Hello, old Dame
Several times a week we living on or near Ledbury Road and Westbourne Grove are invited to view and walk our footpaths among a highly curated display of black, green, clear, white, blue or orange-striped plastic bags filled with discarded food, internet shopping-spree wrappings, old Financial Times, (weekend edition) and many other wondrous joys.
Note, usually by tea time these ‘rubbish’ bags have been decorated with an assortment of empty, beige, brown or red coffee cups, white plastic cutlery - and dark, spreading stains, creating a perfect tonal and textural experience that flatters the large sculptural stacks of cardboard sheets piled up in front of the shops as well as our eyes.
Starbucks and Costa are great art benefactors with a range of their cups on display.
Providing shards and speckles of vivid colour too, are the discarded broken glass bottles and crumpled snack bags. Aren’t we residents privileged to have such Detritus as well as such imaginative and often surprisingly exceptional examples of Fly Tipping on our doorsteps?
Let us not leave out the graphically photogenic way local rodents including Mr Ratty and Reynard the Fox tear open the bags with food waste in them, spilling the contents – such clever artifice! Such high crime drama!
…Of course, the Mastermind Artistes (there must be more than one), are unknown, we are left wondering….
Friends, what matters most aside from our enjoyment at all this charming and ever-changing activity is that these displays are increasing the value of our homes!
It must be this, it cannot be The Cost of Living Crisis!
Well, whoever would have ‘thunk’ it.
Yours truly,
A neighbour”
The whole of the Royal Borough has become a rubbish dump. Gloucester Road tube area, Ken High Street and Notting Hill especially bad but the backstreets are also equally neglected. The Council were so proud in telling residents about their excellent ability to keep the streets clean-now they can't even do that. What a shambles.
ReplyDeleteSurely not the cost of living crisis, rather the ban on seven bins. But ease your fretting, you'll soon be able to drive past your gallery of garbage at 30mph.
ReplyDeleteResidents in Ledbury Road will have to orchestrate the shafting of their ward councillors, at the next local election, for allowing this longstanding and disgraceful situation to prevail. Cleanliness and environmentally sound policies have passed this Tory pair by.
ReplyDeleteIt's worth getting in touch with councillors Shmetterling
Deleteand Gardener about this. I've found both really helpful before unlike my Colvile labour ones who don't bother.
Gardner is a very effective and hard working councillor. Cllr Cem K also.
DeleteHave these elected Councillors (useless yokes) sent members' enquiries to the Director of Environmental Services setting out the current problem and residents' concerns? The Director should have by now answered to these Councillors and advised them how the Council proposes to obviate the appearance of any further shit and filth in Ledbury Road
DeleteOne might hope that it is in Pembridge seeing the comments above but the unfortunate K & C end of Ledbury Road is Colville. Good luck with getting a response from the three stooges.
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