Tag Archives: Whitgift Centre

Brexit uncertainties that could make Westfield a retail dinosaur

Posted on July 23, 2017 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The on-going delays, and John Lewis’s annual report, do not inspire DAVID WICKENS with confidence over Westfield’s £1.4billion town centre scheme “Our time is now” is a council slogan linked to regeneration. It has not exactly started on … Continue reading →

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Westfield delaying while they seek key deal with John Lewis

Posted on July 21, 2017 by

EXCLUSIVE: Our retailing correspondent, M.T. WALLETTE, reports on the Godot-like wait for an anchor tenant for Hammersfield’s not-so-supermall Westfield have delayed re-submitting their plans for the £1.4billion redevelopment of the town centre and Whitgift Centre because are they are still … Continue reading →

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Clas Ohlson the latest in retail exodus from Whitgift Centre

Posted on July 7, 2017 by

M.T. WALLETTE, our shop-till-she-drops retailing correspondent, on the latest nail in the coffin of the town centre mall The development blight suffered in the town centre over the last five years since Gavin Barwell and Boris Johnson brought Westfield to … Continue reading →

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Incinerating council wants to ban back garden bonfires

Posted on July 5, 2017 by

Croydon is a borough council where its officials think nothing of providing false and misleading reports to planning committees, claiming that there is no air pollution issues on the A23 Purley Way near the Fiveways Junction. This happened when the … Continue reading →

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Now council’s housing developer snubs its Place Review Panel

Posted on June 28, 2017 by

BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent, on how the borough’s Council Tax-payers are providing another nice little earner for the Town Hall  CEO’s chums In the eight months since council chief executive Jo Negrini unveiled Croydon’s Place Review Panel, it has … Continue reading →

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Man In The Eye: Gavin Barwell (Part 94) (Part 2)

Posted on June 28, 2017 by

From today’s edition of Private Eye magazine (available at all good newsagents. And some not so good ones, too).

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Visit the Whitgift Centre and take a journey to Sierra Leone

Posted on June 21, 2017 by

An award-winning exhibition is now welcoming visitors in the Whitgift Centre. “Journey of Hope” is being staged until July 23 by World Vision, the international children’s charity, offering a free interactive experience to learn about some of the most vulnerable children … Continue reading →

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