Monday, August 01, 2005
“Not in My Backyard”:
Fly-tipping and general littering remains a problem in Trowbridge and St. Mellons (and throughout Cardiff and South Wales), however, recent inspections have shown marked improvement compared with conditions in 1999.
This is partly because as Local Councillors we have regularly reported rubbish. Also the Council’s previous Labour Administration introduced a new fly-tipping strategy, regular weekly litter-picks, gulley cleansing and just before the elections in 2004, paved the way for “Community Sweepers” (a policy that the Liberal Democrats are now trying to claim the credit for having failed to introduce their own rather grandiose promises).
In March I took the new head of street cleansing on a tour of Trowbridge and St. Mellons to show him the local litter and fly-tipping hotspots. I also asked him to investigate why some parts of the Ward are not regularly cleared. (Incidentally I was the first Councillor in Cardiff to call on his services just two weeks after he was appointed!).
Whilst there wasn’t much to see (except in Hendre Lane and Trowbridge Road two regular “commercial” fly-tipping hotspots), we did find domestic refuse dumped over-night by irresponsible residents. There really is no excuse for this behaviour and I must assume people do it out of sheer laziness. Following the tour most of the problem areas were cleared.
My Colleague, Councillor Monica Walsh has also been active pressing the various parts of the Council to clean the streets, gulleys and local parks of rubbish as it materialises. Recently your three Councillors agreed to take a harder-hitting approach and we are asking the Council’s enforcement team to prioritise our Ward. Bin-bags put out too early, fly-tipping and littering will be the main targets. The Council can impose fines on people fly-tipping, littering or putting bins or bin-bags out too early, frequent offenders could have ASBOs imposed.
The dumping of left-overs following DIY gardening activities is a common cause of fly-tipping. The best time to begin “pruning” trees and shrubs is the autumn, but some residents start in summer (the worst time). A minority then dump the cuttings over their garden boundaries. No-one should prune hedges or trees on public land, highways, paths etc. without first discussing the work with the Council. And why do people wait until the bird nesting season to do this work?
Cllr. Ralph Cook
This is partly because as Local Councillors we have regularly reported rubbish. Also the Council’s previous Labour Administration introduced a new fly-tipping strategy, regular weekly litter-picks, gulley cleansing and just before the elections in 2004, paved the way for “Community Sweepers” (a policy that the Liberal Democrats are now trying to claim the credit for having failed to introduce their own rather grandiose promises).
In March I took the new head of street cleansing on a tour of Trowbridge and St. Mellons to show him the local litter and fly-tipping hotspots. I also asked him to investigate why some parts of the Ward are not regularly cleared. (Incidentally I was the first Councillor in Cardiff to call on his services just two weeks after he was appointed!).
Whilst there wasn’t much to see (except in Hendre Lane and Trowbridge Road two regular “commercial” fly-tipping hotspots), we did find domestic refuse dumped over-night by irresponsible residents. There really is no excuse for this behaviour and I must assume people do it out of sheer laziness. Following the tour most of the problem areas were cleared.
My Colleague, Councillor Monica Walsh has also been active pressing the various parts of the Council to clean the streets, gulleys and local parks of rubbish as it materialises. Recently your three Councillors agreed to take a harder-hitting approach and we are asking the Council’s enforcement team to prioritise our Ward. Bin-bags put out too early, fly-tipping and littering will be the main targets. The Council can impose fines on people fly-tipping, littering or putting bins or bin-bags out too early, frequent offenders could have ASBOs imposed.
The dumping of left-overs following DIY gardening activities is a common cause of fly-tipping. The best time to begin “pruning” trees and shrubs is the autumn, but some residents start in summer (the worst time). A minority then dump the cuttings over their garden boundaries. No-one should prune hedges or trees on public land, highways, paths etc. without first discussing the work with the Council. And why do people wait until the bird nesting season to do this work?
Cllr. Ralph Cook
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I agree about the flytipping especially in hendre lane, it is appaulling, i was recently walking the dogs around the lake and walked towards hendre lane the rubbish their is terrible, their is beds and mattresses in the rean,it would be nice to see the council down their to clean it up every so often. People got no consideration for other people who got to walk pass it
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