The government is evidently going to publish plans on Monday to prevent councils in England fining householders who break ‘minor bin collection rules’. They claim say that councils should only be able to act where they can prove that a householder is causing ‘harm to local amenity’ and that ‘only those causing real problems for their community will get punished’. The aim of this legislation seems to be to reduce the powers of authorities over rubbish collections, however in Ipswich bins are already causing ‘harm to local amenity’ as can be seen in all but one of the cases features below :
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- This bin remained here for days! Why don’t people move them I wonder?
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- Not bin day. In addition notice the car parked diagonally across the pavement
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- Puddles on poorly designed dropped kerbs and bins in the middle of the pavement
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- Bins permanently blocking the pavement, no response following complaint
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- Finally… A householder with a sense of civic pride! Thank you
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- Bin on pavement still with warning sticker saying ‘don’t leave bin on the pavement’!
Pedestrian Liberation 