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Category Archives: London-wide issues
Call for Viridor prosecution over health risks from toxic fire
The Environment Agency has been asked to consider bringing a prosecution of Viridor over the fire at their incinerator on Beddington Lane last month, as there is mounting evidence to suggest that toxic fumes were released into the atmosphere during … Continue reading
Croydon Fire Station Open Day, Old Town, Aug 31
Posted in London Fire Brigade, Waddon
Tagged Croydon Fire Station, London Fire Brigade
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Davis acts to take the dread out of school holiday poverty
The word “holiday” has become one which some children, and their hard-pressed parents, have come to dread. That’s according to a prospective London Assembly candidate, Rowenna Davis, who has started taking practical action to help people in her community. As … Continue reading
Council forced into speedy U-turn on councillor parking permits
PAUL LUSHION, our environment correspondent, reports on how a decision passed at a Town Hall committee just a few days ago didn’t manage to survive a phone call from the news desk of The S*n Croydon’s Labour-run council leadership has … Continue reading
MP Philp asks Whitehall to investigate cheap land sales to BxB
About five years ago, Robert Jenrick was being considered by local Conservatives as their possible candidate for Croydon South, until an even safer safe Tory seat came up in Newark. So it is perhaps with added interest that Jenrick, now … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Chris Philp MP, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Housing, Jo Negrini, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Chris Philp MP, Colm Lacey, Conservative, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Robert Jenrick, Tony Newman, Tory
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5% increase in road collisions set-back for Mayor’s Vision Zero
There was another increase in the number of people killed or seriously injured on London’s roads in 2018, figures released this week show, prompting a call for the Mayor to implement more measures more urgently for sustainable walking and cycling. … Continue reading
Posted in Caroline Russell, Cycling, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Transport
Tagged Caroline Russell, Croydon, London, London Assembly, Mayor, Sadiq Khan
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Croydon residents spend 45% of their wage on private rents
While Croydon’s Labour-run council stages museum exhibitions on the history of the council house, as they meanwhile use public money to build houses for private sale which local residents cannot afford, a London Assembly Member has produced figures which shows … Continue reading
