A BARRY resident claims the Vale of Glamorgan is like “living in the Dark Ages” after she set up home in Barry’s multi-million pound Waterfront development.

Helen Jones said she had to live every fortnight in “filth” and had, as yet, only one reply to her Vale council and Barry Town council complaint about the excessive rubbish blighting her street.

Miss Jones said: “I would be interesting to see how they perform with regards to their targets for recycling, as looks pretty poor from a residents view, I have come from outside the borough. I find this totally shocking in this day and age.

I think Barry Council are trying their very best to re-invent Barry.

However one very disturbing thing that I am sure, that would put a lot of people off, is the

backward thinking of the rubbish collection services.

I cannot believe in this day and age with all the recycling etcetera that a town council especially a seaside resort does not have wheelie bin collections.”

Submitting photographs with her complaint, she said: “As you can see from what is becoming a fortnightly nightmare this I what I have to wake up and see, let alone hear from 5.30am, with households who are not prepared to pay for wheelie bins.

We have moved to the new Waterfront development recently. This seems to be the norm all over the estate. It looks like something going back 20 years before and after the collections are made.

Surely this is not an acceptable image that the Council wants to portray when trying to bring Barry back to its heydays? I doubt even going back then there was this sort of rubbish hanging around.

Would it not been easier when new houses are built to agree with the developers that as a part of their agreement to make Barry environmentally friendly that they must purchase bins from the council?

At the end of the day people are spending nearly a quarter of a million on houses. Surely £25 for a bin wouldn't even enter the equation.

“It will get worse if nothing is done to stop this mind-set of residents.

Barry Town council acting town clerk. Angie Norman said the council “sympathise” on this matter and “agree that something needs to be done about the refuse”.

She said the refuse was not under the jurisdiction of the town council, but hope Miss Jones would receive a response from the Vale Council.

Vale Council cabinet member for visible, leisure and regulatory services, Cllr Gwyn John said: “We are aware of a small number of complaints from residents in the new housing around Barry Waterfront regarding litter. A campaign is now underway and our recycling officers will be out knocking doors providing advice to all the new residents in order to help them manage their waste more effectively and to minimise the impact of seagulls.”