Untidy Hyndburn - Please Post Your Pictures

[cashman]

weve always done that, fail to see what the big deal is.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by cashman

weve always done that, fail to see what the big deal is.

Exactly.

Hardly a new idea.

Picking up litter that's blown onto your doorstep.

Though admittedly more people could be encouraged to be a bit more proactive, when it comes to keeping their areas clean, and tidy. Even if it means getting rid of stuff that isn't your's.

I believe bears do something similar where they live, by going off into the woods.

[accyman]

this thread reminded me of a youtube video a local lad made on his way to the shop showing how bad one particular area is but i cant post it directly because it contains strong language

if you type this into youtube you will get the video and it is relevant to this thread


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despite the language he does have a point on a few things the rest is just funny.

If you do watch it i want to know what the poor tree did wrong to get dragged into his rant lol

could watch it with the volume down if offended by swearing ?

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Rob249

I had an idea a few years ago which i sent to the councils cleansing dept, if say every household in the borough spent a couple of minutes each day just picking up what litter is outside their home, the whole borough would be so much cleaner, its a good idea but i know in practice not everyone would or could do it, i just often wonder why some people dont take pride in the are they live in.

When I was a kid that was the norm Rob, people looked after there own little bit of the community, now everybody thinks that the council should do everything, we pay out council tax why should we scrape the snow of out pavement why should pick up chip papers and crisp bags thrown down by school kids wondering round in the lunch hour, nobody gives a toss now

[shillelagh]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

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The council should be considering a no-alcohol zone in the town centre. It's in force in many other places like Manchester, so why not Accy?

The council should also be liaising with the police about ways to make the centre a less welcoming place for these low lives - prosecutions for public order offences, persistent begging etc.

As Gary says, there's a particular problem here. The continuing silence from councillors is nothing short of disgraceful.

like this wynonie ... though this is from over the border down in bacup where i was this morning ......

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by jaysay

we pay out council tax why should we scrape the snow of out pavement

Or why don't we get sued if we do

[Benipete]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

like this wynonie ... though this is from over the border down in bacup where i was this morning ......

Looks like the person that posted that had been on the soup.

[katex]

Originally Posted by Neil

Have a look as you drive towards town on Dunk Way, I am sure there is one on there.

Took a look .. none there. They have recently installed Litter Enforcement notices all the way along to discourage motorists from chucking out litter from their cars .. fine £250 !

[Ken Moss]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

I'll be the judge of when I'm going to "let it drop", Ken.

When you do talk to the other councillors, are you going to come back here and tell us what they said, as the Accyweb Labour councillors all appear to have lost their tongues on this subject?

You and every other resident in Hyndburn now has the opportunity to ask such a thing at Question Time (the next one being at the Full Council on 20th September). If you write your question and send it to any Cabinet member it will be asked on your behalf and an answer given and minuted for all to see in the council minutes.

I'll quite happily ask the question for you if you like if you want to draft something and drop me a PM?

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Ken Moss

I'll quite happily ask the question for you if you like if you want to draft something and drop me a PM?

Drat.

Please ignore my p.m.

I though it said daft question.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Ken Moss

You and every other resident in Hyndburn now has the opportunity to ask such a thing at Question Time (the next one being at the Full Council on 20th September). If you write your question and send it to any Cabinet member it will be asked on your behalf and an answer given and minuted for all to see in the council minutes.

I'll quite happily ask the question for you if you like if you want to draft something and drop me a PM?

A bit like PMQs hey Ken order order order

[Wynonie Harris]

Originally Posted by Ken Moss

You and every other resident in Hyndburn now has the opportunity to ask such a thing at Question Time (the next one being at the Full Council on 20th September). If you write your question and send it to any Cabinet member it will be asked on your behalf and an answer given and minuted for all to see in the council minutes.

I'll quite happily ask the question for you if you like if you want to draft something and drop me a PM?

Question sent, Ken. I look forward to the answer with interest!

[Ken Moss]

Originally Posted by jaysay

A bit like PMQs hey Ken order order order

Sort of, yes. Despite what the Conservatives tried to imply on Thursday night about matters which are circulated to members on pink paper (confidential), there is no reason to shy away from the public finding things out from the people they elected.

If you want to talk about hiding things away just ask for the Leader's Budget or the Cabinet Action Fund from last year under FOI:

[email protected]

I think you'll probably find there are a few secrets in there that certain people would rather didn't come out.

[cmonstanley]

freedom of information act

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Ken Moss

Sort of, yes. Despite what the Conservatives tried to imply on Thursday night about matters which are circulated to members on pink paper (confidential), there is no reason to shy away from the public finding things out from the people they elected.

If you want to talk about hiding things away just ask for the Leader's Budget or the Cabinet Action Fund from last year under FOI:

[email protected]



I think you'll probably find there are a few secrets in there that certain people would rather didn't come out.

Well if I remember rightly the pink papers were all with reference to peoples financial matters, I'm not talking councillors, but council staff and members of the general public. I can remember when I attended council meeting on a regular basis in the public gallery, when issues covered on pink papers were being discussed (usually at the end of meetings) the general public were asked to leave. As for the FIA I wasn't aware that peoples personal finances could be revealed under this act, ie financial details of people held by HBC, which I'm sure is protected under data protection act and not for open consumption