Manchester Evening News

Bin bags left outside kids club

PILE OF ROTTING WASTE IS LATEST FLY-TIPPING TO BLIGHT SCHOOL

- By HELEN JOHNSON helen.johnson@menmedia.co.uk @helenj83ME­N

THIS is the revolting mess left behind after 40 foul smelling bin bags full of food were dumped outside a childcare club.

The rubbish outside Bears Wraparound Care in Blackley became so bad that staff say they are reluctant to let the children play outside. The huge pile of bin bags were dumped earlier this week, but Melissa Walsh from the club, based at Mount Carmel RC Primary School, says it is just the latest in a long line of incidents of fly-tipping, with building waste, furniture and even an old toilet being dumped in the street in recent weeks. She says the mess is so bad that parents are struggling to park near the club to drop their children off. The club provides activities for youngsters aged three to 11 but Melissa is now uncomforta­ble about letting the children play outside because the stench from the rubbish is so bad. She said: “It’s every other week we’re having fly-tipping. People are coming up the street and just dumping anything. “We’ve had toilets, beds, rubble. Now we’ve got food waste outside and there’s about 40 bin bags. Yesterday it stank. The smell was knocking me sick. We were trying to keep the children Melissa Walsh of Bears Wraparound Care away from the fence, telling them to play on one side of the playground.

“We’re running a holiday club and we can’t let them do what they want to do.” Melissa reported the incidents to Manchester City Council who sent workers to remove the waste on Friday afternoon.

A parent added: “Fly-tipping is an unacceptab­le act itself, but to be exposing children on their way in and out of school or childcare is a disgrace.

“The smell is stomach churning. We fear the rats and foxes will get to it overnight and it will be much worse by morning.”

Manchester City Council’s Executive Member for Neighbourh­oods, Councillor Rabnawas Akbar, said: “We strongly condemn anyone who is selfish and irresponsi­ble enough to illegally dump waste in our city.

“After receiving reports of this incident our officers have arranged for the waste to be removed and will take investigat­ive action, with the aim of prosecutin­g the offenders.”

 ??  ?? Melissa Walsh with children from Bears Wraparound Care
Melissa Walsh with children from Bears Wraparound Care

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