Clean-up call on pupils' route
Campaigners want a rubbish-plagued alleyway popular with schoolchildren cleared before term starts again.
Rats have been spotted feeding on waste dumped on the route between Brunswick Park Road and Hydes Road, Wednesbury, which is used by pupils attending nearby Wodensborough High School and St John's Primary School, as well as other children.
Council inquiries have been unable to establish who officially owns the land involved but the council is set to send in workers to clear the refuse to make it safe for people using the passage.
Pound Road resident and Labour candidate for the Wednesbury South by-election, Olwen Jones, aged 57, recently set up a new residents' group for people living in the Brunswick Park area and said the alleyway was well used by children.
"Schools will be returning back some this week and others at the start of next week so I'm asking the council to clean the gully up, with the rubbish that has accumulated and the rats that have been seen on this site," she said.
"I understand the ownership of the land is in question at the moment but the children's safety is more important than who's boundary it is."
