Fly-tipping now worst it has been in 50 years
FOR more than 59 years I have lived in the same street in Blackley, north Manchester.
I have been very much involved in the community, trying to make a difference and a positive impact on the quality of life.
Over the past five years in particular fly-tipping has increased to a worrying proportion. Most of the back-to-back terrace properties now have communal recycling bins which are emptied once a week.
But particularly on Dalbeattie Street/Polworth Road bags of household rubbish and some furniture are fly-tipped on the highway nearly every day.
Hemsley Street/Marlfield Street residents have their own recycling bins, or so it appears, but again no sooner has the council’s contractor Biffa removed the fly-tipping then more appears the next day.
I have never spent so much time using the council’s website to keep reporting fly-tipping.
As I am writing this email, a large Christmas tree has appeared on Hemsley Street coupled with ten bags of household refuge.
I take photographs of the fly-tipping to pass on to the ward councillors and council officers. We do try and catch whoever is doing this to try and ascertain why they do it.
I am not ‘tarnishing everyone with the same brush,’ but I never known such dirty and anti-social people in my 59 years of living in north Manchester. Stephen Holt, Community guardian/chairman Parkmount RA