“Of cause these private landlords are not going to want a limit on the number of "multi occupancy" houses in an area as they will no longer be able to buy up cheep houses make a killing renting them out.

Sad to say but its very easy to spot these houses, they are poorly maintained **** holes. Maybe if the landlords put some of that money back into their houses the students would treat them and the areas with more respect.”

“The council could, of course, enforce their own littering regulations.

£75 per item of litter, I believe.

Of course, this would depend on HDM not sending a journalist to stick up for the litterers.

http://tinyurl.com/6f8f22p”

“How can one explain to 18- 19 year old babies that it is wrong to throw rubbish on the street, that it is unacceptable to desturb your neighbours with loud music, etc... ? Fine them, instantly! Problem solved. There will be no need for all these "events".”

“1Tommygunn ... I think your retrospective on householders cleaning the areas in front of their own properties was applicable before the transition of the majority of properties in the area from owner occupier to properties of multiple student occupancy.

Landlord's also need to clean up their act and remove and dispose of dumped furnishings from their properties quickly and not just let them accumulate.”

“I don't think the untidiness is always down to laziness. Don't forget, many of these kids are straight from homes where they've never had to look after their own waste, parents or cleaners have always done that for them; or maybe from countries where all litter is just dumped in binliners outside on the walkway. I read somewhere recntly that some coucils - can't remeber where - where having to give advice and instruction on using 'western' toilets.
Don't forget, it's only a generation or two ago when people used to clean the area of pavement outside of their own house and, if everynoe did it, the whole street was clean”

“It's not only students who should be doing this, we all should. Well done to these young people for taking some long lost pride back into the area. If we all made our city a cleaner place by all picking up litter from outside of our homes and neighbourhood what a nicer place it would be. If somewhere looks clean and tidy there's less likelihood that the disrespectful will mess it up. You will never stop those who think it's a right to drop their cans and packets everywhere but at least it's a start.”

“A reflection on the bins.

Retail produces far too much unnecessary packaging. For example, last week I purchased a child's toy in impressive cardboard and clear plastic box with dimension of around a cubic foot. I'm no lightweight but couldn't compress the box even by jumping on it as it bounced back and my scissors could hardly make an impression on the material. I gave up and it went, as it was, into the bin and took up much of the bin's capacity. With such ridiculous packaging it's small wonder that bins get to spill over and we create mountains of rubbish.

CUT THE PACKAGING because some of us can remember the days when all that was needed was a single small galvanized bin, even for the student houses, picked up from and returned to the rear of properties by the bin men. The streets were then clean and tidy but now they are filled with a plethora of overflowing distasteful colour coded bins, resembling sarcophagi, which isn't progress.”

“Getting in practice for when they leave uni...
Only joking - well done guys ..”

“There are simple things students and others in rented/temporary accommodation around Newland Avenue need to know and do, but which can make such a difference:

Wheelie Bins - there are 3 types:

BLACK bin - no recyclable waste. Collected every week by the Council.
BLUE bin - recyclable waste. Practically everything, and you don't even have to sort it out. How easy is that? Collected fortnightly by the Council.
BROWN bin - compostable and organic/biodegradable waste. Collected fortnightly by the Council.

Please store your bin to the rear of your property, or the front if you have no rear access but not on the street. Please don't store it on the path creating an obstruction to disabled and elderly, and so it gets kicked over and the contents spilled in the street.

Please don't over-fill your bin, just remember which day is bin day - set up a reminder an alarm on your I-phone? Plastic bags full of rubbish left adjacent to a bin will just attract vermin, cats, dogs and end up making a mess. The Council probably won't take them away. Call the Council if you're not sure which day is bin day, or you've lost your bin: 01482 300300, they will help.

The biggest eyesore in and around Newland Avenue is the over-flowing bins littering every side street on every day of the week. It's just laziness.”

“Come clean Grafton you scruffy erbets”