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Our street is overrun by army of foxes & rotting mounds of rubbish but it's NOT our fault – new rules will make it worse
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) RESIDENTS living on a swanky London road have slammed the council for "lazy" binmen who they claim leave their street in a state. Those living on Albemarle Road in Beckenham, South London, claim their postcode is regularly littered with piles of rubbish which attract "an army of foxes". 10 Residents living on a swanky London road have slammed the council for 'lazy' binmen Credit: Gary Stone 10 They claim that carefully separated rubbish is mixed together into one big bin Credit: Gary Stone 10 They also say food waste is left to rot in the road attracting foxes Credit: Supplied 10 Sheila Bryan has complained to the local council on several occasions Credit: Gary Stone The residents have had enough and have hit out at the local council with a long list of their bin collection gripes. Their complaints range from carefully separated rubbish being mixed together by binmen, to food waste left to rot in the road and bins being left blocking driveways and car parks. Dozens of locals say they have phoned the council or reported their issues online - but are baffled to see it continue. But dspite workers coming to resolve issues relatively quickly, residents say they have to complain about one thing or another almost every week. They also say they are forced to deal with a raft of bin rules imposed by Bromley Council. And with tougher refuse measures to be rolled out across England next year, they fear matters will only get worse. If rubbish is mixed together, put in the wrong bin or in extreme cases, residents use the wrong bin bags, refuse workers will refuse to collect their rubbish. One resident, Sheila Bryan, who has lived in her flat on the street for 32 years, told The Sun: 'What happens is some of the residents put stuff in the wrong bins and we got told it's contaminated and they won't remove them. 'We have to deal with it if they don't take it. 'The paper one there's bits flying about, if people put food waste not in composted bags they won't take it. 'Very rarely do they put them back, they just leave them around, some of them do it quite happily. Monster '22-INCH' rat 'as big as a cat' is found in UK home - as locals warned more could be on the loose 'They leave them right in the middle [of the car park]. "Look at Birmingham, I don't know how they're coping.' Birmingham has seen months of bin strikes this year, with rubbish piling up on streets across the city as huge rats seen scurrying around the area. Residents in Beckenham now fear if they complain too much about the council's service their binmen will strike too, leaving them in the lurch. It means they are left with overflowing bins, covered in flies, in their car parks and driveways. One local said the mess had gotten so bad that it was attracting "an army of foxes" and described living on the road among the wild animals as "like something out of a horror film, like something out of I Am Legend." Sheila, meanwhile, has had to deal with "nasty flies" around her food bin after it was left with moulding waste in it, she has complained to the council on several occasions with the authority rushing to clear it up. She says that if she is the only one to complain the council only clear the bins from her block and ignore the block next door despite the two sharing the same communal bin area. She has had to coordinate her calls with a neighbour to have all of the uncollected bins dealt with rather than just hers. 10 Residents worry that if they complain too much about the council's service their binmen will strike Credit: Gary Stone 10 Daniel Davis coordinates with Sheila and calls the council at the same time as a show of force Credit: Gary Stone Daniel Davis, who has lived on the road for 35 years, coordinates with Sheila and calls the council at the same time as a show of force. He said: 'It used to be great and then I don't know what happened, I kept phoning up and phoning up. "No one ever cleans them that's the problem. They never put the bins back where they get them. 'Sometimes when they collect these bottle bins they leave them in the middle of the car park, they've only got to walk like five meters, what's the point? It's just laziness. 'They might go on strike. Like Birmingham." Daniel described the collections as "haphazard" but said it had gotten better in recent weeks after he and Sheila put in several phone calls. He theorised that "maybe someone has given them a b******ing." He claims the mess left behind by the binmen after a collection had gotten so bad that the local fox population now came out in the afternoon to scavenge on the leftovers. "The foxes drive us mad, every night you get about a dozen come out here, they're coming out early afternoon now." Daniel added: 'There's been a hell of a lot problems with the bins on this road. One other resident further down Albemarle Road said things were worse for him. The man, who asked not to be named, said: "Some of them [binmen] are great some of them are awful. 'They leave the bins out in the road, they're supposed to take them back." When asked if binmen had been mixing his carefully separated rubbish, he said: "Of course they have, the little bins the food bins the recycling, I've seen them throw stuff on the floor. If there's one thing wrong they won't take them. 'They just sling stuff in the road, we're paying them to do a job, they should do it. 'They take away stuff when they don't have to, they're emptying one bin into another.' Another resident who asked to remain anonymous claims she managed to catch one worker mixing her brown bin with her general waste. She added that she and her neighbours have had to pay in the past for rubbish to be collected after the binmen refused to take it. She slammed the council for allowing them to leave their mess behind. The resident told The Sun: "If there was a problem in the past there have been times when they've not taken the bins away. "Residents then have to pay for bins to be collected because binmen haven't taken away rubbish." Residents of the block of flats have to pay through the council for the rubbish to be removed if the binmen decide not to clear it, this is despite them spending their time separating out food waste, general waste, soft plastic and hard plastic. When The Sun visited Albemarle Road we saw bins of dozens of different shapes, sizes and colours all for different types of rubbish. Residents don't see a point in separating out their waste if council workers mix it up in the back of the lorry. One resident said: "The food waste and cardboard dumping has been happening a long time, and it's just getting out of control. "There's been all those stories about how everyone recycles their plastic but it all ends up in the same place anyway, it really does defeat the purpose of recycling. "I thought it was some random person, either a resident or someone that was fly tipping, there's been so much weird stuff that's been going on." 10 Local Dee Hetherington, 70, says she has seen binmen dump everything into one container Credit: Gary Stone 10 Her main gripe is that bins are left in the middle of the driveway Credit: Gary Stone One local, Dee Hetherington, 70, who is the director of her block of flats has had to call in assistance from neighbours more than once after large, heavy metal bins were left in her driveway. She is sure the rubbish all gets mixed up in the end and claims she has seen binmen dumping it all into a bigger container. Dee has to deal with the council regularly as the director of her building and finds herself reporting missed collections all the time. She said: "My main gripe is the big metal bins are left in the middle of the driveway. "I spoke to the waste people and they said it would take five days to move them which was nonsense. I just found that mad. 'They sometimes don't collect the bins but one of my gripes is the food waste. 'I just wish they'd put the bins back, I'm not a 'bin putter backer.' I think they empty into a bigger thing, I'm sure it gets mixed up. 'If they don't collect I say 'the bin has not been collected', sometimes they say what was in there wasn't collectable which is nonsense. "If they don't do it one week we can last till the next fortnight." The Sun has contacted Bromley Council for comment. It comes as the government aim to introduce a new bin collection strategy. It includes a new weekly separate collection for food waste from households, which will be implemented in 2026. The new strategy hopes to reduce the amount of waste produced and streamline with rates of recycling from different local authorities. Research showed that around 135,000 tonnes of domestic rubbish has been sent for incineration each year, two thirds of which could be recycled. It has also been found that a significant amount (32.75% total) of waste found in household bins is actually food waste. The new changes are due to come into effect on April 1 next year. 10 The street has been left with overflowing bins, covered in flies, in their car parks and driveways Credit: Gary Stone
