Wirral News letters: January 12

Jan 19 2011 by Lorna Hughes, Birkenhead News

Shame of our filthy streets

WIRRAL Council should hang their heads in shame.

I have just taken a photograph of just one of the alleyways by my house.

The council told people to leave any extra binbags out and they would be collected with the bins.

However this doesn’t seem to be true.

Twice I have watched the bin lorry empty bins and leave all the excess bin bags out for the rats.

The entry has looked like this for over a month now. Along with this, walking my kids to school all week and leaving the car at home as the council try to promote fitness, the streets are caked in dog dirt.

Any visitors to the area will think they’ve arrived at the slums.

With all the flu virus and illness around at the moment, surely the dirty environment that we are living in cannot be helping matters.

Shame on you, Wirral council. Clean up our streets.

Tina Black

Birkenhead

Timely question

WHEN the weather improved and the snow had finally gone, I wondered why our bins were still overflowing with rubbish?

Could it be a little word called OVERTIME I wonder?

How strange then that I saw the bin wagons out on Bank Holiday Monday?

No wonder our council tax is going up!

Bernard Williams

Via email

A white elephant

WIRRAL Council must now get tough with the Property Development Company, who were supposed to be building luxurious flats where the old Hotel Victoria used to stand.

Despite the developer claimingŠ that his plansŠ had hit a number of snags and the economic climate did not help matters either, Šthis has now become New Brighton's White Elephant.

Every day there is a delay in recommencing work on the site, the developer should be heavily fined or have the planning permission rescinded.

Ideally another developer should be found as soon as possible, who is prepared to take a chance bearing in mind of the ongoing work that is happening down on the front.

Richard Globe

(Concerned New Brighton resident)

Toilet disgrace

AS a supporter of the Changing Places campaign, I think it is a disgrace that Wirral Council doesn’t provide public toilets that meet the needs of local people with severe disabilities and their carers.

People with profound and multiple learning disabilities need Changing Places toilets – with a hoist, changing bench and plenty of space. Without them carers are often forced to change their disabled loved-ones on dirty toilet floors.

The council has yet to install a Changing Places toilet.

People with profound and multiple learning disabilities should have the same opportunities as everyone else.

I encourage readers to take action and sign the online petition about this important issue at www.mencap.org.uk/changelives

Antonia Forshaw

Birkenhead

Lantern danger

I TOLD my brother about the amazing sight of the many Chinese lanterns that could be seen above Wallasey (and probably other parts of the Wirral) on New Year’s Eve – and I was horrified at his reply!

Apparently there has been a lot of publicity (which I have missed) explaining how the wires in these lanterns are very bad for our environment.

Although the lanterns look beautiful in the sky, the thin wire then lands on earth and water, where it is eaten by fish and animals.

As my brother explained, a cow will be happily eating the grass, and suddenly its mouth is filled with the wire, which it will not be able to 'spit out'.

I'm sure we would all be grateful for further information from Jade Wright, your environmental columnist, since I know that no-one would want to harm our wildlife and animals just for the sake of the sight of these lanterns in the sky.

Barbara Cherry

Wallasey