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Build, baby! Build! 626 flats in Mitcham and none ‘affordable’
Housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, on a developer-friendly decision which might yet set the trend for all of London This is what you get when you “Build, baby! Build!” Merton Council has granted planning approval for 626 homes on the Mitcham … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Housing, London-wide issues, Merton, Mitcham, Property, Steve Reed MP, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Berkeley Homes, Build Baby Build, GLA, Greater London Authority, Hammersfield, Housing secretary, Labour, Meron, Merton Council, Mitcham, Mitcham Gasworks, St William, Steve Reed OBE, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Shifting Spaces, Turf Projects, Whitgift Centre, Dec 12 and 13
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Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Art, Studio Upstairs, Turf Projects
Tagged Shifting Spaces, Turf Projects, Whitgift Centre
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Shifting Spaces, Turf Projects, Whitgift Centre, Dec 12 and 13
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Tagged Shifting Spaces, Turf Projects, Whitgift Centre
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MP Jones misses mark with criticism of town centre’s Primark
CROYDON IN CRISIS: One of the borough’s Labour MPs is accused of ‘performatively sending emails’ to a fashion chain’s CEO, when there are bigger issues in the borough, such as Westfield’s continuing delays over redevelopment Croydon West MP Sarah Jones … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Crime, Croydon BID, Croydon West, Nick Blackburn, North End Quarter, Planning, Policing, Sarah Jones MP, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Croydon BID, Croydon West, Hammersfield, Labour, Metropolitan Police, North End, Primark, Sarah Jones MP, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Exits and pay-offs: our news panel goes behind the headlines
The latest golden goodbye for a departing council CEO, the terrible state of even new flats around central Croydon, Westfield and the Allders kiosks, and what looks like the hot ticket for Christmas entertainment – all get discussed on our … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2017 General Election, Allders, Business, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Croydon Insider, Inside Croydon, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Under The Flyover, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Allders kiosks, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Insider, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Mayor Jason Perry, Patreon, Podcast, Spotify, Steve Reed OBE, The Fold, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Call for Coulsdon residents to rally round high street business
While failed Mayor Jason Perry congratulates Westfield on opening a handful of kiosks in Allders after 14 years, one residents’ association in the south of the borough is calling on its members and their neighbours to redirect their energy, and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Town, Coulsdon West Residents' Association
Tagged Allders, Core 6 Studios, Costa Coffee, Coulsdon West RA, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon, CWRA, Hammersfield, Mayor Jason Perry, Waitrose, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Planning application for Westfield scheme stalled to mid-2026
EXCLUSIVE: ‘”Rome wasn’t built in a day”, but it never took this long’. More broken promises from the Paris-based developers as their housing scheme for the town centre is delayed again. By STEVEN DOWNES Their planning application was supposed to … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, CPO, Croydon Council, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, North End Quarter, Planning, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Allders Car Park, Allies and Morrison, Centrale, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, London, Mayor Jason Perry, North End Quarter, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, URW, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Post Office set to go ahead with High Street branch closure
The Post Office has this morning confirmed that it is to close the large branch on the High Street, and move into the WH Smith/TG Jones in the Whitgift Centre, probably by the end of March next year. The Post … Continue reading
Smell the coffee… Last two Allders kiosks set to open this week
Locals better get there early on Friday, for the grand opening of Coco and Nut on North End, when free coffees and pastries will be on offer to celebrate. Because, with the slightest whiff of a freebie to be had, … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, Mayor Jason Perry, North End Quarter, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Allders Parade, Coco and Nut, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Kiosks, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Meltin' Memories, Miniso, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Five Guys is latest business to give up on Croydon High Street
It’s not just Croydon’s pubs which are closing down. Five Guys, the pricy American burger joint on Croydon High Street, has closed in the past week. While Croydon’s failed Mayor, Jason Perry, drops his chips over the opening of a … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Mayor Jason Perry, North End Quarter, Post Office, Restaurants, Surrey Street, Tokia Square, Turtle Bay, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Abaci, Allders, Allders Parade, Croydon, Hammersfield, Isle of Flowers, Miniso, Sky, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Abaci and florists’ are next kiosks to open in ‘Allders Parade’
EXCLUSIVE: After the Whitgift Centre’s florist shop joined the mass exodus of stores from the town centre, Westfield prepares to open a ‘kiosk’ in the old Allders building that will be selling… flowers Inside Croydon can reveal that the next … Continue reading
Figures show how exodus from Whitgift Centre is speeding up
The number of empty retail units in the Whitgift Centre has increased by more than 50% in the past year, according to recent research. Now under the management of Westfield, the Whitgift Centre was supposed to have been demolished and … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Centrale, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Sarah Jones MP, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, URW, Westfield, Westfield Europe Ltd, Whitgift Centre
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Westfield is forced to fence off Centrale’s leaky entrance
As one door opens, another slams into shoppers’ faces on North End, as temporary fencing was erected outside the entrance to Zara and House of Fraser Less than a week after Westfield was trumpeting the opening of two “kiosks” in … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Centrale, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, URW, Westfield, Westfield Europe Ltd, Whitgift Centre
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Croydon transformed! Westfield open two kiosks in Allders
EXCLUSIVE: Work on the ageing Whitgift Centre might now not begin before 2028, while Westfield are angling for a public subsidy of at least £100m. Today, as two shops opened on the high street, STEVEN DOWNES took a place at … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, URW, Westfield, Westfield Europe Ltd, Whitgift Centre
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After the delays, we reveal traders set for Allders kiosks
EXCLUSIVE: Months late, and with only six of the seven units allocated, Westfield is finally about to find a use for part of the town centre’s former department store. By STEVEN DOWNES More than a year after being granted planning … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, URW, Westfield, Westfield Europe Ltd, Whitgift Centre
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Whitgift becomes centre stage for Rebel Wilson’s new movie
A film set in the beleaguered town centre shopping mall has come just too late to save another long-standing business, which brought its shutters down for a final time at the weekend Croydon’s Whitgift Centre, once the pride of the … Continue reading
Podcast: Why diversity and inclusion should matter to us all
Our Croydon Insider podcast is exclusive premium content for our paying subscribers. On our panel this month are Anna Arthur, director of The Croydonites Festival, now in its 10th year, Darryl Chamberlain, the Editor of the Greenwich Wire news website, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Athletics, Commissioners, Cricket, Croydon Council, Croydon Insider, Croydonites Festival, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, CYTO, Debbie Warren, Donna Fraser, Inside Croydon, Sport, Theatre
Tagged Anna Arthur, Commissioners, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydonites Festival, Darryl Chamberlain, DEI, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Donna Fraser, Hammersfield, Labour, Patreon, Podcast, Spotify, The Croydon Insider, The Greenwich Wire, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Yusuf Osman
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The MP hidden away on third floor of a deserted shopping mall
Finding your way around the desolate maze that the Whitgift Centre has become has been made much more difficult since the shopping centre’s managers started blocking off entrances and removing staircases. It’s almost as if no one is welcome to … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Annabel Smith, Business, Croydon West, David Morgan, Johnny Dobbyn, Ken Towl, Sarah Jones MP, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Annabel Smith, Croydon, Croydon West, Destination X, Hammersfield, Johnny Dobbyn, Ken Towl, Sarah Jones MP, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Shopping centre providing puddles but no help in our quest
Armed with just a printout of an address, and an incorrect address at that, we invited some of our regular contributors to set off on a quest into the desolate maze that the Whitgift Centre has become. With the shopping … Continue reading
Under Westfield, it looks like curtains for sad Whitgift Centre
With the shopping centre’s managers blocking off entrances and removing staircases, Inside Croydon sent some of our intrepid contributors off on our own version of Destination X: to find MP Sarah Jones’s office armed only with the address as provided … Continue reading
iC writers go on a quest: find a way through the Whitgift Centre
For the past year, one of Croydon’s MPs has worked from an office deep inside the Whitgift Centre. But just where? With the shopping centre’s managers blocking off entrances and removing staircases, we sent some intrepid contributors off on a … Continue reading
Old Palace sale completed – for £2.3m less than asking price
A special school operated by Serenity will begin to operate from the historic Old Town site from next month, after the sale was sealed by Croydon’s biggest landowners for £4.7m. By GENE BRODIE, education correspondent The Whitgift Foundation last night … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, CPO, Education, Old Palace, Roisha Hughes, Schools, Serenity special school, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Archbishop John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, Croydon, Curwen Group, Hammersfield, Knight Frank, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Palace School, Old Town, Roisha Hughes, Serenity Special School, Stephen Curwen, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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‘Permanently closed’: Whitgift Centre works mark end of days
CROYDON IN CRISIS: With the 60-year-old shopping mall increasingly blocked off for what remains of its visitors, it cannot be long before the last remaining tenants of the Whitgift Centre give up and leave The long and tortured process which … Continue reading
Elianne memorial mural removed during Wellesley roadworks
The memorial mural and bench installed outside the Whitgift Centre last year, on the first anniversary of the death of Croydon schoolgirl Elianne Andam, have been removed. Sources suggest that this is to save them from any possible damage during … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Crime, Knife crime, Rosemarie Mallett, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Bishop of Croydon, Croydon, Dr Rosemarie Mallett, Elianne Andam, Elianne Andam mural, knife crime, Wellesley Road, Wellesley Road pedestrian underpass, Whitgift Centre, youth knife crime
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