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Greens, residents and LibDems put squeeze on Tory Surrey
Follow the yellow brick road: political editor WALTER CRONXITE takes a flight of fancy over the new political map of south-east England after last week’s local elections, which have given the LibDems much encouragement The fields of Surrey, Sussex and … Continue reading
Posted in Anna Jones, Caterham, Coulsdon, Epsom and Ewell, Mario Creatura, Mayor Jason Perry, Outside Croydon, Sarah Jones MP, Shasha Khan, Surrey, Tandridge District Council
Tagged Chaldon, Conservative, Coulsdon, Council Tax, Croydon, Dominic Raab, Esher and Walton, Green Party, Jeremy Hunt, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Local elections 2023, Mario Creatura, Michael Gove, Reigate and Banstead, Sarah Jones MP, Shasha Khan, Slough Borough Council, South West Surrey, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Tandridge District Council, Thurrock Council, Tory
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Sutton ‘steamy’ councillor wakes up to borough’s burning issue
Try not to choke as you gasp for air, but as PAUL LUSHION, our environment correspondent reports, big business is about to make even more millions at the expense of your health thanks to weak regulators and craven councils Having … Continue reading
Beddington incinerator is out-of-date before it is even started
CROYDON COMMENTARY: After travelling past the Beddington Lane incinerator yesterday in the knowledge that the furnaces are about to be fired up for the first time, SHASHA KHAN, pictured right, who has been prominent in the campaign opposing the Viridor … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Shasha Khan, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Shasha Khan, Viridor
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Greens candidate kicked out of council meeting over new gift
BELLE MONT reports on a lively planning meeting at Sutton Council on Wednesday, when a parliamentary candidate chose to remind the councillors of a decision they took four years ago which is likely to have environmental consequences for generations Shasha … Continue reading
Posted in 2017 General Election, Croydon Friends of the Earth, Croydon Greens, Croydon North, Environment, Peter Underwood, Shasha Khan, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Carshalton and Wallington, Croydon Greens, Croydon North, Green Party, Liberal Democrats, London, Peter Underwood, Shasha Khan, Sutton Council
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Croydon’s set a course that incentivises rubbish incineration
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Are council plans for new bins, for every household in the borough, likely to cause the “contamination” of recycling, and so maximise the profits for incinerator operators? SHASHA KHAN suggests that it is a real risk Politics is … Continue reading
Incinerator campaigner challenges Sutton over air quality
Sutton Council, which has allowed planning permission for a massive waste incinerator to be built at Beddington, has received a £5,000 payment from an environment campaigner following a High Court challenge to the scheme last year. And with the cheque, … Continue reading
Suspicious Viridor put up smokescreen at incinerator site
They are building an industrial-scale incinerator on a site close by what was officially designated Metropolitan Open Land, a status which implies some sort of public access. And over the next 25 years, they expect to be paid £1 billion … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 London elections, Boris Johnson, Croydon Greens, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Refuse collection, Sadiq Khan, Shasha Khan, Sian Berry, Waste incinerator, Zac Goldsmith MP
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon Council, incinerator, Liberal Democrats, Shasha Khan, Sian Berry, Sutton Council, Viridor
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Sutton slam £5,000 legal demand on incinerator campaigner
Sutton Council have been accused of vindictiveness and of trying to gag one of their fiercest critics, after their lawyers issued a demand for £5,400 for legal costs seven months after the end of a court case. Shasha Khan received … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Environment, London-wide issues, Planning, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane, Croydon Greens, incinerator, Liberal Democrats, London, Shasha Khan, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Viridor
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Holy smoke: Sutton to investigate Viridor ‘gift’ to church
Sutton Council has bowed to public pressure and is to look into the controversial £275,000 donation from the charitable arm of Viridor, the industrialists who were granted permission by the local authority to build and operate a massive waste incinerator … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Church and religions, Croydon Greens, Environment, London-wide issues, Nick Mattey, Outside Croydon, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane, Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon Greens, Liberal Democrats, London, Nick Mattey, Shasha Khan, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Viridor
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20mph zones under threat from UKIP activists, warns Khan
What appears to be a UKIP-led campaign against 20mph speed limits on residential streets in the north of the borough has been condemned, after stickers and posters have been placed – often unlawfully – around Croydon. In a display of … Continue reading
Posted in Bensham Manor, Broad Green, Commuting, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Croydon North, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Environment, Norbury, Parking, Selhurst, Shasha Khan, Thornton Heath, Transport
Tagged 20mph zones, Addiscombe West, Conservative, Croydon, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Green Party, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Peter Morgan, Shasha Khan, South Norwood, Tory, UKIP
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Reed is getting sniffy over Progress policies and Mansion Tax
You might think that Steve Reed OBE, the fortunate incumbent in a 12,000-vote Labour majority Croydon North parliamentary seat, might be a relaxed mood going into next week’s General Election. He ought to be. Just don’t let anyone at tonight’s … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 General Election, Croydon Greens, Croydon North, Environment, Shasha Khan, Steve Reed MP, Vidhi Mohan, Waste incinerator, Winston McKenzie
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Blairite, Conservative, Croydon North, Green Party, Labour, Shasha Khan, Steve Reed OBE, Stop The Incinerator Campaign, Vidhi Mohan
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Nick Clegg feels the heat from anti-incinerator protestors
Nick Clegg, soon to be the ex-Deputy Prime Minister and possibly also soon-to-be an ex-MP and ex-leader of the Liberal Democrats, was forced to abandon a carefully stage-managed photo-op outside St Helier Hospital in Sutton this afternoon, when protestors from … Continue reading
Croydon North election hustings, Selhurst, Apr 14
Selhurst Community Connectors are staging a family-themed Croydon North election hustings on April 14, from 6pm, at the Gingerbread Corner Child Care Centre, Grenaby Avenue, CR0 2EG. Three Croydon North candidates will be taking part: Steve Reed OBE (Labour), Shasha … Continue reading
High Court judge rejects community appeal against incinerator
The battle to stop the building of an industrial incineration plant on a nature reserve at Beddington Lane could be drawing to a close, after the Stop the Incinerator Campaign’s appeal against the refusal of its Judicial Review was turned … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Environment, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Tony Newman, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane Farmlands, Beddington Lane incinerator, Conservative, Croydon Council, Green Pary, Labour, Shasha Khan, Tony Newman, Tory, Viridor
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Stop the Incinerator Campaign public meeting, Jan 10
The Stop the Incinerator Campaign – waiting for a puff of white smoke to go up from the High Court, if not from the proposed Beddington Lane incinerator – is staging a public meeting this Saturday, January 10, in central … Continue reading
Greens call for 12% fares cut and publicly run railways
Shasha Khan, the Green Party’s parliamentary candidate for Croydon North, was canvassing rail commuters this morning, as they were returned to work after the Christmas break and were hit by a double whammy of another above-inflation fares hike and badly … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 General Election, Commuting, Coulsdon, Croydon Central, Croydon Greens, Croydon North, Croydon South, East Croydon, Esther Sutton, London-wide issues, Peter Underwood, Sarah Jones MP, Shasha Khan, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged commuting, Coulsdon, Croydon Central, Croydon Greens, Croydon North, Croydon South, East Croydon station, Esther Sutton, Peter Underwood, Shasha Khan, TfL, Transport for London, West Croydon station
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Labour’s Newman waves white flag over Viridor incinerator
Just six months in to their new administration, and the Town Hall’s Labour leadership has confirmed that its “ambitious” promise “to make Croydon the cleanest and greenest borough in London” is in shreds, as they have abandoned all opposition to … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Andrew Pelling, Bernard Weatherill House, Broad Green, Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Nathan Elvery, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Waddon, Waste incinerator
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, incinerator, Labour, Shasha Khan, Stop The Incinerator Campaign, Tony Newman, Tory, Waddon
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Judge sides with Viridor as incinerator case goes to appeal
The fight to stop Croydon and three other London councils from building an industrial-scale waste incinerator at Beddington Lane will now go to the Court of Appeal. High Court judge Mrs Justice Patterson has refused an application to reconsider her … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Croydon Greens, Environment, Shasha Khan, Tony Newman, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Beddington Lane, Conservative, Croydon, Green Party, incinerator, Labour, Shasha Khan, Sutton, Tony Newman, Tory, Viridor
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No they can’t! Viridor needs to provide 100% safety guarantee
CROYDON COMMENTARY: For all the tens of thousands of pounds raised, and spent, by the Stop the Incinerator Campaign in taking its case to the High Court, the legal challenge has had to be based on planning issues. The issue … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Broad Green, Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Croydon North, Darren Johnson, Environment, Health, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Steve Reed MP, Stuart Collins, Transition Town, Waddon, Waste incinerator
Tagged Boris Johnson, Broad Green, Conservative, incinerator, Labour, London, Member of parliament, Shasha Khan, Steve Reed OBE, Stuart Collins, Tory, Viridor, Waddon, Waste incinerator
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£5,000 – by Monday: help pay cost of stopping the incinerator
The Stop the Incinerator Campaign needs to raise £5,000 by Monday to be able to afford to continue the fight to prevent Sutton and Croydon councils allowing industrialists Viridor to build and operate a waste incinerator on Metropolitan Open Land … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Community associations, Croydon Greens, Environment, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Beddington Lane, Broad Green, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammerson, incinerator, Labour, Shasha Khan, Stop the Inci, Sutton Council, Tory, Viridor, Westfield
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Judge gives all-clear for Viridor to build incinerator
So, Westfield and Hammerson are to build a £1 billion shopping mall in the centre of town, and thousands of new homes are to be built there, too, and they will all have a waste incinerator parked on the borough … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Broad Green, Business, Centrale, Croydon Greens, Environment, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Tony Newman, Waste incinerator, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Broad Green, Conservative, Hammersfield, Hammerson, incinerator, Labour, Shasha Khan, Stuart Collins, Sutton, Tony Newman, Tory, Viridor, Westfield
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Inside Croydon’s loyal reader helps Khan have his day in court
£5,500 That’s how much was raised in a single day for the Stop the Incinerator Campaign, following the urgent appeal published on Inside Croydon yesterday. The only conclusion that can be drawn from that information is that our loyal reader … Continue reading
Campaigners win their day in court against Viridor incinerator
Good to see Her Maj, at the ripe old age of 88 and despite being busy preparing to celebrate her official birthday over the weekend, sticking up for the little fella. The Stop The Incinerator Campaign today received the formal … Continue reading
Social justice and strong principles are Green way, says Khan
VOTE 2014: The Green Party has never had a councillor in Croydon. Here, their local co-chair SHASHA KHAN offers his party line about why they deserve your vote in tomorrow’s Town Hall elections If you are reading this article then … Continue reading
