Category Archives: Steve Iles

Everything in the garden waste is rosy, as service resumes

Posted on January 15, 2021 by insidecroydon

Well, that bit of the coronavirus emergency, with staff off sick or isolating, didn’t last long. Just a week after suspending the rubbish contractor Veolia’s garden waste collection service, Croydon Council yesterday announced that the service is to resume. The … Continue reading →

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Binmageddon!: Council blunders again over garden waste

Posted on January 13, 2021 by insidecroydon

The serial incompetence of the propaganda department at Labour-run Croydon Council has managed to hand another (albeit minor) political victory to the Tory opposition, this time over the suspension of the borough’s garden waste service. As Inside Croydon was first … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Refuse collection, Sean Fitzsimons, Steve Iles, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Binmageddon!: Veolia admits to botched leaflets delivery

Posted on December 28, 2020 by insidecroydon

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. But on Christmas Eve in Croydon, in the middle of a Tier 4 coronavirus lockdown, functionaries from Veolia, the council’s rubbish … Continue reading →

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Sutton does U-turn over plan to route HGVs into Croydon

Posted on May 11, 2019 by insidecroydon

JEREMY CLACKSON reports on the latest gear change in the niggling roads dispute between south London councils over lorries trucking rubbish – including potentially radioactive waste – to and from the Beddington Lane incinerator Sutton Council has pulled up the … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Outside Croydon, Steve Iles, Sutton Council, TfL, Transport, Waddon, Waste incinerator | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Sutton failed to consult on HGV plan, says Croydon Council

Posted on April 29, 2019 by insidecroydon

Sutton Council has been threatened with a public inquiry into their plans to redirect heavy lorry traffic into Croydon, as a senior Town Hall official has accused the neighbouring local authority of getting their figures wrong, of failing to follow … Continue reading →

Posted in Broad Green, Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Planning, Steve Iles, TfL, Waddon, Waste incinerator | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

BINMAGEDDON!: The six-month saga to get one bin changed

Posted on February 12, 2019 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: We appear to have a new version of the ‘how many people does it take to change a light-bulb’ gag here in Croydon… Only this one, inevitably, involves the bins. From the recent experience of KEN TOWL, pictured, … Continue reading →

Posted in Addiscombe East, Croydon Council, Environment, Ken Towl, Maddie Henson, Refuse collection, Steve Iles, Stuart Collins, Tom Lawrence, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Residents’ anger over builders’ mess at Auckland Road

Posted on December 6, 2018 by insidecroydon

“Auckland Road is a mess,” residents living in a conservation area in Upper Norwood say, blaming sloppy building practices on a couple of sites, including one run that is run by Brick by Brick, the council’s house-builders. And they accuse … Continue reading →

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