RESIDENTS have claimed their street STINKS after they were told waste collectors can’t empty their bins due to badly parked cars.
Neighbours living on Park Street in Ripley, Derbys., say their rubbish is starting to rot in the sweltering heat after going uncollected for weeks.
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The street, which is just a five minute walk from the town centre, is a hot bed for shoppers leaving their cars while they pop down the road.
But bin collectors who work for Amber Valley Norse – a partner company of Amber Valley Council – have warned they can’t get down the street as a result, leaving locals tearing their hair out as bins pile high in the heat.
Michelle Bates, 55, told The Sun Online: “We have got that many flies in the house it’s ridiculous.
“The parking has been the same forever along this road but now suddenly they have a new contractor and it becomes an insurmountable problem.
“It feels like my partner is paying the rates for nothing. It’s a waste of time talking to the council.”
Signs at either end of the street tell drivers Park Street should be used for access only, but a lack of road markings means cars regularly use the street as a drop-off point.
The road is also tight and has no pavement on one side.
A note from rubbish collectors warned on Friday: “If bin men can’t get down then fire engines and ambulances can’t access – this could cause lost of live (sic).”
One resident, who did not wish to be named, said: “We never had any problem for 20 years but now they say they can’t get down the road to collect the bins.
“There are no road markings so some drivers see it as a way of avoiding paying for the council car park at the end of the road.
“Lorries can’t reverse down close enough to the houses and I have also been told there is a limit on dragging a bin for more than 20 metres.”
They added: “It seems the whole thing is falling apart. We don’t get much out of the Council but we do want our bins emptied because it’s getting smellier by the day.”
We have got that many flies in the house it’s ridiculous.
Michelle Bates
Tara Bradshaw, 49, added: “In 22 years I have never known this happen.
“There are ever more cars and nowhere to put them. The Council could create a car park for residents on the wasteland but something needs to happen.”
It comes as Britain bakes in the sizzling heatwave, with temperatures reaching record-breaking highs today.
And Ann Attewell, 75, stressed residents need their waste removed as temperatures peak.
“It has never been a problem before but nobody wants their bins left uncollected, especially in hot weather like this,” she said.
“It’s quite simple, they need to clamp down on the parking and enforce the law.”
One couple told how they are blocked into their house with three bins blocking their front doors.
Several residents also have to rent garage space so as not to park on the road and block in the houses on a jitty.
Leanna Butler even said she there was no room for an ambulance to pass when she had to call one the other day.
The 33-year-old said: “A couple of weeks ago I had to call an ambulance out to my son and it couldn’t get down the road because of a parked car and that was 11.30 at night.
“They need to sort something out.”
Meanwhile, the street’s oldest resident, 90-year-old Harry Harrison, believes a lack of fines for wrongly parked cars is to blame.
Mr Harrison, who has lived on Park Street since 1958, said: “Parked cars? There’s nothing new there. I can remember discussing this with the Council in the 1960s.
“The problem on this road is lack of policing. We have an invisible police force. If we had anything like enough of them, they could get £3,000-a-day in fines along here.”
A spokesperson for Amber Valley Council said: “Usually on bin issues we get a comment from Amber Valley Norse who provide the service to residents.
“I can confirm that the bins were collected today.”
Amber Valley Norse, the company which deals with bin collections for the street, has been approached for comment.
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