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Sutton’s ex-leader in extraordinary attack on waste company
Valencia Waste Management, owners of Beddington Farmlands former landfill site, are ‘arrogant’ and have no intention of carrying out agreed wildlife restoration, according to LibDem councillor Ruth Dombey A multi-million-pound waste management firm is “running rings” around Sutton Council as … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Environment, Helen Bailey, London-wide issues, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Farmlands, Beddington Farmlands Nature Reserve, Beddington incinerator, HEB committee, Housing environment and neighbourhoods committee, Liberal Democrats, London, Ruth Dombey, Sutton, Sutton Council, Valencia, Valencia Waste Management, Viridor
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Blaze at Beddington Lane industrial estate destroys 10 cars
There was a large fire at Beddington Lane in the early hours of this morning – and for once, it appeared to have nothing to do with the nearby waste incinerator. Ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters tackled the … Continue reading
Posted in London Fire Brigade, London-wide issues
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Lane, LFB, London Fire Brigade
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Council slammed over plans to create HMO in public cemetery
Residents in Beddington are up in arms over ‘insensitive’ council plans to convert a former caretaker’s lodge in a cemetery into an HMO – a house in multiple occupation – without consulting local residents. Bandon Hill Cemetery, on Plough Lane, … Continue reading
LibDems have gone all parochial in Sutton, just as they like it
The national election campaign as it is being conducted in neighbouring Sutton has a very local feel to it, according to NICK MATTEY, Beddington’s independent councillor Here in Sutton, the campaign leading up to polling day on July 4 in … Continue reading
Posted in 2024 General Election, Bobby Dean, Carshalton and Wallington, David Campanale, Elliot Colburn, Luke Taylor MP, Paul Scully MP, Sutton and Cheam, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged 2024 General Election, Beddington, Beddington incinerator, Bobby Dean, Carshalton and Wallington, Chrishni Reshekaron, Conservative, Elliot Colburn, General Election, General Election 2024, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Luke Taylor, Nick Mattey, Paul Scully, Sutton, Sutton and Cheam, Sutton Council, Tom Drummond, Tory
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Beddington’s wildlife plan has ‘failed’ say environmentalists
After 10 years of broken promises and delays, a local council has bowed to the interests of big business, at the expense of the environment and local residents. By our wildlife correspondent, PAUL LUSHION Sutton’s Liberal Democrat-controlled council and their … Continue reading
Tracking the life and suspicious death of Benjamin Bowles Esq
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Not all the documents and wills in the Croydon Minster archive give up the full details of the lives of long-dead parishioners, as DAVID MORGAN found with his latest researches After reading Inside Croydon’s recent report which highlighted … Continue reading
Posted in Church and religions, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Beddington, Benjamin Bowles, Carew Manor, Croydon, Croydon Minster, Croydon Parish Church, David Morgan, Lambeth, Loughborugh House, Magdalen Hospital, Rev Dr William Dodd, Samuel Johnson, Sir John Fielding, Tyburn hangings, Whitgift Foundation
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Licensed to print money: incinerator’s five latest breaches
Viridor’s polluting incinerator at Beddington Lane broke the strict terms of its operating licence five times during December, according to data released by the operator. Viridor failed to issue its usual two-weekly update during December – at a time when … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Kingston, Merton, Paul Scully MP, Refuse collection, Scott Roche, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington, Beddington incinerator, Beddington Lane, Croydon, Environment Agency, Infant mortality, Kingston, Manuel Abellan, Merton, Pollution, radioactive waste, Scott Roche, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sulphur dioxide, Sutton, Viridor, Volatile Organic Compounds
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Viridor accused of new licence breach with ‘black, acrid smoke’
Viridor, the multinational firm that makes millions in profits from being allowed to pollute the air across south London, has admitted that a power outage at their Beddington Lane incinerator saw them leaving potentially toxic waste to “smoulder” untreated, possibly … Continue reading
Infant death rates were up by 233% after incinerator fired up
Official figures from the ONS for the year after Viridor began its operations at Beddington showed a sharp increase in infant deaths in Selhurst, Broad Green and Waddon wards. STEVEN DOWNES reports Infant mortality rates in one part of Croydon, … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Kingston, London-wide issues, Merton, Planning, Refuse collection, Sadiq Khan, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon, Croydon Council, Environment Agency, Jim Duffy, Kingston Council, KKR, Liberal Democrats, Merton Council, Michael Ryan, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Viridor
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School pupils bring their growing skills to Surrey Street Market
Anyone who shops down Surrey Street knows that the stall holders there all know their onions. But wander down the street market this Thursday, and you’re likely to encounter one special stall where the rather youthful-looking stall-holders will be keener … Continue reading
Incinerator operators Viridor cash-in on pollution tax loophole
Allowing climate-damaging emissions from incinerators to go untaxed is ‘shameful’ according to environmental campaigner Companies running waste incinerators, including Viridor, the operators of the polluting Beddington Lane incinerator, dodged more than £500million of pollution charges for burning plastic last year … Continue reading
It’s time to re-set our approach to Beddington’s nature reserve
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The threat of enforcement action against incinerator operators Viridor, and the waste management company, Valencia that now runs the former landfill site at Beddington, is too little and much too late, says conservationist PETER ALFREY Together with other … Continue reading
After a decade of delay, Sutton condemns Viridor. Sort of
Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, on a planning authority’s enforcement action coming far too late to save what was supposed to be south London’s biggest nature reserve, where endangered species have been allowed to become extinct Sutton Council, after more … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Environment, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Farmlands, Beddington Farmlands Nature Reserve, Environment Agency, Hackbridge and Beddington Corner Neighbourhood Development Group, Sutton, Sutton Council, Thames Water, Valencia Waste Management, Viridor
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Viridor’s charge sheet: incinerator operator’s eco-vandalism
This is the damning litany of charges now facing Valencia, the shell company established by Viridor to take the rap for more than a decade of failures to deliver on the relatively modest terms agreed in return for their original … Continue reading
Q&A with Dean Headley, Beddington Cricket Club, Jul 12
Posted in Activities, Cricket
Tagged Ashes cricket, Beddington, Beddington Cricket Club, Dean Headley, Huw Tuberville, The Ashes
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Wildlife under fire in more cruel shootings at Beddington Park
There are extra community safety officer and police patrols in Beddington Park, following the shooting of at least two wildfowl in the last week by a spiteful vandal with an air rifle. Residents report finding other wildlife, including foxes, as … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Sutton Council, Wildlife
Tagged Air rifle, Beddington, Beddington Park, Catapult, Sutton Council
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XR protesters highlight Thames Water’s crappy performance
Extinction Rebellion Croydon is demanding that Thames Water stop illegally pouring untreated sewage into streams and rivers, and that they cease the payment of all bonuses, dividends and excessive executive wages until they have fixed the growing environmental disasters caused … Continue reading
Viridor incinerator fined for multiple pollution permit breaches
After at least 34 permit breaches in three years, the south London councils’ partnership is taking action against their contractor – though nothing is being done about the serious ‘acidic air’ incident in May Viridor is to be fined for … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Health, Kingston, London-wide issues, Merton, Refuse collection, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Lane incinerator, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Environment Agency, Kingston Council, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Merton Council, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Tory, Viridor
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Dombey’s dodgy LibDems’ handbrake turn over dirty diesel
Viridor and Ruth Dombey’s dodgy Liberal Democrats are so worried about the latest attempts to increase the volume of rubbish burned at the Beddington Lane incinerator, and the use of vast amounts of dirty diesel to do so, that they … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Environment, Helen Bailey, Nick Mattey, Refuse collection, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Farmlands, Beddington Lane incinerator, Conservative, Dave Tchiligirian, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, SDEN, Sheldon Vestey, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Sutton Decentralised Energy Network, Tory, Viridor
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