Rubbish On Playing Field
Created by solo-1-nineThere is a lot of rubbish – mainly plastic bottles, left on the playing field over the weekends, usually at the top end by the skateboard ramp.
This I believe could be somewhat sorted if there was a bin at that end, although that of course may not totally solve the problem, because there is always some lazy irk with no respect, who will still drop rubbish.
Another idea – and I think many would agree, would be to shoot the offending idiots! This is of course only my view, but no doubt the same view will be held by many others.
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April 29th, 2012 at 1:52 pm
Sadly, I don’t think a bin would help – there *is* one nearby. I’ve noticed that it’s not just kids dropping / leaving litter (see the road by the school… and there still isn’t a bin in sight there) but during last month’s bout of warm weather, a lot of litter was left by families and groups of people (including adults) who had been picnicking on the grass. This litter included empty bottles of spirits, lying smashed all over the grass (probably in a similar way to those who’d been drinking them)! So if the parents aren’t willing to clean up after their picnics, what hope have we got that people will educate their children not to drop litter? Ditto the road by the school.
Now of course, if one of their children were to cut themselves on a piece of broken glass…
Is it time for some community action, e.g. a “Clean Up Kingsway” day when those of us who want to see this as a decent place to live join together and pick up litter? If we leave everything to QUVL to sort out, then it sends the message that this is someone else’s problem – and the litter dropping will continue.
(PS: I’d happily vote for the summary execution of offenders too
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April 30th, 2012 at 10:21 am
Morning All,
I do agree with the paragraph above which refers to this being a Community Problem – rather than constantly being pushed toward QUVL as their problem that residents are treating their village as a dustbin. QUVL are not littering – it’s residents who are doing this, including fly-tipping old furniture on the large area of land beyond Goose Bay Drive – when this can easily be taken to the Community Recycling Centre within a couple of miles from here. I know not everyone has access to larger vehicles for transporting the unwanted items but that doesn’t mean it can be dumped around us either. Therefore, I have a solution… with collective assistance from all those developers, businesses, Housing Associations & council – between them they can obtain a small number of industrial skips which can be placed in certain locations away from direct view of homes but still within and around the village – these can be recognised for certain larger recyclable unwanted items for residents use instead of fly-tipping them because they cannot be collected via our normal refuse collectors. The skips can be left in their locations over a weekend for everyone’s use, and then removed – this can be repeated once every third month. The items go to recycling instead of dumped around us which then creates further costs in addressing fly-tipping, areas would be cleaner & between the collective costs for these an arrangement with the recycling centre or skip company for those costs in exchange for everything collected within them!
We want to see a better Kingsway Village for us all to enjoy… Therefore, and within the next couple of weeks, Kingsway in Bloom will be planted within the development for us all to transform our presentation, and QUVL are getting on-board too by way of planting a temporary community area for us to gain ideas from as we reproduce similar ideas within our own gardens/Entrances. We will be releasing more detail very soon, and I am sure many residents will see this as a very positive step forward for us all to take as summer begins, and we as a community can lift our presentation out of the gloom with gardens for all to show a smile from as we pass-by rather than blanked expressions of doom.
We are gaining very helpful assistance, direction & incentives for; Kingsway in Bloom. So… be ready Families & Children as more will be known very shortly!
April 30th, 2012 at 11:32 pm
I look forward to seeing lots of colourful planting within the Kingsway estate. It’s just what it needs!
May 1st, 2012 at 8:07 am
Hi All
With regard to the Community Clean Up Day which VGresident suggests, this is coming soon. We have been getting the clean up gear required and will announce some dates shortly.
Cheers
Barry
May 2nd, 2012 at 10:56 am
With regard to the planting – I don’t know if you have noticed but around the main park there have been numerous trees\shrubs pulled out of the ground and just left there. I would hate to see the same fate for whatever is planted as part of this ‘in-bloom’ idea.
Can I also ask for more dog waste bins to be considered? The new playground toward the back of Kingsway seems to be overflowing with the dog waste\litter bins – I think I’ve counted 5; the main playing field – which is larger and has more grass, only has one that is easily reachable from the main field, and a couple dotted at the entrances. I suggest that there could be one placed at the Playground entrance and 1 placed at the Orchard entrance (opposite the farm). Might make people pick up more after their dogs. There are also none, repeat none, within the first phase of development (Halton Way and surrounding area). Litter bins by the bus stops would also be a very good idea.
Don’t get me started on the wall down Woodvale – that is still not a good image of the estate. You’d have thought one of the builders would have rebuilt as a gesture of good will!
Also maybe our new supermarket (Tesco and soon-to-be Asda) would like to sponsor the roundabout at the entrance!
May 6th, 2012 at 11:54 am
Just been to Tesco’s this morning passing the school on my way.
Has anyone else noticed all the empty cans and litter strewn about the flower borders around the school? I have one word to sum it up… Appalling!
This is supposed to be a flagship building for the estate.
Could not a couple of teachers in the lunch break clean it up?
Where we live we go out every week and pick up the litter, no one asks us to do it, we do it to improve the area. Perhaps we need to have some big signs asking people to use the litter bins provided but there again, just look at all the reflectors on the posts by the school all smashed… enough said!
TOG.
May 6th, 2012 at 3:14 pm
Tog,
I’ve already posted a comment some weeks back, about the rubbish by the School. My dog, while out on a walk recently, ate some food discarded by a school kid before I could stop him. To cut a long story short, it involved a trip to the Vet and a whopping great vet’s bill, all thanks to the litter bugs that live ’round here.
Why on earth aren’t there any litter bins by the school gates?
Methinks this merits a letter of complaint to the School Head’, who I would have thought ought to have more pride in the school than seems apparent.
Incidentally, the other morning during monsoon season, I noticed 7 empty Fosters cans discarded by a bench in the Orchard. They weren’t there the evening before, so some people must have been sitting in the pouring rain, drinking Fosters and chucking the cans on the ground. Is that the sort of behaviour we should expect from the residents of Kingsway?
VGresident
May 6th, 2012 at 4:07 pm
Hi tog,
I’m not sure the rubbish is generated by the school, nor by people dropping it nearby.
In my last house I lived diagonally opposite a local shop, with prevailing winds bringing rubbish from it into my road… The road was constantly littered with rubbish dropped outside the shop. In a similar way, I believe the majority of the rubbish by the school is blown across from the shops opposite.
As for the reflectors, they’ve been that way since just after they were installed.
Hi VGR,
Sorry to hear about your dog.
For reasons stated above I don’t think a bin by the School would stop the problem, (although it would make it easier to clear up the rubbish).
Don’t get me wrong, I too hate to see so much rubbish about the place, (although it is a lot less littered than my old neighbourhood), and I do spend a lot of time picking up and binning litter whenever I’m walking around Kingsway.
As Baz said, we are planning a community litter picking event around the Jubilee / Big Lunch weekend, so here’s hoping we can get enough local folk to help make that a success, and to try to instill some sense of pride in our surroundings to all local residents.
As for the Fosters cans, maybe it wasn’t Kingsway residents! Although – like everywhere else we have our share of bad apples, I think that a lot of the local damage and antisocial behaviour is the fault of youths from outside of Kingsway
May 6th, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Also a lot of the problem is that the council recycling bins have badly designed lids. This in turn means a large number of people don’t have lids on them, so bottles and cans blow out when it’s windy.
The Residents Association is looking to engage more with The Council to see what can be done about it.
May 7th, 2012 at 5:55 pm
I’m quite lucky where I am as we don’t seem to suffer from too much rubbish being about. However, on the subject of the recycle bin lids, can we not ask for better bins? I know not everyone loves the wheelie bins but when I lived further south our bin collections were the same as here, but we had two black wheelie bins, one with a black lid for domestic rubbish and one with a green lid for recycling; this would be a good idea here I think – if we could get it, plus being bigger you can recycle more, the small bins are not big enough at all, especially for a larger family. We no longer have lids for our boxes as they were stolen the year we had bad snow by kids who used them as sleds and we never bothered replacing them as they are useless at staying on!
Also I have to agree that coming into Kingsway via Naas Lane doesn’t give a good first impression of Kingsway, is there anything in the pipeline to clean up the area to the right of Tesco’s or the land next to the houses opposite the school? Surely the developers could “turf” these areas just for the short term to make it more apeasing to the eye?
May 8th, 2012 at 7:15 am
Morning All,
Lou Lou… With regard your last paragraph which refers to the land areas near both Kingsway School & Tesco’s, watch this space (as well as the areas themselves of course).
QUVL are in discussions surrounding our up & coming Kingsway – a village in bloom! and one area you suggest is being considered for a temporary community garden which will offer ideas for residents when involving themselves with the event.
The detail’s surrounding Kingsway – a village in bloom! will be released very soon.