The Bath Street 'Community Skip' experiment has been a great success, local
councillors have been told.

Tonnes of unused and broken items were collected from across the town
centre/Promenade area in the week that the skip was left on the street,
following an initiative by Southport's small hoteliers supported by local
councillors.

Town Centre Lib Dem Councillor Tony Dawson said:

"The nay-sayers have been proved wrong. Thanks must be given to the Bath
Street hoteliers who supervised the skip and made sure it was not misused.

"The big job now is to educate the nuisance minority of tenants and
landlords about what they should do for the future to get the right
rubbish put in the right place at the right time. I am pleased that the
local Migrant Workers' Community have come on board and will translate and
distribute the information. But there are still people who think they can
litter the streets with unsightly and in some cases unhealthy items"

"I think that the community skip idea should possibly be repeated in other
areas of the town centre where there are many buildings in multiple
occupation as well as being brought back to the Bath Street Area before and
after the New Year."

Tracy Holgate, Chair of the Southport Hoteliers added:

"The success is proof that working together, hoteliers, councillors that it
is possible to resolve problems and improve the environment for residents
and visitors alike. Thank you to all for making this happen now and in the
future."

When did this go to being "an experiment", is this a new buzz word? One could see that the experiment proved that if you put a skip somewhere people will put things in it, it's hardly anymore scientific than if you put a photo opportunity in place Cllr Dawson or Cllr Barton will climb over themselves to be there.

When does the experiment prove that if you take the skip away the rubbish will just be dumped as was before, it will end up needing what it had before which was a regular collection of big items, to me recstarting the bulky collection service going round all the areas rather than rock bottom £45 skips strategically placed is much more efficient.

As for Cllr Dawson, why did he have to dump his stained mattress there as he doesn't live in that area I believe.....

Is there really no one better than Dawson to represent us ?
perhaps we should just bite the bullet and pay more.

Telling us that a free skip getting filled is somehow a success is just more evidence that his picnic is missing a pork pie.

Those of us that pay for skips (and Dawson) are of course the mugs in this.

Originally Posted by Username2016

When did this go to being "an experiment", is this a new buzz word? One could see that the experiment proved that if you put a skip somewhere people will put things in it, it's hardly anymore scientific than if you put a photo opportunity in place Cllr Dawson or Cllr Barton will climb over themselves to be there.

When does the experiment prove that if you take the skip away the rubbish will just be dumped as was before, it will end up needing what it had before which was a regular collection of big items, to me recstarting the bulky collection service going round all the areas rather than rock bottom £45 skips strategically placed is much more efficient.

As for Cllr Dawson, why did he have to dump his stained mattress there as he doesn't live in that area I believe.....

These individuals , for the sake of their huge fragile egos have to be seen and heard using trendy garbage speak ( in this case quite relevant ! ) in order to dress up the painfully obvious.

Thought we might have been further entertained by seeing a pic of The Two Grinners shaking hands in front of a skip in a joyful act of bonhomie!

Originally Posted by oldduffer

These individuals , for the sake of their huge fragile egos have to be seen and heard using trendy garbage speak ( in this case quite relevant ! ) in order to dress up the painfully obvious.

Thought we might have been further entertained by seeing a pic of The Two Grinners shaking hands in front of a skip in a joyful act of bonhomie!

Its unfathomable the neck on some of these Local electives that they will not take any accountability for the decline of the town, which should consider the amount of time they've been in position.

As you say, a big ego trip but very little action for the town.

We even get official Lib dem responses on news stories, if the ego gets any bigger he'll have his own MP!

.....and in further news today, a toilet was flushed in Victoria Street whilst a man has been seen locking his front door at an address in Bank Square.
At this moment we are unable to confirm whether or not the flush was completed as when our reporter called, the resident appeared too busy to speak to us.
The reason she gave our reporter was she had been helping some mates depart for a seaside holiday. Indeed she stated that - 'she had just seen some friends off to the coast'.
The locking of the front door was later revealed to be a false alarm as the man concerned admitted this was just an experiment to see if locking the door would stop people stealing his stuff. We hope to report on the experiment's success - or not later in this bulletin.

Originally Posted by roving-eye

Tonnes of unused and broken items were collected from across the town
centre/Promenade area in the week that the skip was left on the street,

I live on the Promenade and had no idea the skip was there.
How were residents supposed to have been informed about it?

Fantastic experiment by 'Krypton Factor' Dawson.. What this has proved is the Council are now caught up in a repeated expenditure cycle. Provide the skip on a permanent basis or face rubbish mounting up again.

Ill conceived, poorly executed plan.

We used to get these in South Sefton and they stopped years ago. Now we have fly tipping.

Nice to see money has been found for this one, even if its up in Southport..