What a load of rubbish: Calls for ‘urgent solutions’ to clear streets of litter and fly tipping

Councillors say they are 'fed up seeing rubbish everywhere'

By Natalie Bloomer

A sofa dumped in the Thorplands area of Talavera

The West Northamptonshire Labour group will use its priority opposition motion at a full council meeting tonight to call on the local authority to urgently tackle fly tipping and litter in the area.

The group’s motion calls on the council to convene a summit of all interested parties to review the authority’s current enforcement policies, develop an education plan aimed at areas with high density housing and draw up an integrated action plan to ‘clean up West Northamptonshire’.

The motion says:

“The level of street rubbish, fly tipping, overflowing waste bins, and bags of refuse waiting to be collected on the streets of Northampton, for example the Wellingborough Road, is shocking and out of control, as is fly tipping in rural areas, bringing West Northamptonshire into disrepute. 

“We recognise the efforts of staff to collect rubbish and keep our streets clean, the work of neighbourhood wardens and the efforts of many volun…