BID TO KEEP BRIGG RECREATION GROUND FREE FROM LITTER

Complaints about dog owners failing to clean up mess left by their pets while exercising them on Brigg Recreation Ground are made from time to time - and with good reason.
Sometimes these protests come from people who play sport at the Wrawby Road facility.
But it now appears that lengths of tape (perhaps used to hold shin-pads in place) and plastic cups can be found in the vicinity of the playing areas.
So the Annual Town Meeting received a call from a responsible dog owner for a new litter bin to be provided near the pitches.
Coun Rob Waltham noted the request but pointed out there are existing bins elsewhere at/near the Recreation Ground.
This discussion reminded Brigg Blog of our recent post about the failure to replace the litter bin on a lamp-post near the Monument roundabout.
We suggested this bin had been ideally suited for hungry people walking home after a night out  and who wanted somewhere to deposit their fast food cartons.
We now understand that it would have been difficult to put a bin on the lamp-post because of the close proximity to cars displayed during the day for sale near the A18.
Instead, a litter bin (pictured above) has been provided not too far away on a grass verge beside Bigby Road (outside what used to be The Cedars).
As the safe way to cross Bigby Road is by using the traffic island adjoining the Monument roundabout, many takeaway munchers (living on the St Helen's Road housing estate) will be on the other side of the street from this bin as they walk home and seek somewhere to put their food wrappings.
And several inspections of this new Bigby Road bin undertaken recently by Brigg Blog show that it is being used by some people to deposit litter, though we haven't yet seen any fast food cartons.
However, many bins the council provides, and whatever locations are selected, not everyone will be 100 per cent happy.
The powers-that-be can only aspire to please most of the people most of the time.

PICTURED ABOVE: The new litter bin on Bigby Road. One was once fixed to a lamp-post in the distance, adjoining the Monument roundabout.