Business owner ‘deflated’ to find bin overflowing

RESIDENTS say they are disappointed with the cleanliness of the town centre, just days after a community litter pick.

Business owner Eva Rickett said she was upset, angry and disappointed to find rubbish bags and litter strewn in Market Place on Thursday last week.

She found an overflowing food waste bin and a cardboard boxes outside Starbucks, litter stuffed into an electricity pole, and packaging dumped at the base of a tree.

Mrs Rickett, who runs Henley Scan in King’s Road, said that she found the waste upsetting after she had joined with more than 250 volunteers in the Great Henley Sack Race and collected 300 bags of rubbish in the town centre.

Mrs Rickett said: “I had just been to Bletchley Park with the Henley Society on that Thursday. We had walked around this amazing house and its beautiful surroundings. On the way back, we got dropped off by the old Barclays Bank and I walked up and what greeted us was horrid.

“This was at 5.45pm, several hours after the market had ended. By the time I got home, I was just so deflated. It was four days after hundreds of us were out there trying to show Henley how much we love it.”

In recent months, the Henley Society has teamed up with Henley Town Council to try and resolve the issue of commercial waste being left for long periods.

Chairman Geoff Luckett and town centre manager Paul Carey have sent a letter to businesses with street frontages, asking them to put out waste as close to closing time as possible.”