For many years Livingstone Road Allotments had been blighted with a fly – tipping hot spot which always had a varierty of dumped items including household waste, old baths, toilets and more dangerously asbestos. The allotments has a public right of way running through the centre of it and rather than making use of Birmingham City Council’s Bulky household items collections service or taking items to the nearest waste collection depot unknown persons would make the effort to go and dump their unwanted items at Livingstone Road Allotments.        

An application was made by the Birchfield Neighbourhood Manager to Birmingham City Council’s 2010/2011 Secured Sites programme . The application was successful and a grant of £3,950 was awarded to erect a shed on the former fly – tipped site.  Now allotment tenants can use the new facility to store their tools.

If you know of any other fly – tipping hot spot areas in Birchfield, Lozells or Handsworth please inform Yvonne Wager, Ward Support Officer on (0121) 303 9841.