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Tag Archives: Lidl
Our shoppers’ guide for the best-buys for Christmas wines
There’s a bewildering choice of wines on offer this festive season. Croydon wine expert ROZ LAWSON offers her best picks from local supermarket shelves – all priced at £10 or less, and starting with a Champagne Lidl Comte de Senneval … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Business
Tagged Co-op, Lidl, Marks and Spencer, Roz Lawson, South London Wine School, Tesco, Waitrose
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Lidl’s Hamsey Green plans get criticism from council planners
Even Croydon’s planners have joined the chorus of disapproval from residents in Sanderstead, Tandridge and Warlingham over the ‘disjointed and generic’ proposals for the Good Companions site at Hamsey Green, reports housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES There is a planning saga … Continue reading
After 12 years, Lidl set to unveil plans for Hamsey Green store
More than a decade after the German supermarket chain paid £2million for the Good Companions pub at Hamsey Green, Lidl are primed to submit a revised planning application for the long-derelict site at the outermost edge of Croydon. Having thwarted … Continue reading
South Croydon, Bromley and Beckenham on Aldi’s wish list
Aldi, the country’s fourth-largest supermarket chain, is looking to get even bigger, and is on the hunt for new store locations in South Croydon, as well as Beckenham and Bromley, as part of its rapid expansion drive. Last month, Aldi … Continue reading
Posted in Bromley Council, Business, Property, South Croydon
Tagged Aldi, Beckenham, Bromley, Lidl, Marks and Spencer, South Croydon
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Lidl store stays closed after latest knife fight on Church Street
Lidl, the discount supermarket in Old Town, was closed for most of yesterday as a consequence of the latest knife fight on Church Street. The fight happened before 6am, and led to one man needing hospital treatment for a wound … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Crime, Fairfield, Knife crime
Tagged Church Street, Croydon, Fairfield, knife crime, Lidl, Metropolitan Police
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Greenpeace give supermarkets a monstering over their meat
Alongside the John Lewis Christmas ad and the seasonal TV commercials that play across our screens, Greenpeace wants us to tune in to the important message contained within their own new and powerful animation: Monster. If kids’ pester power really … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Environment, Wildlife
Tagged Aldi, Greenpeace, Lidl, McDonald's, Nando's, Tesco
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Aldi asks Coulsdon residents for views on Red Lion scheme
Another week, another old pub (site), another supermarket. This time, it is the Red Lion site on Coulsdon High Street, long used as a car park, with plans put forward by German supermarket chain Aldi. Aldi has distributed a leaflet … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Coulsdon, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Property, Pubs
Tagged Aldi, Coulsdon, Croydon, England, Lidl, London, Old Coulsdon, Tesco
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May Day holiday gives Crown and Sceptre a festival feeling
As outlined with previous reports about the Good Companions, the Swan and Sugarloaf and the Red Deer, the pub business is under pressure. So if we want to keep our local, we need to help to support it, and this … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Pubs, Restaurants, South Croydon
Tagged Bank Holiday Monday, Beer Festival, Crown, Croydon, Lidl, London, Red Deer, South Croydon
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Council deputy leader has “serious concerns” over Lidl plans
Lidl’s latest scheme to build a steel shed on the site of the old Good Companions at Hamsey Green has been referred to Croydon Council’s planning committee by a senior Croydon councillor who says he has “serious concerns” over the … Continue reading
Posted in Planning, Sanderstead, Tim Pollard
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Hamsey Green, Lidl, London Borough of Croydon, Morrisons, Red Deer, South Croydon
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Hamsey Green shops and schools under threat from Lidl plans
To absolutely no one’s surprise – largely because they have paid top-dollar for the landmark site and need to make the £2 million investment work for them commercially – Lidl has submitted a renewed planning application for a supermarket where … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Parking, Planning, Pubs, Sanderstead, Yvette Hopley
Tagged Croydon, Hamsey Green, Lidl, Limpsfield, London Borough of Croydon, Post office, Sanderstead, Surrey
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Lidl drops planning application for Hamsey Green site
Lidl, the German supermarket chain, has dropped its planning application for what amounted to a vast steel shed to be built on a gateway site into Croydon from Surrey on the Limpsfield Road, to the south of Sanderstead. The Lidl … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Environment, Planning, Property, Pubs, Sanderstead, Yvette Hopley
Tagged Aldi, Croydon, Facebook, German, Lidl, Sanderstead, Supermarket
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Lidl riddle over the council’s disappearing bats of Sanderstead
When asked to offer evidence of rare wildlife on the site of the Good Companions pub at Hamsey Green, to at least delay development of the old building while a rare species assessment report was prepared, Croydon Council’s planners failed … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Croydon Council, Environment, Planning, Property, Pubs, Sanderstead, Walks, Wildlife
Tagged Bats, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hamsey Green, Lidl, London Borough of Croydon, Public house, Sanderstead
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Council helps Lidl defeat batman over pub demolition
Croydon Council has given the all-clear to Lidl to demolish the Good Companions pub at Hamsey Green, leaving local residents and some Sanderstead councillors to pin their hopes on objections to the planned supermarket because it is unsuitable for a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Environment, Fairfield, Lynne Hale, Maria Gatland, Planning, Property, Pubs, Richard Ottaway MP, Sanderstead, South Croydon, Tim Pollard, Whitgift Foundation, Wildlife, Yvette Hopley
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Hamsey Green, Lidl, London, Sanderstead, Surrey, Whitgift Foundation
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The Batman comes to the rescue of the Good Companions
With bulldozers booked and ready to move on to the site, residents opposed to the destruction of the Good Companions at Hamsey Green have recruited the help of a bat man to save the old pub from destruction. Legal notices … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Environment, Planning, Pubs, Sanderstead, Wildlife
Tagged Bat, Conservation, Great Crested Newt, Habitats Directive, Hamsey Green, Lidl, Natural England, Species
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Lidl encounters strong opposition after paying £2m for pub site
Lidl could have paid three times the market rate to purchase the Good Companions pub site on Limpsfield Road, Sanderstead, and look like they could be left with a £2.2 million real estate bill for a store that few locals … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Crime, Croydon South, Environment, Fairfield, Lynne Hale, Outside Croydon, Planning, Property, Pubs, Richard Ottaway MP, Sanderstead, Schools, South Croydon, Tim Pollard, Waddon, Yvette Hopley
Tagged Hamsey Green, Lidl, Public house, Richard Ottaway, Sanderstead, South Croydon, Tesco, Warlingham
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Sadvertiser’s cheap photostunt amid other people’s misery
The Croydon Sadvertiser, it has to be said, has had a couple of good weeks editorially. With the Croydon riots, there was no need for stories involving photoshopped giraffes on page 3 (we did not make that up: they really … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Croydon 8/8, Croydon North, Local media, Richard Ottaway MP
Tagged Allders, Cowes, Croydon, Croydon South, Lidl, London Road, Mayor, Member of parliament, Richard Ottaway, Twitter
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