Labour Party's Six Conditions for Hammerson's London Shopping Centre Investment

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"LABOUR'S parliamentary candidate for Croydon Central says she is the politician who will ensure the town 'wins' with Westfield/Hammerson.

"Sarah Jones has made the £1-billion regeneration of the Whitgift Centre the focus of her campaign, ahead of general election in 2015, ... saying:

"We're in a housing crisis, and it's absolutely right to ensure such a significant regeneration project does its bit to address it."

"Plans for the 1.4-million sq.ft. development are expected to be submitted to the council next month.

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"Conservative Party dismisses Labour Party's rival Hammerson Westfield plan as 'plain wrong'"

"CROYDON Central MP Gavin Barwell has described Sarah Jones's six-point Westfield/Hammerson plan as 'a mixed bag of things that are already happening and the plain wrong'.

"... He continued:

"She's wrong to argue that this should make up 40 per cent of all the housing built: what people want is to be able to afford their own home, and the Government and Croydon Council should be helping them to do that.

Labour’s instinct to load more and more costs onto developers is why a scheme like this never came forward when they were running the council. Sarah doesn’t appear to have learnt that lesson."