I would like to respond to one of last week’s letters (Barwell has not done his homework on bin removal, Your say, March 25).

I was a regular user of the recycling facility in Ashburton Park until it was removed and the public referred to the next nearest site at the Co-op in Lower Addiscombe Road or further afield. The reason given being due to the fly-tipping.

This problem of fly-tipping is true and I have often wondered why cameras are not installed to catch and prosecute the offenders.

Likewise the overspill.

Moving the site to the Co-op will not stop fly-tipping which also occurs regularly and more so at the Co-op site, pictured.

Removing the Ashburton site to an already overused/abused site will not solve problem of fly-tipping/ overspill.

In reality the people who used Ashburton may find the chore of recycling is too difficult and dumped rubbish may well increase.

Somebody is making irrational and misguided decisions based on a “not-on-my-doorstep attitude”.

Ashburton was a very convenient and comprehensive site for a lot of people and all that was needed was more user-friendly bins to stop overspill, maybe more bins and, above all, the installation of cameras and the imposing of heavy fines on fly-tippers/abusers whereby the crime should reduce and the costs borne by the perpetrators, plus a very much needed resource would be retained.

If homework has not been done Gavin Barwell seems to have done more than most.

BARRY HODSON
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