Here to stay?: the pile of dumped rubbish has been on Hermitage Lane since November 2024
Is this Croydon’s oldest fly-tip?
Residents in Addiscombe certainly seem to think so, as they say that this pile of dumped rubbish has been festering by some garages on Hermitage Lane for more than a year.
The fly-tip is another example of where failed Mayor Jason Perry’s pledge to have fly-tips removed inside 24 hours just does not stack up. Rubbish contractors Veolia won’t touch this rubbish pile because it is on private land, and no one else seems to want to take responsibility.
Over the course of the past 12 months, the rubbish pile has been getting ever bigger, as people add their own unwanted items to the pile, and with no solution in sight.
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“It’s spilling out into the alley,” according to the resident who posted a collection of tip pics on Faustbook. They fear that the rubbish is a fire waiting to happen (though it did survive Bonfire Night this year).
They also claim that there are items of medical waste in among the detritus of the ever-growing pile.
“No matter how many times it is reported, we are told that because it is not on council property, they won’t do anything.”
But is the Hermitage Lane heap Croydon’s oldest fly-tip? If you know of longer-lasting tips in Croydon, drop us a line with suitably horrible photos, and provide some evidence to support your claim that your fly-tip is older than 12 months. Our website address is below…
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As I have said before this tipping is created by “Human Beings”
I’m sure that we have to hold someone accountable but let’s try coming down on the rats that do this.
Unfortunately for the residents that rubbish tip should be dealt with by the landowner, whoever that may be. It is not the responsibility of the Mayor of Croydon. A similar situation applies in the countryside where farmers have to dispose of rubbish dumped on their fields.
Unfortunately such an assessment is hardly a pragmatic solution in dealing with owners who do not act to clear the waste. Once upon a time when the State was more forthright in dealing with problems it would compulsorily purchase such parcels of land at the adjusted price of putting the problem right or at the least place a charge on the site when eventually any transaction of this property was made and this would have some notional asset value for the residential tax payer for the work done. There can be many reasons for why owners are seemingly insensate to what is occurring on their sites, but the only practical solution in our lifetimes is for a counterveiling force to tackle the problem rather than wishing it away.
Conflating the issue with farming land reveals you are simply for impotence and inaction.
I don’t think they are here any more, but were there a lot of hermits in Croydon once upon a time? There are two Hermitage Lanes (Addiscombe and Norbury), two Hermitage Roads (Kenley and Upper Norwood) and even a Hermitage Gardens, off the Hermitage Road in Upper Norwood.
It is unlikely that the raging waters of the River Wandle or Norbury Brook are warm enough to be settled by hermit crabs(?)
Perhaps Veolia and Piss-Poor Perry’s negligence is encouraging hermits to return?