CLEAN UP YOUR ACT!
SHOCKING amounts of overflowing rubbish have built up on a Halifax housing estate – with residents demanding Calderdale Council sort it out.
Michael White, 53, who has lived on Lightowler Close, an assisted housing area, for nearly three years, said: “It’s disgusting but we have learned to live with it.
“It’s always been like this but in recent weeks it has got completely out of hand.
“There are fly-tippers coming round and using it as an easy dumping point.”
His father-in-law, John Walsh, from Siddal, added: “I just think it’s shameful and a public health hazard. If kids are playing around in it there could be a serious problem. There are a lot of young children who live around here.”
Joseph Demeter, 31, who also lives on the estate near Halifax town centre, said: “I have lived here for seven years and it’s horrible.
“We have made a lot of complaints and there’s been talk of cameras being fitted to see who is dumping this stuff and putting a gate on the entrance to stop flytippers arriving but nothing has happened.
“People come with their vans when people are sleeping and put their rubbish there. We have taken the registrations but nothing happens.
“I am sure Calderdale Council will clean it up but a long-term solution is what is needed.”
Leading Calderdale councillor, Megan Swift, wrote on the 50 Shades of Halifax Facebook group: “It will be collected, probably Tuesday, and there will be an investigation as to how this has happened.
“They will also be going through the rubbish to see if there is anything that will lead to enforcement action.”
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