Cllr. Hamish Pollock has recently reported the dumped rubbish and tree prunings by the large tree outside of the entrance to the Old Library building, The Square, Carshalton as well as the redundant Library Opening hours sign still on the wall of the building.

A council officer has replied that the matters are being attended to. The officer says:-

I have this morning spoken to the proprietor of Cherrubin Nurseries who purchased the library, Andrew Brown and he explained as follows in relation to the points of this enquiry; 

1)    The huge pile of pruning’s etc is fly tip and while they have had one skip placed to accommodate their own waste, with another on its way, they don’t feel they should be responsible for other people’s fly tip. I will now liaise with colleagues about the grounds for removal of fly tip by the Council or otherwise, Andrew will send me a picture of the said fly tip today. Personally I think that if a site where building works are occurring is not kept very tidy it does tend to attract more rubbish, and perhaps that is what has happened here.

2)    They have now received planning (permission) but during that process had to provide Heritage statements etc and were very aware of the vernacular sensitivity so have been reluctant to remove any signage for fear of upsetting anyone. They will now remove the signage.