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Next meeting: Open Meeting Tuesday 9 February 8.00 pm at the Vera Fletcher Hall. The evening begins with the neighbourhood Police Panel meeting where you may hear of developments on the crime front and suggest priorities for the police team for the coming quarter. Then our Open meeting where Elmbridge's Parks officers will be explaining the background to experiments removing bins along Albany Reach - see below. There will be reports from councillors and a chance to make your views known to the Residents' Association. It's your Association, and all who live or work in Thames Ditton and Weston Green are welcome, subscribing members or not. Come along and discuss.

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Open Meeting 9 February: includes presentation on Albany Reach

...will it be tidier with no litter bins?

Two years ago, residents living close to Albany Reach flagged up problems of litter and indeed ordure left principally by anglers camping along this lovely stretch of river - the only stretch open for public access on the Thames Ditton bankside. After a major heave by the Residents' Association, our councillors and local police, bins and notices were put up and the situation improved considerably.

Last autumn Elmbridge Council quietly removed the litter bins in an experiment to see whether that would lead to less litter rather than more. The theory was that if there were no bins, people using the Reach would take their own litter away. There are said to be cases elsewhere where this policy has seemed to be succcessful. However, there was considerable disquiet over the trial, not least because it was to be carried out at a time when bivoucking anglers and other summer users of the riverside were much less in evidence. Also because some felt that even small weekly quantities of litter would accumulate; that the Council would put no mechanism in place periodically to remove accumulated litter manually; and indeed there was a suspicion that the Council was being driven by the garbage contractors' tendency to do less work for the money (or the Council's wish to economise).

Elmbridge officers would like to renew the experiment this summer, and have kindly agreed to attend our Open Meeting (20.00 on Yuesday 9 February at the Vera Fletcher Hall) to discuss the issue - and other issues concerning Albany reach - with residents. If you take an interest in this beautiful spot, please come along.

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