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Tag Archives: South London Waste Partnership
BINMAGEDDON!: Rubbish contractor considers more job cuts
If you thought that the refuse collection and street cleaning in Croydon couldn’t get any worse, WALTER CRONXITE has news for you Croydon’s rubbish contractor, Veolia, is considering cutting the number of staff it employs to carry out the domestic … Continue reading
Posted in Bromley Council, Business, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Kingston, Merton, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Veolia, Waste incinerator
Tagged #SuttonBinShame, Croydon Council, Kingston, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Merton, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Stuart Collins, Sutton, Veolia
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Labour official wants new scrutiny body to oversee incinerator
A leading official in Sutton Labour has called on his party colleagues in Croydon and Merton to establish urgently a scrutiny body to keep the South London Waste Partnership in check, in order to better monitor the emissions from the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Charlie Mansell, Croydon Council, Environment, Kingston, Merton, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Veolia, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Charlie Mansell, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Stuart Collins, Tory, Veolia, Viridor
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Viridor allowed to give ‘absurd’ name to incinerator road
BELLE MONT, our Sutton reporter, on how the council has opted to name the service road to the Beddington Lane incinerator after a bird species that has been almost wiped out locally, in part, at least, as a consequence of … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Merton, Nick Mattey, Refuse collection, Ruth Dombey, Sadiq Khan, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Beddington Farmlands, Beddington Lane incinerator, John Drage, Liberal Democrats, London Assembly, Mayor, Nick Mattey, Peter Alfrey, Ruth Dombey, Sadiq Khan, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Viridor
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Thanks for the bins and incinerator! ‘Ballistic’ Bolger is leaving
Our Sutton reporter, BELLE MONT, on the shock – and a tad premature – announcement that the council chief exec has quit their job So long, and thanks for all the bins. And the Viridor incinerator, of course. Niall Bolger, … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Niall Bolger, Nick Mattey, Outside Croydon, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Waste incinerator
Tagged #SuttonBinShame, Beddington Lane incinerator, Niall Bolger, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Veolia, Viridor
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Report ignored incinerator when assessing school air quality
Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, on this week’s opening of the Viridor Incinerator Academy, a primary for four- to 11-year-olds, that could literally take their breath away Reports this week from China have offered scientific evidence that air pollution causes … Continue reading
Binmageddon!: Veolia won’t empty the bins for three weeks
Our Town Hall correspondent, KEN LEE, reports on the latest contentious move by the council’s rubbish contractors The roll-out of new household refuse bins and a new cycle for emptying them, due to begin next month, will see the council’s … Continue reading
BINMAGEDDON!: More questions raised by rubbish roadshow
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Armed with his exemption letter from the council, telling him that his home was not suited to storing even one, never mind at least three, wheelie bins, IAN HUNTER set off to the public roadshows to hear what … Continue reading
BINMAGEDDON!: How I intend to refuse to take new wheelies
CROYDON COMMENTARY: As the council begins the ‘roll-out’ of its new wheelie bins, at least one resident, IAN HUNTER, thinks he has found a way to avoid being forced to triple the number of bins on the narrow pavement outside … Continue reading
Council withholds £1m from Veolia for bin service failings
Croydon Council has withheld nearly £1million in fees due to street-cleaning and bin-collecting contractors Veolia because of poor performance, Inside Croydon has learned. The penalty has been applied by Croydon’s clean and green cabinet member, Stuart Collins, because of various … Continue reading
Labour look to sack Veolia and build council homes in Sutton
Labour in Sutton tonight published its manifesto ahead of the local elections on May 3, including a promise to hold a public inquiry in what has become notorious as #SuttonBinShame, with the transfer of waste collection and street-cleaning services to … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Charlie Mansell, Emily Brothers, Environment, Paul Scully MP, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Bonnie Craven, Charlie Mansell, Emily Brothers, Labour, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Veolia, Viridor
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Enforcement officer is sent in over neglect of wildlife reserve
A south London council has been forced to appoint an enforcement officer to check on the environmental work which Viridor is supposed to be doing at Beddington Farmlands. The appointment comes more than two years after the Local Government Ombudsman … Continue reading
#SuttonBinShame: ‘We can’t do the job any more’ say staff
Our Sutton correspondent, BELLE MONT, reports on claims from Labour activists in St Helier that street-cleaning staff, transferred from the council to Veolia last year, are having their reports of fly-tipping ignored and refused permission to take holidays Labour activists … Continue reading
Veolia accused of ‘cheap PR stunt’ as their bins break the law
BELLE MONT, our Sutton reporter, on the latest bit of rubbish from the borough’s bin contractors Veolia, the bin contractors who helped to create #SuttonBinShame and chaos when they started working in Sutton earlier this year, have been accused of … Continue reading
Take your chance to ask Viridor some awkward questions
Conservationists and environmental campaigners are calling on people from Croydon and Sutton to attend open days at the Beddington Farmlands site next month and to ask some awkward questions about what Viridor is doing to fulfill its obligations on the … Continue reading
LibDem official causes scandal over undeclared donations
Our Sutton reporter, BELLE MONT, finds that the former chair of Sutton’s ruling party, John Drage, forgot to declare an interest during a multi-million-pound public tendering process. And not for the first time The Liberal Democrats on Sutton Council accepted … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, London-wide issues, Niall Bolger, Outside Croydon, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Elaine Drage, John Drage, Liberal Democrats, London, Niall Bolger, SHP, Smith & Byford, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton, Sutton Council, Sutton Housing Partnership
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Sutton LibDems back incinerator operator’s £1m hush fund
A Liberal Democrat councillor who is supposed to represent the ward which will be worst hit by the environmental disaster which is the Viridor incinerator in Beddington has taken up a role on an awards panel that will be handing … Continue reading
Profits of doom: How to make millions from burning crap
Croydon Council, by signing up with the South London Waste Partnership, has gone into the incineration business. For 25 years, our council will be spending £10 million a year for the privilege of polluting the south London atmosphere. Meanwhile, someone … Continue reading
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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A riverside tale of rats, water voles and another Viridor grant
WALTER CRONXITE on the latest political defection in south-west London, and the influence it may yet have over Viridor’s role with the Beddington incinerator So the Liberal Democrats have reached the final day of their annual conference in Bournemouth, with … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 London elections, Business, Environment, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Outside Croydon, Refuse collection, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Lane incinerator, Conservative, Hackbridge, Labour, Liberal Democrats, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Tory, Vince Cable, Viridor
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‘Ballistic’ Bolger stands accused of trying to gag elected councillor over Beddington waste incinerator
WALTER CRONXITE has obtained confidential council documents which provide yet another twist in the Beddington incinerator saga The fall-out from the Beddington incinerator continues with an alarming claim that the chief executive of Sutton Council exceeded his authority with an … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Environment, London-wide issues, Niall Bolger, Nick Mattey, Outside Croydon, Planning, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Liberal Democrats, Niall Bolger, Nick Mattey, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Viridor
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LibDem’s visit to Sutton is a case of Lamb to the incinerator
Norman Lamb, the full-time Paul O’Grady impersonator and some time MP for North Norfolk, is visiting Wallington today to recruit Tom Brake’s support and so ensure that he will have the backing of at least one-quarter of the Liberal Democrat’s … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Health, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon Council, Liberal Democrats, London, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Tom Brake, Tory, Waddon
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Tom Brake link to church donation from incinerator company
It has suddenly got very heated in Sutton over the Beddington Lane incinerator. The Liberal Democrats, who control Sutton Council, have today suspended one of their councillors, Nick Mattey, after he dared question their plans to allow incinerator operators Viridor … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Croydon Guardian, Environment, Health, London-wide issues, Planning, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Stephen Fenwick, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Waddon, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon, Green Party, incinerator, Liberal Democrats, Nick Mattey, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Stop The Incinerator Campaign, Tom Brake MP, Waddon
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VIDEO: Power of protest sees public questions on agenda
The South London Waste Partnership, the joint committee of four boroughs – Croydon, Sutton, Merton and Kingston – that wants to start industrial-scale waste incineration in the midst of a high-density residential area, is to hold its next meeting in … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 General Election, Broad Green, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Environment, Joy Prince, Refuse collection, Robert Canning, Shasha Khan, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Waddon, Waste incinerator
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Stuart Collins, Sutton, Tory, Viridor, Waddon
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