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Category Archives: Fly tipping
Costs mount on council’s rubbish MyCroydon app
A tech worker who carried out work on the MyCroydon app has told Inside Croydon that the company which was given the contract by the council, “is not really an ‘app developer’ or ‘software developer’. All it has done is … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Capita, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Graham Cadle, Phil Thomas, Refuse collection
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Graham Cadle, Harry Singh, MyCroydon app, Phil Thomas, Tech Hub, Tory
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Council considers three-weekly bin collections as cuts bite
The leadership of Croydon’s Labour-run council is considering moving to a schedule of residential refuse collections of every three weeks as a way of saving money from a borough budget that faces losing £90 million from its grant from the … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 London elections, 2018 council elections, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Sarah Jones MP, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Waste incinerator
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Fisher's Folly, Fly-tipping, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Fisher, Tony Newman, Tory
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Collins gets ‘in the face’ of Labour donor over Lloyd Park mess
The deputy leader of the Labour group on Croydon Council has promised to “get in the face” of the owners of Coombe Farm, the private property set in the middle of Lloyd Park, over the growing piles of rubbish surrounding … Continue reading
Lloyd Park’s blot on the landscape, and no one’s responsible
Best-selling author and Lloyd Park dog-walker JEAN URE on how Croydon doesn’t help itself over its shabby reputation So I’m on a crowded train approaching East Croydon when a lippy young girl with a Croydon facelift falls foul of an … Continue reading
Council leader misses his Oscar moment with Sue Perkins
Hard to calculate who was the biggest loser on Wednesday night: Stuart Collins, the council deputy leader who’d had to endure his beloved Chelsea being dumped out of the Champions League, or his boss, Tony Newman, who spent the evening … Continue reading
Labour recycles a Christmas policy that invites fly-tipping
The “ambition” of Tony Newman, Croydon’s new council leader, to make the borough the “cleanest and greenest” in London will be undermined by his own actions once again in the coming days, despite some residents doing as their council asks … Continue reading
Rubbish idea, as council workers given the sack at lunchtime
Who says morale among Croydon’s council staff, which was at rock bottom after four years of Tory job cuts under florid-faced Mike “Show Me The Money” Fisher, couldn’t get any lower? Well it could, as hard-pressed council staff are being … Continue reading
Council considering using CCTV to monitor traveller groups
Croydon’s Labour council wants to use Big Brother to help to stop groups of travellers from dumping piles of rubbish on the borough’s green spaces. Stuart Collins, the cabinet member for slogans and T-shirts, is understood to be considering calling … Continue reading
Posted in Ashburton, Crime, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Mario Creatura, Mike Fisher, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins
Tagged Ashburton, Big Brother, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fly-tipping, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Fisher, Purley Way, Stuart Collins, Tory
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Get streets clean, not selling T-shirts, would be a good start
THE FIRST 100 DAYS: Tomorrow is the landmark date since Labour took over from the Tories at Croydon Town Hall. The Conservatives credited UKIP with influencing the local election, though the “fourth party” failed to gain a single council seat. … Continue reading
Going live and going Dutch offering encouraging early signs
THE FIRST 100 DAYS: Following a fortnight’s post-election hiatus at Fisher’s Folly (the council shredding machines were glowing red-hot, allegedly), Tony Newman’s Labour group finally got the keys to Croydon Town Hall for the first time in eight years. This … Continue reading
Councillors are not ‘Appy with MyCroydon’s performance
The MyCroydon smartphone app, a vital part of Labour’s new council administration’s “Don’t Mess With Croydon” T-shirt and slogans campaign, doesn’t work properly. Who says so? A group of Labour councillors, including the deputy cabinet member for T-shirts and slogans. … Continue reading
Actions will speak louder than words in Wild West Croydon
The signs have gone up around town, as if they are “Wanted: Dead or Alive” posters in Dodge City in the Wild West. Except this is Wild West Croydon. Don’t you dare dump rubbish on our streets, or you’ll face … Continue reading
Let’s be a borough of old scrubbers, says Captain Sensible
Captain Sensible has called on the people of Croydon to “get up off their arses” and take up their scrubbing brushes, their brooms and buckets, and start to get the borough cleaner, doorstep by doorstep. The former Damned frontman is … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Environment, Fly tipping, Gardening, Music, Refuse collection, South Norwood, South Norwood Tourist Board, Stuart Collins, Transition Town, Upper Norwood Library Trust
Tagged Captain Sensible, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, South Norwood, South Norwood Tourist Board, Transition Town
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Local businesses offer 20% discount to Love Norbury
Norbury’s residents’ associations have joined forces with local businesses to offer discounts of up to one-fifth off the price of goods and services on offer on the high street, as they seek to strengthen the sense of community spirit. Pollards … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Fly tipping, Love Norbury, Norbury, Norbury Green Residents' Association, Norbury Village Residents' Association, Pollards Hill Residents' Association, Refuse collection, Scots Estate Residents' Association, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Croydon North, Norbury, Steve Reed OBE
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Aimless opposition could make for an extended honeymoon
THE VIEW FROM THE BACK BENCHES: Last night’s first council cabinet meeting of the new Labour administration was full of interesting announcements for Waddon councillor ANDREW PELLING So that’s what my Labour colleagues have been up to over the last … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Bernard Weatherill House, Bishop of Croydon, Boris Johnson, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Environment, Fly tipping, Housing, Mike Fisher, Phil Thomas, Refuse collection, Steve Reed MP, Taberner House, Tony Newman, URV, Vidhi Mohan, Waddon
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Labour, Mike Fisher, Steve Reed OBE, Stuart Collins, Taberner House, Tony Newman, Tory
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Pickles to order Croydon to return to weekly collections
Tory Eric Pickles and his ConDem government could be about to hand a significant political present to Croydon’s new Labour-run council, by forcing them to bring back weekly bin collections. Labour won control of Croydon Town Hall a month ago … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Refuse collection
Tagged ConDem Government, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Eric Pickles, Labour, Mike Fisher, Tony Newman
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Spot the difference: Crapita sponsors Labour Mayor’s banquet
STEVEN DOWNES, editor of Inside Croydon, suggests that the borough’s new council has allowed itself to be compromised by the council’s senior staff, developers and big business even before it has been in office for a month Spot the difference. … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2014 council elections, Bernard Weatherill House, Business, Capita, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Environment, Fairfield Halls, Fly tipping, Julie Belvir, Manju Shahul Hameed, Mike Fisher, Nathan Elvery, Phil Thomas, Planning, Refuse collection, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman, URV, Waste incinerator, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Labour, Mayor, Mike Fisher, Phil Thomas, Tony Newman, Tory
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“Croydon’s complete disgrace”: time for clean-up to begin
There can be no misunderstanding of “the challenge” (that’s PRspeak for “work”, or “problem”) facing the incoming Labour council after they have done their funny handshakes and rolled up their trouser legs or whatever it is that they do at … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Timothy Godfrey
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Fly-tipping, garbage, Labour, Mayor, Queens Gardens, rubbish
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Newman offers ambition for a fairer future for Croydon
VOTE 2014: The leader of Croydon’s Labour group, TONY NEWMAN, says that the time has come for a new council that no longer takes the borough’s people for granted Croydon goes to the polls tomorrow. As the leader of the … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Bernard Weatherill House, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Housing, Planning, Refuse collection, Taberner House, Tony Newman, URV, Waste incinerator, Woodside
Tagged Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fisher's Folly, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Tony Newman, Tory
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Croydon’s rubbish council: the 2014 Garbage Gallery
MAY 10 UPDATE: The essence of this feature has been a graphic representation of the continuing extent of fly-tipping on our streets. Now, thanks to another Freedom of Information request and some hard work by Inside Croydon’s loyal reader, here’s … Continue reading
