In addition to three earlier photographs taken on 27th August, this is one I took today. It shows that the plastic bags left over by the recent deposit of scores of old shoes have now been joined by more garden rubbish. It joins the other rubbish left outside the Red Cow site that we have been complaining about for the last two years, about which nothing has been done.
Stacey Salter said that she was sending this aspect of my complaint on to you since fly-tipping is not a planning issue. I hope that you will not use the uncertain ownership of the unadopted Red Cow Lane as a reason for not doing anything about it. We are resigned to the fact that litter deposited by the public in the lane is ignored by the council, but we are now in a situation where your colleagues' failure to do anything about the state of the demolition site is directly impacting the state of the lane.
I don't know whether your responsibilities also include litter but can I also direct your attention to the removal of the litter bin at the bottom of Red Cow Lane. This used to provide some limited protection from littering in the lane, but shortly after the Red Cow Inn was demolished the bin disappeared. The council then tried to say that it had never existed: actually it was moved up the hill to below The Imperial. A new bin was provided, clamped to a lamp post across the road and therefore irrelevant to Red Cow Lane. Can I urge that a new bin be provided?
While on the subject of the bin across the road, the other day my five-year-old granddaughter was unable to put litter in it because it is clamped halfway up the lamp post. Is there any reason for this?
Generally I am deeply underwhelmed by your department's professionalism in dealing with the Red Cow Inn area. In common with other marginal parts of Exeter you seem to have written it off. This state of affairs would definitely not be allowed to persist in any more prosperous area of Exeter. Could we possibly move to a less class-based strategy?
