8 February - The fat cats ignore the fat rats
A picture of rubbish in Fendyke Road, Belvedere appeared in
the blog for 1st
February because of a report a few days earlier about the
fly-tipping in
that part of town and the council’s failure to clean it up. At the time the
rubbish in my photograph had been there for a week and eight days later
it is still there and the pile has grown. The north west of the borough needs an official dump because
the ones at Crayford and Foots Cray are both as far away from Belvedere as you
can get without crossing the borough boundary. If you haven’t got a car and
can’t afford £27 per item for an official collection a nearby street is an
obvious attraction. Personally I have always found that large items can be cut
into many small pieces and put in the dustbin; over a period of several weeks if necessary.
Opposite where I live B&Q delivered a new bathroom suite last week. There is now
an old one and a good deal of miscellaneous rubbish dumped on private land
nearby. It’s no good having a word with the culprits, they claim not to
understand a word of English.
For the record, the diversion signs placed around the area of the
burst water main five weeks ago are still littering roads up to a mile away
from the incident. Nobody seems to be interested in removing them.