Tag Archives: Valencia Waste Management

Wandle Forum in legal challenge to council over nature reserve

INSIDE SUTTON: If the council won’t take action against big business for failing to honour its planning commitments, then a coalition of around 150 community groups – backed up by a major legal firm – will. By ROSE HILL The … Continue reading

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Officials ignore councillors’ calls for action over Farmlands site

IN-DEPTH AND INFORMED: Sutton’s elected councillors, from across the political divide, are being ignored by the council’s senior staff over enforcement action against Valencia over the Beddington Farmlands nature reserve. It couldn’t have anything to do with Valencia providing energy … Continue reading

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Sutton’s ex-leader in extraordinary attack on waste company

Valencia Waste Management, owners of Beddington Farmlands former landfill site, are ‘arrogant’ and have no intention of carrying out agreed wildlife restoration, according to LibDem councillor Ruth Dombey A multi-million-pound waste management firm is “running rings” around Sutton Council as … Continue reading

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Beddington’s wildlife plan has ‘failed’ say environmentalists

After 10 years of broken promises and delays, a local council has bowed to the interests of big business, at the expense of the environment and local residents. By our wildlife correspondent, PAUL LUSHION Sutton’s Liberal Democrat-controlled council and their … Continue reading

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It’s time to re-set our approach to Beddington’s nature reserve

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The threat of enforcement action against incinerator operators Viridor, and the waste management company, Valencia that now runs the former landfill site at Beddington, is too little and much too late, says conservationist PETER ALFREY Together with other … Continue reading

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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

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Viridor’s charge sheet: incinerator operator’s eco-vandalism

This is the damning litany of charges now facing Valencia, the shell company established by Viridor to take the rap for more than a decade of failures to deliver on the relatively modest terms agreed in return for their original … Continue reading

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