Category Archives: Fly tipping

Perry’s ‘comedy’ video claims are leaving the joke on Croydon

The borough’s Conservative Mayor, rendered impotent by the presence of government Commissioners, has spent much of the summer conducting some personal political campaigning, all paid for by tax-payers, that is often deliberately misleading, that sometimes gaslights residents and, very often, … Continue reading

Posted in "Hammersfield", Andrew Fisher, BH Group, Business, Commissioners, Council Tax, Crime, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Fly tipping, Live Facial Recognition cameras, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Planning, Policing, Refuse collection, Sadiq Khan, Selsdon Park Hotel, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Perry’s ‘caught on camera’ fly-tipper is following council’s rules

EXCLUSIVE: Mayor’s ‘zero tolerance’ approach to fly-tipping is to feature on local television news tonight, as council videos ‘exposes’ a local trader doing what they have been instructed to do by… the council!  Jason Perry, the incompetent Mayor of Croydon, … Continue reading

Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Haily Cluff, Litter Free Norbury, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury, Refuse collection, Tony Hooker, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 13 Comments

Petty Perry blocks residents’ groups from RA rubbish meeting

EXCLUSIVE: Croydon’s answer to Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s Supreme Leader, is making a public appearance tonight where only residents’ associations who meet his approval are allowed to attend. By KEN LEE, our Town Hall correspondent Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed … Continue reading

Posted in Alasdair Stewart, Community associations, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Haily Cluff, Litter Free Norbury, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury, Ola Kolade, Refuse collection, Robert Ward, Tony Hooker, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 18 Comments

New £5,000 fines for fly-tipping – but will Perry catch offenders?

Where there’s muck, there’s brass, as the old saying goes, and someone in government may have stumbled across a sure-fire way of Croydon Council paying off some of its debts. Whitehall has approved hiking fines for fly-tipping to a new … Continue reading

Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Refuse collection, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Rubbish councillor Roche finally sacked from Mayor’s cabinet

Jason Perry’s ‘top team’ for his second term in charge of the Town Hall sees a belated call-up for a 76-year-old pensioner, and an overdue axing for a work-shy colleague. KEN LEE reports Scott Roche, the Conservative councillor for Shirley … Continue reading

Posted in Alasdair Stewart, Andrew Stranack, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Fly tipping, Housing, Jason Cummings, Jeet Bains, Luke Shortland, Lynne Hale, Margaret Bird, Mayor Jason Perry, Ola Kolade, Refuse collection, Richard Chatterjee, RIPI II: Fairfield Halls, Robert Ward, Scott Roche, Selsdon and Addington Village, Shirley South, Simon Brew, Veolia, Yvette Hopley | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Latest fridge fly-tip breaks barriers in Norwood Junction Station

Even by Croydon’s standards as the “fly-tip capital of London”, this latest example excels all previous dumps. A discarded fridge had been left in the foot tunnel beneath the platforms of Norwood Junction railway station, just by the stairs up … Continue reading

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Gang guilty of industrial-scale fly-tipping across south London

Four men sentenced after they were found to have issued threats and blackmail, destroyed property and, at a site off the Purley Way, cost the property owner £300,000 The scale of the organised criminality which lies behind the scourge of … Continue reading

Posted in Crime, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Purley Way, Waddon | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Rangers in public plea for care during skylarks’ nesting season

City Commons, who oversee four commons and the South London National Nature Reserve, are now having to deal with dumped garden waste in conservation areas. PLUS: dates for guided walks and volunteer sessions The rangers who oversee Coulsdon Common, Farthing … Continue reading

Posted in Activities, City Commons, Coulsdon, Croydon parks, Environment, Fly tipping, South London Downs NNR, Walks, Wildlife | 1 Comment

Our news podcast looks at bins, cold cases, LTNs and Reform

The new episode of The Croydon Insider, our regular round-table, news panel discussion podcast thingy, looks at recent events in Croydon, including the Reform party’s rally at the Fairfield Halls, where they revealed their candidate for Croydon Mayor – and … Continue reading

Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Ben Flook, Community associations, Croydon Insider, Fairfield Halls, Fly tipping, Inside Croydon, Litter Free Norbury, Nadia Azizuddin, Neil Bennett, Refuse collection, Tony Hooker, Under The Flyover, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Mayor’s record in office has worse delivery than Royal Mail

With Tory Jason Perry’s election pledges dropping on residents’ doormats this week and Labour candidate Rowenna Davis publishing her manifesto, the claims and promises of the two front-runners for Croydon Mayor are examined here by ANDREW FISHER While incumbent Mayor … Continue reading

Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Andrew Fisher, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Fly tipping, Mayor Jason Perry, Rowenna Davis | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 14 Comments

The art of the deal: what is Perry hiding over Veolia contract?

CROYDON COMMENTARY: In 2023, Croydon’s Mayor cancelled the borough’s contract with rubbish contractors Veolia because of “significant and ongoing concerns” over performance. In 2025, the council handed a new £40m deal to Veolia. A year on, the Town Hall has … Continue reading

Posted in Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Fly tipping, Litter Free Norbury, London-wide issues, Love Norbury, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury, Refuse collection, Tony Hooker, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Campaigners accuse council of ‘misinformation’ over fly-tips

With Croydon featuring on local television news tonight – for all the wrong reasons as usual – PAUL LUSHION, environment correspondent, reports on how more groups are beginning to doubt every word that comes out of Croydon Town Hall or … Continue reading

Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury, Refuse collection, Thornton Heath, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Croydon has worst fly-tipping record in whole of England

There was an average of more than 1,000 fly-tips reported every week around the borough last year, according to official figures published today – at a time when the council had no enforcement staff Croydon has the worst record in … Continue reading

Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury, Refuse collection, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 11 Comments

Fir gone conclusions as our council slowly gets back to work

The council’s Christmas tree collection service begins on Monday. The council and rubbish contractors Veolia are just not saying when, or where Council collections of Christmas trees are due to begin on Monday, and will continue for a fortnight, until … Continue reading

Posted in Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Leisure services, Libraries, Refuse collection, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Addiscombe fly-tip festering on Hermitage Lane for whole year

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Addiscombe East, Addiscombe West, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Mayor Jason Perry, Refuse collection, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

#BINMAGEDDON: Veolia performance is worse under new deal

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The rubbish contractor handed a £40m eight-year contract by Mayor Jason Perry, just two years after he sacked them for underperforming, is now taking longer to clear fly-tips than under their old deal. NORA BERRY reports  Figures … Continue reading

Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury, Norbury Park, Refuse collection, Scott Roche, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Surrey council takes action on unlawful flags as Perry dithers

Croydon Council, where failed Mayor Jason Perry has claimed there is “zero tolerance” for fly-tippers and, by extension, fly-posters, has failed to take any action against the various flags hoisted without permission on some of the borough’s streets. Yet neighbouring … Continue reading

Posted in Coulsdon, Crime, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Mayor Jason Perry, Old Coulsdon, Surrey, Tandridge District Council, ULEZ expansion | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 10 Comments

Tory councillor welcomes New Addington flags as ‘great’

A Conservative councillor in New Addington has said that Union flags that have been placed along Central Parade without proper permission “look great”, and he has posted on social media that the council will not remove the flags unless they … Continue reading

Posted in Coulsdon, Crime, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Mayor Jason Perry, New Addington South, Old Coulsdon, South Norwood, Tony Pearson, ULEZ expansion | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

This is what ‘Zero Tolerance’ looks like in Perry’s Croydon

PERRY’S PILES: For all the Mayor’s grandstanding on local television news, he has been completely ineffectual in getting rubbish contractors Veolia to do their job. By SANDRA STEAD, Town Hall reporter This is what “zero tolerance” looks like in Jason … Continue reading

Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Broad Green, Community associations, Crime, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury, Property, Refuse collection, Steve Iles, Thornton Heath, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Council refuses to remove England flags from Coulsdon Road

Croydon’s failed Mayor, Jason Perry, went on the telly last week boasting of “zero tolerance” for fly-tippers. Yet his council has refused to remove hundreds of St George cross flags that have been tethered illegally to lamp posts along Coulsdon … Continue reading

Posted in Coulsdon, Crime, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Mayor Jason Perry, Old Coulsdon, Surrey, Tandridge District Council, ULEZ expansion | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 20 Comments

‘Busted’: Mayor’s video shows rubbish contractors are failing

PERRY’S PILES: Council bosses accused of making Croydon’s fly-tipping crisis worse with their ‘banded’ collection system. ‘The council has completely lost control,’ says one campaigner. By our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed Mayor, has given up … Continue reading

Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Broad Green, Community associations, Crime, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury, Property, Refuse collection, Steve Iles, Thornton Heath, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 14 Comments

‘Scandalous’ council delays over Beddington’s asbestos fly-tip

Sutton Council criticised for a ‘disgraceful’ failure to allow a fly-tipped pile of asbestos to disintegrate on a public road for around three weeks. CARL SHILTON reports A four-tonne pile of hazardous waste, including large amounts of asbestos roofing panelling, … Continue reading

Posted in Environment, Fly tipping, Health, Helen Bailey, Nick Mattey, Sutton Council, Tim Foster, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Perry’s Piles: Council refuses to act on 30 dumped mattresses

Croydon’s dismal reputation for clearing up fly-tips around the borough leaves residents defenceless against criminal gangs dumping on the streets in an industrial scale  Having presided over council contractors dumping hundreds of books on the street in Broad Green last … Continue reading

Posted in Business, Crime, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Mayor Jason Perry, Refuse collection, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 16 Comments

Croydon’s rubbish High Street: what they say versus the reality

Croydon Council’s propaganda department was busy this week. On Monday, they pumped out this cheery piece of social media, to big-up the great work they claim is being done on Croydon High Street and North End.

Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Crime, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Fly tipping, Mayor Jason Perry, North End Quarter, Refuse collection, Surrey Street, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Veolia, Whitgift Centre | 11 Comments

Mayor Perry’s warning for Croydon: ‘I’m just getting started!’

After raising your Council Tax by 27% and still needing bigger government bailouts than ever before, now the Tory Mayor wants four more years. By WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor Be afraid, Croydon. Be very afraid. “I’m just getting started.” Those … Continue reading

Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Refuse collection, Stabilisation Plan, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 10 Comments