the ground for an indefinite … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, One Lansdowne Road, Planning, Property, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, David Hudson, Guildhouse Rosepride, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, London Borough of Croydon, One Lansdowne, One Lansdowne Road, Sean Fitzsimons, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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That Was The Year That Was: 2020’s most-read stories
Even without the global pandemic’s impact on the borough and its people, this has been an astonishing 12 months for news in Croydon. In this first part of our review of the year, Editor STEVEN DOWNES guides you through some … Continue reading
I want people to be envious when I say ‘I live in Croydon’
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Regular reader ANDREW MURRAY (no, not that one) provides an example of the anger that is mounting among residents over the council’s failed management Croydon, like so many small towns in the UK, lives in the shadow of … Continue reading
Newman bypassed cabinet and colleagues on CEO decisions
Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, on the latest decision by decree from the council leader, and with a profile of the interim CEO who had a chequered career before joining Croydon Before she was announced yesterday as the interim replacement … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Business, CPO, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Lisa Taylor, Shifa Mustafa, Simon Hall, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Shifa Mustafa, Simon Hall, Tony Newman, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Negrini must not receive any reward for failures, says MP
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, on the immediate reactions to the departure of the council’s chief executive Any pay-off to Jo Negrini, Croydon Council’s departing chief executive, would be “morally wrong at this time of financial … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Brick by Brick, Children's Services, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Jo Negrini, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Brick by Brick, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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It’s official: finally Newman breaks silence on Negrini’s exit
The battle over a lavish ‘golden handshake’ for the £220,000 per year chief executive appears to have been settled. By STEVEN DOWNES Tony Newman, the leader of the Labour-run council, finally broke his silence this afternoon to confirm that Jo … Continue reading
Financially challenged Purley Way among John Lewis closures
The John Lewis At Home store on the Purley Way will never reopen its doors. Croydon shoppers who had made the most of the department store’s limited presence since it opened its out-of-town site had their fears confirmed this morning … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Purley Way
Tagged Allders, Croydon, Hammersfield, Hammerson, John Lewis, Purley Way, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Electric House gets makeover for Britain’s 95th-best university
‘It’s a bit like saying Fulham are one of London’s top football teams.’ Our Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on the latest example of the council over-hyping its performance Unable to deliver the £1.4billion shiny new Westfield shopping mall that … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Croydon School of Art, Education, Jo Negrini, Planning, South Bank Poly, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Electric House, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, South Bank Poly, Tony Newman, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Turn Westfield shambles into opportunity to re-shape our town
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The clear change in approach from senior figures at the Town Hall, previously cheerleaders for Westfield, over the abandoned plans for a £1.4bn redevelopment of the Whitgift and Centrale shopping centres represent a welcome opportunity to remodel the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Surrey Street, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Back to the drawing board for new plans for the Whitgift Centre
The council has today issued documents that admit the era of big, shiny shopping centres is over and that the £1.4bn Westfield development is ‘unlikely to be implemented as consented’. Our unbuilt shopping centre correspondent, MT WALLETTE, reports Less than … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, CPO, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Planning, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Tony Newman, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Croydon BID’s new chair says town centre to reopen on June 1
Croydon BID, the town centre business “improvement” organisation, has appointed a former personnel manager for Gatwick Airport as its latest chair. In his first statement as chair of Croydon BID, Darren Hockaday announced that his organisation and Croydon Council want … Continue reading
Revealed: Council’s plan for town centre is 95th-best university
GENE BRODIE, education correspondent, on the increasingly desperate-looking moves to salvage anything from the town centre regeneration Croydon Council’s “cunning plan” to dig the town centre out of the hole created for it by the Whitgift Foundation and Westfield is … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Croydon BID, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Education, Jo Negrini, Planning, Sussex Innovation Centre, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon College, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, South Bank Poly, Tony Newman, University of Sussex, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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