Survey confirms Mucky Merton is residents’ top concern

Three years after Merton Council last conducted a survey, the 2017 Residents’ Survey confirms that street cleaning and litter remains top of residents’ list of concerns.

Geraldine Kirby has been selected as Conservative candidate in St Helier by-election due to take place on Thursday 20th July.

The significant cost to Merton Council of the investigation into Cllr Alambritis’ conduct could potentially have been spared if only the Leader of the Council had had the decency to own up from the start (‘Probe costs council £8k’, 25 May 2017).

I’m afraid Deen City Farm is by no means alone in recently suffering problems with Merton’s commercial waste service (‘Urban farm’s bin saga burns hole in budget’, 11 May 2017).

Conservative councillors have unveiled plans which would ensure residents benefit from improved local infrastructure as a result of new developments in their own area.

Merton residents deserve to benefit from local development

Spiralling costs and further delays to new Morden leisure centre

Despite having pledged in 2014 to sweep Merton’s roads each week, Merton Labour have now sounded the final death knell for the weekly clean of residential streets in the borough.

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Labour-run Merton Council has again refused to abandon its plans for a diesel tax which unfairly targets residents living in CPZs without access to off-street parking.