Croydon Fiveways
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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, but following the acquisition of these stores by J Sainsbury plc in 1995, the second Homebase (at the time owned by Sainsbury's) store opened on Purley Way, the first one was on a location which was impossible to expand, but the first one didn't close because of it was the first ever Homebase opened. Other stores have come and gone, due to the location at the southern end of Purley Way has become unattractive due to the main stores such as IKEA in Valley Park further up the road, although Homebase has survived.
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[edit] Retail Park
Home stores have clearly dominated the retail park, these include Durham Pine[1] (In 2003 a vigorous rollout plan was planned for the chain of second-hand furniture but this has since been deserted and the chain have closed down all there stores including this one), WHAT!!! Home&Leisure (the new chain has since taken over Durham Pine's former 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 had just gone deserted until Matalan opened a store inside), Kingdom of Leather (a furniture store that has now closed down all it's stores due to tough competition with stores such as Land of Leather and dfs. Taken over by Italian furniture chain Natuzzi), Natuzzi[2][3] (designer Italian furniture chain which aqquired Kingdom of Leather, now in their former store. Has operations world-wide) and Furniture Village.
A Halfords store, Texaco petrol station and the site of a new Leisure Centre are all close to Fiveways. This retail park is the second southernmost in the Purley Way area (the most is Croydon Colonades)
[edit] 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, Central Croydon and Bromley, South Croydon and Selsdon, Brighton and Purley or Wallington and Sutton.
[edit] Transport
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.
