These are 7 industrial wheelie bins, locked inside frames, which are bolted to the street.  They are communal bins, for the use of the whole street, but stuck outside 3 houses, blocking the view from them, and forcing people to walk along a narrow smelly alley to get to those houses.

There was no consultation before the installation of the bins. In fact they were an experiment, started on the Beamsleys, which is demonstrably a failure in this situation - they do have their place, like bin-yards, but not on the street.

The black bin lids are really high up - some people can't even reach them, and bags are often left on the street. The green bins have a 'letterbox' opening, meaning recycling has to be posted a piece at a time - so people who (quite reasonably) collect their recycling in a bag either leave it on the street or put it in the black bins. The glass bin is unlined, thus really loud, and is regularly overfilled so that glass bottles are left on the street, and all the bins and frames regularly break.

The people who collect the rubbish have said repeatedly that they don't like them. In fact nobody, including council employees sent to inspect the bins, thinks they are a good idea, with the normal response being that nobody would want them outside their house.

The arrangement actively encourages fly-tipping. It is labelled 'Recycling and Waste Point' so people see a tip and regularly (all year round) dump rubbish too big for the bins. People drive from elsewhere to fly-tip. Landlords dump commercial waste with impunity, so they don't pay for a tip pass, instead putting the financial burden for clearing their waste directly onto the council (i.e. the residents of Leeds) and meaning the residents have to put up with beds dumped in the street until the council picks them up.

The bins completely remove all responsibility from individuals for their behaviour, and as a result everyone dumps rubbish round the bins because the sign says to do so.

They make access difficult for anyone with large objects, a pushchair, wheelchair or bike, or even a couple of bags of shopping.  Building work on any house behind them is also hugely inconvenienced, and scaffolding and other work will cost more £££ than on houses without bins outside.

I live in a house which is now barricaded in by 4 massive smelly black bins, my view out is gone, I can't chat to passing neighbours or see the street, and I have regularly been prevented from getting to or from my home by dumped rubbish.  Next door is also affected, with the houses either side and opposite slightly less so.

I'm sitting in the kitchen as I write this, and the smell of 22-plus houses-worth of rubbish (probably nearly 100 people) is wafting in through the door. No amount of street-cleansing will stop this happening.

Nobody should have to live behind a rubbish tip, and even if you don't live behind them, the bins are an ugly, smelly eyesore and impractical to use for many reasons.

I am petitioning Leeds City Council to remove these bins, and instead give every house their own private bins, as they used to have, and as most other people in Leeds have.  Beamsley Mount used to be a quiet, pleasant cul-de-sac, where people chatted to each other in passing or sitting outside their houses in the summer.  The bins have stopped that, and speaking as a long-term resident (which the council are keen to encourage in the area) these bins are an encouragement never to live anywhere near a bin point. Nobody who has lived near them would choose to do it again - meaning they have an impact on both rental and purchased properties.