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Lend Lease land £40m deal to build Metro Bank HQ
Builders Lend Lease have been given the £40 million construction contract to build the first office block at Ruskin Square, the site alongside East Croydon Station. The building will be the headquarters office for Metro Bank, who are moving from … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Business, East Croydon, Property, Ruskin Square
Tagged Addiscombe West, East Croydon station, Ruskin Square, Schroder Stanhope, Stanhope
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Sign up here to buy an East Croydon flat for a mere £401,000
Fancy buying a new, two-bed flat, with delightful views over the London-to-Brighton railway line, and all for a little more than £400,000? Then this is your chance. “Vita”, the first residential development at Ruskin Square, right next to East Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Central, East Croydon, ECCO, Environment, Fairfield, Housing, Property, Ruskin Square
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, East Croydon station, Fairfield, Ruskin Square, Tory, Vita
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Police arrest Croydon man over burglary from Visitor Centre
Croydon police have made an arrest in the investigation of the tens of thousands of pounds that went missing from the Croydon Visitor Centre in the days (or, more specifically, one afternoon) after its closure earlier this month. As we … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon BID, Policing
Tagged Boxpark, Croydon, Croydon BID, East Croydon station, Metropolitan Police, Ruskin Square
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Poor Doors planned for Ruskin Square’s ‘Vita’ apartments
The first phase of residential development at Ruskin Square, on the prestigious gateway site next to East Croydon Station, is to include controversial Poor Doors for the residents of the 36 “affordable” apartments included in the scheme. Places for People, … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Housing, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Taberner House
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Fairfield, Labour, Ruskin Square, Vita
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Work underway to get Boxpark to pop-up in summer 2016
Boxpark, the pop-up retail centre built from disused shipping containers, will open alongside East Croydon Station with up to 80 shops, fashionable boutiques and cafes next summer, it was confirmed this morning. Work is to begin immediately, and around 200 … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boxpark, Business, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Nathan Elvery, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Tramlink, Transport, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, GLA, Greater London Authority, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Nathan Elvery, Ruskin Square, Schroders, Stanhope, Westfield
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This is what £8,000 of public money buys Croydon at MIPIM
When the Conservatives were in power in Croydon, the spending on sending a delegation to Cannes for the annual developers’ champagne “junket” (© Tony Newman) was at least announced at a council meeting in the Town Hall. This year, under … Continue reading
By Jupiter! Is Whitehall considering a move to Fisher’s Folly?
A government department is looking to move into a 250,000 square foot office building in East Croydon, according to reports in the commercial property trade press this week. And the only relatively new office block in the vicinity offering that … Continue reading
Council gambles millions with “Son of CCURV” scheme
Given recent experience, Croydon councillors more than most should realise that using public money to gamble rarely ends happily. But like a losing punter chasing after his losses, Croydon Council, now under a Labour administration, is going back to the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Alison Butler, Bernard Weatherill House, Business, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Simon Hall, Tony Newman, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Alison Butler, CCURV, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Nathan Elvery, Revolving Investment Fund, RIF, Ruskin Square, Simon Hall, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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East Croydon’s new platforms put borough on track for growth
East Croydon Station is to get two new platforms to help it cope with the increased number of passengers anticipated in a plan for growth by the Labour council, which forecasts 16,000 new jobs being created in the borough and … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Commuting, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Jo Negrini, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Tony Newman, Tramlink, Transport, URV
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Gatwick Airport, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Tony Newman
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The Commitment: a new work at the Warehouse Theatre?
Ted Craig, the director of the Warehouse Theatre at East Croydon which was forced to close two years ago, has warmly welcomed the news, reported by Inside Croydon, that Ruskin Square developers Stanhope are keen to stand by their pledge … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Fairfield Halls, Music, Property, Ruskin Square, Theatre, Timothy Godfrey, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, East Croydon station, Fairfield Halls, Labour, Ruskin Square, Timothy Godfrey, Tory
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Places for People appointed to run Ruskin Square flats
And so the build begins. The construction sites, cranes and scaffolding sprouting around the borough shows that there is indeed some economic activity going on, and now news reaches Inside Croydon Towers of a first step towards finally developing one … Continue reading
Posted in East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, Housing, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Tramlink, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged East Croydon station, Fairfield, Ruskin Square, Schroder Stanhope
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Dog gone it: Reed’s new job enough to leave him barking
Ahhh, the glamour of being on the political front line. Or lack of it. One moment, you’re a mere backbencher, one of the most junior MPs in the House of Commons, with less than a year’s seniority. The next, after … Continue reading
Royal Mail’s move to Factory Lane puts profit before service
Councillors in East Croydon have started a petition to oppose the closing of the mail collection office located beside the railway station, as the privatised Royal Mail seeks to flog off its depot for development, and make millions of pounds … Continue reading
Renaissance man who’s under-cutting rents across London
Renaissance, the five-storey office block on Dingwall Road, close to East Croydon railway station, opened last week, offering office space at one-fifth of the cost of rates in the West End, Canary Wharf and the City of London, according to … Continue reading
The Firebird, family concert: Sunday Oct 20
Posted in Activities, Art, Education, Fairfield Halls, Music
Tagged Croydon, Crystal Palace, England, London, Ruskin Square, West Croydon station
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I am a rock! But new kids on building blocks have problems
The IYLO BUILDING has awoken from its slumbers… The construction crane is back and builders in hi-viz jackets, like worker ants, are climbing all over it. But the oft neglected, unfinished tower in the middle of a suburban roundabout has … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Altitude 25, Broad Green, Business, Centrale, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Environment, IYLO, Planning, Property, Riesco Collection, Ruskin Square, Thornton Heath, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Hammerson, IYLO BUILDING, London, Ruskin Square, Saffron Square, Shard, Westfield
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Fairfield in discussions over cinema use of new studio threatre
Supporters of two of the borough’s neglected arts venues, the David Lean Cinema and the Warehouse Theatre, are expected to be very concerned that management at Fairfield Halls have been holding meetings with cinema operators over the possible use of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, Comedy, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Dudley Mead, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, Margaret Mead, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Theatre, Timothy Godfrey, URV, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema, Fairfield Halls, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Warehouse Theatre
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Gateway’s uninspired opening with a couple of blocks of flats
According to ANDREW PELLING, the first phase of development proposed for the long-vacant Ruskin Square site, in a town crying out for family housing, consists of a couple of ugly blocks of flats that even the architects admit are not … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Andrew Pelling, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, Housing, IYLO, Jon Rouse, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Transport, URV
Tagged Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Croydon, East Croydon station, London, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Schroders
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Theatre is boarded up as developers consider demolition
The Warehouse Theatre stands boarded up this morning, any hope of its re-opening even more remote after the owners of the Ruskin Square (non-)development site, Stanhope and Schroders, in midweek exercised a break clause in the lease to take back … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Fairfield Halls, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Croydon, East Croydon station, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Schroders, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
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Installation that puts the guf into Ruskin Square
As you’ve stood on the platforms at East Croydon lately, have you wondered what the eclectic collection of random fixtures on the vacant site that was supposed to be “the gateway” to Croydon might be? There’s some explanation in this … Continue reading
