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Litter Parking St Paul Winchester

Parking, litter-picking and tidy-mindedness

A good session helping Winchester Litterpickers at the station this morning. They meet every Monday at 9.30 a.m. on the Station forecourt – anyone who wants to help is very welcome – equipment will be provided if you don’t already have a litter picker of your own. It’s both amazing and depressing how much litter can build up in a week – and very satisfying to help pick it all up.

The Litter Pickers are a great institution and make a really important (and noticeable) difference to the city: it was excellent that John Green-Wilkinson’s role in setting up the Litterpickers was recognised in the New Year Honours with an MBE.

I was invited along to their annual party on Friday night as one of their occasional helpers – but unfortunately could only get there towards the end due to a public meeting at Peter Symonds about proposed parking restrictions in Weeke.

This was set up by a local resident, Steve Feeney, who also set up a helpful website to explain the issue.

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Litter Winchester

Sometimes it’s just better to just get on with things…

At the meeting of North Stanmore Residents Association on October 8, several residents mentioned problem with litters on the path between Waynflete Place and Selbourne Place.

Alexis Fall and Lucille Thompson are pushing the council to clear the path regularly. I went along with them to have a look and we all thought – why wait – let’s clear it up now! Twenty minutes later it was all done.

Alexis Fall and Lucille Thompson litterpicking in Stanmore

(Despite the picture, I can promise that I did my share too – it’s just that one of us had to take the photo!)

The first time I went out with Winchester Litterpickers, I ended up buying my own litter picker (it costs a fiver), and it’s very useful for this kind of thing.

It doesn’t mean that we won’t be pushing for the path to be cleared when the council clears litter in the surrounding areas – but it also made no sense to leave loads of litter in place when we had the tools to hand to get rid of it!