Telford & Wrekin Council Watch - Telford and Wrekin Council are Anti-Social

Telford and Wrekin Council are Anti-Social

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Written by John Franklyn

Tuesday, 01 April 2008

This is another shining example of Telford and Wrekin Councils double standards in another attempt to squeeze more money out of the resident.

Unfortunately, T&W Council has now stooped to an all time low and are aiming at “The Children” of the borough.

Telford and Wrekin Council now aim to fine “Children” for littering, but as an elected member said to me this afternoon,

“The Council is aiming at the wrong people”

Residents of the borough are put under ever increasing pressure from the Council and various elected members and threatened with an increasingly endless stream of fines, but the council is not only aiming at the wrong people, it is failing in its duty to keep streets cleaned.

Street cleaning services have been slashed over the last 12 months with many areas rarely seeing a road sweeper or litter picker.

The problem is not just down to people dropping litter, it also down to Telford and Wrekin Council taking tax payers money and reducing street cleaning services.

In many areas of the borough, you will find litter bins not only full, but over flowing with litter being blown around the streets.

Other examples are local business owners putting out rubbish, leaving bags open and special waste like human hair being allowed to blow along the street.

When I was in the centre of Dawley, I watched a number of young people who had gathered outside MP David Wrights office, whilst there, I saw four adults come out of a solicitors office, all stood and had a cigarette, once they finished, each one put the cigarette out the floor and left it. This is adults setting the wrong example.

Another example is Dawley Market. This comes, sets up and finishes, but when it finishes litter is left to blow around the streets gathering in bushes, road sides and even hanging from trees.

If you walk to the rear of businesses, you will find many cases of litter being allowed to blow around the streets, but who is tackling these issues, clearly no one because it is children doing the littering because of poor training from young mothers according to Cllr Tonks,

Councillor Vic Tonks has been quoted in the Shropshire Star as saying

“The problem is getting young mothers to bring the children up not to drop litter”

This is a disgraceful comment and every young mother in the borough should be up in arms at this insult and I know mothers who are taking this quote as a direct insult.

Councillor Andrew Eade has been quoted as saying

“I think it’s right to take a tough line on this, but we have to make sure we enforce it”

Well Councillor Eade, what do you propose to do against businesses that cause litter problems so openly and what do YOU propose to do about the Councils failings in provision of services that are adding to the problem, you are certainly quick enough to

1.take tax payers money

2.lay blame

3.not accept any blame

4.Issue fines

5.regularly blame the wrong people.

Steve Wellings has also put in his bit and is quoted as saying

“People who drop litter or fly tip are as anti-social, if not more so, as people who cause trouble through alcohol.”

Quite frankly, you are talking rubbish and as the Council have added to this problem, I now accuse Telford and Wrekin Council of being “Anti-Social”.

This has more to do with raising money from those that are vulnerable and often at a loose end, rather than doing the right thing.

Enforcement is fine, but selective enforcement is poor and I say that Telford and Wrekin Council is being selective with its enforcement and is part of the problem.