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‘Greetings from Spain’: absent councillor suffers señor moment
INSIDE SUTTON: It was only a matter of time before Sutton’s incinerator supporters tried to make capital out of a rival party’s councillor’s wanderlust. By our political correspondent, BELLE MONT Sutton’s Liberal Democrats have rubbed a bit of Spanish sea … Continue reading
Posted in Sheldon Vestey, Sutton Council
Tagged Hackbridge, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Oh Viva Espana, SDEN, Señor Sheldon Vestey, Sheldon Vestey, Spain, Sunny Spain, Sutton, Sutton Council, Valencia
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The Help to Buy mortgage and councillor’s shifting interests
INSIDE SUTTON: An absentee Labour councillor admits he did not declare his own property ownership when he or his soon-to-be wife claimed tens of thousands of pounds in a government-funded, interest-free mortgage loan. EXCLUSIVE by investigations editor, CARL SHILTON The … Continue reading
Posted in Dave Tchil, Sheldon Vestey, Sutton Council
Tagged Dave Tchil, Hackbridge, Labour, London, SDEN, Sheldon Vestey, Spain, Sunny Spain, Sutton, Sutton Council, Valencia
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‘Local’ councillor now based 1,000 miles from Hackbridge
INSIDE SUTTON: After finally winning seats on the council for the first time in 20 years, half of what’s left of Sutton’s Labour group appears to have moved out of the borough. And some senior local party officials say that … Continue reading
Posted in Dave Tchil, Sheldon Vestey, Sutton Council
Tagged Dave Tchil, Hackbridge, Labour, London, Oh Viva Espana, SDEN, Sheldon Vestey, Spain, Sunny Spain, Sutton, Sutton Council, Valencia
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Council has £1m loan in the pipeline for heating no one needs
At a committee meeting tonight in Sutton, councillors will be asked to approve a £1m loan for the discredited council-owned heat network, SDEN. But questions are being asked about the viability of the plans, while residents are kept in the … Continue reading
Posted in Bobby Dean, Carshalton and Wallington, Nick Mattey, Richard Simpson, Sutton Council
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Lane incinerator, Bobby Dean MP, Carshalton, David McIntyre, Hackbridge, Liberal Democrats, Nick Mattey, Richard Simpson, Riverside, SDEN, Sutton, Sutton Council, Sutton Decentralised Energy Network, The Lavenders
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Council heat network hits customers with 25% price increase
A councillor in Hackbridge has said he is “shocked and concerned” after a Sutton Council-owned heating network increased its prices to residents by 25per cent. Sheldon Vestey, a Labour councillor, told Inside Croydon, “This jump in pricing is completely unwarranted … 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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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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Councillor scarpers rather than face the heat from SDEN
Our Sutton Council reporter, BELLE MONT, on signs that the ruling Liberal Democrats are becoming concerned for their prospects at next May’s local elections LibDem councillors in Sutton are starting to leave their sinking ship. Ben Andrew, a former Liberal … Continue reading
LibDem leader accused of ‘putting two fingers up’ to residents
Our Sutton Council reporter, BELLE MONT, on how the pressure is mounting on the LibDems’ leadership Sutton Council’s opposition Tories are demanding that “Calamity” Jayne McCoy, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrat-controlled council, should resign from her role as … Continue reading
Man behind failing SDEN’s plan is re-hired on £800 per day
EXCLUSIVE: LibDem-controlled council accused of ‘double dipping’ after it reveals it ‘won’ £310,000 grant to fund work on extending its misfiring heating network… even though that work has already been completed. CARL SHILTON, investigations editor, reports Last week, Sutton Council … Continue reading
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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Sutton heat network director quits as fraud inquiry begins
After five years as ‘interim’ MD, Cherrington departs SDEN with less than one month’s notice, as unfortunate customers continue to endure power outages Amanda Cherrington has resigned as the managing director of Sutton’s Council’s controversial SDEN heat network, just weeks … Continue reading
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
Sutton accused of ‘misleading’ over SDEN and the Heat Trust
SDEN, the misfiring heating network business run by Sutton Council, has been accused of passing themselves off falsely as a member of government-backed quango, the Heat Trust. The very damaging allegation of serious misrepresentation has been made by… the Heat … Continue reading
