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Category Archives: Niall Bolger
Man behind failing SDEN’s plan is re-hired on £800 per day
EXCLUSIVE: LibDem-controlled council accused of ‘double dipping’ after it reveals it ‘won’ £310,000 grant to fund work on extending its misfiring heating network… even though that work has already been completed. CARL SHILTON, investigations editor, reports Last week, Sutton Council … Continue reading
Council goes to court to fight Info Commissioner ruling
A business report into Sutton’s heat network scheme is being kept secret by the LibDem-controlled council. And now they’re spending more public cash on an appeal to keep the report under wraps, as CARL SHILTON reports Ruth Dombey, the leader … Continue reading
Bailey to bridge the gap left by Bolger’s departure from Sutton
BELLE MONT, our Sutton reporter, on the latest move by the council’s ruling Liberal Democrats Sutton Council is close to announcing that Helen Bailey is to be appointed as its chief executive. Sutton has been without a CEO since Niall … Continue reading
Posted in Niall Bolger, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council
Tagged Helen Bailey, Liberal Democrats, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tory
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Tories retain Belmont council seat after needless by-election
CARL SHILTON, our Sutton reporter, on the outcome of a council by-election which was entirely unnecessary After a six-month absence, Neil “Father Jack” Garratt is back as a councillor in Sutton. Garratt, the deputy leader of the Conservatives in Sutton … Continue reading
Posted in Neil Garratt, Niall Bolger, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council
Tagged Belmont, Conservative, Liberal Democrats, Neil Garratt, Sutton Council, Tory
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Transport report for £40m school ‘mysteriously’ disappears
Residents in Belmont go to the polls in a council by-election tomorrow, where Tory candidate Neil ‘Father Jack’ Garratt is expected to win. One factor could be the growing concerns over road safety around a new secondary school. Our Sutton … Continue reading
Tories accused of breaking election rules with Belmont leaflet
Our Sutton correspondent, BERTIE WORCESTER-PARK, reports on the latest breach of election rules in the council by-election campaign The Belmont ward council by-election, already contentious because of the manner in which the rarely seen Conservative councillor Patrick McManus resigned in … Continue reading
Posted in Niall Bolger, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Uncategorized
Tagged Belmont, Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Neil Garratt, Nick Mattey, Sutton, Sutton Council, Tory
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LibDems given extra time to campaign in Belmont by-election
More allegations of gerrymandering have emerged from Sutton Council, as BERTIE WORCESTER-PARK reports Lawyers have been consulted to see whether Sutton Council has acted in breach of electoral law over the lengthy delay in the staging of a ward by-election … Continue reading
Posted in Niall Bolger, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council
Tagged Belmont, Neil Garratt, Niall Bolger, Ruth Dombey, Sutton, Sutton Council
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Thanks for the bins and incinerator! ‘Ballistic’ Bolger is leaving
Our Sutton reporter, BELLE MONT, on the shock – and a tad premature – announcement that the council chief exec has quit their job So long, and thanks for all the bins. And the Viridor incinerator, of course. Niall Bolger, … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Niall Bolger, Nick Mattey, Outside Croydon, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Waste incinerator
Tagged #SuttonBinShame, Beddington Lane incinerator, Niall Bolger, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Veolia, Viridor
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Tory resigns council seat to cause by-election in Belmont
Our Sutton reporter, BERTIE WORCESTER-PARK, on an early chance to re-fight some of the arguments from the last local elections It is only four months since the Town Hall elections, but the voters of Belmont ward will now be expected … Continue reading
Independents’ Day in Beddington puts Dombey in the doldrums
Tony Newman is not the only south London council leader under increased pressure following the local elections. BELLE MONT delves into the detail of the results in Sutton, where the local LibDem leader used to boast that ‘independents don’t win … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Hamish Pollock, Jayne McCoy, Jessica Crowe, Niall Bolger, Nick Mattey, Paul Burstow MP, Paul Scully MP, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Waste incinerator, Wendy Mathys
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Beddington North, Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tory
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Dombey and chums forced to climbdown over gerrymandering
Sutton’s LibDems have been caught out over attempts to hijack publicly funded council business for the benefit of their own party’s election prospects, as BELLE MONT reports Inside Croydon’s revelations this week that Sutton’s ruling Liberal Democrats were trying to … Continue reading
Posted in Charlie Mansell, Jessica Crowe, Niall Bolger, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley
Tagged Andy Cook, Charlie Mansell, Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Ruth Dombey, Tim Crowley, Tory
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#SuttonBinShame: Dombey accused of gerrymandering Veolia
A leaked email obtained by this website seems to show that Liberal Democrats have been abusing council resources in an attempt to get themselves out of the hole they have created with their rubbish Veolia service. Our Sutton investigations editor, … Continue reading
Private Eye’s asking question that Negrini refuses to answer
It has already been a bad week for Tony Newman, Croydon’s council leader, and Jo Negrini, his appointee as the borough clerk. Their handling of the council’s crisis over children’s services after the Ofsted inspectors’ “inadequate” report has not drawn … Continue reading
Council CEO’s claims over heating network shown to be wrong
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
Posted in Niall Bolger, Outside Croydon, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Jayne McCoy, Liberal Democrats, Niall Bolger, SDEN, Sutton Council
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Tower block families left waiting for fire safety results
Residents of Balaam House, the 60-flat tower block in Sutton, have good cause to be confused and worried this morning as, three weeks since the dreadful events at Grenfell Tower in Kensington, they still await some degree of certainty from … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, London-wide issues, Niall Bolger, Nick Mattey, Sutton Council
Tagged Balaam House, Grenfell Tower, Niall Bolger, Nick Mattey, Sutton Council
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‘Serious questions’ for LibDems over £11m housing contract
The opposition leader on Sutton Council is seeking an urgent, independent inquiry into how a senior Liberal Democrat party official failed to declare an interest when on the board of the borough’s social housing partnership, as they awarded a multi-million-pound … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, Niall Bolger, Outside Croydon, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley
Tagged John Drage, Niall Bolger, Sutton, Sutton Council, Sutton Housing Partnership, Tim Crowley
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LibDem official causes scandal over undeclared donations
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
Posted in Housing, London-wide issues, Niall Bolger, Outside Croydon, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Elaine Drage, John Drage, Liberal Democrats, London, Niall Bolger, SHP, Smith & Byford, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton, Sutton Council, Sutton Housing Partnership
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Sutton residential tower block fails fire safety tests
A nine-storey residential tower block in north Sutton which had a multi-million-pound “upgrade” completed only last October, has failed fire safety checks on its exterior cladding. The residents of 96 homes in Chaucer House received letters today informing them of … Continue reading
‘Bollinger’ Bolger accused of bullying Sutton councillor
The most senior official at Sutton Council has been accused of intimidation and bullying after instructing the borough’s lawyers to fire off a second threatening legal letter to an elected councillor in a matter of weeks. Niall Bolger, Sutton’s chief … Continue reading
Sutton officials knew hub deal had collapsed before Cannes trip
Sutton’s chief executive and two senior council officials set off on a sales trip to the MIPIM conference in the South of France this week probably already knowing that the cancer hub scheme that they were trying to flog to … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Jules Pipe, London-wide issues, Niall Bolger, Sutton Council
Tagged Liberal Democrats, London, Niall Bolger, Sutton Council
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Council officials targeted companies for MIPIM sponsor deals
On a day when failure to declare even the potential for a conflict of interest has forced someone in public office to resign, serious questions have been raised about the conduct of senior council officials in Sutton and whether they, … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Niall Bolger, Planning, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council
Tagged Amanda Cherrington, Cannes, Mary Morrissey, MIPIM, Niall Bolger, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council
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Sutton ready to ‘faire une Pipe’, as Bolger apologises for mayor
There’s “some serious consternation”, according to sources at Sutton Council, being shown by the borough’s executive head of governance, Jessica Crowe, over the description of MIPIM, the international property show in the South of France next week, as a “booze … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Housing, Jessica Crowe, Jules Pipe, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Niall Bolger, Planning, Ruth Dombey, Sadiq Khan, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Jessica Crowe, Jules Pipe, Liberal Democrats, London, London Assembly, Mayor, MIPIM, Niall Bolger, Sadiq Khan, Sutton Council
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