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Fairfield Halls: how renovating the flagship venue turned into a £70 million fiasco

After repeated delays and a massive overspend, when Fairfield Halls reopened six months before Covid hit, it was unfinished. With the venue still virtually dormant, Tim Bano investigates how inexperience and mismanagement failed the community and plunged Croydon Council into crisis

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