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Enid Barnes, 85, Peter Barlow, 63, and Linda Booth, 59, say the unemptied bins were “a health hazard”.
Kicking up a stink over ‘health hazard’ at flats
8/10/2008
Elderly Moss Estate residents say their health was put at risk because of a two-week old mountain of stinking rubbish in their block of flats.
Pensioners who live in the Mulberry Courts, next to the Moss Rose stadium, have blasted Macclesfield Borough Council (MBC) because the refuse – which included rotting food – was not collected for more than a fortnight.
"It was a health hazard," said Peter Barlow, 63. "And it was disgusting – if it was left any longer rats would have been everywhere because the stench was overpowering."
The 42-bedroom private housing association is a tight-knit community of people aged 55 and over, many with severe illnesses.
Peter, a former Moss Rose Motors’ employee, added: "There are people in here with serious respiratory problems."
The bins were due to be collected by MBC on Thursday, September 18, in its weekly round, but had still not been emptied by Wednesday, October 1.
An MBC spokesman said: "The bins were collected on Thursday (October 2).
"The regrettable break in service arose as a result of internal changes which affected our existing routes, which we did explain to the housing association concerned. We don’t envisage any further problems for the residents and we thank them for their understanding."
But this, according to some residents and relatives, is not good enough.
Heather Tyrie, 28, of Walker Lane, Sutton, is a full time carer for her grandmother, Kathleen Hibbert, 81, who has lived in the private flats for ten years.
She said: "They think they can just get away with it because it’s the elderly – they are being taken advantage of. Spores such as EColi can become airborne from rubbish like that and my gran has just come out of hospital after a heart attack. The two just don’t go together. Gran pays £70 a month for my council tax and what for? It’s not value for money."
Regenda First, who owns the apartments, said it had been in contact with MBC and informed residents that confusion over status of the flats being labelled as a care home instead of residential was to blame.
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All i can say is expect this sort of thing to occur with increasingly regularity.
12/10/2008 at 07:45