Croydon: South London's Concrete Ambition, Stalled and Restarted
Croydon divides opinion more sharply than almost any other part of London. The 1960s tower blocks that replaced Victorian Croydon created a skyline that looked dated within a decade. The Lunar House immigration centre, the former Nestlé tower, the Whitgift Centre: postwar planning at its most confident and least enduring. Yet Croydon is also a place of genuine scale. A residential population exceeding 390,000 makes it the most populous London borough. East Croydon station handles over 20 million passenger journeys a year. The tram network, opened in 2000, connects Croydon to Wimbledon, Beckenham, and New Addington.
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Croydon divides opinion more sharply than almost any other part of London. The 1960s tower blocks that replaced Victorian Croydon created a skyline that looked dated within a decade. The Lunar House immigration centre, the former Nestlé tower, the Whitgift Centre: postwar planning at its most confident and least enduring. Yet Croydon is also a place of genuine scale. A residential population exceeding 390,000 makes it the most populous London borough. East Croydon station handles over 20 million passenger journeys a year. The tram network, opened in 2000, connects Croydon to Wimbledon, Beckenham, and New Addington.
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