tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post6883056723202128445..comments2024-03-28T22:32:50.562+00:00Comments on Liberal England: Filbert Street: Where Leicester City used to playJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-38011951457445493272016-04-11T18:51:52.768+01:002016-04-11T18:51:52.768+01:00The Leicester Mercury story should alert us to pre...The Leicester Mercury story should alert us to prescriptive rules and unforeseen consequences: it has to be easy and cheap to dispose of household rubbish. Fly tipping occurs because it is too hard for people to dispose of waste legitimately.<br /><br />Mercury: 'A spokeswoman added that officers would contact the site owners and urge them to remove the abandoned junk piles.'<br /><br />Stig of the Dump presumably looks after the unabandoned junk piles.<br /><br />Mercury: 'She said: "The land on the corner of Filbert Street and Lineker Road is privately owned.<br />"We are in the process of serving a formal notice requiring the owners to tidy the site.<br />"If they fail to do so, we may take the landowner to court, and/or tidy the land for them and charge the landowners for the cost of the clean-up."<br /><br />Thus the land owners will potentially be punished twice. Firstly by having rubbish dumped on their land, secondly by a City Council enforcement notice.<br /><br />And if the land was to be used as a car park, there would be an incentive to keep it clear from rubbish.Phil Beesleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18442987962398498812noreply@blogger.com