Admin and Cllr Blair,
Thank you for reporting this to SKSolutions. I passed it on Tuesday but it slipped my mind.
This is the second sofa dumped there in the last two weeks.
A couple of years ago we had a bad time at the same spot. On one occasion there was a large very heavy old computer which I carried to the tip, an old-fashioned television type monitor thrown from the bridge which I carried to the tip and cleared all of the broken shards from the screen. Finally I also pushed a dumped sofa from the bridge to the A-stile/horse step on the Middlewood Way at the side of the tip, went onto the tip to ask for help to get the sofa over the horse stile to be told by the staff that they would not assist as the item was outside the site. I managed to stand the sofa upright and topple it over the horse stile but I had pushed it all the way from Throstle Grove - I had spent a lot of time at effort getting it all to the tip and was too tired to push it up the ramp alone so much to the consternation of the staff I left it just inside the tip gate. The tip staff were indignant about having to remove it from there but I had already pushed it quite far enough. The tip staff just couldn't care less.
Fortunately until a couple of weeks ago I don't think that there have been any major problems. I haven't needed to move very much since then because there are at least two guardian angels looking after the litter on this stretch - a dog walker from Rose Hill who carries a bag and clears bits and pieces and an elderly gentleman from who can be seen walking down Wood Lane most mornings with a long stick to pull across any items, a litter picking device and a rubbish bag. Who knows, there may well be more regular litter pickers so my thanks to all who do this work. If you do walk this stretch to the station every day please remember that it is generally tidy because of the actions of these volunteers so I offer my thanks to them.
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