Do you live in a student/hmo area and is refuse an issue?

[Jamfirstest]

We live in an area of large Victorian terraced villas I guess. It’s right next to the city uni. Ours and neighbouring streets are a mix of families, student houses (less than a 3rd I reckon) and a few HMOs.

This year especially the bins have got really bad. Out the front is always fine but the lanes are now full of fly tipped rubbish and overflowing green bins which have been contaminated. This week I found bottles of wee all over the lane. Dp didn’t believe me until he came out there. It was shocking and truly revolting.

you can tell which properties are doing it kind of. End of student tenancies are bad as they just dump everything and leave.

we are reporting it all and the council will clear it but what is the solution longer term?

we also have seagulls so any bin bags exposed will be ripped open and spilled which makes it worse.

I will contact my local councillor but I’d rather not as he is a bit reform ish for my liking. He’s independent though. I would want to make suggestions though as this will just carry on.

it’s disgusting.

I'm not sure what you can do about the rubbish other than keep reporting to the council but your local university's student union might be interested in this initiative that Leeds University' SU runs.
https://sustainability.leeds.ac.uk/barter-it-bank-it-bin-it-reflecting-on-our-2024-moving-out-campaign/

You could also complain to the university if you know they are students and which house they are. Some universities will take action but you would need to provide pictures and address.

@HarrietSchulenbergim sending that straight to my local councillors that’s brilliant thank you!!! We live in the exact ward that needs this - the half mile radius of the uni.

I’m in a student area and we do have some problems with end of term rubbish, but the local council will clearly it quickly if you report it. The university also runs something similar to @HarrietSchulenberg’s link, which does seem to help.

We have this issue. Report it to the university. They should have some sort of good neighbours team to sort out issues with neighbours. Ours is particularly bad round moving out time but we have not had bottles of wee! We also get bin divers emptying the bins to get all the nearly brand new clothes and kitchen stuff which the students throw away and then leave all the bin stuff all over the road.

Thanks I will look into that too