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Tories are tipped to cling on to Croydon and Sutton seat
NOT-SO-SPECIAL ELECTION SPECIAL: With just hours to go before the polling stations open, WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, offers some important advice to make sure that your votes count After a turgid campaign that has lasted, off and on because … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 London elections, Croydon Greens, Kenley, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Neil Garratt, New Addington North, Park Hill and Whitgift, Patsy Cummings, Peter Underwood, Sadiq Khan, Shaun Bailey, South Norwood, Woodside
Tagged Conservative, Green Party, Kenley, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Assembly, Mayor, Neil Garratt, New Addington, New Addington North, Park Hill and Whitgift, Patsy Cummings, Peter Underwood, South Norwood, Tory, Woodside
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Mayor’s relocation plans place City Hall on ‘at risk’ register
The 20th Century Society expresses fears for landmark building and for under-threat social housing at Cressingham Gardens On the eve of the sixth election for the Mayor of London, City Hall, the building which has been the home of the … Continue reading
Wallington groups seek to clean-up for Christian Aid Week
Members of St Michael and All Angels junior choir, siblings Viviene and Jansen Lim are getting ready for a sponsored litter pick on May 23. They will be raising money for international relief and development charity Christian Aid in its … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Church and religions, Outside Croydon, Sutton Council
Tagged Beddington, Christian Aid, Christian Aid Week, Wallington
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Eight walks to encompass Croydon’s boundaries and history
Over the course of lockdown, one intrepid geographer has managed to complete the ‘beating of the bounds’ and discover the fascinating history of our parish and civic boundaries, stretching back to Saxon times. Words, pictures and mapping by Dr BEN … Continue reading
Posted in Addington, Church and religions, City Commons, Coulsdon, Croydon parks, Environment, History, New Addington, Purley, Purley Oaks and Riddlesdown, Sanderstead, Selsdon & Ballards, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale, Surrey, Tandridge District Council, Walks
Tagged Addington, Beddington, Ben Clifford, Chipstead, Coulsdon, Farleigh, Sanderstead, Selsdon, Woodmansterne
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Tory Assembly candidate in racism row over stop and search
Election candidates have not been subject to the kind of public scrutiny they might have expected pre-covid, and online hustings last week demonstrated why such questioning is so necessary. By STEVEN DOWNES Neil “Father Jack” Garratt, the Conservative candidate for … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 London elections, Crime, Knife crime, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Neil Garratt, Patsy Cummings, Peter Underwood, Policing
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon and Sutton (London Assembly constituency), Green Party, Labour, London, London Assembly, Neil Garratt, Patsy Cummings, Peter Underwood, South Norwood, Sutton, Tory
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Sutton accused of ‘misleading’ over SDEN and the Heat Trust
SDEN, the misfiring heating network business run by Sutton Council, has been accused of passing themselves off falsely as a member of government-backed quango, the Heat Trust. The very damaging allegation of serious misrepresentation has been made by… the Heat … Continue reading
Loonys on the march in Chessington with 13 candidates
Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, reports on something (sadly?) lacking from the local elections in Croydon next month Croydon is not the only south London borough staging council by-elections next month. But, after the candidate nominations were released last week, … Continue reading
Garratt and Cummings finally agree to debate climate crisis
It took them a while but, finally, the two frontrunners in the race to be Croydon and Sutton’s London Assembly Member have agreed to take part in an online hustings organised by the Friends of the Earth’s Croydon Climate Action … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 London elections, Climate Crisis Commission, Community associations, Croydon Friends of the Earth, Environment, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Neil Garratt, Patsy Cummings, Peter Underwood
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon and Sutton (London Assembly constituency), Croydon Climate Action, Friends of the Earth, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London, London Assembly, Neil Garratt, Patsy Cummings, Tory
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School Streets work – so why have Sutton removed them?
In Carshalton, the local council has removed a traffic-calming scheme outside a primary school, so that they can hold a consultation about… re-introducing it. Local parent VERITY THOMSON takes up the story Parents, residents and volunteers working on the School … Continue reading
Posted in Schools, Sutton Council, TfL, Transport
Tagged Carshalton, school streets, Sutton Council
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Viridor incinerator given 20 warnings in just 15 months
Twenty: that’s the number of official warnings issued by the Environment Agency to Viridor over their waste incinerator at Beddington in just 15 months. The 20 formal warnings – without a hint of any kind of sanction for the multi-national … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Kingston, Merton, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Hilary Gander, Viridor
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Teacher recalls Merton’s park stars finest hour and a half
Two south London boroughs have managed to produce a profusion of footballing talent, from Neil Sullivan to Callum Hudson-Odoi, from Jason Cundy to Wilfried Zaha. Here, DAVID MORGAN looks back to the days when he was manager of one of … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, David Morgan, Football, Merton, Schools, Sport, Wilfried Zaha
Tagged Callum Hudson-Odoi, Croydon, David Morgan, Graeme Stuart, Jason Cundy, Merton, Neil Sullivan, Wilfried Zaha, Wimbledon FC
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Singapore-based firm buys up Whyteleafe’s football ground
Whyteleafe Football Club’s ground has been bought by a Singapore-based company in a half-million-pound deal which could see the Isthmian League side have to leave their Church Road home. “This could end up finishing the club,” a sports website has … Continue reading
Posted in Property, Sport, Surrey, Tandridge District Council, Whyteleafe FC
Tagged Church Road, Ian Rush, Irama Sport, Whyteleafe FC
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Calls for Beddington incinerator to be shut down over CO2
Viridor’s figures show that their south London plant is pumping out three times as much CO2 as other, similar facilities. By PAUL LUSHION, environment correspondent The Viridor incinerator at Beddington Lane, operated on behalf of Croydon and three other south … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Kingston, London-wide issues, Merton, Peter Underwood, Refuse collection, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon, Environment Agency, Kingston Council, London, Merton Council, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Viridor
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Minutes show plan to end services to 200 families in Sutton
EXCLUSIVE: Sutton Council has been criticised by a local MP for being ‘insensitive’ to parents of children with SEND, while an official complaint has been lodged over a senior LibDem councillor’s conduct. By our Sutton investigations editor, CARL SHILTON Confidential … Continue reading
We’re in the money! Bexley gets its government bail-out
While Croydon Council waits on anxiously for the deliberations of Whitehall civil servants over whether it will be allowed its multi-million-pound bail-out, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government last night announced that it would be granting permission to … Continue reading
Posted in Bexley, Croydon Council, Katherine Kerswell, Lisa Taylor, Outside Croydon, Section 114 notice
Tagged Bexley Council, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, MHCLG, Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government, S114, Section 114, Tory
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‘Surge testing’ for South African variant starts in Streatham
Lambeth today began carrying out “surge testing” for the South African variant of covid-19 in Streatham. It is the second area bordering Croydon to be subject to surge testing in a week, following cases of the South African variant being … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Lambeth Council
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Lambeth, Pollards Hill, Streatham
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Report: Incinerator is ‘as polluting as coal-fired power stations’
An investigation published by the Daily Telegraph reports that hundreds of millions of pounds of public money has been handed over to the incinerator industry based on false claims that burning waste generates cheap, green energy. The Telegraph investigation, published … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Climate Crisis Commission, Croydon Council, Environment, Planning, Refuse collection, Sutton Council, Veolia, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, John Drage, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Sutton Council, Tory, Veolia, Viridor
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MP Colburn in ‘angry’ row with Sutton over faulty heat network
The hot water supplied to Hackbridge’s New Mill Quarter might be lukewarm, but the political row over the council’s faulty heating network is close to boiling point, as our Sutton correspondent, CARL SHILTON, reports The MP who represents thousands of … Continue reading
Posted in Ben Andrew, Elliot Colburn, Helen Bailey, Jayne McCoy, London Fire Brigade, Property, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Ben Andrew, Elliot Colburn MP, Helen Bailey, Jayne McCoy, New Mill Quarter, NMQ, SDEN, Sheldon Vestey, Sutton Council
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Door-to-door testing rolled out to locate covid-19 variant
A mass testing programme was rolled out this morning in the CR4 postcode area in a determined effort to locate people with a highly infectious variant of coronavirus. On-the-spot doorstep tests, home testing kits and mobile testing units are to … Continue reading
Posted in Health, London-wide issues, Norbury, Siobhain McDonagh MP
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Mitcham, Norbury, Pollards Hill, Siobhain McDonagh MP
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CPRE tells Mayor Khan to make Farmlands a new public park
Beddington Farmlands, the site of disused 20th-century landfill and sewage works, should be turned into one of 10 new parks for London, according to an environmentalist charity. The Campaign for Preservation of Rural England has picked the wildlife-rich but sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Farmlands, Beddington Lane incinerator, Campaign for Preservation of Rural England, CPRE, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Sutton Council, Thames Water, Viridor
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Sutton councillor investigated for ‘bringing party into disrepute’
A councillor at the centre of the row with more than a thousand residents in the ward he is supposed to represent is now under formal investigation by his own political party over his conduct towards a member of the … Continue reading
Thousands left freezing as council heating network fails again
Residents who paid up to £600,000 for luxury homes on a Barratts-built Hackbridge development fear their properties have become unsellable because of a ‘100% reliable’ heating network owned by the LibDem-run council. Our Sutton correspondent, CARL SHILTON, reports More than … Continue reading
Posted in Nick Mattey, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Amanda Cherrington, Hackbridge, New Mill Quarter, Nick Mattey, NMQ, SDEN, Sutton, Sutton Council
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Merton seeking replacement for long-standing CEO Curran
Ged Curran, the chief executive at Merton Council for nearly 17 years, is set to leave his £220,000 per year job. There has been no formal announcement from Merton of Curran’s departure, but the council is holding an appointments committee … Continue reading
Posted in London-wide issues, Merton, Outside Croydon
Tagged Ged Curran, Merton, Merton Council
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