The Sidcup/St Pauls Cray rubbish dump

Off_it

Anyone else been following this story over the years? Looks like it's finally getting removed now.

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/14835744.As_it_happened__First_trucks_start_clearing_rubbish_from_Waste4Fuel_dump_in_St_Paul_s_Cray/

I bet Bromley Council are gutted though - it's only on their "manor" by about 50 metres, otherwise it would be Bexleys problem!

AFKABartram

Can we remove Sunny Sidcup from this title please, we've house prices to protest!

Macronate

AFKABartram said:

Can we remove Sunny Sidcup from this title please, we've house prices to protest!

Too bloody right, they're extortionate in Sidcup.

Eynsfordaddick

Those poor people living with that site for so long!! Thank goodness sense has prevailed but the thought of the vermin and stench that they will experience over the next couple of weeks makes me shiver.
How easily people's lives can be blighted by owners who don't care and collect rubbish... and then can't rid of them/it!

i_b_b_o_r_g

Should read

Sidcup/St Pauls Cray/rubbish dump

AFKABartram

Seems like protest is now a predictive text on my phone!

JohnBoyUK

So where are they moving the rubbish too? King George V playing fields?

happyvalley

Where am I going to get my Christmas presents from now?

Rizzo

I read about this earlier in the week and the impression I got was that the owners of the site have basically sold it to the Environment Agency. If that is correct, it stinks more than the site itself! The owners have broken pretty much every law imaginable in the way they stored and (failed to) deal with the waste. There have been over 200 fires there, often causing massive disruption (as they usually close the A20 and/or Crittals Corner) and god knows how much damage to the environment and the health of nearby residents. As far as I can tell, the owners have never been prosecuted for anything and now they sell the site to the EA and walk away? Unbelievable Jeff!

SE10Addick

Eynsfordaddick said:

Those poor people living with that site for so long!! Thank goodness sense has prevailed but the thought of the vermin and stench that they will experience over the next couple of weeks makes me shiver.
How easily people's lives can be blighted by owners who don't care and collect rubbish... and then can't rid of them/it!

They wont complain too much when the value of their houses increase massively when it's all gone!

Ormiston_Addick

Move the dump to Bexleyheath, nobody will notice its even there.

man_at_milletts

I'm waiting to see what Stig has to say about this before commenting.

Off_it

AFKABartram said:

Can we remove Sunny Sidcup from this title please, we've house prices to protest!

There's only two people that could do that, and one of thems not playing. Just yet.

You either need to befriend a mod or stfu.

;-)

soapy_jones

I believe the Spanners will be moving there when their gaff is finally covered with luxury flats.

The residents have started a petition already.

http://www.canwehave.thesteamingpileofcrapback.please.com

DA9

Drive past it daily, fire engines in regular attendance to put out and dampen down fires, disgraceful how the owners were basically allowed to abandon it, and they went way over the tonnage licence, collars should be felt.

ME14addick

Rizzo said:

I read about this earlier in the week and the impression I got was that the owners of the site have basically sold it to the Environment Agency. If that is correct, it stinks more than the site itself! The owners have broken pretty much every law imaginable in the way they stored and (failed to) deal with the waste. There have been over 200 fires there, often causing massive disruption (as they usually close the A20 and/or Crittals Corner) and god knows how much damage to the environment and the health of nearby residents. As far as I can tell, the owners have never been prosecuted for anything and now they sell the site to the EA and walk away? Unbelievable Jeff!

I think that the owner of the site leased it to a company who have since gone into liquidation.