Tag Archives: ZhongRong Group

Chinese billionaire wants second helpings of Palace takeaway

Posted on February 2, 2018 by insidecroydon

“I still want to rebuild the Crystal Palace,” Ni Zhaoxing, the billionaire owner of the ZhongRong Group, declared in Beijing earlier this week. Ni, described as “a 62-year-old Anglophile”, was interviewed by the Financial Times during Prime Minister Theresa May’s … Continue reading →

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Tory peer Bates failed to declare ZRG interests, paper reports

Posted on April 12, 2015 by insidecroydon

The Sunday Times reported this morning that Michael Bates, the Tory peer who is married to Xuelin Bates, the UK-based “sponsor” of the failed £500 million ZhongRong Group proposal for a vast business and retail centre in Crystal Palace Park, … Continue reading →

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Thwarted ZhongRong’s Tory peer is now backing Barwell

Posted on March 29, 2015 by insidecroydon

Might the Chinese industrialists and their Tory backers who wanted to privatise  Crystal Palace Park on the cheap now be eyeing the main chance in Croydon instead? Inside Croydon poses the question after Lord Bates, the Tory peer who helped … Continue reading →

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Bromley goes public on ZhongRong’s 500-year Palace dynasty

Posted on March 23, 2015 by insidecroydon

Bromley Council has published explosive correspondence to expose how the ZhongRong Group, the Chinese company to which London Mayor Boris Johnson wanted to hand a large chunk of Crystal Palace Park, were demanding to takeover half of the public park … Continue reading →

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Boris owes Crystal Palace apology over botched vanity project

Posted on February 27, 2015 by insidecroydon

London’s Tory Mayor Boris Johnson should apologise to the people of Croydon and Crystal Palace for the failure of his vanity project in the popular public park, following the failure of his preferred Chinese developers ZhongRong Group to act within … Continue reading →

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ZhongRong given another two weeks to save £500m deal

Posted on February 10, 2015 by insidecroydon

Yesterday’s meeting of the Crystal Palace Park Executive Board was due to have been held at City Hall and to be chaired by none other than the Grand High Master Mayor of London himself. It is surely a measure of … Continue reading →

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Two years of secret meetings for world’s largest ‘glass-house’

Posted on February 6, 2015 by insidecroydon

The Mayor of London’s office first discussed “the exciting Crystal Palace glass-house proposal” with representatives of China’s ZhongRong Group more than two years before Boris Johnson announced the £500 million scheme from the steps of Paxton’s terracing in October 2013. … Continue reading →

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It’s all gone a bit Pete Tong for ZhongRong’s Palace scheme

Posted on February 2, 2015 by insidecroydon

It’s all gone a bit Pete Tong for ZhongRong’s takeover of a massive chunk of Crystal Palace Park. Bromley Council has today issued a press release confirming what had been widely expected for some time. The sweetheart exclusivity period provided … Continue reading →

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Time to scrap Boris’s Crystal Palace vanity project, say Greens

Posted on January 30, 2015 by insidecroydon

Time is running out for one of Boris Johnson’s vanity projects, the £500 million Chinese Crystal Palace which although unbuilt, has cast a dark shadow over the park and the National Sports Centre there, and blighted planned improvements and developments … Continue reading →

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Coe’s Palace consultation is extended due to public demand

Posted on October 25, 2014 by insidecroydon

Campaigners fighting to save Crystal Palace as an Olympic legacy training venue were claiming a small victory last night, when the Greater London Authority announced that it had been so overwhelmed with responses to a consultation on the future of … Continue reading →

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China syndrome is a blight for Crystal Palace Park

Posted on June 19, 2014 by insidecroydon

ANDREW PELLING reports on (yet another) consultation on the future of the much-loved but much-neglected Crystal Palace Park Sometimes, politicians and public bodies can overdo consultations with the public, especially if their motivation is procrastination or the pretence of public … Continue reading →

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Public only get to peek in at the uncertain Palace plans

Posted on March 4, 2014 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Nearly a year on since Boris Johnson stood on the terracing of the old Crystal Palace to announce a £500 million “investment” and the handing over of a significant chunk of public property to a Chinese developer, there’s … Continue reading →

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Boris accused over “secret” £500m Chinese takeaway

Posted on January 19, 2014 by insidecroydon

London Mayor Boris Johnson entered into a secret agreement with a Chinese billionaire six months before a £500 million scheme to build a replica Crystal Palace was announced publicly, a group of local residents allege in a letter sent to their … Continue reading →

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Boris embraces £500m “beautiful idea” but is short on detail

Posted on October 6, 2013 by insidecroydon

A community group that has been working with Bromley and the Greater London Authority for years towards an agreed redevelopment of Crystal Palace Park says that the £500 million plan announced by a Chinese businessman to recreate Joseph Paxton‘s Victorian … Continue reading →

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