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Ted Craig: delighted by the prospect of a new Warehouse Theatre

The Commitment: a new work at the Warehouse Theatre?Posted on September 19, 2014

Ted Craig, the director of the Warehouse Theatre at East Croydon which was forced toclose two years ago, has warmly welcomed the news, reported by Inside Croydon, thatRuskin Square developers Stanhope are keen to stand by their pledge to build areplacement for the world-famous studio theatre.

And the Labour council’s new artsand culture spokesman, TimothyGodfrey, has spoken of his own“commitment” to the WarehouseTheatre.

Craig told Inside Croydonthis week: “Staff of theWarehouse Theatre workedwith the developers Stanhopein developing the designs fora new theatre over a 10-yearperiod, and the plans arevery exciting.

“They have never beenshown to the public because

we were waiting for a ‘go’ on the Ruskin Square development first.”

After the Warehouse closed in 2012 – when the then Tory-controlled Croydon Councilprompted its demise by withdrawing its annual grant at short-notice – a £3 million grantear-marked for building a new theatre within the office developments in Ruskin Squareto replace the Victorian warehouse was thought to have been “transferred” by the councilfor use at the Fairfield Halls.

But sources at Stanhope have indicated that if the grant funds are made available, theywill hold good to their promise of a purpose-built, 200-seat studio-style venue, whichcould stage drama, comedy, music and cabaret, right next to East Croydon Station. Smalldrama groups and high-standard amateur dramatic societies have been priced out ofusing the Fairfield Halls, and with Sutton having announced plans to close the CharlesCryer Theatre in Carshalton, a mid-sized theatrical venue could be in great demand inthis part of south London.

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“Commitment”: Timothy Godfrey

Since the Warehouse Theatre closed, Craig has been operating Warehouse Phoenix “tocarry on the work and traditions of the Warehouse Theatre”, including staging itsinternational play-writing competition each year.

At Monday’s council cabinet meeting, Godfrey unveiled thelatest plans for a “Cultural Quarter”, which involves at least £34million of spending to revitalise the Fairfield Halls. There wasno mention of Ruskin Square – just across George Street fromCollege Green and the Cultural Quarter – in the report.

But Godfrey told iC: “No one should doubt mycommitment to filling the space left by the demise of theofficial Warehouse Theatre Company.”

According to Godfrey, the £3 million Stanhope grant was promised as part of a Section106 social benefit planning agreement, and will not be payable until 500,000 sq ft ofoffice space has been occupied – which could still be some way off. Godfrey believes thatthe grant may also be index linked.

Craig has fresh hope for the future of his theatre company: “We’re thrilled (and relieved)that a Cultural Quarter and much-needed work planned for Fairfield is being so stronglypromoted by the new cabinet member for the arts, Timothy Godfrey.

“We haven’t stopped working on a future for Phoenix this last year or so, we continue toproduce each year the International Playwriting Festival, as you know, and we have beentirelessly searching for new partners to join us and help make a new building a buzzing,exciting place.”

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Jo Negrini: she doesn’t want Croydon to be boring

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Jo Negrini, Croydon Council’s head of planning, this week rejected earlier schemes –drawn up by the previous Conservative council – for Fairfield Halls to be virtuallysurrounded by high-rise housing as “really, really boring”.

Instead, Negrini told hundreds of propertydevelopers, estate agents, landlords and landowners at the Live Croydon event, that theintention is to create a Cultural Quarter which“makes Croydon as interesting and exciting aspossible”.

The new quarter would lead housingdevelopment, rather than the other way aroundso that, according to Negrini, people would wantto live in Croydon for its cafe culture.

This was a more interventionist approach totown planning for Croydon than had been heardfor many years, but it appeared to meet with theproperty developers’ warm approval at thecommercial possibilities it presented them. Thedifference, you might suppose, between saleable

and rentable flats and offices, and the unsaleable or unrenatable.

Negrini’s message was one of a strong planning leadership from the council, somethingthat has not been seen in Croydon since Sir James Marshall started plotting Croydon’soffice skyscraper and road widening boom in 1954.

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The radical proposals will underpin the Labour council’s plan for growth,which are due to be revealed to the cabinet at the end of the month.

In a week when no less a figure than Lord Rogers extolled Croydon’s available space fordevelopment, a self-assured Negrini felt that Croydon has become a place that “peoplearen’t sniggering about anymore”.

Negrini dismissed those who question what would happen to Croydon if Westfield andHammerson failed to deliver on their £1 billion new shopping mall, as there was so muchelse that the council was going to do to drive forward the town’s development.

The director of a London think tank told Inside Croydon today thatNegrini’s take up of the Croydon planning job – as executive director ofdevelopment and environment – “can be seen as an endorsement ofCroydon’s plans for the future”.

After Negrini’s four-year spell for planning and Olympic legacy at Newham, theAustralian headed south of the river with Westfield’s recommendation after the successof that borough’s regeneration at Stratford.

At Live Croydon, Negrini’s assertive approach was on show when she said, “Developerswill not be allowed to sit on land anymore.”

She told her audience, “We will tell you what we want.” It almost sounded like townplanning was going on.

“We want to ensure a pipeline of development,” Negrini said, saying that the council willact to ensure plots of land would be used.

The council would be taking radical action, Negrini said, including sponsoring a“revolving investment fund”. Other measures cited by Negrini included

equity financing,some development-friendly redesignation of planning definitions for certain areas,the setting up of housing development companies,acquiring land,taking direct council stakes in developments,using compulsory purchase orders if necessary to get development going,helping developers assemble land blocks,undertaking direct building by the council, andacquiring land

Negrini even mentioned that the council would enter into joint ventures. The CroydonCouncil Urban Regeneration Vehicle, CCURV, that has delivered to the borough the£220million council head offices, may not be the paragon of public-private co-operationshe has in mind.

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Drive-in cinema, coming to a NCP near you?

The town centre and its culturalquarter would include “clubbingoutside of Tiger, Tiger”, Negrinipromised, and that they will be“drive-in cinemas atop of the carparks”.

There would be rent-freeaccommodation for digital start-up companies, as alreadyannounced for Tech City activityin the council-owned DavisHouse, and the promise of world-class fibre optic provision forsuperfast broadband to makeCroydon a connected town with signal strengths boosted from atop the town centre’sskyscrapers.

Negotiations continue to bring Roehampton University to take residence at Fisher’s Folly,and adopt as much of Croydon town centre as its campus.

What Negrini left unsaid was that Labour’s 30 per cent target for affordable housingcould not be achieved in the town centre, but she said, “we have done the numbers” andthat all developments outside the town centre can accommodate the required amount ofaffordable housing.

“We are going to prioritise New Addington,” Negrini said.

The council will aim to outdo the housing target set by the Greater LondonAuthority and will seek to surpass even its own long-term target for newhomes, which is set at 9,500 units. As many as 12,000 new homes could bebuilt in the long-term. “We will have a good go at that,” Negrini said, with8,000 the target for the first 12 years of work.

The council has already done work with EC Harris and Cushman & Wakefield to review400 sites in the borough for possible development, with the first focused efforts to gointo 16 sites identified from that report from the commercial estate agents’ professionalanalysis.

One senior Tory councillor was heard to complain that the Croydon Conservatives did notadopt such an active approach during its most recent eight years in power, and previousperiods in control of the Town Hall over the past 30 years.

Three decades provided no successful new office building and only a rather pedestrianpace of development elsewhere. But a glass frame for East Croydon Station and a badlybotched £20 million bridge project, some new school buildings, the BRIT performing artsschool, the tram, the Coulsdon bypass, the Central Library, two leisure centres in

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Waddon (one of which was demolished), three residential towers of varying merit and, ofcourse, the vastly over-priced Fisher’s Folly, is not much to show since the 1980s.

Negrini appears determined that the pace of change will accelerate on her watch. Itcertainly won’t be boring.

Opportunity knocked as council halts office-to-flat conversionsEnding office-to-flats won’t harm market, SHW director saysRuskin Square could include theatre if council refunds £3m“Radically pragmatic” Negrini exhibits award-winning chutzpahRogers calls on planners to build homes in “empty” Croydon

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JON BIGGER, pictured, on besmirching, Thatcherismand how his Croydon South general election rival isblatantly electioneering

Last week, I wrote about what I, and others it seems, have seen asblatant electioneering by Chris Philp, the Conservativeparliamentary candidate for Croydon South at next year’s election.

I read Philp’s response with great interest.

I was very disappointed, but not surprised, that he chose to misrepresent my position onthe issue of potential cuts to train services in Coulsdon. My original article made it quiteclear that there are proposals for cuts to off-peak services into Victoria.

The issue at the heart of this is Philp’s involvement (he does not, yet atleast, hold any elected office for the area) and the way in which he uses hisposition within society to influence events. It all seems to be stepping onthe toes of the very well-paid elected MP, Richard Ottaway.

As a businessman with a massive amount of money, Philp has me at a disadvantage.While he claims to be able to get into meetings with the chief executive of GoVia, myposition as an unemployed Class War party activist means I get emails from office juniorsof that company which quote their press releases back to me.

Philp benefits from the hierarchy of capitalism in everything he does. In that respect –and that respect only – he has the advantage over me.

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Chris Philp electioneering in his previous, unsuccessful, attempt to become an MP. The keeping

police stations open bit didn’t work, either

It’s one of the reasons he will win the election. He should be aware, though, that in everyother respect, I will beat him. There is a spectre hanging over his campaign and it is thespectre of Class War.

In his article, Philp claimed that I “besmirched” his character. EverythingPhilp stands for disgusts me. I’m going to besmirch him to within an inchof his life over the next few months.

He claims to be a Thatcherite. I suspect he shed a tear on the day that she died. I wasgiving a speech on a picket line and then I spent the afternoon drinking champagne. Thereason for the joy was because of what she did to people and communities.

Philp likes what Thatcherdid, from the snatchingaway of shoolchildren’smilk, to the snatching ofpublic assets to sell them offon the cheap to bigbusiness. He likes thatThatcher destroyed ourcountry’s miningcommunities and herdeliberate attacks onworking people throughchilling anti-trade unionlaws.

Thatcher was responsiblefor stifling freedom ofspeech by preventing Sinn Fein members from being able to speak in their own voices onBritish television. Evidence is mounting that within her government, a blind eye wasturned to try to hide very serious allegations of child sex abuse.

I wonder what it is about Thatcherism that Philp likes? To me, Thatcherismstands for corruption, selfishness and the destruction of community life.

Someone should warn Philp against using words like “besmirch”. That word makes himsound bumptious, full of his own importance. Most people will interpret it that way, Ifeel. We can only guess what his posh Tory chums make of it. If only he’d highlighted mycomments as “animadversion”, he could have impressed the toffs and made the rest of usreach for our dictionaries.

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richer and keeping the rest of us in line when we try to do something about our lot.

In my opinion, Philp failed in his right of reply to explain why he is alreadyacting like the MP for Croydon South. He failed to detail on whose behalf heis acting and under what mandate.

I consider that he is using his societal position to influence the outcome of the election. Itwould be wrong to assume that I trust the press releases of corporations. I trust them asmuch as I trust Chris Philp: not at all.

Philp has failed to answer the points I raised about the way in which he has behaved inelectioneering thus far. Residents in Croydon South deserve a proper appraisal of all his activities in the run up to the election.

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I can’t imagine for one moment that Rear Admiral Ottaway objects to some freehelp. Philp’s intervention saves him a job, or rather it raises an issue that ourRichard might not have found a window to deal with in his busy schedule.I take Mr Bigger’s point that Mr Philp has no mandate at present, but since he isthe Tories chosen pig’s bladder on a stick to which the party has attached its bluerosette, he will be ushered into the Westminster mausoleum next May as surely asnight follows day.

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Chris Philp will make a fine MP for Croydon South, representing his party’sinterests ably in both Parliament and the constituency. Unlike his recentlydisgraced local rival for this position, he is neither corpulent nor florid, and hisgood looks should prove a hit with undecided ladies (and John Loony, for thatmatter).

Who cares if he’s rich? Surely that proves he’s not in this for the money? If he’sgot a bad back, he can buy his own bed, and I am sure his riches will run togetting his own chimney swept without filing a claim for the public purse to payfor this. A man clearly dripping with business acumen should do wonders for thisimpoverished borough.

He’s also a man au fait with technology. Maybe he’ll reply a bit more often toelectronic correspondence from his constituents than the current incumbent, whodoesn’t even tweet.

And then there’s the entertainment value. Put him next to Gavin Barwell, andthere you have Croydon’s answer to Ant and Dec.

I do have just one doubt. Is he local? Will he actually live in, gulp, C r o y d o n?

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johnnyvoter says:September 19, 2014 at 3:59 pm

Always bizzarre when someone says they admired Thatcher. this is short-hand forim a self-centred bully who has nothing but utter contempt for the poor of thiscountry.

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Jon Bigger says:September 19, 2014 at 11:58 pm

Yes, that’s pretty much my point. Tony Benn had five questions for people inpower. He’s quoted as saying “what power do you have; where did you get it; inwhose interests do you exercise it; to whom are you accountable; and, how canwe get rid of you? Anyone who cannot answer the last of those questions does notlive in a democratic system.”

I think those questions hold true and we should ask them of those with power.With Philp, I find myself asking them before he even has an elected position.

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“Radically pragmatic” Negrini exhibits award-winning chutzpahPosted on September 18, 2014

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Ruskin Square could include theatre if council refunds £3mPosted on September 14, 2014

Croydon could get a purpose-built, modern 200-seat studio theatre to replace the much-lamented Warehouse Theatre, provided that the council re-allocates a £3 million grantoriginally intended for the purpose by private developers Stanhope.

The news comes as the now Labour-run council cabinet meets tomorrownight to discuss push throughspending £34 million on a “CroydonCultural Quarter” (we know, weknow…) which will include arejuvenated Fairfield Halls and re-developed College Green site.

The plans as laid out in the councilofficials’ report do not include any

arts provision in Ruskin Square, the mixed-use development on the former coalmerchants’ site next to East Croydon Station that has been a decade in the planning byStanhope and their financial backers Schroders.

Work has begun this summer on building the first residential blocks at the DingwallRoad end of the long-derelict site which was once promoted as the “Gateway” to Croydon.

Stanhope have been most patient in their relationship with a borough council of bothpolitical hues and which at one point, a decade ago, tried to impose a rival developer onthe site, resulting in a series of costly public inquiries.

Stanhope were long-time financial backers of the world-acclaimed Warehouse Theatre,based in a Victorian warehouse that adjoined their site, and they pledged to spend£3million on a replacement studio theatre within their office and residential buildings.

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A thriving and successful studio theatre was

stabbed in the back by its own local council

Ruskin Square, including a new studio theatre, was acrucial part of the “Croydon Masterplan”.

Stanhope have also several times accommodated thecouncil, Transport for London and Network Rail inother ways, such as in adjusting their own scheme toallow for other elements of the overall redevelopment,including the £23 million “Bridge to Nowhere” built atthe north end of East Croydon Station.

The Warehouse Theatre was forced to close in2012, when the then Tory-run council withdrewits annual arts grant, precipitating a financialcrisis. The council then activated a clause in theagreement between the Warehouse andStanhope for the £3 million grant to be re-allocated.

With a Croydon Council Tory leadership including Dudley Mead, the chairman of theFairfield Halls board, it was understood that the money would be used to build a studiotheatre at what was fast emerging as the “Favoured Halls”.

Fairfield opened its own studio theatre in its former Green Room space in the pastmonth.

Tomorrow night at the council cabinet meeting, Timothy Godfrey, Labour’s spokesmanon the arts – who is also a Fairfield Halls trustee – will speak to a report which promisesto spend £34 million through till 2018 on the “Cultural Quarter”, with a set of planswhich might be described as, well, a bit sketchy.

















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“Culture is at the heart of the council’s ambitious regeneration and growth plans forCroydon and in this context the College Green area and the Fairfield Halls holds hugepotential,” the council report states.

The refurbishment plan for the Fairfield Halls, including the Ashcroft Theatre andArnhem Gallery, has been on the council’s agenda since at least 2006, but was neveractioned under the Tories, leaving the 1960s-built arts venue to become increasinglydown-at-heel and a bit sorry for itself.

As well as offering a link through to the Clocktower arts complex and SurreyStreet, the plans going before the council tomorrow include a cinema in theFairfield Halls, although it does not explain how this sits with the existingprovision at Grant’s, or the planned multiplex within the £1billionHammersfield redevelopment.

The previous Tory council laid waste to the borough’s arts programme, axing the annualMela – for a saving of less than £100,000, or the cost of a single Councillor SteveO’Connell - allowing the Warehouse to close, closing the David Lean Cinema in a badlybungled attempt to transfer its arts house screenings to the Fairfield, and flogging offother precious publicly owned property.

Led by their deputy leader Tim Pollard, the Torycouncil raided the borough’s family silver – in thiscase in the form of the Riesco china collection – andflogged off two dozen of the best examples of thepriceless porcelain with the intention of raising£13million towards the Fairfields refurbishment.

After costs and charges, Pollard’s Hong Kongauction eventually raised just £6.5 million, themoney going into the council’s general fund ratherthan being specifically ear-marked for arts spending.A bit like Stanhope’s £3 million arts grant.

This week, sources in the building industry told Inside Croydon that Stanhope aremore confident about their scheme’s immediate future than at any time in the past 10years, and that they would be keen to consider any reasonable proposals that wouldenable them to include a purpose-built arts venue which complements the offering at theFairfield Halls and provides the prospect of a “New Warehouse Theatre”.

“It would have to be properly run, and they would probably want the formerartistic director of the Warehouse, Ted Craig, to be involved,” our source






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said.

“The venue would need to earn its keep. It could provide a venue for music, cabaret andcomedy as well as fringe theatre – all things which Croydon is crying out for, and whichwould work really well beside a rail station that’s just 20 minutes from the centre ofLondon.

“They’d certainly welcome discussions with the council about providing something in aCultural Quarter, but Stanhope’s original £3 milllion grant money would have to be usedtowards the development.”

Read the council “Cultural Quarter” report being submitted to Monday’scabinet meeting by clicking here: Cultural Quarter report

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The Fairfield have just installed a brand new high-powered digital projector and avery big replacement screen in the Concert Hall, so presumably this is the “newcinema” mentioned in the report. There’s no obvious other space where they canaccommodate 600 people, which is more than the Ashcroft’s capacity.Spectacular films and live streaming – often on Mondays – would in somerespects complement what the Save the David Lean Cinema Campaign are doingat the David Lean, and the two venues have agreed to mostly avoid screenings onthe same days. Both attract a similar audience and it makes sense to minimisecompetition, especially at a time when the future of the David Lean – which isentirely run by unpaid volunteers – is far from secure.

If the plan is for the Clocktower to regain some of its stature as a cultural centre,it’s worth remembering that the Braithwaite Hall was an important part of thearts offering there, with touring productions, live music, etc. While theBraithwaite is mostly dormant, perhaps the Warehouse Phoenix company couldconsider presenting the occasional production there in advance of any RuskinSquare development?

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davidcallam says:September 14, 2014 at 6:05 pm

What a complete pigs’ breakfast.

If the council is determined to waste public money trying to revive the Fairfield,it would surely make sense to incorporate a studio theatre on site, or to renovateBraithwaite Hall properly. But please don’t establish what could easily become athird loss-making arts site in the town centre. For all Ted Craig’s grandiose talkabout The Warehouse, it closed immediately the grant was withdrawn, suggestingthat council money would be essential to re-open it on the same site.

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Hello future: But does that future include the new Warehouse studio theatre that was

included in the Croydon Masterplan?

Ruskin Square could include theatre if council refunds £3mPosted on September 14, 2014

Croydon could get a purpose-built, modern 200-seat studio theatre to replace the much-lamented Warehouse Theatre, provided that the council re-allocates a £3 million grantoriginally intended for the purpose by private developers Stanhope.

The news comes as the now Labour-run council cabinet meets tomorrownight to discuss push throughspending £34 million on a “CroydonCultural Quarter” (we know, weknow…) which will include arejuvenated Fairfield Halls and re-developed College Green site.

The plans as laid out in the councilofficials’ report do not include any

arts provision in Ruskin Square, the mixed-use development on the former coalmerchants’ site next to East Croydon Station that has been a decade in the planning byStanhope and their financial backers Schroders.

Work has begun this summer on building the first residential blocks at the DingwallRoad end of the long-derelict site which was once promoted as the “Gateway” to Croydon.

Stanhope have been most patient in their relationship with a borough council of bothpolitical hues and which at one point, a decade ago, tried to impose a rival developer onthe site, resulting in a series of costly public inquiries.

Stanhope were long-time financial backers of the world-acclaimed Warehouse Theatre,based in a Victorian warehouse that adjoined their site, and they pledged to spend£3million on a replacement studio theatre within their office and residential buildings.










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A thriving and successful studio theatre was

stabbed in the back by its own local council

Ruskin Square, including a new studio theatre, was acrucial part of the “Croydon Masterplan”.

Stanhope have also several times accommodated thecouncil, Transport for London and Network Rail inother ways, such as in adjusting their own scheme toallow for other elements of the overall redevelopment,including the £23 million “Bridge to Nowhere” built atthe north end of East Croydon Station.

The Warehouse Theatre was forced to close in2012, when the then Tory-run council withdrewits annual arts grant, precipitating a financialcrisis. The council then activated a clause in theagreement between the Warehouse andStanhope for the £3 million grant to be re-allocated.

With a Croydon Council Tory leadership including Dudley Mead, the chairman of theFairfield Halls board, it was understood that the money would be used to build a studiotheatre at what was fast emerging as the “Favoured Halls”.

Fairfield opened its own studio theatre in its former Green Room space in the pastmonth.

Tomorrow night at the council cabinet meeting, Timothy Godfrey, Labour’s spokesmanon the arts – who is also a Fairfield Halls trustee – will speak to a report which promisesto spend £34 million through till 2018 on the “Cultural Quarter”, with a set of planswhich might be described as, well, a bit sketchy.

















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“Culture is at the heart of the council’s ambitious regeneration and growth plans forCroydon and in this context the College Green area and the Fairfield Halls holds hugepotential,” the council report states.

The refurbishment plan for the Fairfield Halls, including the Ashcroft Theatre andArnhem Gallery, has been on the council’s agenda since at least 2006, but was neveractioned under the Tories, leaving the 1960s-built arts venue to become increasinglydown-at-heel and a bit sorry for itself.

As well as offering a link through to the Clocktower arts complex and SurreyStreet, the plans going before the council tomorrow include a cinema in theFairfield Halls, although it does not explain how this sits with the existingprovision at Grant’s, or the planned multiplex within the £1billionHammersfield redevelopment.

The previous Tory council laid waste to the borough’s arts programme, axing the annualMela – for a saving of less than £100,000, or the cost of a single Councillor SteveO’Connell - allowing the Warehouse to close, closing the David Lean Cinema in a badlybungled attempt to transfer its arts house screenings to the Fairfield, and flogging offother precious publicly owned property.

Led by their deputy leader Tim Pollard, the Torycouncil raided the borough’s family silver – in thiscase in the form of the Riesco china collection – andflogged off two dozen of the best examples of thepriceless porcelain with the intention of raising£13million towards the Fairfields refurbishment.

After costs and charges, Pollard’s Hong Kongauction eventually raised just £6.5 million, themoney going into the council’s general fund ratherthan being specifically ear-marked for arts spending.A bit like Stanhope’s £3 million arts grant.

This week, sources in the building industry told Inside Croydon that Stanhope aremore confident about their scheme’s immediate future than at any time in the past 10years, and that they would be keen to consider any reasonable proposals that wouldenable them to include a purpose-built arts venue which complements the offering at theFairfield Halls and provides the prospect of a “New Warehouse Theatre”.

“It would have to be properly run, and they would probably want the formerartistic director of the Warehouse, Ted Craig, to be involved,” our source






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“The venue would need to earn its keep. It could provide a venue for music, cabaret andcomedy as well as fringe theatre – all things which Croydon is crying out for, and whichwould work really well beside a rail station that’s just 20 minutes from the centre ofLondon.

“They’d certainly welcome discussions with the council about providing something in aCultural Quarter, but Stanhope’s original £3 milllion grant money would have to be usedtowards the development.”

Read the council “Cultural Quarter” report being submitted to Monday’scabinet meeting by clicking here: Cultural Quarter report

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The Fairfield have just installed a brand new high-powered digital projector and avery big replacement screen in the Concert Hall, so presumably this is the “newcinema” mentioned in the report. There’s no obvious other space where they canaccommodate 600 people, which is more than the Ashcroft’s capacity.Spectacular films and live streaming – often on Mondays – would in somerespects complement what the Save the David Lean Cinema Campaign are doingat the David Lean, and the two venues have agreed to mostly avoid screenings onthe same days. Both attract a similar audience and it makes sense to minimisecompetition, especially at a time when the future of the David Lean – which isentirely run by unpaid volunteers – is far from secure.

If the plan is for the Clocktower to regain some of its stature as a cultural centre,it’s worth remembering that the Braithwaite Hall was an important part of thearts offering there, with touring productions, live music, etc. While theBraithwaite is mostly dormant, perhaps the Warehouse Phoenix company couldconsider presenting the occasional production there in advance of any RuskinSquare development?

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davidcallam says:September 14, 2014 at 6:05 pm

What a complete pigs’ breakfast.

If the council is determined to waste public money trying to revive the Fairfield,it would surely make sense to incorporate a studio theatre on site, or to renovateBraithwaite Hall properly. But please don’t establish what could easily become athird loss-making arts site in the town centre. For all Ted Craig’s grandiose talkabout The Warehouse, it closed immediately the grant was withdrawn, suggestingthat council money would be essential to re-open it on the same site.

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