Litter and dog poo bins axed across the Duchy

THE “precarious” financial position of Cornwall Council’s housing wing has led to the removal of a large number of litter and dog poo bins across the Duchy. The decision was slammed as “extremely shortsighted” at a council meeting on Tuesday this week.

- By LEE TREWHELA

Speaking at a meeting of the council’s sustainable growth scrutiny committee, Cllr Laurie Magown (Labour, Falmouth Arwenack) said: “At the end of October, Cornwall Housing started to remove a large number of outdoor bins in areas where there's a large number of Cornwall Housing properties - so areas that traditionally have larger areas of deprivation”

Cornwall Housing Ltd manages and maintains approximately 10,200 council homes on behalf of the local authority. Cllr Magowan said 22 bins in Falmouth alone have been removed, with many more across Cornwall. “This is already having a large impact on the amount of litter and dog waste being left either in public or where the bins once were.”

The issue was raised at a full council meeting on September 16, as part of Conservative councillor James Mustoe’s Keep Cornwall Clean motion. Cllr Magowan wanted to know what steps, if any, Cornwall Council had taken to prevent or mitigate the action to remove the bins?