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Great to report that Thames Water have finally agreed to lock the entrance gates to their site approach which means that vans can no longer drive up to the dead end and chuck out all their rubbish. A really good result and have to say hats off to TW for finally listening. Also thnaks to Cllr Gavin Edwards (and Renata)for his ongoing support on this one. I believe there is also talk of CCTV but not sure how that will pan out. I'll be organising a clean-up in jan sometime. Cheers Matt

Thanks for the messages and thanks Renata for reporting. When we bought our house on Homestall 3 years back our solicitor noted the road is owned by TW and that's why we had to have a right of way clause inserted so that we could legally get to our house! What's weird about the bit by TW site/Athenlay FC is that the Council could so easily add that 10m stretch to their enviro services patch but refuse to do so - yet somehow it's OK for them to dump Housing Services equipment and containers there when they want! I'm happy to clear the the overgrown path on a regular basis with some shears and do a tidy up of litter but the fly-tipping needs to be picked up by one of the main players - LBS or TW. Matt

I'm sure that for anyone that (even infrequently) walks/cycles up past the Thames Water site on Homestall Road they will be getting very depressed and annoyed with the continual fly-tipping in that area. This is a plea for ideas - I have had a long battle with both TW and LB Southwark to try and get one/both of them to take responsibility for keeping that part of the road clean but I have got precisely nowhere. That stretch is unadopted and therefore neither party wants to take on any committment for its upkeep. TW have said they will periodically deep-clean their external boundary walls to get rid of the grafitti (but only seemingly when I repeatedly ask them, I'm sure the Site Manager must just wear blinkers)and LBS have point blank refused to do anything (although randomly they do seem to remove bits of rubbish on occasion). I've tried the Cllrs and MP but still no success. I've written directly to the CEO of Thames Water. Ignored. Has anyone got any suggestions? I'm tempted to just lock the steel gates with a U-lock so that vans can't get up there and empty their rubbish but TW would probably go nuclear as I'd be preventing access to their site. Matt

100 years is right - at least for tax purposes so probably backed up by t'law.