Tag Archives: Fly-tipping

‘Restructuring’ has housing workers facing £3,000 pay cut

Posted on March 15, 2023 by insidecroydon

Our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, on the latest shocking cost-cutting measures being imposed on council staff Croydon Council could be heading for a series of strikes later this year, after senior managers at Fisher’s Folly moved to cut some … Continue reading →

Posted in Council Tax, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Housing, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Susmita Sen | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Getting a rubbish service from the council? Call for the Cubs!

Posted on February 8, 2023 by insidecroydon

Our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, on the latest crass error of judgement from the propaganda bunker at Fisher’s Folly As if to underline the assessment that Croydon’s council is dysfunctional, the first press release issued from the propaganda bunker … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Community associations, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Mario Creatura, Mayor Jason Perry, Refuse collection, Scouts and Guides, Steve Iles, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Council caught fly-tipping discarded furniture by youth club

Posted on June 28, 2022 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Volunteers, residents and even councillors have been ignored by officials, as council staff have turned a patch of open space into a dump. EXCLUSIVE by KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter Croydon’s part-time Mayor has his work … Continue reading →

Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Katherine Kerswell, Steve Iles, Youth Services | Tagged , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Residents’ despair over vile fly-tips, including a pig’s head

Posted on January 10, 2022 by insidecroydon

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 →

Posted in Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Thornton Heath | Tagged , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Shrublands women crowdfund to pay council’s harsh fine

Posted on July 25, 2020 by insidecroydon

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 →

Posted in Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Shirley North, Veolia | Tagged , , , , | 8 Comments

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

Posted on March 21, 2018 by insidecroydon

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 insidecroydon

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 →

Posted in 2018 council elections, Business, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Hamida Ali, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins | Tagged , , , , , , , | 10 Comments

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

Posted on November 30, 2017 by insidecroydon

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 insidecroydon

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 →

Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Stuart Collins, Waddon | Tagged , , , , , | 5 Comments

Appeal for witnesses to Upper Norwood’s midnight tipper

Posted on June 26, 2017 by insidecroydon

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 insidecroydon

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 →

Posted in Crime, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Shirley North, Stuart Collins | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

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

Posted on October 6, 2016 by insidecroydon

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 insidecroydon

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 , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

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

Posted on August 21, 2016 by insidecroydon

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 →

Posted in Community associations, Environment, Fly tipping, Norbury, Norbury Village Residents' Association | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

Newman looks for Plan B on roads as Bee is moved on

Posted on May 9, 2016 by insidecroydon

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 →

Posted in Callton Young, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Kathy Bee, Mark Watson, Parking, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Toni Letts, Tony Newman, Transport | Tagged , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Council seizes vans from operators suspected of major fly-tips

Posted on January 13, 2016 by insidecroydon

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 , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The miracle of post-Christmas, as trees sprout on our streets

Posted on January 12, 2016 by insidecroydon

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 , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Council picks up £250,000 bill for picking up Christmas trees

Posted on January 3, 2016 by insidecroydon

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 →

Posted in Business, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Gardening, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Council considers three-weekly bin collections as cuts bite

Posted on July 3, 2015 by insidecroydon

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 , , , , , , , , | 10 Comments

Collins gets ‘in the face’ of Labour donor over Lloyd Park mess

Posted on May 14, 2015 by insidecroydon

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 →

Posted in Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Council considering using CCTV to monitor traveller groups

Posted on September 12, 2014 by insidecroydon

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 , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Take a tip: councils often powerless against fly-tippers

Posted on August 21, 2014 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: For all the T-shirts, grandstanding and threats of dire consequences if anyone gets caught dumping rubbish in the borough, Stuart Collins, the cabinet member responsible for the state of our streets, this week all but admitted the council … Continue reading →

Posted in Ashburton, Crime, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Waddon | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Actions will speak louder than words in Wild West Croydon

Posted on August 11, 2014 by insidecroydon

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 →

Posted in Broad Green, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

“Croydon’s complete disgrace”: time for clean-up to begin

Posted on June 3, 2014 by insidecroydon

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 , , , , , , , | 12 Comments

Croydon’s rubbish council: the 2014 Garbage Gallery

Posted on May 10, 2014 by insidecroydon

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 →

Posted in 2014 council elections, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Selhurst | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments