"many residents will claim they don't know that there is a mattress collection service (free or not)"

I totally agree Michael, which is why I wrote -

"I hope they will have the budget to make this concession widely known so that people will see that it's going to be far cheaper to pay the council to dispose of their large items properly than to pay a fly-tipper-by-night cowboy to put it on their truck only for it all to be slung off around the corner"

Coincidentally, another mattress was dumped outside the old Indian restaurant at 63 Dartmouth Road before the weekend and I've reported it to Fix My Street, as I do for other random fly-tips there on a regular basis. It would be great if Lewisham used their power to take control of the long-term disused shop and put it out to rent - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/huge-...new-powers

This post was last modified: 27-10-2025 08:58 PM by Anotherjohn.