Tag Archives: ZRG

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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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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Boris aides ‘stunned’ by response to Palace consultation

Posted on February 11, 2015 by insidecroydon

Boris Johnson’s Greater London Authority was “stunned” by the depth and hostility of the response, from the public, sports bodies and from Bromley Council, to its consultation conducted last autumn on the future of the National Sports Centre at Crystal … 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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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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City Hall documents confirm Palace park schemes are linked

Posted on December 3, 2014 by insidecroydon

Attempts by one of Sebastian Coe’s companies to distance themselves from any relationship with China’s ZhongRong Group appear to be in vain after the Greater London Authority published its consultants’ brief and an interim report which demonstrate that any scheme … Continue reading →

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