For office design Croydon and office interior design Surrey, contact GDL interiors. We offer the full range of office interior design services including space planning; partitioning, office refurbishments and fit outs to customers all over Croydon, in London and throughout Surrey and the rest of the Home Counties.
We know what having a good working environment can do for your business. It impacts staff morale, affects productivity and employee turnover and creates a winning impression to visiting clients. |
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Ultimately a good customer and workforce focused environment can make all the difference to the success or failure of a business.
When we plan your office interior design, we consult with you to learn about how your business works. On a practical level we will need to know the high traffic areas, the areas that need the most light and power, any areas that will need to be covered with hard wearing materials and where your customer facing areas are. We concentrate on things like lighting and noise levels and we work with you to design your customer facing reception area, any meeting and/or breakout areas, the washrooms and kitchens, making all these spaces as useful and productive as possible.
We offer a commercial interiors service, aimed at producing the complete interior design solution for your Croydon workspace. We can create reception rooms, offices, conference rooms, management suites, breakout areas, meeting rooms, washrooms and other interior office facilities such as restaurant or canteen areas and even crèches. Whatever the size of your work space, working with you, we can design and install the perfect working office space solution.
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About Croydon
Croydon is a town in South London, England located with the London Borough of Croydon to which it gives its name and is identified in the London Plan as one of 11 metropolitan centres in Greater London. It is located on the natural transport corridor between London and England's south coast.
Historically a part of Surrey at the time of the Norman conquest of England Croydon had a church, a mill and around 365 inhabitants (as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086). Croydon expanded during the Middle Ages as a market town and a centre for charcoal production, leather tanning and brewing. The Surrey Iron Railway from Croydon to Wandsworth opened in 1803 and was the world's first public horse drawn railway, which later developed into an important means of transport - facilitating Croydon's growth as a commuter town for the City of London and beyond.
By early 20th century Croydon was an important industrial area, known for car manufacture, metal working and its airport. In the mid-20th century these sectors were replaced by retailing and service economy, brought about by massive redevelopment which saw the rise of office clocks and the Whitgift Shopping Centre.
Croydon was amalgamated into Greater |London in 1965, road traffic is now diverted away from a largely pedestrianized town centre but its main railway station, East Croydon, is still a major hub within the national railway transport system.
The development of Brighton as a fashionable resort in the 1780'2 increased Croydon's role as a significant halt for stage coaches on the road south of London. At the beginning of the 19th century, Croydon became the terminus of two pioneering commercial transport links with London. The first, opened in 1803, was the horse drawn Surrey Iron Railway from Wandsworth, which in 1805 was extended to Merstham, as the Croydon, Merstham and Godstone Railway. The second, opened in 1809, was the Croydon Canal, which branched off the Grand Surrey Canal at Deptford. The London and Croydon Railway opened between London Bridge and West Croydon in 1839.
The arrival of the railways and other communications advances in the 19th century led to a 23 fold increase in Croydons population between 1801 and 1901. This rapid expansion of the town led to considerable health problems, especially in damp and overcrowded working class district of the Old Town. In response to this in 1849 Croydon became one of the first towns in the country to acquire a Local Board of Health. The Board constructed public health infrastructure including a reservoir, and water supply network, sewers, a pumping station and sewage disposal works.
As the town continued to grow it became especially popular as a pleasant leafy residential suburb for members of the Victorian middle classes who could commute to the City of London by fast train in 15 minutes. In 1883 Croydon was incorporated as a borough and in 1889 it became a county borough.
Croydon became the location of London's main airport until the Second World War during which much of central Croydon was destroyed and subsequently Heathrow Airport superseded Croydon's Airport as London's main airport. By the 1950's with its continuing growth the town became congested and the Council decided to introduce another major redevelopment scheme "The Croydon Corporation Act" which was passed in 1956. This coupled with government incentives for office relocation out of London, led to the building of new offices and accompanying road schemes and the town boomed as an important business centre into the late 1960's, which the building of a large number of multi storey office blocks, an underpass, a flyover and multi storey car parks.
Croydon has become the second largest place to shop in the south east, after central London, offering a wide range of shops and department stores. It is home to many high density buildings such as the Nestle Tower, being London's third main CBD, after the square mile and the Docklands and South London's main business centre. There are also plans for a large new shopping centre, Park Place, which will replace most of the eastern edge of the shopping district.
