{"id":345215,"date":"2025-08-15T00:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T00:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/345215\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T00:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T00:40:13","slug":"glasgow-local-fumes-as-bins-overflowing-onto-ashton-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/345215\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow local fumes as “bins overflowing” onto Ashton Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Stephen Johnstone<\/a> lives just off Byres Road in the area and was out for food and drinks with friends and family when he was appalled by the “overflowing bins” on Ashton Lane.\n<\/p>\n

\n He also complained about the “graffiti and weather<\/a>-beaten murals” on the side of the Iceland store at the entrance to the lane.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n Stephen, 63,\u00a0said the sight “spoiled his day” and “put him off” going to the pubs and eateries on the busy foodie lane.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n \"StephenStephen Johnstone, 63, on Asthon Lane in Glasgow (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n

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\n Stephen, 63, said: “I was just out for a meal on\u00a0Ashton Lane, and what a state!\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n “As these photos show, there’s graffiti and\u00a0weather-beaten\u00a0murals on Iceland’s walls, at the entrance to this once jewel in the crown of\u00a0places to drink, eat, and visit in the West End<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Rats, vermin and strewn rubbish and bins overflowing – not what you want in this high street tourist trap.\n<\/p>\n

\n “This is an eyesore and spoiled my day, it\u00a0put me off going to the many bars and restaurants with my family and friends.\n<\/p>\n

\n “What has become of society, and where is our pride gone when we can’t keep our places clean, hygiene is out the window, folk are enjoying a meal, then come out to find this round the corner shocking, so now we need to rename Ashton Lane Trashton Lane.”\n<\/p>\n

\n \"GlasgowGlasgow local fumes as bins overflowing onto Ashton Lane (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n

\n (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n

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\n Some of the bins in the lane belong to local restaurant Taco Mazama, and their owner, Allan Bell, spoke with us about the issue.\n<\/p>\n

\n Allan said: “I understand that issues with the bins can arise very quickly, and we do regular checks on our own bins and the surrounding area.\n<\/p>\n

\n “While some of the photographed bins are indeed ours, none of the waste strewn around them in the images would appear to be.\n<\/p>\n

\n “We keep our bins locked to deter flytipping, and what appears to be domestic\/public waste has in these images been dumped on top and around them.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Part of the solution might be if there were a public bin for passers by to use, to discourage them from leaving stuff next to the commercial bins.\n<\/p>\n

\n “However, we are happy to discuss with the other businesses using the lane what the best way to keep the area clean should be.\n<\/p>\n

\n “At the time these photos were taken, Glasgow City Council<\/a> Neighbourhood Regeneration Services (NRS) Commercial Waste Team (CWT) was present on-site.\n<\/p>\n

\n “They confirmed that our business was in full compliance with all commercial waste disposal duties and responsibilities.\n<\/p>\n

\n “The commercial waste practices of neighbouring businesses are a matter for those organisations and Glasgow City Council.”\n<\/p>\n

\n An Iceland spokesperson said: “After receiving reports and concerns regarding one of our store entrances in Glasgow, we can confirm our team are looking into organising removal of the posters and graffiti.\n<\/p>\n

\n “We thank the local resident for bringing this to our attention.”\n<\/p>\n

\n A spokesperson for the council said: \u201cThis is a privately owned part of Ashton Lane and its maintenance is the responsibility of the owners of this property<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Issues with a commercial waste service require to be resolved by the waste contractor and the business who receives that service.\n<\/p>\n

\n “The council does not provide a commercial waste service for these premises.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Businesses are required to contract a pest control service privately.\n<\/p>\n

\n “The council’s pest control service is available for domestic premises only.\n<\/p>\n

\n “The condition of this part of Ashton Lane has been referred to our environmental health team for further investigation.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Any follow-up action will fall to the owners of the property to resolve.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Johnstone lives just off Byres Road in the area and was out for food and drinks with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-345215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115030001077454240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}