Big commercial bins could be banned from suburban pavements after the success of a scheme in the city centre.
The council introduced time-banding zones, or T-Zones, in 2022 to manage commercial bins left out on roads and pavements in some central areas of Brighton and Hove.
It is now seeking views on extending T-Zones to tidy up other areas in the city.
Shops, bars, restaurants, takeaways and other traders outside of a T-Zone can leave their bins outside or near their premises all day, every day.
The council says that bins left out on streets and pavements attract anti-social behaviour, fly-tipping and littering and obstruct pavements and create hazards.
It says the feedback it has received shows that the introduction of T-Zones has improved and tidied up the city, as well as ensuring that streets and roads are more accessible for everyone.
Businesses in T-Zones can place their bins out for collection between 6pm and 9am on agreed collection days and must store them elsewhere at all other times.
If they don’t, they risk being issued a Fixed Penalty Notice of £110.
The council is keen to ensure its plans work for everyone in the city, including businesses, residents and the council, so it would like to hear from you.
To make sure your views are heard, please complete a short online consultation: www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/commercial-bins-on-the-highway, which includes a map of the proposed expansion.
The consultation is open until 15 October.
Once the consultation is complete, the feedback will be presented to the City Environment, South Downs & The Sea Committee for councillors make the final decision.
Councillor Tim Rowkins, Chair of the City Environment, South Downs and The Sea Committee, said: “We’ve heard from residents that commercial bins impact accessibility for families with buggies, wheelchair users and others with mobility issues.
“These large commercial bins and bags on streets and pavements are also an eyesore and affect residents’ enjoyment of their neighbourhoods.
“We’re really keen to tidy up the city, and want to hear from both residents and businesses about extending T-Zones in Brighton & Hove.
“We’ll use the consultation results to inform our decision to extend the areas currently covered so it is really important that we hear from a wide range of people.
“The consultation is open until 15 October, so please take 5 minutes to fill out the form and let us know what you think.”
Quite often businesses dont need a big bin, a bag is sufficient , then they can all shared one bin
But the seagulls tear them apart!
And the foxes!
They are in a communal bin
Yes Derek – these are the worst affected pieces of street furniture. You should know, your area recently was subjected to quite a bit of loose rubbish flying around from communal bins.
Will the Council provide areas where BUSINESSES who pay high rates, CAN put their bins and rubbish. ???
I expect the Councillors live outside the problem areas.
That is public information if you want to check – they live in those areas you describe, for the most part.
As long as we can get rid of all those other pavement monstrosities, communal bins, cycle shelters etc…
I see how you casually stuck in your anti-cyclist propaganda in that sentence. Very tactical there sir.
Little Preston Street (the rear of Preston Street with all those restaurants and takeaways) have them. It’s a rather tacky, horrible street now because of them.
But people live on this street, and it can’t be very nice for them to have these bins feet from their doors?
What’s the answer?
There are far too many takeaways and restaurants, far too many to survive! There are few clothes shops! No shoe shops! No hobby shops! Few greengrocers! No hobby shops! No knitting shops! Few locksmiths! Post offices have disappeared too? Even sweet shops have disappeared! But there are takeaways and restaurants, virtually next door to each other on virtually every street! Every time another restaurant and takeaway opens, the Evening Argus crows about as if it’s one of the Seven Wonders of the world?
Until that reverts back to the streets we remember, it will only get worse!
In the meantime, we could something!
In Spain, they have two postal deliveries a day and two rubbish collections a day.
Do you see any of their roads and streets littered with food waste and litter and filth? Are their pavements grimy, blackened with the layers of fat from takeaway droppings?
No! They are spotless!
But that costs money!
And we’d sooner have rats and vermin and make our streets clean than spend that money!
And even if the money was there, they still wouldn’t do it because they have seen that they can save money by doing so!
It’s been this way for decades, probrably the same period when people can say how this country has deteriorated? This is another symbol of this!
But we will never learn???
Never!
We are too obsessed with bits of paper in our bank accounts to care!
We should protest more about the deterioration of our country!
But nobody cares any more!
Keep the peasants happy with their chippies, kebabs and burger and fries!
It’s a me,me,me society! And no one cares anymore – forever!
I have to agree Simon, although it’s not perfect in Spain either. The state is the biggest employer and all employees had to take a 20% pay-cut in 2008. On top of that they retire on 80% of pay (government and sate pension) and at some point soon Spain will not be able to afford this.
The biggest reason for two rubbish collections daily is of course the heat. Every city is different and in some it is not permitted to put rubbish in the bin during the day.
Having said all that I do wonder if anyone cooks any more. How long before houses are built without a kitchen ?
But why do these takeaways all need to be on the high street. As nearly all their sales are delivered, also causing nuisance with traffic – why aren’t they based in industrial estates ?
Are “nearly all sales delivered?” I’m not sure this is backed up by any particular piece of information or data, Chris.
Personally, I’m a big advocate for when bins need to be around they are designed in a way that is aesthetically intelligent. External storeroom styles, hidden by tactical planting, given some stylisation, etc.
I have seen a few ways they have been done, some are not too bad as far as bins go.
I agree that there is a tendency towards a ” me, me, me” society, and It seems that as a City, we do not care collectively. I understand that the council need to charge businesses to provide their services. What I don’t understand is the lack of balance, we need businesses and likewise it’s should be a reciprocal exchange, goods, services, bring people into the City. Balance BHCC! It seems we don’t want businesses to thrive, we don’t want people to in the City, otherwise something would surely have been done about the uninviting, Poole Valley Coach Station. Welcome to “Pool Valley”, the face of the City’s transport deprivation.