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Jan 27, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
‘Eye-pass, gross eye-pass’, I thought, when I read the recent letter headed ‘A prisoner in my own home’. Of course, conditions such as those described pose “a significant health risk”.
Human nature being what it is, such piles of ‘ junk and disorder’ will act as a magnet, inviting passersby to dump their rubbish, making a bad situation worse.  No consideration or respect for others. I have personally witnessed this in a neighbourhood in London.
In the mid-1970s, when rubbish-stuffed black bin-bags started to pile up nearby, I noted the anxiety caused to residents, so, on behalf of my elderly neighbour on one side and another (non-English-speaking) with a retarded young daughter on the other, I wrote to the local borough council, pointing out the likely invasion of rats and the impact that could have on vulnerable residents’ health. The situation was corrected swiftly.
Relief all round. Recently, around the UK, when people euphemistically described as ‘travelers’ – tinkers really – started to blight the lives of local communities, by parking their caravans on open spaces, living out of them, littering, thus forming untidy, unsightly ‘sub communities’, residents of one such community decided to take positive action.
They complained to the authorities and, when they failed to receive a positive response, they decided to withhold payment of local taxes and let the authorities know that they would continue to do so until the ‘traveller problem’ was solved.  A solution was quickly found.  Cheaper than taking them all to court, or risking a widespread backlash. Perversely, the bulk rubbish may be a deterrent to would-be burglars.  Ironic that the letter was from a “Frustrated taxpayer”!
Geralda Dennison

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