Residents living on a new Welsh housing estate say they don’t open their windows due to bins overflowing on to the streets directly outside their homes. People living at Lysaght village in Newport, which was constructed from 2013 onwards, say they have watched people pull up outside their homes and dump unwanted items such as lawn mowers, beds and hoovers in their bins.
The situation has become so out of hand in the communal bin areas near the Margaret Brown House building on the modern-looking estate that people living there have spotted rodents scurrying through the discarded furniture. They say they face an especially “disgusting” scene when seagulls rip bins open on bin collection day.
United Welsh Housing oversees the management of the estate. Craig Goodman, 46, who has lived on the estate for seven years, said: “We have a big problem with fly-tipping in our bin shed. Why is nothing ever done to help? I’ve been in contact with United Welsh about this problem for over two years now.
