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SHOCK as fly-tipping leaves tax-payers with £20,000 bill (Express January 17 and website) Ryan A Adams: The thing is, the council don’t run the tips, they’ve subcontracted them and the people running them don’t want to take the [items] they can’t make money off. It’s going to be a big problem for farmers and private land owners who have to clean up their land at their own cost because of this. Andrew Kent: I think we should be burning the stuff we can’t recycle instead of burying it for future generation’s problem. At least these private companies could make a few quid from heating a few houses or driving electricity turbines to get off our backs. Essential services like this, water, gas and electricity shouldn’t be in private hands in my opinion. £22,572, only 68 Fixed Penalty Notices were issued, and not one was paid! Far to easy to pick on people dropping fag ends! Go and do some proper detective work. Val Pownall: Why not use an incentive for trade waste. £5 voucher - it’d probably be cheaper than the expense of clearing up all the fly tipping. Andy Greenwood: Absolute lunacy!! Let’s charge people to tip household rubble from DIY and see whether it exacerbates the problem!! Grrr! Carl Wainwright: They don’t help themselves at all - bringing out policies that encourage it. Anne-Lise All: The new charges are only going to make things worse. Andrew Kent: Abusing the tip like taking rubbish there?? Doesn’t matter if they’re trade or not, rub- bish has to go somewhere and even trade guys pay council tax since most of them don’t live in their vans. Rubble, plasterboard, ceramics, etc is abuse because the private companies it’s outsourced so can’t make any money? Whether trade guys pay or not to have it sent to landfill it still ends up there when the council have to go picking up after fly tippers.
LIDL gets green light to build in Macclesfield. The German supermarket chain has been given permission to build at Parsonage Street (website). Joe Hutchinson: At last, just get it built. Mark Beresford: Love Lidl...it will be a welcome development of this eyesore of a site.
People may be snobbish about the Aldi/ Lidl supermarkets, but in the 20 years that Aldi has been open we have saved an average £1,500 a year...Do the maths....Yes £30,000. Judie Tingle: Lidl is fab! You guys won’t moan when you taste the food from there. Carol Goodwin: I’ll believe it when I see it nothing ever happens in Macclesfield other than promises. Maria Wood: This would have been a good place to build the cinema Macc is supposed to be having. Instead of in town. There’s parking spaces too. Carol Jackson: Think we have enough supermarkets in a small town, shouldn’t we be helping small shops? John Partington: What a ridiculous location for a large supermarket. Everyone wants the tower block removed but its replacement needs to be appropriate for such a key site in the town centre that’s surrounded by historic buildings. It would be perfect for the development of low rise housing, green space and to extend the range of food and drink outlets already around Park Green. The planners seem to be so out of touch with the town and the locals. If they have ever been to Macc they must have walked round with their eyes shut and their fingers in their ears!