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Tag Archives: Fly-tipping
Residents’ despair over vile fly-tips, including a pig’s head
Residents of a quiet Thornton Heath street are becoming increasingly angry at Croydon Council for its lack of action over some persistent fly-tipping, which most recently has seen bin bags full of rotting animal parts, including a pig’s head, dumped … Continue reading
Shrublands women crowdfund to pay council’s harsh fine
Two young women from the Shrublands Estate in Shirley are appealing for help in paying council fines of up to £300 after they were both served with fixed notice penalties for… putting their recycling out for collection. Farhana Shefa and … Continue reading
Council doubles cost of on-the-spot fines in war on littering
They’ve offered the public the carrot. Now, here comes the stick, as the council has doubled its on-the-spot fines for littering and fly-tipping. Croydon’s Labour-run council last month announced plans to revive the free bulk waste collection service for Council … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Refuse collection
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fly-tipping, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tory
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Council agrees reintroduction of free collections for bulk waste
The reintroduction of bulky waste collections free of charge from Croydon Council, announced at this week’s Town Hall cabinet meeting, comes after lobbying from Inside Croydon. The decision reverses a penny-wise, pound-foolish austerity cut applied by the previous Conservative administration. … Continue reading
Collins deserves new T-shirt as fly-tip figures start to fall
Now might be the time for Stuart Collins to start dishing out the T-shirts. Three years ago, the Labour councillor put in charge of getting Croydon’s streets clean launched a “Don’t Mess With Croydon – Take Pride” campaign, handing out … Continue reading
What a load of rubbish: guilty fly-tipper gets fined… £110
What Croydon Council was today claiming to be the latest example of success for their campaign against fly-tipping might, when looked at through less-rosy-spectacles, simply demonstrate what a thorough-going, long-term slog the local authority faces in bringing even the most … Continue reading
Appeal for witnesses to Upper Norwood’s midnight tipper
Keeping Croydon’s streets clean and free of fly-tips continues to be a constant battle, as demonstrated by one illegal dumper last week when they left a lorry-load of their old crap that blocked a road in Upper Norwood. The council … Continue reading
Arrogant fly-tipper dumps legal appeal and gets £5,670 charge
A fly-tipper who dumped waste twice in the same Croydon street abandoned his court appeal when confronted with pictures showing him caught in the act taken on a resident’s mobile phone. Shirley resident Nuhur Mulindwa incurred £5,670 costs and 250 … Continue reading
Croydon’s big butt: £1,145 fines for dropping cigarettes
Is Croydon’s Labour council’s “Don’t Mess With Croydon” campaign against fly-tippng beginning to run out of momentum? The propaganda unit in Fisher’s Folly has issued its latest bulletin on the number of prosecutions on the council’s “get tough” strategy, announcing … Continue reading
Council forced to keep phone hotline in war against fly-tippers
The Labour-run council has been forced to back down from an attempt to quietly drop one of his key election manifesto promises, to provide a fly tipping hotline. Labour leader Tony Newman fought the 2014 Town Hall elections on a … Continue reading
Posted in Capita, Crime, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Fly-tipping, Labour, Mark Watson, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Tory
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Norbury residents’ associations to stage a high street clean-up
Norbury residents are getting together for a high street clean-up. “Litter and fly-posting is spoiling Norbury,” Paul Cowling of the Norbury Village Residents’ Association. “Our high street, with its great restaurants and services, is riddled with seedy massage stickers and … Continue reading
Newman looks for Plan B on roads as Bee is moved on
Kathy Bee, the councillor in charge of the state of the roads in the borough, looks set to be another casualty of Tony “Soprano” Newman’s inadvertent reshuffle of Town Hall top jobs expected to be undertaken at a Labour group … Continue reading
Council seizes vans from operators suspected of major fly-tips
Vans seized by the council after they were connected to conducting illegal tipping may have been owned by groups of travellers who are suspected of dumping mounds of rubbish in Croydon’s parks and open spaces over the past three years. … Continue reading
Posted in Ashburton, Broad Green, Crime, Environment, Fly tipping, Purley, Purley Way, Refuse collection, South Norwood, Stuart Collins, Waddon
Tagged Broad Green, Croydon Council, Fly-tipping, Labour, Purley, South Norwood, Stuart Collins, Waddon
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The miracle of post-Christmas, as trees sprout on our streets
And Lo! It came to pass that, one week after Twelfth Night, the streets of the little town of Croydon, outside the city walls of London, dideth beginneth to sprouteth Christmas trees. It was as if a host of angels … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Waddon
Tagged Broad Green, Croydon Council, Fly-tipping, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Treecycle, Waddon
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Council picks up £250,000 bill for picking up Christmas trees
Stuart Collins, Croydon’s Labour council’s lead on keeping our streets clear of fly-tipped rubbish and the man in charge of sloganised T-shirts, could be in for a busy period over the next week or so. Around 100,000 tired, old and … Continue reading
Council considers three-weekly bin collections as cuts bite
The leadership of Croydon’s Labour-run council is considering moving to a schedule of residential refuse collections of every three weeks as a way of saving money from a borough budget that faces losing £90 million from its grant from the … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 London elections, 2018 council elections, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Sarah Jones MP, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Waste incinerator
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Fisher's Folly, Fly-tipping, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Fisher, Tony Newman, Tory
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Collins gets ‘in the face’ of Labour donor over Lloyd Park mess
The deputy leader of the Labour group on Croydon Council has promised to “get in the face” of the owners of Coombe Farm, the private property set in the middle of Lloyd Park, over the growing piles of rubbish surrounding … Continue reading
Council considering using CCTV to monitor traveller groups
Croydon’s Labour council wants to use Big Brother to help to stop groups of travellers from dumping piles of rubbish on the borough’s green spaces. Stuart Collins, the cabinet member for slogans and T-shirts, is understood to be considering calling … Continue reading
Posted in Ashburton, Crime, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Mario Creatura, Mike Fisher, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins
Tagged Ashburton, Big Brother, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fly-tipping, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Fisher, Purley Way, Stuart Collins, Tory
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Actions will speak louder than words in Wild West Croydon
The signs have gone up around town, as if they are “Wanted: Dead or Alive” posters in Dodge City in the Wild West. Except this is Wild West Croydon. Don’t you dare dump rubbish on our streets, or you’ll face … Continue reading
“Croydon’s complete disgrace”: time for clean-up to begin
There can be no misunderstanding of “the challenge” (that’s PRspeak for “work”, or “problem”) facing the incoming Labour council after they have done their funny handshakes and rolled up their trouser legs or whatever it is that they do at … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Timothy Godfrey
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Fly-tipping, garbage, Labour, Mayor, Queens Gardens, rubbish
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Croydon’s rubbish council: the 2014 Garbage Gallery
MAY 10 UPDATE: The essence of this feature has been a graphic representation of the continuing extent of fly-tipping on our streets. Now, thanks to another Freedom of Information request and some hard work by Inside Croydon’s loyal reader, here’s … Continue reading
Rubbish piles up on our streets as council keeps spinning
We had barely pressed the publish button on our latest fly-tipping report than the Sage of Waddon, Arfur Towcrate, was posting to Twitter another example of how the state of Croydon’s streets is utterly rubbish:
Another council failure to put the fly-tipping issue to bed
Two pages of the latest issue of Your Croydon, the council’s propaganda rag (what Tory Government minister Eric Pickles would so accurately call a “Town Hall Pravda”), have been devoted to a warning to fly-tippers: “Beware – you will be … Continue reading
