It’s been a good day for a tidier and hopefully more pleasant and liveable BS5.
For the second week in a row, Bristol City Council had arranged for skips to be dropped at four sites in Lawrence Hill ward for residents to fill with the rubbish that couldn’t be collected by normal waste rounds. The sites are shown on the following map.
Before providing the skips in Easton last week and this week, St Paul’s residents had previously benefited from their presence on the streets.
Yesterday morning your ‘umble scribe received an email from a council contact: could I possibly help out at one of the sites?
I duly did, turning out at 9.00 am for skip delivery. It didn’t actually turn up until nearly 10 am. By 10.45 it was full and your correspondent regretfully had to turn people away or direct them to the other skip sites.
I was very pleased to be relieved by a proper council officer at 11 am.
While babysitting the skip, I also had one Bristol Waste‘s community engagement officers stop for a chat. She had organised a community litter pick on Stapleton Road for later that morning. I saw them on my way for a late breakfast; they were hard at work and doing a good job near the junction with Easton Way.
Anyway, well done to Bristol City Council and Bristol Waste for arranging some extra resources for tidying BS5 and the community litter picking team. Your efforts are appreciated. One repeated remark which was made about the skips was can we please have them again, possibly regularly?
This morning I received a brief thank you email from my contact at the council.