Quantcast
Channel: Shasha Khan – Inside Croydon
Browsing all 75 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Incinerator campaigners demonstrate that money talks

The Development Committee on Sutton Council thought they were holding a routine meeting last night, until a number of Stop The Incinerator protestors drawn from across Sutton and Croydon entered with...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Burnt: incinerator scheme fails to get planning permission

A Sutton Council planning meeting last night refused to approve plans to build a waste incinerator on its border with Croydon, at Beddington Lane, a stunning reversal for the powers of big business....

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

£2.50 per person – the price Viridor puts on your health

Local environmental campaigners claim that local councils, including Croydon, have handed a £1 billion contract to Viridor to run a controversial waste incinerator all in return for no more than £2.50...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Stop the Incinerator Campaign stages fund-raiser: Feb 24

The Stop the Incinerator Campaign is staging a fund-raising Quiz Night on February 24, with all money raised going towards the costs of paying for a Judicial Review of Sutton Council’s decision to...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Stop the Incinerator Campaign fund-raiser: Feb 24

READER OFFER: Win FREE theatre tickets Coming to Croydon Mark Steel at Ashcroft Theatre, Feb 12 Purley Swimathon: Feb 13 Croydon Arts Network meeting, Feb 15 Chinese New Year children’s event, Upper...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

We’ll make campaigners pay says Sutton Council leader

Sutton Council is prepared to spend tens of thousands of pounds of public money to fight a legal battle against a campaign by residents from across south London who want to stop the building of a waste...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Sutton Council put on notice over incinerator Judicial Review

Justine Thornton, the barrister wife of Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour Party, has today overseen the issuing of formal notice to Sutton Council that a Judicial Review is to be sought over the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Greens hold back from promising to scrap £1bn incinerator

The Green Party launched its local election manifesto for Croydon yesterday, confirming that it will field a full slate of 70 candidates across the whole of the borough. The Greens seem poised to...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Croydon more Green than purple, but will they win any seats?

The deadline for entering candidates for May 22’s local elections was 4pm today. We have reported the key selections from Labour and the Conservatives across the borough over the past year, but only...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Scouring Croham’s campaign for anything that might inspire

VOTE 2014: Over the next couple of weeks, we will preview the local elections with a look at key wards and the key issues. With 15 candidates from seven parties or groups standing in Croham, with the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Social justice and strong principles are Green way, says Khan

VOTE 2014: The Green Party has never had a councillor in Croydon. Here, their local co-chair SHASHA KHAN offers his party line about why they deserve your vote in tomorrow’s Town Hall elections If you...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Campaigners win their day in court against Viridor incinerator

Good to see Her Maj, at the ripe old age of 88 and despite being busy preparing to celebrate her official birthday over the weekend, sticking up for the little fella. The Stop The Incinerator Campaign...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Incinerator campaign in 11th-hour appeal for legal funds

The Stop the Incinerator Campaign could yet be denied its day in court – all for a lack of money. The campaign was expecting to begin its judicial review of the Beddington incinerator scheme – which...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Inside Croydon’s loyal reader helps Khan have his day in court

£5,500 That’s how much was raised in a single day for the Stop the Incinerator Campaign, following the urgent appeal published on Inside Croydon yesterday. The only conclusion that can be drawn from...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Viridor and Sutton spare no (public) expense to crush case

The unequal courtroom battle between local residents and Sutton Council together with their £1 billion industrial contractors over plans to build an incinerator on Beddington Lane continues at the...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Judge gives all-clear for Viridor to build incinerator

So, Westfield and Hammerson are to build a £1 billion shopping mall in the centre of town, and thousands of new homes are to be built there, too, and they will all have a waste incinerator parked on...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

£5,000 – by Monday: help pay cost of stopping the incinerator

The Stop the Incinerator Campaign needs to raise £5,000 by Monday to be able to afford to continue the fight to prevent Sutton and Croydon councils allowing industrialists Viridor to build and operate...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

POLL: Should Croydon Council stop the incinerator?

What do you, Inside Croydon’s loyal reader, want your council to do about Sutton’s plans to build a waste incinerator right next to Croydon, on the Beddington Farmlands Metropolitan Open Land site? Do...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Yes we Khan! Campaigners lodge incinerator legal appeal

Just after 5pm tonight, Stop the Incinerator campaigner Shasha Khan confirmed that an appeal has been lodged at the High Court against the decision of the judge, Mrs Justice Patterson, over the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

No they can’t! Viridor needs to provide 100% safety guarantee

CROYDON COMMENTARY: For all the tens of thousands of pounds raised, and spent, by the Stop the Incinerator Campaign in taking its case to the High Court, the legal challenge has had to be based on...

View Article
Browsing all 75 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images