Lovely seaside city made well-known by TV drama turning into ‘drained and tatty’
A fantastic seaside city in Dorset which grew to become well-known after a TV drama is now turning into “tired and tatty” as locals complain about numerous points. West Bay is a well-liked vacationer vacation spot throughout summer season attributable to its picturesque seashore and vigorous temper.
However, residents complain that it’s being “forgotten” and left to pile up with garbage, whereas fool vacationers threat their lives on its crumbling cliffs for memento pictures, reported The Sun.
The vacationer vacation spot is battling a rat and seagull downside, a crumbling harbour wall, sky-high parking costs and stinking blocked drains.
Located on the Jurassic Coast, the seashore and harbour grew to become a vacationer magnet after Olivia Colman and David Tennant filmed the favored crime drama, Broadchurch, there from 2013-2017.
Six years later, locals declare that West Bay is now strewn with litter and in want of a string of different work to make it extra engaging to guests.
Simon Myles who runs his boat constitution enterprise from the harbour within the city stated that he has raised the difficulty of the dearth of bins and the “tired and tatty” state of the seaside city with Dorset Council’s harbour committee.
As head of the city’s Harbour Consultative Committee, he stated: “A number of people on the committee, including the harbour tradesperson’s rep, raised the issue of more bins being needed.
“We also need more signage to stop people feeding the seagulls, as we have a real problem with them, the same as a lot of coastal towns. If people feed them, it encourages them to attack people for food.
“They’re scavengers by nature so if the bins are overflowing it’s easy pickings for them. The people who empty them to a good job, but often than not, they’re still overflowing because there just aren’t enough of them.
“Part of the issue with it looking tired and tatty stems from the resources available. We’re desperately in need of more bins, it’s a public health issue.
“Some would say we get forgotten about compared to other places, so we just have to shout more loudly to get things done.”
Another native, Andrew Bateman, 42, who runs three kiosks – Ships Galley, Bay View Fish and Chips and By the Bridge doughnut store close to the harbour stated: “We usually have more bins put here in the summer, but they haven’t arrived this year. The council have also taken some bins away while works were being done on the bridge and haven’t put them back.
“The bins are emptied three times a day, with the last time being between 5-6pm, but our busy time starts at 6pm, so by 9pm they’re overflowing, and the seagulls pull it all out and the rubbish ends up blows all over the bay, and then it becomes a right mess.
“We had a big problem with rats last year, they were living by the rocks by the Harbour Master’s office, but they don’t seem so much of a problem since the council put bait stations down.”
Dorset Council stated they intention to start out restore work on the harbour wall and drainage issues close to the Harbour Master’s workplace between late autumn and late winter.
In response to complaints about “high volumes of litter”, they advised us that two extra bins had been put in.
When requested about offering extra bins sooner or later, the council advised us they “will continue to review the situation”.
They added: “But any changes introduced will have to be affordable and consider the visual impact of further litter bins.”