15/04/2025
Our bin blight petition
For years, the Society has lobbied the Borough Council to help rid our Town Conservation Area of those wheelie bins permanently stored on pavement areas and in alleys. We call it BIN BLIGHT.
BIN BLIGHT degrades the community environment, deters residents and businesses, devalues property, is unhygienic, blocks passage for disabled and those with prams etc, deters visitors, runs counter to initiatives like the recent £2M High Street Heritage Action Zone investments.
We have come to realise that without policy and procedural changes at TBC we are not going to improve the situation. We would like our Councillors to debate this issue and to hopefully agree a clear policy and set of actions to rid our streets of permanently sited wheelie bins.
Consequently, we have organised a petition (11th March to 11th May) in which we ask the Council to act to solve the matter. The magic number to get this on the Council agenda is just 100 signatures.
If 100 people sign, the matter will be included in a TBC full Council meeting (probably in June), where we will present our case and councillors will have the time to debate and decide what actions (if any) to take.
Please help us persuade TBC to rid our Conservation Area of BIN BLIGHT.
HOW TO SIGN THE ePETITION
Click on the Tewkesbury Borough Council website link:
https://minutes.tewkesbury.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?ID=43&RPID=16851936&HPID=16851936
SIGN A PAPER PETITION AS AN ALTERNATIVE
We will have copies at our Talks in the Library on 8th May and our committee members can provide copies on request. Just email: [email protected].
