Come to picturesque Eastleigh

When I first came to Eastleigh about seven years ago I was impressed with the tidiness of the environment and the cleanliness of the streets. However, things have gone sadly and badly downhill over the last seven years. Our Liberal Democrat council appointed 37 new car parking attendants a couple of years ago, but they seem to have cut back on all the street cleaning and repair services.

I wonder what visitors from overseas countries such as Austria, which is incredibly clean, think of our town. I would be too embarrassed to invite anyone to walk around these streets in south Eastleigh.

Councillor Airey is Liberal Democrat Cabinet Member for Transport and Streetscene. While the streets around the town centre have been given a facelift, nothing seems to have been done in Eastleigh South.

Councillor Bloom is Liberal Democrat Cabinet Member for the Environment. She boasted recently that Refuse collection was down 25 tons a week. We know where it all goes! Little seems to be done to stop littering our streets. Imagine what it will be like if the Council start charging for refuse collection? There will be even more fly tipping.

Eastleigh’s streets are getting dirtier

Rubbish is slowly building up in Eastleigh’s back lanes! With refuse collectors refusing to take any bin with a lid which is not closed, people are forced either to take it to the tip themselves or leave it lying in the street.

Liberal Democrat Louise Bloom, Council Cabinet Member for the Environment boasted recently that this policy had reduced their collection by 25 tons a week. But what happens to that rubbish?

When the grey bins are collected the refuse is burned to produce electricity, so saving on energy costs and landfill. If refuse has to be taken to the tip or is collected by a special council tidy up team then it goes to landfill at a cost of £40 a ton. So 25 tons not collected by the binmen could be costing Council Tax payers another £1,000 a week for land-fill fees. A weekly grey bin collection would reduce our rubbish, rat and maggot problems.