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Tag Archives: Nick Mattey
Dealership donates £100,000-worth of vehicles to Ukraine
Kingham’s, the long-established, family-run car dealership based in South Croydon, has made donations of seven vehicles for humanitarian aid in war-torn Ukraine over the past 18 months worth at least £100,000. “You can’t quantify the value of someone’s life,” according … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Charity, Nick Mattey
Tagged Croydon, Kinghams, Nick Mattey, South Croydon, Ukraine
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Beddington’s ‘dumping ground’ now facing its own Suez crisis
A planning application from a multi-billion French-based waste company to develop a “green” gas-generating plant on Beddington Lane has encountered “vehement opposition” from at least one Sutton councillor, who says that his residents’ corner of south London is being turned … Continue reading
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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Councillor says big-money deals for medical and radioactive waste are at centre of Viridor’s diesel tank planning application
A Sutton councillor claims that Viridor wants to begin burning medical and radioactive waste at its Beddington Lane incinerator, but that it has withheld these lucrative business plans from its latest application to build a large fuel tank on the … Continue reading
Sutton planners add fuel to incinerator fires with dirty diesel
Think those plumes of smoke coming out of the polluting Viridor incinerator at Beddington Lane are just from the burning of hundreds of thousands of tons of rubbish? Think again. It’s not entirely the case. Some of the pollution comes … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, London-wide issues, Merton, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Lane Farmlands, Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon, Croydon Council, Nick Mattey, Planning, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Viridor
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Half of Sutton LibDem councillors quitting at May’s elections
Defending the indefensible, whether it is the dodgy deals over the council’s SDEN heat network, the appalling treatment of families with SEND children, or some of the ruling group’s more under-hand conduct, has taken its toll, writes our Civic Offices … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 council elections, Catherine Gray, Charlie Mansell, Elliot Colburn, Jayne McCoy, Jenny Batt, Neil Garratt, Nick Mattey, Outside Croydon, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Drummond
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Bobby Dean, Conservative, Council Tax, Jenny Batt, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Luke Taylor, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, SDEN, SEND, Sutton, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Drummond, Tom Foster, Tory, Viridor
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‘People will die’: Dombey accused of Viridor ‘Faustian pact’
Beddington North councillor NICK MATTEY, in a stinging open letter to the council leader, accuses the Liberal Democrats who control Sutton of putting the health of the public at serious risk Councillor Dombey, I find it totally sickening that this … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Health, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Lane incinerator, Hackbridge, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, SDEN, Sutton, Sutton Council, Viridor
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Opposition renews call for full-scale fraud probe into SDEN
Independent review finds that the loss-making, council-owned district heating network has less of a business case, and is more of a basket case, reports CARL SHILTON Richard Simpson, the senior council official who helped unleash the £200million disaster that is … Continue reading
Posted in Helen Bailey, Jayne McCoy, Nick Mattey, Richard Simpson, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Drummond, Waste incinerator
Tagged Amanda Cherrington, Beddington Lane incinerator, Catherine Gray, Helen Bailey, Jayne McCoy, Nick Mattey, Richard Simpson, Ruth Dombey, SDEN, Sutton Council, Sutton Decentralised Energy Network, Tim Crowley, Tom Drummond, Viridor
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Heat network’s plan depends on 75 homes that don’t exist
THE SUTTON COVER-UP: While opposition councillors ask the LibDem-controlled council ‘What have you got to hide?’ over the suppressed findings of a fraud investigation, we can reveal that the business ‘plan’ for the misfiring heating network included 75 homes that … Continue reading
Sutton chiefs block opposition from seeing fraud report
Our Sutton investigations editor, CARL SHILTON, on the latest strokes being pulled by the LibDem-controlled council Tonight, there is a meeting of the Sutton Shareholdings Board, the committee that exercises the corporate shareholder and governance responsibilities of Sutton Council’s privately-held … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Helen Bailey, Jayne McCoy, Neil Garratt, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Drummond, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Beddington North, Hackbridge, Helen Bailey, Jayne McCoy, Neil Garratt, New Mill Quarter, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, SDEN, Sutton Council, Sutton Decentralised Energy Network, Tim Crowley, Viridor
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Simpson feels heat from MP over SDEN ‘independent’ review
A Sutton MP has raised serious doubts whether a supposedly “independent” review into the controversial council-owned SDEN company will make any difference for the hundreds of Hackbridge residents whose homes and lives have been blighted by the expensive and unreliable … Continue reading
Posted in Elliot Colburn, London-wide issues, Nick Mattey, Outside Croydon, Richard Simpson, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Amanda Cherrington, Beddington Lane incinerator, Carshalton and Wallington, Elliot Colburn MP, Hackbridge, New Mill Quarter, Nick Mattey, NMQ, SDEN, Sutton Council, Sutton Decentralised Energy Network
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SDEN’s business plan ‘dishonest at best, fraudulent at worst’
Sutton’s LibDem council was last night forced to agree to an independent investigation into its failing heating company. CARL SHILTON reports Sutton Council’s controlling Liberal Democrats, after spending six years trying to deny that there was anything even vaguely suspicious … Continue reading
Thousands left freezing as council heating network fails again
Residents who paid up to £600,000 for luxury homes on a Barratts-built Hackbridge development fear their properties have become unsellable because of a ‘100% reliable’ heating network owned by the LibDem-run council. Our Sutton correspondent, CARL SHILTON, reports More than … Continue reading
Posted in Nick Mattey, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Amanda Cherrington, Hackbridge, New Mill Quarter, Nick Mattey, NMQ, SDEN, Sutton, Sutton Council
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‘Safety-critical’ works close Beddington Lane for four months
By Ella Hopkins The weight of traffic of thousands of HGV lorries trucking in rubbish to be burned at the Beddington Lane incinerator has seen the vital route closed for “safety-critical” emergency works. The closure could last up to six … Continue reading
Appeal Court has Sutton in hot water over dodgy discount deal
BELLE MONT reports on the latest costly embarrassment for the LibDem council, caught withholding service discounts from social tenants Sutton could be liable to pay out millions of pounds in compensation to its council tenants after more than a decade … Continue reading
Posted in Jayne McCoy, Nick Mattey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley
Tagged Catherine Gray, Conservative, Jayne McCoy, Liberal Democrats, London, Nick Mattey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley
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Viridor going for the burn: will councillors stand up to them?
The government watchdog, the Environment Agency, is actively encouraging incinerator operators to pollute more and so bank more cash, at the expense of south London residents’ health. By our Sutton reporter, BELLE MONT Any chance that Croydon or Sutton might … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Muhammad Ali, Nick Mattey, Nina Degrads, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane, Beddington Lane incinerator, Beddington North, Environment Agency, Kingston Council, Merton Council, Muhammad Ali, Nick Mattey, Nina Degrads, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Viridor
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Sutton’s heating network inflicts fuel poverty on new estate
Our Sutton reporter, CARL SHILTON, on a saga of deceit and disservice Sutton Council and its Liberal Democrat councillors have found themselves in hot water over SDEN, the district heating network which was supposed to provide cheap, “green” energy pumped … Continue reading
SDEN: A timeline of council bungling and sky-high fuel prices
Sutton Council’s handling of its energy network has placed a number of families who have moved into the Barratt’s-built New Mill Quarter at Hackbridge in “fuel poverty”. This timeline tells a story of denial, dishonesty and outright incompetence 2018: The … Continue reading
Posted in Elliot Colburn, Jayne McCoy, Sutton Council
Tagged Ben Andrew, New Mill Quarter, Nick Mattey, NMQ, SDEN, Sutton Council
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Council leaders are set to break lockdown laws for ‘photo ops’
Council leaders in Croydon and Sutton are actively encouraging the public to break the law by attending large gatherings – ignoring the advice of health experts and potentially putting people’s health, and lives, at risk. One councillor has appealed to … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Humayun Kabir, Jo Negrini, Nick Mattey, Rachel Flowers, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tony Newman
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon Clocktower, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, St Helier Hospital, Sutton Council, Tony Newman
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