Croydon Fiveways

Croydon Fiveways (also known as Fiveways Retail Park) is a small out-of-town retail park and road junction in the industrial and large retail area of Purley Way inside the London Borough of Croydon, South London. The retail park was opened to accommodate Ladbrokes Texas Homecare store in Purley Way. Following the acquisition of these stores by J Sainsbury plc in 1995, the second Homebase store, at the time owned by Sainsbury's, opened on Purley Way. The first one was on a location which was impossible to expand, but it didn't close^{[clarification needed]}. Although Homebase has survived, the park has become unattractive due to its location at the southern end of Purley Way and stores such as IKEA being located at Valley Park.

Retail park

Home stores, including Durham Pine, have dominated the retail park.^[1] When Durham Pine closed its stores, Home & Leisure took over the unit. The chain is very similar in style and products and was mainly brought in to take the stores from collapsed furniture chain Courts, which once was Britain's third-biggest furniture retailer, although the former large Courts store next to the other Homebase ^[2] had just gone deserted until Matalan opened a store inside), Kingdom of Leather (a furniture store that has now closed down all its stores due to tough competition with stores such as Land of Leather and dfs. Taken over by Italian furniture chain Natuzzi), Natuzzi^[3] (designer Italian furniture chain which acquired Kingdom of Leather, now in their former store. Has operations worldwide) and Furniture Village^[4].^{[clarification needed]}

A Halfords store, a Texaco petrol station, and the site of a new Leisure Centre are all close to Fiveways. This retail park is the second southernmost park in the Purley Way area. The southernmost is Croydon Colonades.

Also catering for this area is Ultra Couture Design.^[5]

Road Junction

The Croydon Fiveways road junction is a major junction in Croydon. The roads involved are Purley Way (A23 road), Stafford Road (A232 road and B271) and Denning Avenue (B275). The roads lead to either Central London and Thornton Heath, Croydon and Bromley, South Croydon and Selsdon, Brighton and Purley or Wallington and Sutton.

Transport

Waddon station entrance

Waddon railway station is located opposite the retail park and provides services to Sutton, Croydon, Epsom, London Victoria and London Bridge. The station is located in Travelcard Zone 5. These services are mainly Metro Overground Network services. The East London Line was proposed to extend to Waddon and unto Sutton but Transport for London decided that the trains in peak-time would probably be full before getting to West Croydon, so the idea was dropped, but by 2011 East London Line services will stop one station up at West Croydon. Going west (towards Sutton) the next station is Wallington. A number of bus services serve the retail area, most that terminate or go past Croydon Airport stop close-by.

References

1. ^ Pine Stores Are Growing (from Croydon Guardian)
2. ^ Fiveways Retail Park on CompletelyRetail
3. ^ Natuzzi - It's how you live
4. ^ Fiveways Retail Park on CompletelyRetail
5. ^ Ultra Couture Design website

Coordinates: 51°21′53″N 0°07′06″W / 51.3648°N 0.1182°W / 51.3648; -0.1182