BEXLEY RUBBISH TIP

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27917, 14 March 1956, Page 18

BEXLEY RUBBISH TIP

OBJECTION TO CHOICE OF ENTRANCE Residents of Rowan avenue object to the entrance to the Bexley rubbish tip being made from their street. They had alreadv approached Mr J. Mathison, M.P., Miss Mabel Howard. M.P., and the Town Clerk (Mr H. S. Feast) to have it removed, said Miss D. Finnerty, one Ox the residents, last evening. A report from the works committee submitted to a meeting of the Christchurch City Council on Monday evening said that tipping at the new controlled tip would begin next week from a track off Rowan avenue, which had been widened. “This part of the tip is well removed from any house, and has plenty of covering to carry through the winters,” said the report. Miss Finnerty, who lives next to the tip, said that the boundary of the tip was only eight yards from her house. “They have been dumping rubbish at the tip for about three weeks, and last Wednesday evening a fire broke out in it. There is no boundary fence between the tip site and our property,” she said. “We want a footpath formed in Rowan avenue, the entrance to the tip moved from our street to Bexley road, and a dividing fence erected between my property and the tip,” Miss Finnerty said.