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Travellers leave Coombe Wood – now the clean-up begins
The large group of travellers who had taken up residence on the playing fields at Coombe Wood were moved on yesterday. The familiar task of clearing up the mess left is expected to begin in earnest on Monday morning. It … Continue reading
Posted in Coombe Wood School, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Schools, South Croydon
Tagged Coombe Wood School, Lloyd Park, South Croydon
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Council doubles cost of on-the-spot fines in war on littering
They’ve offered the public the carrot. Now, here comes the stick, as the council has doubled its on-the-spot fines for littering and fly-tipping. Croydon’s Labour-run council last month announced plans to revive the free bulk waste collection service for Council … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Refuse collection
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fly-tipping, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tory
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Council agrees reintroduction of free collections for bulk waste
The reintroduction of bulky waste collections free of charge from Croydon Council, announced at this week’s Town Hall cabinet meeting, comes after lobbying from Inside Croydon. The decision reverses a penny-wise, pound-foolish austerity cut applied by the previous Conservative administration. … Continue reading
#SuttonBinShame: ‘We can’t do the job any more’ say staff
Our Sutton correspondent, BELLE MONT, reports on claims from Labour activists in St Helier that street-cleaning staff, transferred from the council to Veolia last year, are having their reports of fly-tipping ignored and refused permission to take holidays Labour activists … Continue reading
Fieldway’s Hall launches attack on ‘unacceptable’ Veolia
WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, on the widening splits within the leadership of the Labour group on the council, with local elections less than four months away One of Croydon council leader Tony Newman’s most trusted lieutenants has this week … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Carole Bonner, Felicity Flynn, Fieldway, Fly tipping, Louisa Woodley, New Addington North, New Addington South, Oliver Lewis, Refuse collection, Simon Hall, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Tony Pearson, Veolia
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Fieldway, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, Simon Hall, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Veolia
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Collins backs free Christmas tree collection service for 2018
WALTER CRONXITE reports from the council chamber on the first giveaways of the 2018 election campaign Stuart Collins, the deputy leader of Croydon’s Labour-run council, put an early present under every household’s Christmas tree in the borough last night. Collins … Continue reading
Collins deserves new T-shirt as fly-tip figures start to fall
Now might be the time for Stuart Collins to start dishing out the T-shirts. Three years ago, the Labour councillor put in charge of getting Croydon’s streets clean launched a “Don’t Mess With Croydon – Take Pride” campaign, handing out … Continue reading
Police now conducting ‘stop and search’ to catch fly-tippers
A multi-agency clampdown against fly-tipping and other offences has this week seen police and council officials make their 31st seizure of a vehicle suspected of being used to illegally store or dump rubbish. More than 30 officers from Croydon Council … Continue reading
What a load of rubbish: guilty fly-tipper gets fined… £110
What Croydon Council was today claiming to be the latest example of success for their campaign against fly-tipping might, when looked at through less-rosy-spectacles, simply demonstrate what a thorough-going, long-term slog the local authority faces in bringing even the most … Continue reading
Appeal for witnesses to Upper Norwood’s midnight tipper
Keeping Croydon’s streets clean and free of fly-tips continues to be a constant battle, as demonstrated by one illegal dumper last week when they left a lorry-load of their old crap that blocked a road in Upper Norwood. The council … Continue reading
Arrogant fly-tipper dumps legal appeal and gets £5,670 charge
A fly-tipper who dumped waste twice in the same Croydon street abandoned his court appeal when confronted with pictures showing him caught in the act taken on a resident’s mobile phone. Shirley resident Nuhur Mulindwa incurred £5,670 costs and 250 … Continue reading
Company behind council’s crap app faces winding up order
Croydon Council’s crap app – MyCroydon – could be about to crash, as the company which operates it, Sensemble, was facing winding up proceedings in the High Court today over around £100,000 in unpaid tax bills. The winding up order … Continue reading
Norbury memorial adorned by knitters as part of clean-up
The people of Norbury have been hard at work to produce their own special commemoration for Remembrance Sunday. Knitting Norbury Together has produced a wreath and waterfall of poppies to adorn the memorial plaque near the British Legion on London … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Fly tipping, Love Norbury, Norbury, Norbury Avenue and Thornton Heath Residents' Association, Norbury Green Residents' Association, Norbury Village Residents' Association, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins
Tagged Knitting Norbury Together, Norbury, Stuart Collins
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Croydon’s big butt: £1,145 fines for dropping cigarettes
Is Croydon’s Labour council’s “Don’t Mess With Croydon” campaign against fly-tippng beginning to run out of momentum? The propaganda unit in Fisher’s Folly has issued its latest bulletin on the number of prosecutions on the council’s “get tough” strategy, announcing … Continue reading
Council forced to keep phone hotline in war against fly-tippers
The Labour-run council has been forced to back down from an attempt to quietly drop one of his key election manifesto promises, to provide a fly tipping hotline. Labour leader Tony Newman fought the 2014 Town Hall elections on a … Continue reading
Posted in Capita, Crime, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Fly-tipping, Labour, Mark Watson, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Tory
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Lorry-load of rubbish cleared from South Norwood park
The Conservation Volunteers have been hard at work this week, clearing up Brickfields Meadow in South Norwood. Brickfields Meadow is one of Croydon’s green oases. It is very popular with fishermen around the lake and young families using the playground. … Continue reading
More questions over £500,000 bid to gentrify Surrey Street
Some traders and residents based in or around Surrey Street are beginning to question whether Croydon Council is steamrollering them into a future for the 700-year-old market which few, if any, of them want or are happy with. Mark Watson, … Continue reading
Norbury residents’ associations to stage a high street clean-up
Norbury residents are getting together for a high street clean-up. “Litter and fly-posting is spoiling Norbury,” Paul Cowling of the Norbury Village Residents’ Association. “Our high street, with its great restaurants and services, is riddled with seedy massage stickers and … Continue reading
Rubbish service has residents lining up to take a dump
There’s mounting annoyance at the council’s official dumps each weekend, as residents trying to do the “decent thing” find themselves in traffic queues which take more than 30 minutes to access the Purley Oaks or Factory Lane recycling centres. Croydon … Continue reading
Newman looks for Plan B on roads as Bee is moved on
Kathy Bee, the councillor in charge of the state of the roads in the borough, looks set to be another casualty of Tony “Soprano” Newman’s inadvertent reshuffle of Town Hall top jobs expected to be undertaken at a Labour group … Continue reading
Council seizes vans from operators suspected of major fly-tips
Vans seized by the council after they were connected to conducting illegal tipping may have been owned by groups of travellers who are suspected of dumping mounds of rubbish in Croydon’s parks and open spaces over the past three years. … Continue reading
Posted in Ashburton, Broad Green, Crime, Environment, Fly tipping, Purley, Purley Way, Refuse collection, South Norwood, Stuart Collins, Waddon
Tagged Broad Green, Croydon Council, Fly-tipping, Labour, Purley, South Norwood, Stuart Collins, Waddon
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The miracle of post-Christmas, as trees sprout on our streets
And Lo! It came to pass that, one week after Twelfth Night, the streets of the little town of Croydon, outside the city walls of London, dideth beginneth to sprouteth Christmas trees. It was as if a host of angels … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Waddon
Tagged Broad Green, Croydon Council, Fly-tipping, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Treecycle, Waddon
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