Category Archives: Waste incinerator

Take your chance to ask Viridor some awkward questions

Posted on August 20, 2017 by

Conservationists and environmental campaigners are calling on people from Croydon and Sutton to attend open days at the Beddington Farmlands site next month and to ask some awkward questions about what Viridor is doing to fulfill its obligations on the … Continue reading →

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Sutton pipes up with another £1m contract for binmen Veolia

Posted on August 18, 2017 by

BELLE MONT, our Sutton reporter, has been doing a bit of digging around a heating network’s pipes and uncovered millions of pounds of public cash Not for the first time, there’s a bit of a stink coming from Sutton’s civic … Continue reading →

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Barratt’s housing residents face 475% hike in fuel charges

Posted on August 9, 2017 by

BELLE MONT, our Sutton reporter, on how the council’s policy of eradicating fuel poverty is seeing them deliver hugely inflated heating costs to some unlucky residents of a new development A south London council which has declared its intention to … Continue reading →

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Council CEO’s claims over heating network shown to be wrong

Posted on July 26, 2017 by

BELLE MONT, our Sutton district reporter, on a 25-year multi-million-pound deal done by Sutton’s LibDems with a company under investigation for bribery Less than six months after it emerged that Niall Bolger, the chief executive of Sutton Council, wrote to … Continue reading →

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Incinerating council wants to ban back garden bonfires

Posted on July 5, 2017 by

Croydon is a borough council where its officials think nothing of providing false and misleading reports to planning committees, claiming that there is no air pollution issues on the A23 Purley Way near the Fiveways Junction. This happened when the … Continue reading →

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LibDem official causes scandal over undeclared donations

Posted on June 29, 2017 by

Our Sutton reporter, BELLE MONT, finds that the former chair of Sutton’s ruling party, John Drage, forgot to declare an interest during a multi-million-pound public tendering process. And not for the first time The Liberal Democrats on Sutton Council accepted … Continue reading →

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‘Disgusted’ councillor accuses Brake’s LibDems of ‘cult’ status

Posted on June 20, 2017 by

Our Sutton reporter, BELLE MONT, on the latest break in the ranks in what was once a LibDem single-party state The barely disguised tensions within the Sutton Liberal Democrats were exposed during the General Election campaign, when one of their … Continue reading →

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