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Category Archives: Fly tipping
Kafkaesque world of contractors clearing 98% of fly-tips
Rubbish contractors Veolia have been handed a very generous, £40million reprieve to remain Croydon’s domestic waste and street cleaning gig for another seven years, but there’s been little sign of any improvement in the service they provide. In fact, according … Continue reading
Posted in Bensham Manor, Business, Community associations, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Love Norbury, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury, Norbury Park, Refuse collection, Thornton Heath, Thornton Heath Community Action Team, Veolia
Tagged Bensham Manor, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Graham Mitchell, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Norbury, Norbury and Pollards Hill, Thornton Heath, Tony Hooker, Tory, Veolia
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#Binmageddon: Now Croydon named worst in UK for fly-tipping
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Just weeks after the borough was named ‘the filthiest in London’ because of its poor bin collection rate, further data shows the cash-strapped council forking out £1m to clear nearly 40,000 reported incidents of fly-tipping in the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Kingston, Merton, Refuse collection, Sutton Council, Veolia, Waste incinerator
Tagged #Binmageddon, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fly-tipping, Labour, Mayor Jason Perry, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Tory, Veolia
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‘London’s filthiest borough’ hands £40m rubbish deal to Veolia
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Rubbish contractor was sacked in 2022 and in 2023 missed 32,000 bin collections across the borough. But now Mayor Perry has confirmed they are to get a new eight-year contract With all the comic timing of a … Continue reading
New bins deal sees tenants living above shops get extra service
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Despite being forced to go back to Veolia two years after they sacked the rubbish contractors, the council is claiming that their new contract is a better deal for residents. By STEVEN DOWNES Croydon Council officials, forced … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Croydon East, Environment, Fly tipping, Merton, Nick Hibberd, Refuse collection, Sutton Council, Veolia, Waste incinerator
Tagged #Binmageddon, #MuckyMerton, #SuttonBinShame, Croydon, Croydon Council, Kingston, Kingston Council, Labour, Merton, Merton Council, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton, Sutton Council, Veolia
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Council ignores residents’ tip-offs about New Addington dump
New Addington residents have been marvelling at a new, low-cost council waste dump facility, which has sprung up without any public consultation. Even before the new Croydon Local Plan has been published and agreed, Chertsey Crescent appears to be providing … Continue reading
Croydon’s fly-tip prosecution record is 2nd worst in all England
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Fly-tipping continues to get worse under the borough’s part-time Mayor, according to official government figures, reports our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION Three months ago, the Department for Environment and Rural Affairs (we’ll refer to them as DEFRA … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Refuse collection, Simon Fox
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, DEFRA, Fly-tipping, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Purley Way, Purley Way fly-tip, Simon Fox, Stuart Collins, Tory
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‘Red alert’ over increased costs with outsourced rubbish deal
‘Things are going to get worse’ said Mayor Jason Perry earlier this year. And looking at the outsourced deal he’s lining up to replace rubbish contractors Veolia, in that respect he is as good as his word, reports KEN LEE … Continue reading
How Mayor Perry was shamed to take action by a video nasty
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Parts of the town centre on private land are being turned into rat-infested rubbish dumps, and the council had done nothing about it until a couple of residents shamed the Town Hall leadership. By STEVEN DOWNES The … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Environment, Fairfield, Fly tipping, Mayor Jason Perry, Refuse collection, Ria Patel, Sarah Jones MP, Veolia
Tagged 15% Council Tax hike, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Matthews Yard, Mayor Jason Perry, Priddys Yard, Sarah Jones MP, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market, Tory, Waterworks Yard
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‘Anarchy in Croydon’ fears as Mayor axes 22 safety officer jobs
Neighbourhood Safety Officers work to reduce fly-tipping and anti-social behaviour, and one worker facing redundancy warns that erasing his department is ‘a complete invitation to stabbings’. By STEVEN DOWNES A council workers’ union is claiming that cash-strapped Croydon’s decision to … Continue reading
Posted in Council Tax, Crime, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Katherine Kerswell, Knife crime, Mayor Jason Perry
Tagged 15% Council Tax hike, Anti-social behaviour, ASBO, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fly-tipping, Katherine Kerswell, knife crime, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Neighbourhood Safety Officers, NSOs, Tory, youth knife crime
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‘Restructuring’ has housing workers facing £3,000 pay cut
Our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, on the latest shocking cost-cutting measures being imposed on council staff Croydon Council could be heading for a series of strikes later this year, after senior managers at Fisher’s Folly moved to cut some … Continue reading
Posted in Council Tax, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Housing, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Susmita Sen
Tagged 15% Council Tax hike, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fly-tipping, GMB, Housing, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Neighbourhood Safety Officers, Tory, Unison, Unite the Union
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Getting a rubbish service from the council? Call for the Cubs!
Our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, on the latest crass error of judgement from the propaganda bunker at Fisher’s Folly As if to underline the assessment that Croydon’s council is dysfunctional, the first press release issued from the propaganda bunker … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Mario Creatura, Mayor Jason Perry, Refuse collection, Scouts and Guides, Steve Iles, Veolia
Tagged 2nd Selsdon and Addington Scouts, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fly-tipping, London Borough of Croydon, Mario Creatura, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, Reigate, Scouts, Street Champions, Tory
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Public asked how to improve the council’s rubbish service
Our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, on a council consultation that appears to be an exercise in stating the bleedin’ obvious The council’s £81,000 per year Tory Mayor wants residents to “shape” its outsourced rubbish services. Mayor Jason Perry says … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Mayor Jason Perry, Refuse collection, Steve Iles, Veolia
Tagged #Binmageddon, #MuckyMerton, #SuttonBinShame, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Tory, Veolia
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Squaring the rubbish circle on Oval Road was never easy
CROYDON COMMENTARY: In answer to a public question at last night’s Town Hall meeting about the terrible state of Oval Road since rubbish contractors Veolia started a bin bags trial in 2020, Cllr Scott Roche said ‘a review of the … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, ECCO, Fly tipping, Jerry Fitzpatrick, Patricia Hay-Justice, Refuse collection, Tom Lawrence, Veolia
Tagged #Binmageddon, Addiscombe, Addiscombe West, East Croydon, East Croydon Community Organisation, ECCO, Jerry Fitzpatrick, Oval Road
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Oval Road’s three years of misery over a failed bin bag trial
When councillor Stuart Collins and Veolia imposed Binmageddon on Croydon, they did so with little proper consideration for the practicalities of plonking multiple large wheely-bins outside the borough’s often small, terraced housing. Whole streets have been taken over by Veolia’s … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Clive Fraser, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Patricia Hay-Justice, Refuse collection, Sean Fitzsimons, Veolia
Tagged Addiscombe West, Clive Fraser, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Oval Road, Sean Fitzsimons, Veolia
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Careful what you wish for as we bin rubbish contractor Veolia
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The news that Veolia won’t have their four-borough deal extended once it expires in 2025 has prompted loyal reader LEWIS WHITE, pictured right, to question our councils’ roles in the service decline From the comments made in response … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Kingston, Merton, Refuse collection, Sutton Council, Veolia
Tagged #Binmageddon, #MuckyMerton, #SuttonBinShame, Croydon, Croydon Council, Kingston, Kingston Council, Lewis White, Merton, Merton Council, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton, Sutton Council, Veolia
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Croydon and three other boroughs to bin Veolia rubbish deal
Veolia, who have swept Croydon’s streets and emptied its residents’ bins sporadically since 2003, are to be dropped as the council’s rubbish contractor. The decision has been reached following “significant and ongoing concerns” with Veolia’s performance, which saw three of … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Kingston, Merton, Refuse collection, Sutton Council, Veolia
Tagged #Binmageddon, #MuckyMerton, #SuttonBinShame, Croydon, Croydon Council, Kingston, Kingston Council, Labour, Merton, Merton Council, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton, Sutton Council, Veolia
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Croydon blocks reports logged via popular smartphone app
EXCLUSIVE: If you go to all the time and trouble to try to help the council clean up the borough of fly-tips, graffiti or dumped cars, the chances are that officials will simply ignore your report. By STEVEN DOWNES Croydon’s … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Mayor Jason Perry, Refuse collection, Simon Fox, Veolia
Tagged Conservative, Crap App, Croydon Council, Croydon Mayor, FixMyStreet, London Borough of Croydon, Love Clean Streets, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of Croydon, MySociety, Simon Fox, Tory
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Council finally starts work to clear its own Waddon fly-tip
Less than 48 hours after Inside Croydon reported how Croydon Council had blighted a youth centre in Old Town with five years’ worth of blatant fly-tipping, workers were finally dispatched by Fisher’s Folly to start the work to clear the … Continue reading
Council caught fly-tipping discarded furniture by youth club
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Volunteers, residents and even councillors have been ignored by officials, as council staff have turned a patch of open space into a dump. EXCLUSIVE by KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter Croydon’s part-time Mayor has his work … Continue reading
20 safety officers axed in Croydon’s latest ‘cuts by stealth’
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Labour leadership wants to replace council staff with high street bounty hunters who get commission on every fine they issue, using a company that has been accused of ‘profiting from poverty’. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Whoever is … Continue reading
Mayor candidate Shawcross’s ‘new’ direction not so new at all
Any ‘clean break’ with the incompetence and graft of the past at Croydon Town Hall that is being offered by Labour Mayoral candidate Val Shawcross appears doomed by her own campaign’s deep-rooted connections with discredited Tony Newman and some of … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 council elections, 2022 Croydon Mayor election, Addiscombe East, Addiscombe West, Alisa Flemming, Brick by Brick, Broad Green, Business, Callton Young, Children's Services, Chris Clark, Clive Fraser, Croydon Council, David Evans, Fairfield Halls, Fly tipping, Hamida Ali, Humayun Kabir, Karen Jewitt, Maddie Henson, Manju Shahul Hameed, Meals on Wheels, Planning, Refuse collection, Sarah Jones MP, Schools, Sean Fitzsimons, SEND, Sherwan Chowdhury, Steve Reed MP, Stuart Collins, Stuart King, Tony Newman, Val Shawcross, Veolia
Tagged Addiscombe East, Addiscombe West, Alisa Flemming, Brick by Brick, Broad Green, Callton Young, Clive Fraser, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Karen Jewitt, Labour, Maddie Henson, Manju Shahul Hameed, Sean Fitzsimons, South Norwood, Steve Reed OBE, Stuart Collins, STUART KING, Tony Newman, Val Shawcross
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Mayor will have little say over borough’s rubbish contractors
CROYDON COMMENTARY: It is one of the biggest and most important services provided by any local council. But the manner in which the borough has outsourced the management of bin collections, street cleaning and waste disposal and recycling has become … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 council elections, 2022 Croydon Mayor election, Business, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, idVerde, Kingston, London-wide issues, Merton, Peter Underwood, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Val Shawcross, Veolia, Waste incinerator
Tagged #Binmageddon, #MuckyMerton, #SuttonBinShame, 'Royal' Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Merton Council, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Veolia, Viridor
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#Binmageddon: Under-performing Veolia hit with warnings
Our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, on some long-overdue action being taken with the rubbish contractors who are supposed to be responsible for the state of the borough’s streets One day after “Mucky Merton”™ issued a Service Improvement Notice to … Continue reading
