
Harrison Galliven
Local Democracy Reporter at MyLondon
Local Democracy Reporter for @myldn covering Croydon, Sutton and Merton John Schofield Trust Fellow 2025 Got a story? [email protected]
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3 weeks ago |
yourlocalguardian.co.uk | Harrison Galliven
5 1/1 Frustrated residents along a Croydon street say their road has “become a breakers yard” for abandoned cars after claiming Croydon Council failed to act for nearly a decade.
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3 weeks ago |
yourlocalguardian.co.uk | Harrison Galliven
It comes despite the council’s reintroduction of enforcement officers into the borough. “They just know they can get away with it,” said one woman who lives opposite a row of garages on Dunsfold Way in New Addington, where a major fly-tip has left piles of dumped industrial and household waste near number 94. “I see people coming day and night to that spot,” she told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS).
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3 weeks ago |
londonworld.com | Harrison Galliven
Frustrated residents along a Croydon street say their road has “become a breakers yard” for abandoned cars after claiming Croydon Council failed to act for nearly a decade. Despite clearing similar sites across the borough, locals feel the council’s neglect of their street “sums up Croydon Council.”Kilmartin Avenue in Norbury, just off the busy London Road linking Croydon with Streatham and inner London, looks like a typical quiet residential street lined with large semi-detached houses.
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3 weeks ago |
southlondon.co.uk | Harrison Galliven
Fly-tippers are targeting a plot of council-owned land in Croydon with such frequency that residents say offenders are acting with impunity. It comes despite the council’s reintroduction of enforcement officers into the borough. “They just know they can get away with it,” said one woman who lives opposite a row of garages on Dunsfold Way in New Addington, where a major fly-tip has left piles of dumped industrial and household waste near number 94.
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3 weeks ago |
yourlocalguardian.co.uk | Harrison Galliven
The café, once a popular feature of the park’s 2013 redevelopment, has remained closed since the pandemic despite multiple promises to bring it back into use. The group behind the occupation, Reclaim Croydon, began occupying the building over a month ago. Known for converting disused public spaces into temporary community hubs, the group previously made headlines in 2023 after taking over Croydon’s former Brick by Brick offices on George Street.
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A garage plot in New Addington has become the latest fly-tipping hotspot in a borough that has been dubbed the "fly-tip capital of England" - with waste piled high and broken glass near where children play #croydon #london #flytipping https://t.co/Zotp04qGN4

£12m in government funding has been secured for Epsom and St Helier Hospitals after years of campaigning St Helier, older than the NHS itself, is said to be at 'breaking point' with its ageing infrastructure #sutton #hosptials #merton https://t.co/Qd646WizSk

Croydon's last remaining lollipop patrols will be cut by the end of the year, affecting six schools across the borough Councillors have slammed the council's decision as a risk to children’s safety Thanks @BBCLondonNews for the coverage #croydon #london https://t.co/5GscrRhKyR