‘I’m tired of seeing this fly-tipping not sorted’
RESIDENT SAYS COUNCIL VANS DRIVING PAST OLD TYRE DAILY
A TYRE dumped on the side of a Leicester road has featured on Google Maps for the past six months – and is still there despite at least one resident reporting it and council vehicles driving past it every day.
Google Maps updated its photograph of the Red Hill Flyover, in the Abbey ward of the city, in June, capturing the tyre in the shot.
But it still has not been removed by Leicester City Council, despite one frustrated city resident saying he had reported it months ago.
He said: “This is now a landmark, it’s on Google Maps. I think it was about May time when it first appeared.”
He logged on to the city council’s website and reported it as an incident of flytipping, expecting the matter to be dealt with promptly.
However, he said the online form asks a number of questions.
He said: “It says ‘is it a danger to the public’ and I said ‘no,’ so I guess they just leave it then.
“The fact that it’s on the way to Beaumont Leys tip, and there are council vans going past it all the time, non-stop – probably thousands of vans have gone by there, yet it’s still there. I think Leicester is just a filthy place, it’s everywhere, and like this, they just leave it.” He said he had also tried to bypass the system and take the matter higher, without luck.
“I wrote to one of the assistant mayors,” he said. “I sent him a message on Twitter and said ‘You’re my last hope, can you get this bloody tyre moved?’ “I haven’t had a reply from him. I sent it around three weeks ago. “Honestly, if I were a rubbish man driving by, I would have stopped to pick that up.”
A Leicester City Council spokesman said: “This constitutes fly tipping. It costs the council time and money to deal with people’s irresponsible dumping of items at the side of our roads – money that could be put to better use elsewhere. We will get the tyre removed.”
It costs time and money to deal with people’s irresponsible dumping of items at the side of roads City council