Hello there,
I am from Kelvinbridge in the Woodside/ West Conservation area of Glasgow. I had a drive around your streets yesterday as our councillor recommended to use you as an example of a success story of being able to keep these atrocious bin hubs at bay. You are an inspiration for the rest of us.
We are trying to encourage GCC to do more to protect conservation areas and as such, I was wondering if you would be able to sign and share this petition to help us out?
https://www.change.org/p/require-full-planning-permission-for-bin-hubs-in-glasgow-conservation-areas?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=mobileNativeShare&utm_campaign=share_petition&recruited_by_id=0ab07bb0-4ba6-11e4-99f8-c39d66a695db&recruiter=161518899&share_id=fwwXRqCx2Y
If any of you have any advice for us, please feel free to message me.
Bestest wishes, and well done!
Alexandra
Wanted to comment and express how frustrating the backlash against the Bin Hubs has been, how a small minority have managed to delay / cancel these new hubs from being installed and utilised.
I lived in Pollokshields for 8 years and when the Bin Hubs came into force it made a dramatic improvement to our back courts, it removed rodents from most of them, a lot of folk cleaned them up and started using them as genuine communal spaces, it was great. Our bin hubs would sometimes be full but they were emptied incredibly frequently so it was rarely a major issue.
I moved to Strathbungo, onto Niddrie Road, and have now had to deal with a horrendous back court and definite mice/rat issues, which impacts my own flat (I live on the ground floor and unfortunately there a few holes I am still trying to fill up).
There are many, many people living here that would greatly benefit from these Bin Hubs allowing us to clean up our back courts, reduce issues of pest control and allowing the council to focus more time on prevention of flytipping (which is at an all time high right now – the lane beside my flat is filled with trash and it is also a significant factor in the issues with rodents in the neighbourhood).
A solution for some is not necessarily the best solution and it can hurt others who are more in need.
I completely agree with the above comment.
I live in nearby Battlefield which is one of the most densely populated areas of Glasgow. I am also a waste management professional.
I cannot underline enough how much cheaper and more efficient centralising waste management for tenements to bin hubs will be.
We can work out best designs and locations as we go.
“A solution for some is not necessarily the best solution”
Please consister that Strathbungo has a large number of elderly and residents with disabilities. Carrying rubbish a distance may not be práctical . As age and disability are both protected characteristics under equalities legislation, perhaps the council could provide an Equality Impact Assessment showing how these groups have been considered.
I’d respectfully suggest that the rat problem on Niddrie Road has more to do with the adjoining food businesses on Pollokshaws Road… The bin hubs will just shift the rats from the back to the front…
As for flytipping, a quick walk around the ‘Shields will illustrate how many of the bin hubs have become “flytipping hubs..”
Again it’s just shifting the problem. The main reason the Cooncil have brought these in is so they can save time and money on wages by running fewer, bigger vehicles with smaller crews. It’s not being done to improve council tax payers’ amenity or the civic landscape. They were planning to stick these eyesores right outside the Greek Thomson terraces, on a road with corners that are too tight for their big lorries.
Whole thing is a one size fits all attempt to save cash. Nothing more. And I totally agree with Jane’s point about elderly and disabled folk. To say nothing of folk with young kids – instead of nipping out the back to empty the kitchen bin, I’d now need to get someone to watch the wee ones while I walk a hundred metres up the road to the nearest hub.