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Tag Archives: Ruskin Square
Secret donor pledges to double Warehouse appeal fund
The fight to save the Warehouse Theatre goes on, with a secret benefactor generously pledging to match all donations to the campaign to save the venue. As revealed by Inside Croydon, the local council withdrew the theatre’s grant in April, … Continue reading
After eight? Croydon’s football team have work cut out
In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s a bit of sport on this weekend in London. Contributing Editor ANDREW PELLING chose to go to Guernsey for Croydon FC‘s first match of the new season They do play rugby at Footes Lane. … Continue reading
Posted in AFC Croydon Athletic, Croydon FC, Football, Sport
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Croydon, Croydon FC, Footes Lane, Guernsey, London, Ruskin Square
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Hammerson: Handsome half-year figures and takeover talk
As previously suggested by Inside Croydon, Hammerson, the owner of Centrale and potential developers of the Whitgift Centre, is a takeover target for other developers – including their Whitgift rivals, Westfield. The takeover talk emerged from Australia in May, according … Continue reading
Posted in Allders, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Jon Rouse, Planning, Property, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Jon Rouse, Purley Way, Ruskin Square, West Croydon station, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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What’s in a name? For Croydon Council, about £3m
According to PIGGY ASHCROFT, our council wants to make a crisis out of a drama, with designs on the Warehouse Theatre‘s name and hard-won reputation as well as its multi-million pound endowment from developers Croydon Council wants to go into … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Art, Cinema, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema Campaign, East Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Jon Rouse, Property, Ruskin Square, Sara Bashford, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Fairfield Halls, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Warehouse, Warehouse Theatre
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Mind the gap! A prize for the Bridge to Nowhere scheme
Croydon is crowing about another “award” won by the council. This time it is the East Croydon Masterplan that won the prize from something called the New London Architecture awards. A “prestigious” panel of judges including David Burney, the commissioner … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Cherry Orchard Gardens, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Environment, Housing, Jon Rouse, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Hammerson, London Borough of Croydon, New York City, Ruskin Square, Whitgift Centre
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Time to cast off Croydon’s Concrete Jungle image
Prominent Purley-based architect TARSEM FLORA has seen many visions for the borough left to gather dust. But he believes that Croydon can shed its reputation for brutalist architecture I am convinced that the public perception of Croydon as a concrete … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Housing, IYLO, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Purley, Ruskin Square, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Big Society, Croydon, Ruskin Square, Saffron Square, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Unconnected Croydon and the £20m footbridge to nowhere
The incompetence of Croydon’s planners and politicians means that our council has been turned over by developers once more, hoodwinked into spending about £20 million of public money on what an official report this week concedes could become “a walkway … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Boris Johnson, Cherry Orchard Gardens, Commuting, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Environment, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Transport, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, London, London Borough of Croydon, Network Rail, Ruskin Square
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Sun Lounge fails to shed much light on future of Croydon
An exhibition of architectural plans for a “New Croydon” is long on waffle and short on fresh ideas, says a disappointed CRO CRUSADER You might have expected that the grandly titled “New Croydon Architecture & Design Exhibition”, which is open … Continue reading
Posted in Allders, Business, Centrale, City status, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Environment, Fairfield Halls, Housing, Jon Rouse, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Hammerson, London, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Whitgift Centre
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Regeneration posts that fail to offer a long-term future
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Loyal reader CRO CRUSADER was unimpressed by our council squandering £350,000 in over-generous pay-offs to departing senior staff. But it also highlights a lack of continuity at the Town Hall in this vital area Given the austerity that … Continue reading
Posted in Allders, Croydon Council, Housing, Jason Perry, Jon Rouse, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Simon Hoar, South Croydon, Stephen McDonald, Steve O'Connell, Tim Pollard, Transport, Vidhi Mohan
Tagged Allders, Bank of America, Croydon, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Tim Pollard
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Confessions of a Croydon building project gone wrong
The IYLO BUILDING, a “landmark development” for all the wrong reasons, has taken to Twitter to ease its angst. Here it explains what it’s like to be the centre of a roundabout and not the centre of attention Listen up … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Comedy, Environment, IYLO, Planning, Property, West Croydon
Tagged Addiscombe West, Croydon, London, London Borough of Croydon, Lord Byron, Ruskin Square, Twitter
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Warehouse supporter accuses council of “devious” plan
Croydon Council has been accused of having “a devious plan” to grab millions of pounds of development grants by closing the Warehouse Theatre. The accusation comes in a hard-hitting letter in The Stage newspaper from George Savvides, a Warehouse supporter … Continue reading
Hammerson gets green light for £50m scheme at Centrale
Croydon Council’s planning committee last night gave approval for Hammerson‘s £50million redevelopment scheme for their Centrale shopping mall in North End. But the approval only came after the councillors on the committee were given firm guidance – in effect a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Centrale, Cinema, Coulsdon Town, David Osland, East Croydon, Housing, Jason Perry, Parking, Planning, Property, Restaurants, Ruskin Square, South Croydon, Transport, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Centrale, Coulsdon West, Croydon, Hammerson, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Fears for Warehouse Theatre as it faces administration
Another blow to Croydon’s pretence of having a rich and thriving cultural provision came today with the news that the much-loved and widely admired Warehouse Theatre is facing financial administration. The theatre on Dingwall Road by East Croydon station had … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Business, Comedy, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema Campaign, East Croydon, Education, Ruskin Square, Schools, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Brit School, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, London, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Warehouse Theatre
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Ruskin Square build unlikely to start before 2013
The grandiose multi-million plan to redevelop Croydon’s “Gateway” looks to be stalled, with sources close to the Ruskin Square site suggesting that no substantive building work will begin there before 2013. Since getting revised planning permission for the mixed use … Continue reading
Posted in East Croydon, Environment, Jon Rouse, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, URV
Tagged Broadgate, Croydon, East Croydon, East Croydon station, Jon Rouse, London, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square
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