Shepherd's Bush Green is Still a Mess

Shepherd's Bush Green yesterday morning

Two years after we first started started posting about the sorry state of Shepherd's Bush Green, and the failure of our Council to do anything about the enforcement of laws against litter, things are as bad as ever.

Walk across Shepherd's Bush Green in the morning and you will see piles of fast food, empty bottles and cans, and a depressing picture of destitute humanity, for many of whom the serious drinking begins at 8am.

The worst of it is that there doesn't seem to be any attempt by our Council to enforce the laws against dropping litter.

LBHF love handing out parking tickets to unsuspecting motorists; cars are an easy target, and a lucrative source of revenue. But has anyone seen anyone actually get a ticket (Fixed Penalty Notice, or "FPN") for dropping litter in the Bush?

And it's not like it would be hard to identify who is doing it - the same people are out on Shepherd's Bush Green every night, sitting on the same benches and dropping their beer cans and McDonalds containers. The system of law enforcement is not working. Shepherd's Bush Green is filthy, every day.

In fairness to the Council, they do a good job of clearing it up. The guys from Serco who have to clean up the mess do so patiently every day. But surely there should be a way of making it unattractive for people to create the mess in the first place.

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