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Tag Archives: Tesco
Residents ‘deeply concerned’ over developers’ parking claims
A £100m scheme to build nearly 250 retirement homes could strip hundreds of car parking spaces from Purley town centre – with no alternatives available as claimed by developers. By STEVEN DOWNES Purley residents are “deeply concerned” over plans for … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Parking, Planning, Polaska, Polaska Assets Ltd, Property, Purley, Purley Pool, Simon Brew
Tagged British Virgin Islands, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, HM Revenue and Customs, HMRC, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Polaska, Polaska Assets BVI, Polaska Assets Ltd, Purley, Purley Pool, Save Purley Pool Campaign, Tesco, Tesco Purley, Tory
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Tesco seeks your change to round-up their Poppy Appeal cash
Tesco is asking its customers to give generously for this year’s Poppy Appeal. Last year, their support for the charities saw £3.1million raised as the Royal British Legion and Poppyscotland sold the poppies in all Tesco stores across the country. … Continue reading
FareShare and Trussell know every little helps this winter
With food banks and charities expecting to face increased demand for help this winter, the Croydon public is being asked to give the gift of their time to take part in the country’s biggest food donation drive. The Tesco Food … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Charity
Tagged FareShare, food banks, Tesco, Tesco Food Collection, Trussell Trust
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Tesco abandon scheme to use CCTV in Purley store car park
Tesco have today dropped their planning application to use Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras in the car park of their Purley superstore, after “a significant level of objection from local residents”. The application has attracted more than 600 comments since … Continue reading
Tesco plan to use CCTV to remove free parking at Purley
Residents in Purley, Sanderstead, Kenley and beyond are asking for their neighbours to join with them in posting objections on the council’s online planning portal to Tesco’s application for permission to instal two ANPRs – automatic number plate recognition cameras … Continue reading
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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Tory MP threatened Tesco with shoppers’ strike over BID bid
Croydon South’s new Conservative MP has admitted that he threatened the local branch of the country’s biggest retailers with a shoppers’ strike if they did not support a business scheme he was backing. Tory Chris Philp told Tesco in Purley … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Chris Philp MP, Croydon South, Parking, Purley, Purley BID
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon South, Purley, Purley BID, Tesco, Tory
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Help break the chains of human trafficking: Sep 28
On Saturday September 28, members of Croydon Community Against Trafficking, or CCAT, will be completing a 10-kilometre (a little more than six miles) walk chained together to raise awareness about victims of human trafficking. The walk will start at noon … Continue reading
Portas starts to opens doors – for £1bn “Hammersfield”
LAST NIGHT’S TELLY: DAVID CALLAM, the former local newspaper business editor, reviews the opening episode of Mary Queen of the High Street, the Channel 4 series that spawned £2.7 million-worth of public grants, and poses an important question about her … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Activities, Business, David Callam, Surrey Street, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Hammerson, High Street, London, Mary Portas, Roman Road, South Croydon, 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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Red Deer locals look north for help to rebuff Morrisons
Another landmark Croydon pub is under threat of takeover from a supermarket chain. And our local councillors’ response – where they have bothered to respond – is effectively to shrug their shoulders and say there’s nothing that they can, or … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Maria Gatland, Planning, Property, Pubs, Sanderstead, South Croydon, South Croydon Community Association, Steve O'Connell, Tim Pollard, Yvette Hopley
Tagged Brighton Road, London, Maria Gatland, Morrison, Red Deer, South Croydon, Steve O'Connell, Tesco
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PR agents sign up Tesco as cut-price festival sponsors
Tesco, the unwitting purveyors of horse meat with a long-time reputation for doing things on the cheap, and now the proud owners of an “express” store in a South Croydon landmark pub despite local opposition have “generously” agreed to sponsor … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Croydon South, Environment, Fairfield, Parking, Property, Pubs, Restaurants, South Croydon, Waddon, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Brighton Road, Croydon, London, London Borough of Croydon, South Croydon, Tesco, White Label, Whitgift Foundation
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Residents’ fears ignored as Tesco gets 6am booze licence
On whose behalf does Croydon Council operate? Residents or big business? At the meeting of the licensing authority in the Town Hall tonight, the choice made was clear: Croydon Council does not listen to its residents. Tesco had placed an … Continue reading
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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Locals file complaint to Archbishop over neglected properties
The South Croydon Community Association, a group of concerned residents and businesses in the South End area, has lodged a formal complaint with the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Charity Commission about the Whitgift Foundation’s management of its estimated £90-million … Continue reading
Posted in Fairfield, Michael Neal, Old Palace, Simon Hoar, South Croydon, South Croydon Community Association, Trinity School, Vidhi Mohan, Waddon, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Croydon, Foundation, South Croydon, Steve O'Connell, Stile Harold Williams, Tesco, Whitgift Foundation
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Tesco Town: South End community to meet this Friday
The first meeting of the South End Community Forum takes place this Friday, May 25, when sure to be close to the top of the agenda is the dire threat to local businesses of the decision of the Whitgift Foundation, … Continue reading
End of an era sees Streatham Redskins put on ice
Another local amenity closed down last week, after 80 years of delighting the people of Croydon, whether they enjoyed ice skating or seeing what was once Britain’s leading ice hockey team. ANDREW PELLING witnessed a piece of sad history Another … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Croydon North, History, Local media, Outside Croydon
Tagged Croydon, London, London Arena, Streatham, Streatham Redskins, Tesco, Thornton Heath
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Time to talk turkey over Christmas plans in Croydon
In spite of the tinsel and holly wreaths going up in parts of Croydon in mid-August, here at Inside Croydon Towers, being arch-traditionalists, we tend not to even start to think about festive season preparations until Bonfire Night and Remembrance … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Environment, Outside Croydon, Walks, Wildlife
Tagged Christmas, Croydon, London Borough of Croydon, Oaks Park, Sainsbury, Tesco, Waitrose
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