In the penultimate of a regular series of meetings about cleanliness in Easton and Lawrence Hill wards, BCC’s head of enforcement just happened to mention he’d noticed an ‘issue<\/em>‘ with fly-tipping in the Chaplin Road area.<\/p>\r\n Other local residents and your ‘umble scribe have only been reporting a problem in this area for some 10 and a half years, so there’s a clue as to how long it takes our apology for a local authority to notice something is wrong that doesn’t involve chasing non-payment of council tax or the issuing of bus passes (the only 2 council activities that seem to occur on an anything resembling an acceptable timescale. Ed.<\/em>)<\/p>\r\n<I seem to recall the head of enforcement suggesting some remedial action needed taking.\r\n That remedial action has now been implemented and is illustrated in the following photograph.<\/p>\r\n That’s right! The remedial measures seem to have consisted of sending a bloke out with an A5 corrugated plastic sign and cable ties and attaching it to a local resident’s railings at the junction of Chaplin Road and Normanby Road. Out of politeness, your correspondent shall refrain from asking whether the council gained the consent of the occupier\/owner before affixing its notice.<\/p>\r\n This is the enforcement equivalent of a chocolate teapot, as can be seen by today’s photo of the same site.<\/p>\r\n![\"BCC](\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/10\/600px_bcc_no_fly-tipping.jpg\")
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