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Wheelie bin fiasco

I was under the impression improvements were meant to enhance our town. The introduction of these bins have ruined many of our streets. We can no longer claim to be The Queen of the Suburbs. It is a disgrace.

Ann Thompson-Hill ● 3578d83 Comments

They need to get the landlords sorted out. Tenants are asking for wheelie bins where there is no space for them because the landlords have divided buildings without providing proper bin space inside and out - or bins.Some tenants make an effort and care but others don't or can't without adequate landlord/letting agent input.Whether proper planning permission and building regulation approval was gained has yet to be found out  This includes fire separation for safety of all and sound insulation between dwellings - lack of which can cause real problems between neighbours.  Bin space should be a H&S issueand should be retained after permission is gained.  It needs to be written in to documents.We are now funding bins for landlords who would in the past had to have provided them for their residents or would have had to sign up to bin rental contracts with the Council.

Philippa Bond ● 3534d

Oh my word, they are going to be busy answering complaints!!!

Jean F Fernandez ● 3534d

Ealing Council has a new post titled: "Compliants Manager - Social Services and Health". Assisted service for the disabled should fall under this remit and rubbish festering for weeks clearly comes under the heading of "health".

John Murias ● 3534d

Due to the number of complaints/requests directly to Councillors there will be new email address(es) being set up to directly deal with this issue.Once I receive this email address I shall post it here.

Lee Page ● 3534d

Don't they have a supervisor travelling with the collection lorry?  I saw one yesterday.  They should have a list of the home which have assisted collection.  This should be able to be transferred if they have to change lorries. Please get in touch with your Councillors - all of them - as I don't believe any forms are good enough for this sort of situation.  I would also inform Cllr Bassam Mahfouz directly.

Philippa Bond ● 3535d

Eight weeks into the new wheelie bin system and not once has Amey, Ealing Council's recycling/rubbish contractor, fulfilled its obligation to provide special assistance to a severely disabled woman in my street. Today's collection took place while the woman was out, and the bins and garden rubbish bags were dumped across her only access to her house.

Ian Richardson ● 3535d

Leave a review on google.google ealing council and the reviews section is on the right of the page.For example " we live in such&such street and our food recycle box has not been emptied for three weeks,its now full of maggots and flies"Once the recycle bin has been emptied then change your review.

Harry Jay ● 3535d

Thank you all for your advice regarding my sons request for a larger bin and I will pass it on.  I only wish Ealing Council would collect my food waste weekly. It took them a whole month to empty my food waste.

Susan Woodbridge ● 3536d

I could also suggest tweeting him if you have a twitter account @BassamMahfouz and copying in your followers

John Murias ● 3536d

Unfortunately it was a done deal and now we have a period where everything has to be spun to prove how successful it is.So how did my neighbours with masses of space manage to get two black bins delivered but no blue ones?  How exactly is that going to increase recycling?

Philippa Bond ● 3536d

Thanks for the suggestion Lee, I just did!

Jean F Fernandez ● 3537d

Doubtful the person responsible for it doesn't even reply to their emails, or when they do they'll try and avert from actual facts.Cllr Bassam MahfouzLabour Councillor for Northolt West EndEaling Cabinet member for Environment, Transport & LeisureMahfouzB@ealing.gov.uk Feel free to email him.

Lee Page ● 3537d

Jean,apologies,left out the word CHANCE,in the above statement,JOHN.

Dr John Stolworthy D.Sc ● 3537d

Jean,There is little or no that they will admit to thegreatest cock up seen in Ealing for many years,maybe knowing how things go,a mention in the New Years Honours?John.

Dr John Stolworthy D.Sc ● 3537d

The standard sized black bin issued was not the smallest bin.  Many people have been requesting the smaller black bin even though that itself is far bigger than necessary for them. Your brother and his family are making an awful lot of unrecyclable waste if they are struggling with closing the lid on that one.  I wonder if they are using too big a kitchen bin?  Perhaps they should use that big bin for recycling and find a smaller one for unrecyclable waste and make sure that they have a food waste caddy to scrape plates into close to hand together with the food waste bin.  It is easiest to sort at source.www.recyclenow.com has a lot of info on food waste recycling eg where it goes (in LBE's case to make electricity and biogas and fertilizer). There are also  lot of case studies on how different families have adapted using it into their daily life.

Philippa Bond ● 3537d

I couldn't agree more to all of that!Where I live people are always putting things like big plastic milk containers and huge plastic water bottles in our recycling bin intact with the tops still screwed on so they won't crush down, taking up a completely unnecessarily large amount of space in the bin!

Dave Hawley ● 3538d

With four adults in the house we could easily go a month without filling a black sack. I think your son needs to look at what they are throwing away and whether they are making the best use of the food waste bin and the recycling bin.  There should be very little that is unrecyclable.  Of the recyclable stuff a lot of that can be squashed and flattened to reduce the volume - otherwise they are filling up the bin with a lot of canned, cartoned, bottled and boxed air.www.therubbishdiet.org.uk  has a lot of inspirational help written by someone who has done exactly that www.myzerowaste.com  This family put only an ordinary sized dustbin out and repurposed and reycled everything else. www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/content/date-labels-infographicThe above site has up to date information on Best Before & Use By dates and other labelling as well as recipes for leftovers and food management information and much moreMany people do not understand the labelling on packaged food and throw it away unnecessarily.  They could save a fortune and make and have to deal with far less waste if they did.

Philippa Bond ● 3538d

Perhaps someone from Ealing Council who has been responsible for the introduction of the Wheelie Bins would like to come on here and explain why the state of cleanliness in this borough has deteriorated so much since then?

Jean F Fernandez ● 3538d

I haven't read all the entries on this forum as there are so many. So excuse me if some/all of the issues I'm about to mention have been addressed already.1) Many residents are storing their bins in their front gardens (some have no option but many do in my road), which is unsightly.2) There is a house in Kingsbridge Ave that was recently converted into flats - all their bins (about 6) are permanently 'stored' on the pavement but nothing has been done about this.3) Another house in my road (near Ealing Common)has become a multiple occupancy rental. Prior to the introduction of the wheelie bins there would be at least a dozen black sacks/week - yet paying the same council tax as me who put out one half-filled sack/week! So now their one bin/type for the house is totally inadequate for their needs. But the council are still collecting all the black bags that don't fit into their bin. I thought the council weren't going to do this?

Patricia McCarthy ● 3538d

Can people request the larger size bin.. My son originally requested a larger one having a grown up family of five. He was told he could only have the standard size bin, but finds it is not big enough for a fortnights rubbish.

Susan Woodbridge ● 3539d

The Councillors or some of them arranged for these across Ealing since so may people already had quite a lot of bins of various types they no longer expected to use.Some of us have been trying to rehome a lot of these.  The Council issued a film suggesting ideas of how to reuse your green box:www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3UOFPyi4iMHowever since the Council did not issue the black bins and these were mostly (if not wholly) provided by residents and their landlords who were protecting or attempting to protect their waste until collection day there were also a lot of these that they did not seem to have taken into account.I tried to interest schools in using them as planters as it seems crazy that we should be providing funds for new planters when there was something readily available.  They are great for raised planting too.  Some have gone to Cultivate London.If a lot of the black dustbins had been rehomed to those homes who weren't protecting their waste and don't have enough room to manoeuvre wheelie bins then we might have had a better solution all round.The operatives will just take bags out of the black wheelie bins if they find it easier!They tip the contents of the food waste bins into a wheelie that they trundle along the pavement and do the same with the contents of garden waste sacks as well.I have also seen wheelie bins here too as well as composters. If you are still awaiting a requested food waste bin it is good place to look to see if you can pick one up.

Philippa Bond ● 3540d

Council promised it would empty my missed garden rubbish wheelie bin last Wednesday. Still waiting. Others in my streets still awaiting their smaller rubbish bins and for double delivered bins to be taken away. What a disgraceful shambles.

Ian Richardson ● 3544d

I noticed tonight an unofficial collection of bins - wheelie & the green boxes (attention Ms Bond) in my local park. Similar to the xmas tree disposal.Problem solved

Peter Yale ● 3545d

Well I'm still waiting for eight bins to be removed from the flats where I live. We had four delivered originally, and then another eight two days later! Quite where we were supposed to put them all is anyone's guess. We're managing fine just using four, and I've spoken to the council twice to get the others removed, and both times have been told that no bins are being removed until everyone has all the bins that they need.How long that is going to be who knows.

Dave Hawley ● 3547d

More than a month into the new wheelie bin system and it is remains in chaos. In my small street, at least two of the residents still await their small bins, while another had a double delivery of bins. These have yet to be taken away, despite many complaints to the council. On Tuesday, my full garden rubbish bin was ignored, even though the neighbour's bags sitting beside it were emptied. I was promised that my bin would be emptied by the close of business on Wednesday. Still waiting.

Ian Richardson ● 3547d

On the relatively rare occasions when my rubbish has not been collected, a phone call to LBE has seen it removed by the next day at the latest.I can't answer for other posters' experiences but I would suggest you contact the council and let them know.

Phil Kay ● 3547d

I finally got my wheelie bins delivered yesterday and in the recycling one there is lots of rubbish in it, used blue disposable gloves and lunch food packets. Where did this bin come from?! I now have to try and tip out all this rubbish into my front garden to put in a black bag. Couldn't make it up.

Madeline Kerketta ● 3549d

My food waste bin has not been emptied for a month now.. It has been put outside each week..and now has loads of flies around it.  I was going to contact Ealing Council but on reading some of the comments here, think it will be a waste of time.

Susan Woodbridge ● 3549d

I buy the wonderful granary loaves from Parker's in Northfield Avenue.  I have them sliced and then put the bread in the freezer, taking it out to use as required.  You can toast it straight from frozen and it is absolutely delicious.No danger of it going mouldy that way.

Thelma Leach ● 3550d

I buy a small loaf and keep half in the freezer. It is perfectly OK once left out to thaw.

Jean F Fernandez ● 3550d

Any other streets not had the blue recycle bins emptied today 11/07/2016? besides Raymond Ave etc?

Leslie Bailey ● 3550d

These often leak, don't take everything eg bones and corn cobs, and I don't believe that the Water Companies have approved them either!  I believe that we still have a lot of old plumbing which was not designed for everything that is marketed as "flushable" or disposable down a sink.Keep your food waste bin in the shade if you can and take note of exactly what you are throwing away.  You could save yourself a fortune if it is a lot of the same stuff and you can alter your habits slightly.  Bread is one of the biggest items.  I notice that Green Redeem the rewards system that the Council is running has a lot of useful tips on that.Personally I'd prefer to keep a loaf of bread in the fridge even if it goes stale faster as it is still edible when the the alternative might be mouldy bread - which I do not consider edible!  (Have you seen any recipes for that?  :))

Philippa Bond ● 3550d

I simply wrap small amounts of food waste in newspaper which seems to work well.

Jean F Fernandez ● 3550d

I used to have a waste disposal unit in my previous kitchen.  It was pretty useless for some things such as chicken or meat bones, potato peelings, fish skin and was for ever getting blocked.  If you think food waste bins are revolting, try unblocking a waste disposal unit at frequent intervals.The food waste bins are fine if washed out regularly and you ensure that all food waste is properly wrapped or in environmentally disposable sacks before putting it into the waste bin.

Thelma Leach ● 3550d

Do you tell your neighbours when you are going away for 2 weeks so that they can keep an eye out for you (and do the same for them when they are away)?If yes, then why not add the bins to the mutual help list?

Paul Webster ● 3551d

Apologies.New to all this so a few typos on the previous post.What happens when we go on holiday for a period of less than two weeks ?Say for instance that we were to depart on the day before the black bin is due for collection and return the day after the blue bin is due ?Do we leave both bins at the point where our small (and now even smaller) single car driveway meets the pavement ?As I would rather not further advertise the fact that the house is empty by leaving out these bins in addition to our car not being there, junk mail being poured through the letterbox despite it being politely refused via a sign on the letterbox what our are options ?Either we go away, enjoy our break and return to our no doubt rancid refuse containers or hang a sign outside saying "we're away burglars welcome".Perhaps they could feel free to use the council provided bins to stand on in order to gain entry.Someone is NOT thinking.

John Burke ● 3551d

What happens when one goes on holiday for a period of less than two weeks ?Say for instance that we were to depart on the day before the black bin is due for collection and return the day after the blue bin is due ?Do we leave both bins at the point where our small (and now even smaller) single car driveway meets the pavement ?As our I would rather not further advertise the fact that the house is empty by leaving out these bins in addition to our car not being there, what our are options ?Either we go away, enjoy our break and return to our no doubt rancid refuse containers or hang a sign outside saying "we're away burglars welcome

John Burke ● 3551d

Personally I think the food waste bins are revolting things, especially in the summer hot weather (if we ever get any!)Disposing of food waste is what kitchen sink waste disposal units are for, however un-environmentally friendly they may be considered to be nowadays!

Dave Hawley ● 3551d

Last month my food bin was not emptied, after sending emails and ringing Ealing Council it STILL was not emptied until the following week!

Jean F Fernandez ● 3551d

forgot to add, the food boxes were finally collected on Saturday

Simon Bell ● 3551d

I did contact my councillor & had no answer

Simon Bell ● 3551d

Please contact your Councillors.  Copying your message to all of them means that they all know what is or isn't happening.

Philippa Bond ● 3552d

Our food boxes were not collected on Tuesday. I reported it but they still were not collected the following day as promised by Ealing Council office. Today I phoned again, and the previous 2 members of staffed had taken no action on my calls. The boxes are still outside.

Simon Bell ● 3554d

No doubt the contractors are highly paid by Ealing Council to collect the rubbish and keep the borough clean, unfortunately it has been obvious from the start that they really are not up to the task!Any rubbish dropped on the street is left lying there by the contractors, for weeks in some cases. There is absolutely NO excuse for that. The streets are rarely swept, how much does a broom cost? The employees are being paid anyway. No point litter picking it's a waste of time.Under the previous administration we had garden rubbish collected FREE, the system worked, now that residents are expected to pay less people bother to recycle.Residents were not consulted on whether or not we wanted wheelie bins, this was foisted on us by the council. The introduction was not handled well, some people received the wrong size bins. Others got none at all!  Many gardens are just too small for these monsters!The Streetwatchers scheme appears to have been abandoned by Ealing Council, volunteers are now expected to report missed collections, flytipping and so on by trawling through the Ealing Website whereas previously we had a designated department to contact. This did not cost the council money, we volunteered our services.Money was wasted on Contractors who were not up to the job but it is too late now to improve the situation.There are rumours that some councils are considering extending the scheme to only collect rubbish every 3 weeks, a disaster waiting to happen!

Jean F Fernandez ● 3556d

It would appear that we can waste £3.6 Million Pounds on Wheelie Bins that were not required,and ill afford things like street cleaning?

Dr John Stolworthy D.Sc ● 3556d

Don't forget why the Council is having to take money-saving measures such as introducing wheelie bins and fortnightly rubbish collections, and why they are having to make all these cuts - some of them rather more serious than reduction in street cleaning. They have been pushed into an impossible position by the Government cuts.

Helen Johnson ● 3556d

Jean,we have gone backwards in time,no longer the Queen of the Suburbs a total degrading of the lovely standards we had become used too,this is how areas become slums,we took a pride on where we resided,that has been taken away.John.

Dr John Stolworthy D.Sc ● 3559d

Spot on John, it really is dreadful.Shame when visitors call to see our area looking so filthy!

Jean F Fernandez ● 3559d

Jean,I think the automatic cleaning of the streets finished when the Wheelie Bins were brought into use,non of our roads have been done,or De-weeded as normal,or street cleaners around as before,bad service in general.John.

Dr John Stolworthy D.Sc ● 3559d

Since the introduction of the dreaded wheelie bins I have noticed that lots of roads have been in a filthy state. Rubbish dropped by the contractors has been left on the street.There are 2 discarded black plastic bins full of rubbish in our street, (Acton) not collected last Thursday.Some front gardens STILL have black bags piled up since before the wheelie bin scheme started.  Some residents are leaving the wheelie bins out on the pavement.Streets off Horn Lane have not been swept recently.Weeds are growing between the paving stones.More bulky items of furniture are being dumped in the street.It makes one wonder how the councillors are convinced that they are doing a great job!It looks like this situation is getting much worse now!

Jean F Fernandez ● 3559d

Perhaps we could Brexit the bins now as they are from Germany and they are the preferred method of rubbish and recycling favoured by the EU?

John Murias ● 3566d

Well my blue wheelie bin has remained uncollected since 15/06/16 along with all the others on my stretch of road. Reported online on the 16th, via phone on the 20th and to my ward councillors via email last night.Still there this evening along with everyone else's, many now overflowing as we haven't had a recycling collection since the 1st of June. The irony is I live right next door to the Greenford Waste & Recycling Centre.

John Bergin ● 3568d

I'm not a big fan of this current Labour council. Or the wheelie bins. BUT my experience has not been as negative as everyone else's. When i first filled out the forms as to how many and what size bin we wanted, I requested the 'small' rubbish bin. I got a phone call from a very nice person from the council checking to make sure that was going to work since it was for our downstairs neighbours as well. I was impressed with a personal phone call made by a kind and knowledgable person.Secondly; I am tired of my kitchen being ⅓ full of recycling until I was able to put it out on Weds. nights. Now, it just goes right in the bin, leaving my kitchen space freed up. So far the bins have been emptied early, there's been no trash on the streets, and overall the service has been good. I live in W3. (to be fair there are several 'extra' bins around the corner that have been marked to be picked up by the council, but have not been)

Howard Davidson ● 3569d

I just hope that they're made out of recycled plastic!

Dave Hawley ● 3569d

Lets get out of the E.U then?

Dr John Stolworthy D.Sc ● 3569d

These bins have been imported from Germany.  They may be suited to Germany where they are not out of place amongst blocks of flats.  The bins however do not blend well with English terrace houses or the front gardens of houses in Ealing.These bins however are the preferred method of rubbish and recycling favoured by the EU.

Joel Mahair ● 3569d

Fair enough. The recycling bin is quite useful although it does fill up faster than every 2 weeks. Has to have saved money though too.

Penelope Crocker ● 3575d

Increasing the % of recycling was the reason stated for switching to wheelies.

Jon Wilkins ● 3575d

I did ask for smaller bins and was informed I needed to wait until 5th June to ask again - this was done - nothing as yetFoolishly I believed the Council leaflet telling us "......bins will be returned to their collection point"The  Councillors for Hobbayne Ward are Ray wall, Ciaran McCartan and Penny Jones.Unfortunately I have little faith in any of them. They  each have very selfish attitudes when dealing with the parking problem in the Ward – they are alright Jack each having their own off street parking space or a Disabled Bay – so they are happy to have the Ealing Council Gifford Gardens Garage Site demolished and a 4 bedroom family house built for PRIVATE sale.

Ron Cliff ● 3575d

Penelope Crocker ● 3575d

I am not easily confused but you'll have to take my word for that. We had black sacks too in Northfields until a couple of weeks ago. I was just puzzled at the point being made. I agree, the bins are horrible but I suspect they're here to stay. Assume it's finding rather than ideals which have necessitated the change. I also assume the Conservatives will not reverse the decision for the same reason.

Penelope Crocker ● 3575d

As I understood it the contractors are supposed to replace the bin.  Do you have an "assisted" collection?  It may be worthwhile asking for one in order to make sure that you get more help - dispiriting though it may be to be forced into the situation like this.Have you contacted your Ward Councillors?If you go to the front page of the Council website:www.ealing.gov.uk - you can check your collection - and you can also find out who your Councillors are and how to contact them.  That information can be found by clicking on a link in a black strip across the bottom of the page.

Philippa Bond ● 3575d

The once Queen of the suburbs,is now Wheelie Bin City,apart from the disgraceful failure to consult the people of Ealing Borough,there appears to be a total non compliance of requirements to inform the users of these monsters of any safety advice on there usage,storage,and associated health,safety,and fire risks,many fire authorities within the U.K have records of the fire risk associated with these bins,and incidents thereof.

Dr John Stolworthy D.Sc ● 3575d

So now we have the bins is it too much to expect the collection contractors to comply with Ealing Council's requirements?"Leave your bin at the edge of your property, close to the street/pavement (but not on it)""After they have been collected,bins will be returned to their collection point."

Ron Cliff ● 3575d

Penelope you seem to be easily confused. I was referring to events in the past. Our beloved Council has now, with no reference to the electorate, replaced them with overlarge wheelie bins. You must have noticed them littering the pavements and front gardens.

Martin C. Harris ● 3575d

Too many of them still on the street because they are not suitable for our properties and too difficult for residents to manoeuvre.  You can have your home reassessed.  Some homes have been told that they are unsuitable for wheelies and they are retaining the black sack and green box (now for mixed recycling) collection. There does need to be manoeuvring space as well as a simple amount of space.https://www.ealing.gov.uk/info/201044/councillorsIt is interesting that the Council once gave out those metal cages for one black sack because so many people were throwing out massive numbers of black sacks each week and many were not making enough to put out each week.Instead of dealing with the landlords who would not provide bins for their houses many of which were divided into flats with no space included in the planning permission or no space retained after planning permission everybody has now had these forced on them.

Philippa Bond ● 3575d

THE RECYCLE BLUE BIN WAS COLLECTED TODAY FROM MY FRONT GARDEN. IT WAS EMPTED AND LEFT ON THE PAVEMENT OUTSIDE MY HOUSE.STEPS INTO MY GARDEN HINDER MY EFFORTS TO MOVE THE BIN SO IT REMAINS ON THE PAVEMENT UNTIL.............?

Ron Cliff ● 3575d

I'm not blaming. I'm asking a straightforward question. Would the Tories reverse the decision?

Penelope Crocker ● 3575d

I'd forgotten all about those wire cages with the lids that you were supposed to put your black sack into!We still had them around when I moved here in 1982, but hardly anyone actually used them.They used to get into a terrible mess IIRC.

Dave Hawley ● 3576d

It's unreasonable to blame the Conservative group for the actions of this Labour Council especially when, in my opinion, the Labour group has no regard for residents rights and wishes. This is not how the Conservative run Council dealt with similar proposals in 2007. In 2006/7 the Conservative run Council launched the largest (to date) and most comprehensive two stage public consultation on their refuse collection service. During stage 1, Option C, two wheelie bins and Option D, fortnightly collections were so unpopular that they were dropped entirely as a future solution and were not included in the second stage of the consultation.Results of Stage 1, the whole of Ealing (W5 and W13), half of Hanwell W7, Elthorne ward (south of the railway tracks) and Southfield (boarding Chiswick) in Acton. Made a clear decision to retain black sacks.  As a result, the above resident’s were not required to participate in Stage 2 of the consultation. Outcome of Stage 2, Only three of the remaining wards favoured bins whilst the others were undecided, resulting in Southall residents being given wheelie bins as they wished and the rest of Ealing retaining black sacks.If you want to know more about how the Labour run Council circumvented the consultation process and violated Ealing residents, google "Wheelie Bins, is it a case for Judicial Review" I've explained it further on my blog.

Vanessa Costello ● 3576d

So have you still got plastic sacks then Martin? I'm a bit confused by the answer.Also, if any Conservative politician at local level reads these posts, is the Conservative policy to reverse the wheelie bin policy? If it were, they could guarantee election.

Penelope Crocker ● 3576d

No empty gesture Penelope. My ward or that part of it that I lived in then, voted for retention of the black sacks. I had retained the wire mesh cage that LBE Council had issued to all householders when the sacks were first introduced over 40 years ago

Martin C. Harris ● 3576d

Completely agree.  It was a shame that they did not manage to do more about the problem properties.

Philippa Bond ● 3576d

It wasn't just Cleveland.  Northfield was consulted too.  Northfield voted for plastic sacks and kept them (till last week).If I remember correctly they consulted every ward in the borough and the outcome was some wards got bins, others kept bags. Whether the final selection was per ward or by subsections of wards I don't recall but even "just" per ward gives a better match of suitability and preference than the borough-wide fiasco imposed with zero consultation this time around.  Back then - -even if you didn't get what you wanted, at least there'd been some consultation.

Jon Wilkins ● 3577d

https://southallpride.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/466/

M Singh ● 3577d

So did you keep your plastic sacks Martin? If not, it was an empty gesture.

Penelope Crocker ● 3577d

At least the last conservative council had the good grace to hold a referendum in Cleveland ward, maybe others, as to whether we, the electors, wished to retain black plastic sacks and other methods, rather than imposing without a choice these oversized unsightly monstrosities.

Martin C. Harris ● 3577d

It what they don't say or won't be drawn on that is the most telling.All candidates are like this whatever party they have allegiance too.The conservatives seem happy to sit back and let the Labour regime go about it's methods, probably in the hope that they will commit Hari-Kiri.Except at the last election the complacency backfired completely on them.But there cannot be many Labour voters happy about the less than honest agenda being meted out.But this carry on does the residents and the environs no good whatsoever

Mark Kehoe ● 3578d

Will the conservatives remove all the bins? Was it in their manifesto at the last local election? I didn't read it so don't know the answer but someone will.

Penelope Crocker ● 3578d

Remember all of this when you vote at the local elections next time.

Dr John Stolworthy D.Sc ● 3578d

Well until people learn to vote with their eyes open and get straight answers to straight questions we will be stuck with this sort of ineptitude.Quite why people blindly vote for parties unquestioningly irrespective of which party in this age of awareness is quite beyond my comprehension.It just highlights how damaging party politics can be at local level and this debacle of pure environmental and aesthetic vandalism is the end result of bent democracy from this self righteous clique.Or in simple terms You get what you vote for. Next time, read the ingredients label.

Mark Kehoe ● 3578d

Absolutely agreed. All the streets near me look like a tip now. Some bins, which were clearly not ordered are still on the pavement of The Common where they were left. The small cottages on The Common & St. Mark's Rd. look ridiculous with the over sized bins taking up their entire garden

Simon Bell ● 3578d