COUNCIL officers are to meet teachers to try to cut down on teenage litterbugs dropping rubbish on their way to school.
People living in Hereford Road and Gibfield Road, Colne, are fed up of litter and rubbish being dropped outside their homes and on a nearby railway embankment by pupils on their way to and from local schools. A meeting was held between a representative of local residents, Pendle Council officers and Katrina Ryan, the deputy head of Fisher-More RC High School, at the end of April.
Another meeting between the groups is to be held on Monday, together with a representative of Railtrack, in an attempt resolve the problem.
The council has pointed out that Hereford Road is unmade and unadopted and the authority is not legally bound to regularly sweep or maintain it.
Both it and Gibfield Road are well used by pupils attending three high schools.
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