Hello Sarah jane
Firstly, good for you and thank you, in doing a public duty.
Unfortunately this seems to be the selfish attitude, of some people, in this country today, of chucking rubbish away and letting other people clear up after them!!
It is also interesting to note that you walk to the Station from Hyde Road, rather than drive. Unfortunately a number of the roads around the Station are clogged up with commuter parking, with some people, who can’t be bothered to walk the short distances from their homes. Consequently the four roads around the Station, Lower Barn Rd, Riddlesdown Ave, Coombe Wood Hill and Brancaster Lane are rarely cleaned properly, by the Council’s street cleaning machine, because of commuter parking and hence constantly look untidy. The pieces of land, either side of the railway bridge, are also litter traps.
The streets are particularly bad at the moment because of leaf fall and it does also add to the flooding problem, near the Station, because of blocked gully grids.
Street cleaning is something, we as a Residents Association, pursue constantly with the Council (Street Scene Section) and National Rail/Southern but sometimes only with limited success.
It is of course an offence to drop litter in a public, under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the website below maybe of interest:
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/localenv/litter/law/lawlit.htm