| Are there any real constraints on where and how commercial premises deal with their rubbish? At the CHRd end of Duke Road we already have 4 huge wheeled monsters on one side of the road belonging to Zizzi's which are sometimes overfilled and extra black bin bags left alongside the dumpsters. While on the opposite side of Duke Road we now have 6 or 7 bins belonging to Byron's who can also be cavalier about how much is put in and around them. These particular bins first appeared after the restaurant increased its covers for customers by putting tables in the lean-to where they used to house their rubbish. And now since Christmas Costa on the High Road seems to have changed its rubbish arrangements too and two huge wheeled bins have appeared in the passage which leads to Bond St and the Back Common, making it considerably narrower at one end. Is it too much to expect commercial premises to consume their own smoke instead of foisting their rubbish arrangements on their neighbours? Certainly the LBH licensing policy doesn't seem to address this issue and, when Byron's was being very poor at leaving rubbish bags in the street which were then strewn overnight by vermin, the licensing department was not remotely interested. The only response I got from the council was to send their litter cleaning team - which was helpful in one way but merely rewarded bad behaviour in another. |