Footpaths and Bridleways.

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I recently ventured upon a public footpath in Hollingworth/
Littleborough; as we were cutting through to get onto the Rossendale
Way that had become for the local residents of a housing estate their
own personal rubbish dump. I am not talking about the odd coke can or
sack old take away but materesses, garden furniture and rubble to say
the least. It is not as if we are awash with pathways all over the
country so why is it that people seem treat them with such disrespect
or to complain and bicker in order to get these closed or moved.

I think we should start a website and post these photographs to shame
these people.

Anybody else come accross similar issues.

Daily. Where I live we only have two corporation tips within easy
reach, and they're both free unless you're a white van, so naturally the
locals go to extraordinary lengths to dump all manner of penc all over
the hillsides. The really stupid thing is that most of the stuff could
probably be recycled - but since they clearly don't care about anything
other than themselves they're not bothered about recycling either.

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Quoted message said:

[email hidden] said...

Quoted message said:

I recently ventured upon a public footpath in Hollingworth/
Littleborough; as we were cutting through to get onto the Rossendale
Way that had become for the local residents of a housing estate their
own personal rubbish dump. I am not talking about the odd coke can or
sack old take away but materesses, garden furniture and rubble to say
the least. It is not as if we are awash with pathways all over the
country so why is it that people seem treat them with such disrespect
or to complain and bicker in order to get these closed or moved.

I think we should start a website and post these photographs to shame
these people.

Anybody else come accross similar issues.

Daily. Where I live we only have two corporation tips within easy
reach, and they're both free unless you're a white van, so naturally the
locals go to extraordinary lengths to dump all manner of penc all over
the hillsides. The really stupid thing is that most of the stuff could
probably be recycled - but since they clearly don't care about anything
other than themselves they're not bothered about recycling either.

I also forgot to mention my local river. Supermarket trolleys, exercise
bikes, children's bikes, bits of old pram, bin bags... how the ducks and
the heron survive is beyond me. They do though. I like ducks :-)

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Fran said:

Quoted message said:

Anybody else come accross similar issues.

Daily. Where I live we only have two corporation tips within easy
reach, and they're both free unless you're a white van, so naturally the
locals go to extraordinary lengths to dump all manner of penc all over
the hillsides.

About five minutes walk from home is a wood. It's a popular place for
dog-walkers and kids and I feel very lucky to have such a nice
"natural" area nearby. One side of the woods is bound by a lane which
has a layby^W rubbish-dump at one end. I've seen all sorts of penc
there; ovens, sinks, rubble, bin bags, child car-seats. All sorts.
The municipal tip is about 3 minutes, by car, along the road. In
fact, one would have to turn off the main road (containing the tip) in
order to dump rubbish in the lane. I think the tip (sorry, I mean
"Waste Reception Centre"😉 is open during daylight hours. What are
these people /like/?

Judith

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:07:39 +0000, Judith wrote...

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About five minutes walk from home is a wood. It's a popular place for
dog-walkers and kids and I feel very lucky to have such a nice
"natural" area nearby. One side of the woods is bound by a lane which
has a layby^W rubbish-dump at one end. I've seen all sorts of penc
there; ovens, sinks, rubble, bin bags, child car-seats. All sorts.

I needed to dispose of an oven a few months ago. I phoned the local
council. They came and collected it. Free. Much easier than dumping
it in the lane next to the local woods.

Quoted message said:

The municipal tip is about 3 minutes, by car, along the road. In
fact, one would have to turn off the main road (containing the tip) in
order to dump rubbish in the lane. I think the tip (sorry, I mean
"Waste Reception Centre"😉 is open during daylight hours. What are
these people /like/?

Well, obviously, if you were going to dump rubbish in the lane next to
the woods, you'd need to do it at night, when you can't be seen. And
the Civic Amenity Site [1] isn't open then. So then that forces you to
dump it in the lane next to the woods. Obvious, innit?

[1] Our local council likes to call a spade a tilth development tool.

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On 23 Jan 2006 13:56:30 -0800, "Brozuki" <[email hidden]> wrote:

|I recently ventured upon a public footpath in Hollingworth/
|Littleborough; as we were cutting through to get onto the Rossendale
|Way that had become for the local residents of a housing estate their
|own personal rubbish dump. I am not talking about the odd coke can or
|sack old take away but materesses, garden furniture and rubble to say
|the least. It is not as if we are awash with pathways all over the
|country so why is it that people seem treat them with such disrespect
|or to complain and bicker in order to get these closed or moved.
|
|I think we should start a website and post these photographs to shame
|these people.
|
|Anybody else come accross similar issues.

Rubbish attracts rubbish. Bounding the houses on one side of the Grove is
an unused track. The neighbours and I keep it rubbish free for purely
selfish reasons. Someone dumped a pickup full of felled bushes there, so
I moved them to block the entry to vehicles.
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For Yorkshire Dialect go to www.hyphenologist.co.uk/songs/

Some lanes in West Lothian have CCTV to try and deter vermin. Its
everywhere.

A typical sight
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/108167

Richard Webb

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Fran said:

Quoted message said:

Anybody else come accross similar issues.

Daily. Where I live we only have two corporation tips within easy
reach, and they're both free unless you're a white van, so naturally the
locals go to extraordinary lengths to dump all manner of penc all over
the hillsides.

About five minutes walk from home is a wood. It's a popular place for
dog-walkers and kids and I feel very lucky to have such a nice
"natural" area nearby. One side of the woods is bound by a lane which
has a layby^W rubbish-dump at one end. I've seen all sorts of penc
there; ovens, sinks, rubble, bin bags, child car-seats. All sorts.
The municipal tip is about 3 minutes, by car, along the road. In
fact, one would have to turn off the main road (containing the tip) in
order to dump rubbish in the lane. I think the tip (sorry, I mean
"Waste Reception Centre"😉 is open during daylight hours. What are
these people /like/?

A couple of years ago when I was living in Yarmouth (hellhole), some of my
colourful, friendly neighbours mistook my (open) carpark for a municipal tip
(as they had a regular tendency to do), and dumped an old sofa there. I rung
the council to get them to come and take it away, and they said that it
would cost me £15 to do this (a tory council had just been elected, hence
the new charge). I said I wouldn't be paying it because it wasn't my
rubbish. They said I'd have to. I said "what if I dragged the sofa out into
the road, you'd have to clear it then." They said they'd do me for
obstructing a public highway. Fortunately, I hadn't told them at this point
where I lived, so I dragged it out and stuck it on the pavement, and it was
eventually cleared.

I now live somewhere much nicer, thank God.

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:43:06 -0000, "Woollyzone" <[email hidden]> wrote:

|A couple of years ago when I was living in Yarmouth (hellhole), some of my
|colourful, friendly neighbours mistook my (open) carpark for a municipaltip
|(as they had a regular tendency to do), and dumped an old sofa there. I rung

I have a *very* old trailer and a towbar on the car for the caravan.
Provided you are not commercial, the local tip will take anything, so I
throw prefer to throw such things into the trailer and off to the tip. Much
easier than arguing.
--
Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk>
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A typical sight
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/108167

Amazing isn't it? Prisons overflowing, many more offenders on community
service - wouldn't you think this was ideal work for these miscreants?

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When I left Wolverhampton the tip had just been fitted with a barrier
and car park style bandit for extracting money from household waste
tipping. It was a race to get all the junk out of the old house
before they started charging.

Now the council area of Wolverhampton, is entirely urban, first field
and you are in the part of Staffordshire still governed from Stafford.

Now where is the increased fly tipping going to happen - out in the
country where it is someone else's problem.

Nice people.

Richard Webb

Fran said:

[email hidden] said...

Quoted message said:

I recently ventured upon a public footpath in Hollingworth/
Littleborough; as we were cutting through to get onto the Rossendale
Way that had become for the local residents of a housing estate their
own personal rubbish dump. I am not talking about the odd coke can or
sack old take away but materesses, garden furniture and rubble to say
the least. It is not as if we are awash with pathways all over the
country so why is it that people seem treat them with such disrespect
or to complain and bicker in order to get these closed or moved.

I think we should start a website and post these photographs to shame
these people.

Anybody else come accross similar issues.

Daily. Where I live we only have two corporation tips within easy
reach, and they're both free unless you're a white van, so naturally the
locals go to extraordinary lengths to dump all manner of penc all over
the hillsides. The really stupid thing is that most of the stuff could
probably be recycled - but since they clearly don't care about anything
other than themselves they're not bothered about recycling either.

It's not just paths. I've twice seen a car pull up beside a hedge on a
country road just outside a small town, dump a large bag of rubbish,
turn round and drive back.

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Judith said:

About five minutes walk from home is a wood. It's a popular place for
dog-walkers and kids and I feel very lucky to have such a nice
"natural" area nearby. One side of the woods is bound by a lane which
has a layby^W rubbish-dump at one end. I've seen all sorts of penc
there; ovens, sinks, rubble, bin bags, child car-seats. All sorts.
The municipal tip is about 3 minutes, by car, along the road. In
fact, one would have to turn off the main road (containing the tip) in
order to dump rubbish in the lane. I think the tip (sorry, I mean
"Waste Reception Centre"😉 is open during daylight hours. What are
these people /like/?

Bet that's Storeton Woods Judith!
I used to play in there about 45 years ago... I think they were
privately owned then...
Cheers,
MalJ

Quoted message said:

Judith

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Quoted message said:

It's not just paths. I've twice seen a car pull up beside a hedge on a
country road just outside a small town, dump a large bag of rubbish,
turn round and drive back.

I hope you noted down his number and reported him?
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MalJ said:

Quoted message said:

About five minutes walk from home is a wood. It's a popular place for
dog-walkers and kids and I feel very lucky to have such a nice
"natural" area nearby. One side of the woods is bound by a lane which
has a layby^W rubbish-dump at one end. I've seen all sorts of penc
there; ovens, sinks, rubble, bin bags, child car-seats. All sorts.
The municipal tip is about 3 minutes, by car, along the road. In
fact, one would have to turn off the main road (containing the tip) in
order to dump rubbish in the lane. I think the tip (sorry, I mean
"Waste Reception Centre"😉 is open during daylight hours. What are
these people /like/?

Bet that's Storeton Woods Judith!

Eek! I forgot I had an internet stalker! ;-)

Quoted message said:

I used to play in there about 45 years ago... I think they were
privately owned then...

I'm not sure who they belonged to then (or during my own childhood)
but I do remember a big fuss when the woods were up for sale and there
was the worry that they would become a Tesco or something. Luckily
they were bought by "The Friends of Storeton Woods" who seem to do a
good job of keeping the woods available for everyone to enjoy.

I really must join in on one of their volunteer maintenance days.

Judith