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Tag Archives: Fly-tipping
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
Croydon Council’s “non-drop” trees that cost us all extra
Tomorrow, our neighbours in Sutton will be able to mark the end of the holiday period by placing their used and unwanted dying old Christmas trees outside their homes for collection, free of charge, by the local council. In Lambeth, … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly tipping, Gardening, Lambeth Council, Refuse collection, Sutton Council
Tagged Christmas, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Environment, Fly-tipping, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Fisher, re-cycling, rubbish
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Croydon’s rubbish policy lays waste across the borough
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Rubbish on our streets and fly tipping is a borough-wide issue that is being ignored by Croydon Council, says CHARLOTTE DAVIES, the chair of the South Croydon Community Association At any meeting of residents across the borough, fly … Continue reading
Council announces street clean-up – just in time for elections
Croydon’s Conservative-run council last night bowed to pressure from the opposition Labour group – and a few prods and pokes from the “Garbage Gallery” compiled by Inside Croydon’s readers – and announced at a Town Hall meeting that it is … Continue reading
Another crap box-ticking exercise from Croydon Council
Thanks to our loyal reader, who has spotted another example of a deeply flawed Croydon Council “consultation”. It is just the latest self-fulfilling “survey” in which questions are posed in order to get exactly the answers which the council requires … Continue reading
Fly tipping more than doubled in Croydon since 2010
The streets of Croydon are more rubbish now than they were a couple of years ago. That’s according to STUART KING, who has obtained the council’s own official figures Since 2010, the number of fly tipping incidents reported to Croydon … Continue reading
What a load of rubbish: council fails residents (part 94)
Chaos on Mayfield Road yesterday morning, when just before dawn a fly-tipper dumped a load of assorted builder’s waste in the middle of the suburban Sanderstead street. This is just the latest instance of a rapidly growing problem in Croydon, … Continue reading
