The council has now gone for retrospective planning permission, which means the council is having to apply to itself for permission to keep this 24/7 dumping site on Fisherman's Green.
In the guise of keeping up figures of recycling for Eastboume, the council has doomed vulnerable elderly people (in their 80s and 90s) whose homes are in Sovereign Court, to a living nightmare for the rest of their lives. We have to put up with the sound of breaking glass from as early as 5am until all hours of the night. People taking clothes from the clothes bins, dumping all sorts of rubbish from mattresses and bikes to computers etc, tradesmen dumping their waste and the noise and the pollution from all the cars that pull up on this site.
Men and youths use the bins as a urinal in the daytime. We also have a real worry that there will be a fire one day as youths sit on the bins smoking. The only windows we have are overlooking this dumping ground (which is only 35 yards away from our homes) so you cannot get away from this awful sight. It is like living on an industrial estate. Now the council has informed us that we cannot comment on the loss of value to our property, which obviously we paid a premium for to have a sea view. How can the council believe this is morally right? We pay our council taxes the same as everybody else. We have photos of the rubbish and video evidence of the noise of the breaking glass and the SITA lorries collecting. The council should do the morally right thing and move this 24/7 dumping ground somewhere else. I am sure they would not want their mothers, fathers or grandparents to live like this. What must holidaymakers think of our wonderful Eastboume front as they walk along or ride on the Dotto trains within feet of these bins and the piles of rubbish? You would think the tourist board would want this moved or maybe their thinking about the site becoming another iconic image with the caption 'Eastboume a rat trap, not a sun trap' as you can watch the rats running around because people throw bags of food around these bins – sometimes not even bothering to get out of their cars.
M McManus, Sovereign Court.