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Sink hole forces Thames Water to close A232 for four weeks
A main road linking the Purley Way to Wallington, past Beddington Park, is closed for emergency sewer repairs expected to last for four weeks, Thames Water has announced. Croydon Road, the A232, has been closed to traffic after a sink … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Purley Way, Sutton Council, Thames Water
Tagged Beddington Park, Croydon Road, Purley Way, Sink hole, Sutton, Thames Water, Wallington
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River Wandle hit by another sewage leak from Thames Water
‘Keep out of the water – it might be toxic’. That’s the official advice about two south London rivers this week, while utility companies continue to pollute our waterways, reports PAUL LUSHION, environment correspondent Steve Reed OBE, in his new … Continue reading
Thames Water faces £159m courtroom challenge over pollution
A week after precautionary checks for contamination in the water supply in Beckenham and Penge, the failing privatised utility company is forced to issue bottled supplies to residents in a village in the Surrey constituency of Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt … Continue reading
Now south London’s water supply is tested for sickness bug
Croydon MP Steve Reed has today hit out at the monopoly water companies after reports of sickness among people in south London which has prompted Thames Water to test its supplies for possible contamination. People in Beckenham and Sydenham have … Continue reading
Purley’s 14-foot sinkhole could take council four weeks to fix
The roads in and around Croydon have more holes in them than a slab of Swiss cheese, with works being undertaken, and then postponed, on Coulsdon Road near The Fox pub, and a dangerously deep sinkhole opening up last week … Continue reading
Posted in Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Environment, Old Coulsdon, Purley, Samir Dwesar
Tagged Caterham, Coulsdon, FM Conway, Hartley Hill, Old Coulsdon, Purley, Samir Dwesar, Thames Water, The Fox, The Fox Coulsdon, The Purley Sinkhole
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Bailing out the water companies is poor policy – and unpopular
Surveys have found that 69% of the public want the nation’s water companies taken back into public control. So why is it not the policy of Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, asks ANDREW FISHER “In advance of every significant privatisation,” wrote … Continue reading
Complacent Thames Water won’t improve Wandle for 12 years
Under-pressure utility giant Thames Water wants to be able to continue to dump sewage into the River Wandle, a rare chalk stream, until 2035. That shocking admission emerged at the last meeting for Sutton Council’s scrutiny committee this year. The … Continue reading
Posted in Bobby Dean, Croydon parks, Environment, Sutton Council, Wandle Park, Wildlife
Tagged Croydon Council, Feargal Sharkey, Friends of Wandle Park, Merton Council, Mortimer and Whitehouse, River Wandle, Sutton Council, Thames Water, Waddon Ponds, Wandle, Wandle Park, Wandsworth Council
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All bunged up: Thames Water’s concrete scheme for the sewers
Our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, on the major road works in Selsdon that have sent buses on lengthy diversions The withdrawal of almost all bus routes in some parts of the south of the borough may be down to a … Continue reading
Posted in New Addington South, Selsdon & Ballards, Selsdon and Addington Village, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Ballards Estate, buses, Coombe Road, Croham Road, Croham Valley, Croham Valley Road, Croydon, Farley Road, Selsdon, South Croydon, South Park Hill Road, TfL, Thames Water, Transport for London
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After a decade of delay, Sutton condemns Viridor. Sort of
Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, on a planning authority’s enforcement action coming far too late to save what was supposed to be south London’s biggest nature reserve, where endangered species have been allowed to become extinct Sutton Council, after more … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Environment, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Farmlands, Beddington Farmlands Nature Reserve, Environment Agency, Hackbridge and Beddington Corner Neighbourhood Development Group, Sutton, Sutton Council, Thames Water, Valencia Waste Management, Viridor
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Time to end the drip-drip feed of private profits for water firms
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Thames Water paid our council almost £1m in fines in five years. But the leaks and road works have still continued. Fairfield ward councillor ESTHER SUTTON, pictured right, wants to plug the flow of our cash to the … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Greens, Esther Sutton, Fairfield
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Esther Sutton, Fairfield, Green Party, Thames Water
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XR protesters highlight Thames Water’s crappy performance
Extinction Rebellion Croydon is demanding that Thames Water stop illegally pouring untreated sewage into streams and rivers, and that they cease the payment of all bonuses, dividends and excessive executive wages until they have fixed the growing environmental disasters caused … Continue reading
Tory MP Philp gets XR blue plaque for his services to sewage
Local protesters have installed “blue plaques” in Purley, including outside the constituency office of Croydon South’s Tory MP Chris Philp, to highlight the shocking state of the nation’s rivers and coastline due to wanton and deliberate pollution by the major … Continue reading
Rivers and environment are at peril from nation’s lawmakers
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Public outrage and an MP’s letter to the water companies won’t keep our waterways clean, argues IAN KIERANS, who says that the weak regulatory system exists to protect big business and the status quo Thames Water dumps effluent … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Wildlife
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Croydon, Environment Agency, River Wandle, Sarah Jones MP, South Norwood, Thames Water
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River from Tory Philp’s constituency runs brown with sewage
Within a day of Thames Water imposing a hosepipe ban on London and the south-east, the company was caught pumping raw sewage into the River Wandle, and a Croydon MP wrote to the company accusing it of turning a parkland … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Central, Croydon parks, Croydon South, Environment, Health, Sarah Jones MP, South Norwood, Sutton Council, Wildlife
Tagged Beddington Farmlands, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon South, Feargal Sharkey, Friends of South Norwood Country Park, Labour, River Wandle, Sarah Jones MP, South Norwood Country Park, Thames Water, Tory, Wandle
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Thames Water imposes hosepipe ban but still can’t fix leaks
Flood warnings one day, a hosepipe ban the next… That’s the reality in Croydon in the climate crisis. Thames Water this morning confirmed what had been widely expected after two months of drought that has seen the source of the … Continue reading
Hosepipe ban ‘in weeks’ as second heat health warning issued
Five more days of 30-degrees-plus temperatures, and with no sign of rain any time soon has seen Thames Water follow other companies in issuing drought notifications The summer-long drought and another heatwave with temperatures over 30 degrees for several days … Continue reading
Thames Water’s road closures leak into a second week
Road closures on Coombe Road by the junction with Heathfield Gardens, caused by collapsing road surface and dodgy water mains, continue into a second week – despite Thames Water having originally intended to complete their works by yesterday.
Traffic chaos in South Croydon after second sinkhole opens up
A local community association is warning its members, residents and motorists, to avoid South Croydon if they are able, due to emergency road closures caused by a sinkhole opening up on the busy Coombe Road. According to the South Croydon … Continue reading
CPRE tells Mayor Khan to make Farmlands a new public park
Beddington Farmlands, the site of disused 20th-century landfill and sewage works, should be turned into one of 10 new parks for London, according to an environmentalist charity. The Campaign for Preservation of Rural England has picked the wildlife-rich but sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Farmlands, Beddington Lane incinerator, Campaign for Preservation of Rural England, CPRE, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Sutton Council, Thames Water, Viridor
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South Norwood high street suffers Thames Water torture
Long-suffering South Norwood residents have been having to deal with more traffic gridlock in and around the high street, after private utility giant Thames Water broke an undertaking to have a new leakage repaired within a week. A water main … Continue reading
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Tagged Norwood Junction, Portland Road, South Norwood, Thames Water
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Latest leak from City Hall: London faces a water crisis
London is facing a water crisis. That’s according to a report from Leonie Cooper, Labour’s spokesperson on the environment at the London Assembly. Running out or Flooded out? warns that London’s changing climate, loss of green space, growing population and … Continue reading
Posted in London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
Tagged Leonie Cooper, London, London Assembly, Mayor, Thames Water
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Damning evidence of lack of any real flooding strategy
It is six weeks since flood alerts were issued to residents in the south of the borough. A local primary school remains closed, the A22 Godstone Road has yet to fully re-open, and some people’s back gardens remained under water … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Kenley, London-wide issues, Planning, Purley, Surrey
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, floods, floodwater, Kenley, London, Purley, Surrey, Thames Water, Woldingham
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Army starts work on temporary dam as flooding hits Coulsdon
The worst may be over, but works continue to mop-up after the floods, and to try to reduce the threat of more flooding in the valleys to the south of Croydon. Army engineers were in action again yesterday, constructing a … Continue reading
Posted in Coulsdon, Environment, Gardening, Kenley, Purley
Tagged Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon West, Croydon, Croydon Council, flooding, floods, Kenley, London Assembly, Purley, South Croydon, Surrey, Thames Water
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Thames Water’s dismal record and their 20% water rate hike
So, apres le deluge… Two weeks since Croydon Council declared a Major Incident around Kenley water treatment works, and a week’s drier weather has enabled the mopping-up process to get underway following the floods in the south of the borough. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Kenley, London-wide issues, Purley, Roke Primary
Tagged Croydon, Croydon South, flooding, floods, Kenley, London, Purley, South Croydon, Surrey, Thames Water
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You’re dung for! Coulsdon and Waddon on sludge lorry route
There will be only five more years of stink for north Croydon residents and Purley Way shoppers to suffer when the malodorous winds blow from Beddington sewage farm. That’s the hope that Thames Water officials imparted to two public meetings … Continue reading
