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2024-11-02

The Observer: "‘It’s become a wasteland’: Britons on how shopping centres have changed"

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  Link to The Observer "Shopping centres across the UK have declined in recent years, as store closures and online shopping change cons...
2024-10-19

The Guardian: "‘They’ve taken the heart out of Bolton’: the demise of the UK shopping centre"

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Link to The Guardian "Bolton council, which bought Crompton Place for almost £15m from the Santander pension fund in 2018, plans to kn...
2021-03-15

Evening Standard: "Hammerson sees close to £1.6bn wiped off estate value as pandemic hurts retail property sector"

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Link to web site "Close to £1.6 billion was wiped off the value of shopping centres firm Hammerson's property empire in a year t...
2020-06-26

Warrington Guardian: "Intu collapse: What will happen now to the shopping centres?"

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Link to web site "The owner of the UK's biggest shopping malls, including the Trafford Centre, Intu has tumbled into administ...

Estates Gazette: "Argent Related presses go on Brent Cross offices"

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Link to web site "... 'Brent Cross will be nothing like King's Cross,' says Nick Searl, Argent Related partner and join...
2020-06-15

Evening Express: "Chairman of Bullring and Brent Cross shopping centres quits"

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Link to web site "The chairman of struggling shopping centre owner Hammerson has announced he will quit on the same day its sites,...
2020-03-27

BBC: "Climate change: 'Gob-smacking' vision for future UK transport"

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Link to web site "People in the UK need to shift from cars to public transport to address the challenge of climate change, the go...
2020-02-25

Inside Croydon: "[Brent Cross and Croydon's] Hammerson’s £781-million loss points to end of the shopping mall"

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Link to web site "Anyone clinging to the faint hope that the publication this morning of Hammerson's annual report would off...
2020-01-26

The Independent: "A car-free future? How UK cities are moving towards a pedestrian age"

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Link to web site "Rush hour, York city centre, sometime around the end of the decade. Stress-free commuters glide by on bicycles,...
2020-01-17

Barnet Times: "Barnet ward boundary map re-drawn"

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Link to web site "The electoral map of Barnet has been re-drawn to ensure local politics remains representative as the borough’s ...
2020-01-05

[Reposted] Brent Cross West station: extra 8-car platforms for the Dudding Hill Line from west London - but not in planning application!

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Alternative station designs (Bedford is to the left, St Pancras to the right) WLO Brent Cross West Interchange Feasibility Stud...
2020-01-03

HS2 Ltd: "We invite your feedback on the design of HS2’s Common Design Elements planned for the Phase One route between the West Midlands and London"

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"Common Design Elements are parts of the railway with a standardised appearance which will give it a recognisable look and make it ...
2019-12-24

[Reposted] Transport for London: The 'West London Orbital' in Barnet, at Hendon, Brent Cross West and Cricklewood

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2019-09 TfL WLO TEG 190925 Kumapley Slides 1-37 (1) by scribdstorage on Scribd
2019-12-01

The Guardian: "Mass consumerism is destroying our planet. This Black Friday, let's take a stand"

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Link to web site "... Today, in austerity Britain (and, yes, for all the talk of spending promises, austerity is still here), the ...
2019-10-09

Room 151: "PWLB rate hike sends shockwaves through council finance sector"

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Link to web site "Whitehall today threw a hand grenade into local authority borrowing plans by announcing a whole percentage poi...
2019-09-19

Barnet Times: "Delayed Barnet regeneration scheme [by developer Hammerson] is 'being revised'" (As in trying to revive a dead parrot.)

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Link to web site "A plan for part of a major regeneration scheme that was put on hold last year is being revised, a council offic...
2019-08-01

Yahoo: "Hammerson swings to loss amid challenges to retailers"

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Link to web site "[Brent Cross] owner Hammerson has unveiled stinging losses as its portfolio of shopping centres slumped in val...
2019-07-18

Evening Standard: Building on tube station car parks

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2019-07-07

Room 151: "The future for outsourcing after Barnet formula cracks"

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Link to web site "Internal reviews are rarely news but the announcement by London Borough of Barnet that it was reassessing its ...
2019-07-05

Palmers Green Community: "Preliminary meeting about plan to build housing on Arnos Grove station car parks"

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Link to web site "I braved the appropriately wet weather and went to this event this afternoon. There were quite a number of (voc...

[Reposted] Barnet Times: "Major housing schemes planned for Barnet tube stations"

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Link to web site "A thousand homes could be built at tube stations in Barnet in a bid to ease the capital's housing shortage....
2019-06-27

ICO: "Access to information goes to the heart of a healthy, functioning democracy. Services that are accountable and transparent are better public services." (Tell Barnet.)

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2019-06 ICO Strategy by scribdstorage on Scribd “But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to ...
2019-06-25

Improving the West London Orbital railway corridor through Brent Cross

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2019 06 West London Orbital Strategic Outline Business Case by scribdstorage on Scribd
2019-06-16

Natural History Museum: "Leading scientists set out resource challenge of meeting net zero emissions in the UK by 2050"

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Link to web site "To replace all UK-based vehicles today with electric vehicles (not including the LGV and HGV fleets), assuming ...
2019-06-15

The Observer: "Left in a siding: the rail link that could make Heathrow greener"

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"Airport and Department for Transport fight shy of backing new line from Staines that would slash car usage" "Life is...
2019-06-11

The Guardian: "Atmospheric carbon levels are leaping. We can't afford more years like this"

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Link to web site "One of the many ironies of the climate crisis is that as temperatures change and extreme weather becomes more ...
2019-06-07

Wembley Matters: "'Full participation on Brent Cross West Station plans or we will go to law,' Capita-Barnet told"

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Link to web site "The Coalition for a Sustainable Brent Cross was formed a long time ago and consisted of several political group...
2019-05-01

Retail Gazette: "Hammerson shareholders rebel over exec pay at AGM"

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Link to web site "Hammerson has been dealt a blow by shareholders who voted in anger over excessive executive pay at the company’...
2019-03-30

[Reposted] The Guardian: "‘We are building our way to hell’: tales of gentrification around the world"

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"From community displacement in Mexico City to tourism-triggered evictions in Lisbon and crazy rent hikes in Silicon Valley, our rea...
2019-03-16

Brent Cross West station: Big money to Barnet: What could possibly go wrong?

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2019-03 Brent Cross Crickle... by on Scribd
2019-02-26

Construction Enquirer: "Hammerson puts major construction work on hold"

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"Hammerson has put a hold on starting construction of any major developments in the UK" [There's a surprise] Link to ...

This is Money: "High Street crisis rocks shopping centre giant: Hammerson could be forced into £900m firesale as it plunges to loss and value of its properties slumps"

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On the way out? Link to web site "Hammerson has plunged into the red following a disastrous year for the firm and its bosses. ...

Barnet Times: "Brent Cross Shopping Centre owner to sell assets to pay debts"

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Link to web site "Shopping centre owner Hammerson, owner of Brent Cross, has reported millions of pounds in losses, and says it...
2019-02-25

Hammerson collapse: "Bullring owner targets £900m-plus sell-off as retail crisis bites"

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Link to The Guardian "Hammerson, which owns shopping centres including Birmingham's Bullring and London's Brent Cross, is...
2019-02-24

Committee on Standards in Public Life

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6.4896 CO CSPL Command Pape... by on Scribd
2019-02-18

2019-02-20 Policy & Resources Committee: The Brent Cross Plan - "On a Wing and a Prayer" or "This is Not Going Well"

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2019-02-20 Policy & Res... by on Scribd
2019-02-17

Inside Croydon: "Barwell, Brexit and Croydon's troubled Westfield/Hammerson dream"

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"STEVEN DOWNES on how the meddling of Tory politicians and the Croydon Establishment managed to ensure that the redevelopment of Croy...
2019-02-14

Decline and Fall of Hammerson: "Fears for mall increase as Hammerson takes a hammering"

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"Our retailing correspondent, MT WALLETTE, on how the plunging share price for HAMMERSON, half of the so-called 'Croydon Partner...

Inside Croydon: "Crisis for Croydon as [Hammerson and] Westfield 'review' their £1.4bn scheme"

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Link to web site "Hammerson and Westfield today announced a decision to 'review' the £1.4-billion project to redevelop Cr...

A second Hammerson scheme collapses: Evening Standard: "Hammerson/Westfield's £1.4bn Croydon development 'under review due to Brexit and structural changes on the high street'"

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Link to web site "The owner of the Westfield shopping centres today said it is 'reviewing' its £1.4 billion new developme...
2019-02-10

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Trying to keep the failing Brent Cross show on the road

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2018-12-11 Appendix 3 MHCLG... by on Scribd
2019-02-02

The Guardian: "‘The devastation of human life is in view’: what a burning world tells us about climate change"

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I was wilfully deluded until I began covering global warming, says David Wallace-Wells. But extreme heat could transform the planet by 21...