Tag Archives: Valencia

Labour councillor finally apologises over vile online slurs

INSIDE SUTTON: The long adios of Sheldon Vestey, the Valencia-based councillor for… checks notes … Hackbridge, has seen him once again hauled before a council disciplinary panel – albeit via video link – after an investigation that has cost the … Continue reading

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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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‘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

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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

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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

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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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This could be the last chance to save crucial wildlife reserve

Ahead of an expected announcement by Valencia about the overdue Beddington Farmlands restoration, Inside Sutton has uncovered attempts by the company to wriggle out of costly environmental and social obligations Almost 20 years ago, when multinational waste giant Viridor first … Continue reading

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