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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cGillingham used to be the better part for shopping now nothing to go there for,\u201d Susan Linnell commented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clifford Chiverton commented: \u201cUnfortunately the town centre reflects on the attitudes of the people that live in Gillingham was on the lines, yesterday I saw two mums with three children having food from one of the chicken places just walked away from the remnants, if the adults can\u2019t be bothered it very often reflects on the children\u2019s behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Medway Council has been contacted but they have not given a statement yet, but the spokesperson encouraged people who concerned to visit their website and report litter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It says: \u201cAll council-maintained streets are allocated a regular cleansing schedule. For example, high streets are on a continuous daily cleanse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cResidential streets are typically cleansed fortnightly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMajority of litter bins on the public highway are emptied 3 times per week, with others emptied more frequently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe’ll aim to get any syringes collected and disposed of by the end of the working day if reported by 4pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAny person who is witnessed intentionally dropping, throwing or leaving rubbish, can be issued a fine for \u00a3150, or, if prosecuted, face a fine up to \u00a32,500.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Residents of Gillingham have taken to social media to express anger over the Highstreet overflowing with litter. On Facebook, Jenny Wright commented: \u201cI drive alone Luton Road every day, Gillingham high street look up market in comparison, I actually lock my doors before I get there\u2026It\u2019s sad our towns have become a dump!\u201d \u201cGillingham used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[103,104,105,44,49],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gillingham","tag-highstreet","tag-litter","tag-medway","tag-medway-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2467-1024x768.jpg\")
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