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Tag Archives: Air pollution
Perry’s council failed to respond to incinerator consultation
While LibDem leader Ed Davey has called for a review of the Environment Agency’s decision to allow permit-busting polluters Viridor to burn even more rubbish at Beddington, Croydon Labour MPs stay silent. By STEVEN DOWNES Croydon Council under Tory Mayor … Continue reading
Posted in Bobby Dean, Broad Green, Business, Carshalton and Wallington, Croydon Council, Dave Tchil, Environment, Kingston, Luke Taylor MP, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Merton, Nick Mattey, Refuse collection, Sadiq Khan, Sutton and Cheam, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Air pollution, Beddington, Beddington incinerator, Broad Green, Cllr Dave Tchil, Cllr Nick Mattey, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon East, Croydon West, EA, Environment Agency, Hackbridge, Infant mortality, Kingston and Surbiton, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Natasha Irons MP, Purley Way, Sarah Jones MP, Selhurst, Sir Ed Davey, Tory, Toxic air pollution, Viridor, Viridor incinerator, Waddon
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Viridor is using PR firm with links to Labour Together scandal
When Viridor, operators of the toxic polluting Beddington incinerator, issued their triumphalist press release yesterday announcing that they had been granted an extension on their licence to burn rubbish, it was sent from a public relations firm which is owned … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Merton, Nick Mattey, Refuse collection, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Air pollution, Beddington, Beddington incinerator, Broad Green, Cllr Nick Mattey, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, EA, Environment Agency, Hackbridge, Infant mortality, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Purley Way, Selhurst, Tory, Toxic air pollution, Viridor, Viridor incinerator, Waddon
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‘Sickening’: EA allows even more waste to burn in Beddington
Despite nearly 1,000 breaches of its existing permit in a 15-month period, Viridor has had its licence extension for the Beddington incinerator granted, to the dismay of local councillors and environmentalists. By STEVEN DOWNES The Environment Agency, already known as … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Merton, Nick Mattey, Refuse collection, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Air pollution, Beddington, Beddington incinerator, Broad Green, Cllr Nick Mattey, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, EA, Environment Agency, Hackbridge, Infant mortality, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Purley Way, Selhurst, Tory, Toxic air pollution, Viridor, Viridor incinerator, Waddon
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Perry puts workplace parking charges proposal to cabinet
EXCLUSIVE: Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on the Tory Mayor’s latest back-door proposals to increase charges on the borough’s motorists, and businesses Hidden in the small print of the volumes of reports and papers going to tonight’s council cabinet meeting … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Commuting, Croydon Council, Environment, Karen Agbabiaka, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Parking, TfL, Transport, ULEZ, ULEZ expansion, Workplace Parking Levy
Tagged Air pollution, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon say no to ULEZ expansion, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Nottingham City Council, ULEZ, ULEZ expansion, Workplace Parking Levy, WPL
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More than 100 Croydon under-5s hospitalised by toxic air
Official figures show that Croydon’s air quality is so poor, 106 children aged five years old or younger had to be admitted to Croydon University Hospital with respiratory difficulties in 2023. The details were obtained through a Freedom of Information … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Environment, Mayor Jason Perry, Schools, Waste incinerator
Tagged Air pollution, Beddington incinerator, Beddington Lane incinerator, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Mums for Lungs, Nitrogen dioxide, Toxic air, ULEZ, Viridor
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Incinerator protestors accuse Viridor of lies over toxic pollution
With just days to go before the Environment Agency closes its latest consultation over whether to allow Viridor to increase their profits by upping the amount of toxic pollution that they pump into the atmosphere of south London, a large … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Environment, Peter Underwood, Waste incinerator
Tagged Air pollution, Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon, Dave Tchil, Elliot Colburn MP, Environment Agency, Jim Duffy, Kingston, Merton, Peter Underwood, Sutton, Verity Thompson, Viridor
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Doctors and scientists warn PM of conspiracy theory dangers
‘Politicians have been attending rallies run by conspiracy theorists. They have dismissed our science on social media…. Facts have been questioned and scientists have been discredited in an attack on the very essence of our scientific community’ More than 200 … Continue reading
Scientists put London on ‘high’ alert for dangerous air pollution
London has been placed on “high” alert for air pollution today – the 14th time the capital’s toxic air has reached dangerous levels in just five years. Those with lung or heart problems should reduce strenuous physical exertion, particularly outdoors. … Continue reading
Posted in London-wide issues, Mayor of London, TfL, Transport, ULEZ, ULEZ expansion
Tagged Air pollution, City Hall, Imperial College, Mayor of London
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Toxic air in Croydon is in breach of World Health standards
Levels of toxic nitrogen dioxide in Croydon and 13 other London boroughs have been found to break the UK legal limit and to be in excess of the recommended limit set by WHO, the World Health Organization. One of the … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Health, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
Tagged Air pollution, Croydon, London, Mayor Sadiq Khan, ULEZ, Ultra Low Emission Zone
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Perry has no plan to improve our borough’s toxic air pollution
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The borough’s Conservative Mayor, Jason Perry, is failing to protect the health of Croydon residents, says Councillor RIA PATEL (pictured left) We all know that Mayor Jason Perry has been very vocal about opposing ULEZ, the Ultra-Low Emission … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Environment, Fairfield, Health, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Ria Patel, ULEZ expansion
Tagged Air pollution, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Green Party, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Ria Patel, Tory, ULEZ, Ultra Low Emission Zone
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Incinerator goes 7 times over level for acidic hydrogen chloride
Viridor, the operators of the Beddington Lane incinerator, have admitted that they have been polluting the south London air with hydrogen chloride, a chemical normally used in the production of potentially deadly hydrochloric acid. Data released by Viridor today shows … Continue reading
Pollution cloud over Croydon as Mayor calls for less car use
A dirty grey smear hung above Croydon at lunchtime today, evidencing the health warnings because of particulate pollution issued this morning by DEFRA and the Met Office. Simon Birkett, the founder of Clean Air London, described the situation as a … Continue reading
Nearly two-thirds of Croydon waste is going to the incinerator
#BINMAGEDDON: Official figures show that the council’s rubbish contractors Veolia and Viridor are creating more pollution. By our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION Official figures published this week show that 63 per cent of Croydon’s rubbish is being sent straight to … Continue reading
Asthma’s postcode lottery: ‘We all have a right to breathe’
Croydon is the worst place in London to have asthma, analysis from charity Asthma UK has shown. Yet Bromley, the borough next door to Croydon, is rated as the best place in the capital for asthmatics. The charity’s findings are … Continue reading
Verity gets council to face up to the truth on air pollution
Air pollution that is suffered by pedestrians across south London, including Croydon and Sutton, has been well above legal levels for several years. But now one environmental activist in Wallington is doing something about it, at least to draw the … Continue reading
Car pollution near schools big worry for children, survey finds
Almost two-thirds of London schoolchildren are worried about air pollution near their school – an increase of 11 per cent since a similar survey was conducted in 2018. A YouGov poll, commissioned by the walking and cycling charity, Sustrans, surveyed … Continue reading
London’s toxic air is ‘a public health emergency’ says charity
The health of Croydon residents is are among the worst affected by pollution, according to research conducted for City Hall, with BAME communities and the elderly particularly at risk Toxic air quality in Croydon increases the risk of death in … Continue reading
Councillors’ air pollution event fails to mention incinerator
Three Croydon councillors want to stage a talking shop about how to deal with air pollution – just days after the council-commissioned Beddington incinerator begins to pump out pollutants over south London. Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, reports In the … Continue reading
Croydon and ‘delivery’, Part 2: London’s greenest borough
Perhaps it is forgotten in the mists of Croydon Labour leader Tony Newman’s failing memory, but four years ago he was preparing a manifesto ahead of the 2014 Town Hall elections which included a number of pledges on the state … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Tony Newman, Waste incinerator
Tagged Air pollution, air quality, Croydon Council, Labour, Tony Newman
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Something stinks about council’s latest air quality plans
JEREMY CLACKSON, our motoring correspondent, reports on the inherent contradiction of the borough’s drive for growth (in cars, naturally) Croydon Council has just announced a public consultation (another one), this time over the borough’s rapidly worsening air quality. They are … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Health, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Shifa Mustafa, Stuart King, Transport, Waste incinerator
Tagged Air pollution, Croydon Council, Harris Purley Way Primary, Krishna Avanti Primary, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Shifa Mustafa, STUART KING
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Fight back against pollution with your own air monitor
How polluted is the air that you and your family breathe? Air pollution is the biggest cause of early deaths in Britain, after smoking. It’s an invisible killer, so you aren’t even aware that you’re breathing it in. Croydon, with … Continue reading
