Parish council backs bid to move bins
CHALFONT St Peter parish council have lent their support to residents who are angry at the noise and mess caused by a group of recycling bins near to their homes.
At a meeting of the parish council on Thursday night last week, resident Maggy Read told the council how herself and other residents who live in homes near to Church Lane car park are continually disturbed by people using the bins at all hours of the day and night.
She also said that the bins had become a dumping ground for rubbish not intended to be put in them, and she urged the council to back her in her bid to get them moved.
Ms Read has long complained about the issue, but at last week's meeting, the parish council agreed that the bins had become a big problem, and promised to support her and ask Chiltern District Council (CDC) to find an alternative location for them.
Ms Read said: "Nothing has changed with this issue, in fact I think it has got worse. There is a terrible smell that comes from the area that we all have to put up with because we live so close, and it is a not a situation we should have to live with.
"Children play around there and it is not safe for them to do that. Old food is left there and I have seen maggots and flies because of that. It is absolutely disgusting to have to live near that, and it is time that a different location was found."
The parish council agreed that the bins had become a problem for the village and sympathised with Ms Read and the other residents.
Cllr Isobel Darby said; "The problem is that the bins have become so successful over time that people are now using them as a dumping ground, instead of using just for recycling.
"It is starting to become more like the dump on Amersham Road than a recycling area, and this is obviously not right.
"As a parish council, we want them to be moved somewhere else. They are too big for that car park and we will urge CDC to find another location for them."
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I often used the Church Lane car park for recycling but stopped when I realised that the houses were so close to it.
Having said that, the recycling bins were there before those new flats/houses and anyone living there now must have known what they were in for.
I now use the ones by the football pitch instead.
I have a bin.
Sometimes it smells, so I have a man to come and rinse it out.