20 November (Part 2) - Bexley Council. Blind and deaf. Definitely dumb
Bexley Council is just a waste of space. They go on about the public being their ears and eyes but it’s all BS.
I
spoke to Steve Didsbury, Bexley’s top man for recycling, on 11th October about
regular fly tipping close to my home and the deliberate contamination of various
large communal Council bins with builder’s rubble. He asked me to send
the photos
and asked if I would be a witness if he could bring a prosecution. I told him I
would be happy to do so.
Since then; not a word.
Also on 11th October a neighbour who had video of the same incident and others drove
over to Footscray to deliver the files personally to Steve Didsbury. Similar
conversation, same result.
It isn’t special treatment meted out only to me, although being taken off
the Bexley Magazine distribution list may be.
The following reader’s email tells the same old story. We may be Bexley
Council’s eyes and ears but when they are both blind and deaf and totally
incompetent it is a waste of everyone’s time. I doubt I will be risking a
bashing to photograph fly tippers in the act again.
Re your
item on BiB today about reporting unlit street lamps. I made an on line
report via the Council’s ‘portal’ on 29 October that the street lamp outside my
house was not lit. My message was acknowledged but the lamp remains unlit.
On 7 October I reported on line that my rubbish box lid was missing. Again
acknowledged but no replacement yet received.
Re the abandoned badly damaged car which I reported to Council on 23rd August (I sent you
a photo which you published).
A warning notice to owner dated 13 October was eventually placed on the car to the effect that
the Council would remove it if the owner did not do so within seven days. Needless to say,
the car, well over a month later, is still in situ. Nine months now altogether.
Why are we asked to act as the Council’s “Eyes and ears” if they don’t act on the info?
It will be for the same reason we are asked to participate in consultations which are without exception
ignored. It looks good at the superficial level and doesn’t cost too much.