Company boss fears fire hazard from rubbish dump near A12 Blackwall Tunnel
Company boss Alfred Gibbons is fed up with the bin men he says haven’t been collecting the rubbish outside his East London glass merchants business near the A12 Blackwall Tunnel.
It’s been piling up 10ft high and stretching 40 yards along the pavement—but Tower Hamlets’ cleansing department hadn’t managed to clear it away by yesterday, after weeks of phone-calls by Alfred to the Town Hall.
He fears the ‘garbage mountain’ along Ailsa Street in Bromley-by-Bow, is a fire hazard.
“Flames could spread to my factory if it caught light,” he told the East London Advertiser.
“The mountain of rubbish has been getting bigger every day. We’re getting rats and other vermin and old furniture and tyres are now being dumped on it.”
You may also want to watch:
The council was aware of unauthorised and illegal dumping and has begun removing it, the Advertiser was told.
A Town Hall spokesman admitted: “It’s going to take more than one lorry load to shift this lot.”
Most Read
- 1 Luxury Canary Wharf flats going for lower rent set by the council
- 2 Driver, 18, wanted for driving wrong way through Blackwall Tunnel
- 3 Liverpool Street to Shenfield line suspended as person hit by train
- 4 Building new tower block starts on Limehouse Triangle 'wildlife site'
- 5 Fines totalling £361k handed to East End landlords and agents
- 6 Capacity at West Ham's London stadium to increase to 62,500
- 7 Isle of Dogs man who murdered teenager at Crossharbour DLR sentenced to 27 years
- 8 14 charged with alleged drug dealing and money laundering offences
- 9 19 arrested and cash seized in East End dawn drug raids
- 10 Man charged after triple stabbing on night bus in Mile End
The council is looking at ways to prevent further dumping or fly tipping which has plagued the area in the past and “identify those responsible”. Measures could include CCTV.
