Tag Archives: Fly-tipping

Shrublands women crowdfund to pay council’s harsh fine

Posted on July 25, 2020 by

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 →

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Council doubles cost of on-the-spot fines in war on littering

Posted on March 21, 2018 by

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 →

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Council agrees reintroduction of free collections for bulk waste

Posted on February 28, 2018 by

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 →

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Collins deserves new T-shirt as fly-tip figures start to fall

Posted on November 30, 2017 by

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 →

Posted in 2018 council elections, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

What a load of rubbish: guilty fly-tipper gets fined… £110

Posted on July 11, 2017 by

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 →

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Appeal for witnesses to Upper Norwood’s midnight tipper

Posted on June 26, 2017 by

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 →

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Arrogant fly-tipper dumps legal appeal and gets £5,670 charge

Posted on March 10, 2017 by

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 →

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Croydon’s big butt: £1,145 fines for dropping cigarettes

Posted on October 6, 2016 by

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 →

Posted in Environment, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Veolia | Tagged , , , , | 6 Comments

Council forced to keep phone hotline in war against fly-tippers

Posted on September 17, 2016 by

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 →

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Norbury residents’ associations to stage a high street clean-up

Posted on August 21, 2016 by

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 →

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