{"id":13818,"date":"2024-03-09T15:22:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T15:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=13818"},"modified":"2024-03-12T11:22:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T11:22:45","slug":"total-failure-for-bristol-city-council-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=13818","title":{"rendered":"Total failure for Bristol City Council campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Rather than waste sending any officers out from their cosy bolt-holes in the Counts Louse, Bristol City Council<\/a> – along with their colleagues in the Avon and Somerset Constabulary<\/a> – favours a policy of legal enforcement by public notice.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

This has been applied in recent years to the authority’s duties under the Environmental Protection Act covering littering, fly-tipping (posts passim<\/em><\/a>) and the like. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

In recent months, the fly-tipping hotspots of Easton and Lawrence Hill wards have been subjected to not one, but two rounds of public notices being added to the already cluttered and confusing street scene: the first consisting of the well-known red NO FLYTIPPING [sic] signs which long been known to be totally ineffective; and the second consisting of the newer so-called lamp post wraps<\/em> as shown in the photograph below which was taken in Ducie Road in Barton Hill this morning.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Do two enforcement notices work better than one?
Note also the large volume of litter between both signs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n

The lamp post wrap informs anyone who cares to read it that someone has recently been penalised fort dumping rubbish here. Between it and the traditional<\/em> red sign, are a black waste sack and a catering size white plastic tub in the corner of the city council’s public car park in Ducie Road.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

A couple of conclusions may be drawn from the above picture, as follows:<\/p>\r\n\r\n