are these people still whining? Do they even know what a 'plague' is?

THIS IS THEIR RUBBISH! THEY HAVE THROWN IT INTO THE STREET!

hi,unless you are having these problems,dont moan because others are complaining.this is what is gonna happen to most of us i think

Paul D has no idea about the rubbish problem!

We pay for a weekly service and the people of Swindon want a weekly service. Get our coucillors off their backsides and make them kick the army of overstaffed penpushers out and employ adequate staff to collect our rubbish weekly.

I live in Wroughton and have rats by the dozen round my house now.

This problem is certainly not going to go away until the Council get their act together. In a democracy people have a right to express their opinion and views, because it's not effecting PaulD, he views this as whining. A few months ago I was sitting in a pub car park in Wroughton waiting for a colleague when opposite I saw a huge rat appear from a basement area and happily walk along the pavement, this was before the bag fiasco. Heaven knows what it's like now.

This problem is certainly not going to go away until the Council get their act together. In a democracy people have a right to express their opinion and views, because it's not effecting PaulD, he views this as whining. A few months ago I was sitting in a pub car park in Wroughton waiting for a colleague when opposite I saw a huge rat appear from a basement area and happily walk along the pavement, this was before the bag fiasco. Heaven knows what it's like now.

what a lot of fuss about nothing. we are all responsible for our own waste the council just collects it for us. why does your black bag stink mine doesnt? tie it securely at top when full. its actually more hygenic than before as you can put it in a wheelie bin instead of having it ripped open by animals. rats are a different issue altogether. i live in a very clean area and we have rats. the rat population has exploded and we need to do something about that.

Karen agrees. She said: "We have a large Goan population around here with big families all living in one house - as is their culture.

"They create more than one wheelie bin full of rubbish in a week so why should they have to put up with a substandard council collection - why should any of us?"

Hmm, while I do have some sympathy with Broadgreen residents, the argument above is not a good one.

Council Tax payments are based on the property itself (ignoring the miserly 25% discount for single occupants).

If there are big families all living in one house and producing the equivalent of two or three house's worth of rubbish then those people should take responsibility for it.

You can't try and avoid paying the correct amount of Council Tax by over-crowding one property and then whinge when all of your additional rubbish isn't collected.

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Theres Rats everywhere at the moment I live in the Town Centre area In the summer I had my Back door open I spotted a Rat in the Kitchen at the dogs food ,When the rat Catcher came out ,we found a pile of dog biscuits in a corner of the garden,I think they are also attracted to Bread put out for pidgeons and peoples discarded takeaways in the Town area

I think people are forgetting a few important points. The fact is that even though the Council have halved the service with their once fortnightly collection, we are expected to pay the same. If there was a corresponding reduction in the tax it would be just about acceptable. To continue to halve the service and pay the same is objectionable.

Larger families are entitled to two Wheelies, however, you have to be assessed and the Council have not provided enough assessors. In the meantime desperate households have no alternative but to fly tip.

There are not enough recycling points to make recycling feasible.

It is Winter, last week I walked passed my Wheelie, it stank, I am dreading the summer.

I have so far noticed two dead rats in the Broadgreen area, it's simple, once fortnightly collections will attract vermin. In the summer the Wheelies will be festooned with Wasps, Flies and Maggots. This is a public health issue.

There is NO excuse for this behaviour from the council, I have paid my extortionate tax, now I demand the service.

I suggest that come local election time you vote for the candidate, like Karen Leakey, who promises to restore the weekly collection, you do not vote for those who will not restore the collection. Yoiu should do this irrespective of the candidates political allegiance. This is the only way these gross incompetents will listen. You have the power, now use it!

I would like to add my Mum lives in Spain, the rubbish is collected every night!

The Council does provide a weekly collection service. Recylcing is every week and non-recycable materials are fortnightly.

Anyone who promises to restore the weekly non-recyclable collection will struggle to explain how they intend to do so while maintaining the increase in recylcing without a significant cost increase.

At the end of day, people need to start making more of an effort to reduce the waste they generate. We cannot go on filling up landfills at the rate we are now. Alarmist and gross exaggerations of "plagues of rats," is irresponsible scaremongering.

If people don't like mattresses, prams etc. being thrown out on the street perhaps they should take this up with the people thoughtlessly dumping their waste.

While there were teething problems with the scheme across town, it does seem that Broadgreen is having more of a problem than anywhere else.

SwindonBorn wrote:
The Council does provide a weekly collection service. Recylcing is every week and non-recycable materials are fortnightly. Anyone who promises to restore the weekly non-recyclable collection will struggle to explain how they intend to do so while maintaining the increase in recylcing without a significant cost increase. At the end of day, people need to start making more of an effort to reduce the waste they generate. We cannot go on filling up landfills at the rate we are now. Alarmist and gross exaggerations of "plagues of rats," is irresponsible scaremongering. If people don't like mattresses, prams etc. being thrown out on the street perhaps they should take this up with the people thoughtlessly dumping their waste. While there were teething problems with the scheme across town, it does seem that Broadgreen is having more of a problem than anywhere else.

The council is providing a weekly RECYCLING service - paper, card, glass, tin cans etc. It is no longer providing a weekly RUBBISH collection - which is something we have all paid for through our Council Tax.

Sorry, but I don't see mattresses, prams etc. thrown out on the street. In any case, large items such as these will be collected by the council for a small charge.

There are people who will fly-tip - but they were doing that before anyway.

Keeping the wheelie bin clean and free from nasty niffs isn't rocket science. Just wait till it's newly been emptied and wash it out with disinfectant and turn it upside down till it dries (or on it's side).

I used wheelie bins when they were first introduced about 20 years ago. Albeit ours was emptied every week but it did cut down on vermin and kept the area a lot tidier, but therein lay the answer - it was collected weekly and it was also bigger than the ones we've got now.

I recycle as much as possible but there are some things the council won't accept for recycling such as yogurt pots and similar plastics. Given the amount of unrecyclable materials that are foisted on us from shops and supermarkets, these take up a lot of space in the wheelie bins, even after squashing them down.

Although I quite like my wheelie bin (apart from the struggle getting it up steps) I do think we need to return to the weekly rubbish collection because of SBC's half-baked approach to recycling (by their own admission they haven't got the facilities to recycle many types of plastic).

They really do need to get back to the drawing board and come up with something better. After all, we pay extortionate council tax for these services.

And this is the real crux of the matter. We all pay increasingly exorbitant tax for an ever decreasing service, and that I'm afraid is unacceptable. I would suspect that if the service was commercially run, they would be able to afford to provide this service, and at a reasonable cost. Even the dogs on the street know that councils run things badly, and expensively. I for one am shocked that some people here are trying to justify the unjustifiable. I would further suspect that if the council had kept the weeky service, and doubled the charge, everyone would be up in arms. This is no different.

broadgreen residents are always on the moan as regards to the wheelie bins well they want to think there self lucky at least they don't have to drag there wheelie bins from there back gardens round to the front of there house or have to take it through there house like all people who live on the new college estate as we have no where out the front of our houses to store them

lets look at a few facts here.the vast majority of people have no problem with the fortnightly collection of rubbish.

broadgreen is what it is because of the residents of the area and their negligence.the rubbish collections are nothing to do with it.

also the rubbish spouted that our service is less now is inaccurate too.infact we are getting more for our taxes.as they sort out the recyling materials weekly as they collect it!!

people out seeking rubbish just to make their ridiculous point says it all.

i suggest those people try to educate the primitive types that infect the area in how to recycle and improve the estate.
and rats are everywhere by the way.look hard enough and you will find them

I Think these people need to seriously consider why their bins stink so much and why there is so much excess rubbish. I Live in a household of 3 and before the wheelie bins came along we used to throw away around 4 bags a week, Now weekly recycling has been enforced I Don't even throw away 3 bags in a fortnight. These people need to start recycling like everyone else and stop moaning. The council have made it so easy for everyone to recycle. It's a shame these people have nothing better to do than critisise the people who are trying to save our environment.

I would like to see more pressure put on the supermarkets and their suppliers to look for alternatives to the rigid plastic containers that they favour. I have now reached the point where I refuse to buy, wherever possible, food items packaged in this way. I don't see why I should fill my wheelie bin with their rubbish.

When are people going to realise that there is no such thing as 'away' when they throw things away? My household is 4 adults and although we have weekly collection, I only need to put the wheely bin out every other week. Everything recyclable is recycled, everyting that can be composted is composted. No food has to put into the bin. Too much waste food? Don't buy it in the first place! You do not have the right to trash the planet just because you can pay to do so. It is your responsibility, not the council or anyone else for the mess that you make. Stop whining and think about the consequences of your actions.

We have a large **** population around here with big families all living in one house - as is their culture.
"They create more than one wheelie bin full of rubbish in a week so why should they have to put up with a substandard council collection - why should any of us ?"


What sort of comment is this ? Larger households are entitled to extra bins. This is just another attempt for the area to receive preferential treatment.
Wheelie bins seem to be working in the rest of the town. If the Broadgreen residents choose to dump their rubbish on the
streets, why should the rest of the town have to foot the bill to pay for it. Perhaps the cost of clearing the rubbish could be recovered by a substantial surcharge on the council tax for Broadgreen. Or perhaps they should arrange for private contractors to clear their fly tipped waste.

I do have some sympathy for the residents in this area as the housing is not suitable for wheelie bins, however I must admit that I'm not sure who they're criticising for the mountain of waste that they've collected.

This is waste dumped by their neighbours after all. If it’s not the residents of Broadgreen (even a small minority) Who is to blame for this waste?

As for the comments about the Goan's, maybe they do pack the houses to the rafters, and maybe it is their culture, but it's not ours and if it creates a health issue, such over crowding has to stop.

I also agree with Big Mac and others who highlight the fact that other tax payers are subsidising their waste collection, this is the case no matter where you stand on the two weekly collections.

The fly tipping of other waste (matresses etc) is a compleely spearate issue and should be treated as such.

It's not just Broad Green that has a problem, as stated by somebody earlier on in the thread. Here is Queens Drive, none of my nearby neighbours have received a wheelie bin or blue bags, despite endless phone calls to the council. I am the only one along here who has received one! But it's not enough as I have a family of six children, two of those have continance probs. We have phoned the council and asked for an assesment months back and chased up with twice weekly phone calls, all to no avail. I have also reported the huge load of black bags that have been left to fester by the roadside. It's black bag city here and through no fault of the residents!

I'm just waiting for somebody here to suggest that the one wheelie bin is actually adequate for the ten houses along here and should be used for all!

I say fair play to the residents of Broad Green. Good luck to them and their plucky councillor. It's too easy to sit on your backside and moan, at least these guys are doing something about it! There is a problem, lets not bury our heads in the sand and pretend there is not.

All the comments put forward different and valid points of view.

One of the biggest bones of contention is the amount of unrecyclable plastic. I mentioned two. Let's face it. Most of us buy our meat at the supermarket. What's it in? Little unrecyclable plastic trays. Those of us lucky enough to have a greenhouse and grow our own plants know we can recycle them ourselves as they make good little seedling trays, but you can only put so much in a greenhouse and not everyone has a garden, let alone a greenhouse.

Another real pain is the bubble packs that items such as headphones come in. Difficult to get into (even with strong scissors near nigh impossible at times - and you can give yourself a nasty cut with the sharp edges). Do we really need that type of packaging? The answer is no. Not so long ago such items would have been in a cardboard (recyclable) box. Why can't we return to that type of packaging and ditch the stupid bubble packs? All these things do is fill up your bin and end up in landfill.

Hellyb. You are mistaken if you think this is "saving the environment".

Recycling is fine IF it is done properly and many people have been doing it for years one way or the other.

However, you can't make a sweeping statement such as "...saving the environment" when the Council now have at least 3 times more lorries belching out diesel fumes than they had before.

Lorry comes round to do kerbside recycling of cans, glass and cardboard. Does not switch off engine.

Lorry comes round to empty wheelie bins. Does not switch off engine.

Yet another lorry comes round to collect the plastic bottle bags. Does not switch off engine.

Please tell me HOW that is supposed to "help save the environment". It's just added 3fold to the pollution we already have.

This recycling is designed to cut down on landfill. Nothing more but as I've said above, although there might be less landfill useage, the pollution levels have increased.

Mumstheword wrote:
It's not just Broad Green that has a problem, as stated by somebody earlier on in the thread. Here is Queens Drive, none of my nearby neighbours have received a wheelie bin or blue bags, despite endless phone calls to the council. I am the only one along here who has received one! But it's not enough as I have a family of six children, two of those have continance probs. We have phoned the council and asked for an assesment months back and chased up with twice weekly phone calls, all to no avail. I have also reported the huge load of black bags that have been left to fester by the roadside. It's black bag city here and through no fault of the residents! I'm just waiting for somebody here to suggest that the one wheelie bin is actually adequate for the ten houses along here and should be used for all! I say fair play to the residents of Broad Green. Good luck to them and their plucky councillor. It's too easy to sit on your backside and moan, at least these guys are doing something about it! There is a problem, lets not bury our heads in the sand and pretend there is not.

maybe its because many of your fellow residents of walcot just bundling recylble items into bin bags that causes the problem?
and have you heard of terry nappies?

i think your neighbours should have had their wheelie bins.why give you yours and not eveyone else?for that the council must take the blame!
the rest is nobys fault but the residents.if you choose to breed like rabbits dont expect everyone else to foot the bill for everything.its your responsibilty!
cant pay?dont breed!

Yeti. You don't have to resort to personal insults to get your point across. Your personal comments against Mumstheword are nasty and uncalled for.

Many people are in a similar position of not having received wheelie bin or blue bag.

This is part of the problem with this whole collection business. There is no consistency from area to area.

Recycling is admirable but only , and I repeat only if it is done properly, which, in Swindon it is not.

As for terry nappies, I used them with my kids. They might be recyclable over and over again but they are not that environmentally friendly either - pailfuls of nappies soaking in bleach-based Napisan (or whatever they use nowadays), then having to be washed - uses gallons of hot water, also pumping washing powder chemicals into the environment, then dried, either outside if it's a fine day or if it's raining in a tumble dryer or on a clothes horse with the heating turned up. I know when my kids were small my washing machine was on every day, sometimes twice a day - and there is 6 years between my two.

Regardless of whether you use disposable nappies or terry nappies, both have their pros and cons.

I will repeat what I said in my previous post. The biggest culprit are the manufacturers who persist in foisting these unrecyclable (at least for SBC) plastic trays and these infernal bubble packs!

I agree that manufacturers should do more to reduce the unrecyclable packaging in the first place. This is where government and local councils should have focused their efforts first and foremost.

I vote with my money by not purchasing goods with unrecyclable packaging in the first place. It's a start.

If you moan about Wheelie Bins, then obviously rubbish is going to build up into a mountain! Common sense I think!!
Splashing problems of an area I used to live in on front pages is going to severely decrease house prices and further act as a catalyst for the declining condition of the area.
Quit being an aspiring councellor and actually promote the good of the area before turning my old neighbourhood into a worse shanty state. Take it up with the council as the adver can't collect the waste.
I don't know if you have heard, rats have increased in population and its not the council's faul that people produce so much waste and cannot make adequate arrangements to store their waste. People need to RECYCLE MORE and take more responsibility as times are changing and people need to accept their habits need to change!! Hello, its nearly the year 2008....

Secondly, this surely cannot be worthy of the front page? A day after a harrowing story about the 17 year old who got killed on Christmas Day?? I do journalism at UNI and would bin this idea completely!!!

neilswindonuk wrote:
If you moan about Wheelie Bins, then obviously rubbish is going to build up into a mountain! Common sense I think!!
Splashing problems of an area I used to live in on front pages is going to severely decrease house prices and further act as a catalyst for the declining condition of the area.
Quit being an aspiring councellor and actually promote the good of the area before turning my old neighbourhood into a worse shanty state. Take it up with the council as the adver can't collect the waste.
I don't know if you have heard, rats have increased in population and its not the council's faul that people produce so much waste and cannot make adequate arrangements to store their waste. People need to RECYCLE MORE and take more responsibility as times are changing and people need to accept their habits need to change!! Hello, its nearly the year 2008....

Secondly, this surely cannot be worthy of the front page? A day after a harrowing story about the 17 year old who got killed on Christmas Day?? I do journalism at UNI and would bin this idea completely!!!

If you ever qualify as a journalist, then there's bound to be a job waiting for you at the Adver, or even The Guardian. Your standard of written grammar is about on a par with their journalists - not very good!

It's called recycling, so recycle. Doh

I cant put teri nappies on a almost four year old or a ten year old! They have a problem with a muscle in their bowel. They need specialist products that are supplied. They don't seem to do environmentally friendly products.

As for the neigbours, they are very good at recycling and all use their tubs whenever possible. It's packaging and limited recycling that is the problem as Ck states.

Breeding like rabbits, well I would happily pay for a second wheelie bin. I tried to purchase a third recycling tub, but, the council would not accept our debit card over the phone, despite the fact that is a widely accepted card (visa electron). We were told that we would have to go to Cheney Manor to pick up and pay for a third box. As i already mentioned myself and husband can't drive, due to medical conditions. I explained this to the guy on the phone and asked if a street warden could deliver a third tub (they are always in the area anyhow!) and we could give him or her the £5. Guess what, we were told no. So the council is not exactly helping itself here.

What would happen if we purchased a plain black box from Wilkinsons, to use as a recylcing tub, would they collect in that??

me nasty,personal?not at all.just giving my opinion.why should those that put nothing in the pot demand more for nothing?

Yeti,
hope you and your family had a good christmas? We may not agree on much, but I respect your opinions none the less and do not ever take offence. I know that you have had a rough ride in Walcot.

Mumstheword wrote:
Yeti, hope you and your family had a good christmas? We may not agree on much, but I respect your opinions none the less and do not ever take offence. I know that you have had a rough ride in Walcot.

i know you are a good person and i take my hat off to you. i really do.i do have my opinions but i dont mean any personal insults to you at all.i wish you and your family a happy new year!

Dont see what all the fuss is about. Rats eat the rubbish, so more rats, the less rubbish. Less rubbish less whinging idiots carrying on about wheelie bins. Less whingers on about bins, more space for proper journalism in the adver. Opps sorry, Went a bit far with that last comment.

jesuswept117 wrote:
Dont see what all the fuss is about. Rats eat the rubbish, so more rats, the less rubbish. Less rubbish less whinging idiots carrying on about wheelie bins. Less whingers on about bins, more space for proper journalism in the adver. Opps sorry, Went a bit far with that last comment.

I agree - and recycling is the only way forward! If everyone fulfills their obligations then there won't be causes to complain.

Oh and er 'Grumpy' - Most appropriate name you have there. I am perfectly entitled to write as informally as I wish on the internet!

What on earth is this woman, Mrs Leakey, trying to do?

She creates her own problems over and over again.

Firstly refusing to use the wheelie bins, then complaining that rubbish is piling up, then fussing about rats from piled up rubbish?

I remain baffled as to why our local paper continue to assist this poor lady in looking ridiculous.

As NeilSwindon says, Mrs Leakey just contributes to the bad name Broad Green has in the town already.

I feel so very sorry for anyone who is trying to sell their house in that area. Until Mrs Leakey realises where her rubbish should go and takes the Adver number off speed dial your house will remain unsold.

An appalling area, as Mrs Leakey continues to highlight, which should be evacuated so the council can allow developers to bulldoze it and turn it into a landfill site.

Mumstheword wrote:
I cant put teri nappies on a almost four year old or a ten year old! They have a problem with a muscle in their bowel. They need specialist products that are supplied. They don't seem to do environmentally friendly products. As for the neigbours, they are very good at recycling and all use their tubs whenever possible. It's packaging and limited recycling that is the problem as Ck states. Breeding like rabbits, well I would happily pay for a second wheelie bin. I tried to purchase a third recycling tub, but, the council would not accept our debit card over the phone, despite the fact that is a widely accepted card (visa electron). We were told that we would have to go to Cheney Manor to pick up and pay for a third box. As i already mentioned myself and husband can't drive, due to medical conditions. I explained this to the guy on the phone and asked if a street warden could deliver a third tub (they are always in the area anyhow!) and we could give him or her the £5. Guess what, we were told no. So the council is not exactly helping itself here. What would happen if we purchased a plain black box from Wilkinsons, to use as a recylcing tub, would they collect in that??

Swindon council offer a dedicated collection for medical waste (they supply special yellow sacks) IF you can eventually make contact with the cleansing dept it would be worth asking about this service

The biggest cause of the landfill problem is once upon a time the vast majority of people had open fires and most rubbish, particularly left over food was burned so the only thing that really went in the dustbin was the ash from the fire and the odd tin can. Newspapers were screwed up to light the fire with, always leaving one to "draw" the fire with (as a 14 year old I managed to put the chimney on fire doing that - but that's another story...oops). There was very little that couldn't be burned, then the environmentalists started complaining about "smog" and open fires were discouraged and most done away with in favour of electric or gas fires.

Ironically, most of the "smog" was generated by industry.

All this has done is trade one problem for another. A lot less open fires but a lot more landfill rubbish.

Seems to me the environmentalists want their cake and eat it. Can't have it all ways I'm afraid.

(Sigh). I miss not having an open fire. Can't beat them for warming up on a cold night.

So, central heating is to blame for fly tipping?

I've only just read this - and I think it's a disgrace. Large families get TWO wheelie bins! Are they paying two lots of council tax? Unlikely. More likely is that they pay NO council tax as they are on benefits.

THIS COUNTRY IS GOING TO HELL IN A HAND BASKET.

Here here Pav!

Swindon council offer a dedicated collection for medical waste (they supply special yellow sacks) IF you can eventually make contact with the cleansing dept it would be worth asking about this service

Sam thanks for the info. When/if? the assesor turns up I will ask about this.

Many thanks again.

Pav wrote:
I've only just read this - and I think it's a disgrace. Large families get TWO wheelie bins! Are they paying two lots of council tax? Unlikely. More likely is that they pay NO council tax as they are on benefits. THIS COUNTRY IS GOING TO HELL IN A HAND BASKET.

Not strictly true pav. I now have 4 kids, I think that counts me as having a large family. I pay more than enough council tax and no-one at the castle is on benefits thanks!
P.S. We have just the one wheelie bin and recycle everything we can and only need the one.
Happy new year to one and all

xx

Also things don't last like they used to. Cookers, microwaves, vacuum cleaners etc etc all seem to have a much shorter life. Hence huge manufacturer profits and huge landfill. Yep bring back coal fires and the good old days!

In reply to a few of the points, firstly I am not a Councillor – I am Chair of the Broad Street Area Community Council and that is why I ‘front’ campaigns that bother the majority of residents that live in the Broadgreen Area.
We have no problem with recycling – most of the residents undertake this exercise well and it is very welcome, unfortunately there is some confusion between problems of rubbish collection and recycling, and there is no connection between the two what so ever.

The Broadgreen area has, for many years, had a big problem with things being fly-tipped , like beds/furniture and white goods etc. often being dumped by people not living in the area.
Now, since a fortnightly rubbish collection has been introduced, we have a large amount of black bins bags being dumped as well.
Whilst the dumping could be put down to thoughtless residents and some of it probably is, much of it is because like it or not people produce too much rubbish that cannot be recycled or fitted into their wheelies.
This is a problem I have myself, but like so many people across the town that have access to transport, I can, as suggested by the Council, dump my excess rubbish at the ‘recycling’ centre.
However, many people in the Broadgreen area are not so lucky and do not have the same access to transport to take their excess rubbish to Barnfield. Therefore do people commenting on here really believe that they are superior to people that do not have the means to dump their rubbish at the ‘official’ place, and therefore believe those people should not be allowed to purchase and enjoy the same things as themselves, simply because they are not in a situation to throw away the associated rubbish at official places?
This is what has lead to black bags being dumped in alley ways and on the streets, simply because people have no other way of disposing of their rubbish.

Much of the rubbish we collected last Thursday was in fact not outside people’s houses but simply in the road or in alleyways. The official SBC blue bags picked up were nowhere near Medgebury road or Gooch Street, roads that have a blue bag collection, but were in the middle of roads far from these areas.
Plastic recycling bags exactly the same, picked up after being blown or kicked around the area. The blue bags that we collected were probably moved/kicked by persons carrying out anti-social behaviour late at night, after enjoying an evening of ‘fun’ in the Town Centre, leaving them in places not in a blue bag collection area.

At the end of the day for whatever reasons, and they are multiple, SBC’s fortnightly collection of rubbish is not working in the Broadgreen Area.
The Council were made aware of the problems that would happen in the area if they pushed ahead with their policies, the answer was our concerns were purely hypothetical and to invent and hypothesise about problems was a futile exercise!
The problem is we were right, we didn’t want to be right as we are now suffering from our hypothetical worries we put forward, but we the residents are the ones who live here and understand the area, unlike our councillors who have no idea about our area what so ever, and rarely dip their toes into the whole Ward, let alone one particular part.
This is the only reason I have stood in the last 2 Council elections, I do not seek fame or fortune but have deep seated feelings about what is right and wrong and I will continue to fight along side my fellow neighbours and represent the majority as I have done about many issues for the last 8 years.
Problems with rubbish collections etc are not solely seen in the Broadgreen area, we just shout louder than other people and are not prepared to accept things simply because the Council decide a policy is going to work.