PILES of litter have been cleaned up after a row broke out over who the rubbish belonged to.

The row began after a councillor asked the city’s cleaning company to write to a nearby bar to make them clean up the mess.

Cllr Andrew Wealls tweeted: “Please can you write to The Mixologist at 116 Church Road to require they clear around their bins.”

The rubbish around the commercial bin consisted of tonic water bottles, juice containers, soft drink cans, and plastic wrapping.

But the bar, formerly known as Misty’s, denies any involvement and said it was unfair that any businesses were receiving blame if passers-by were leaving rubbish there.

The Mixologist bar said: “We share your concerns and have raised it together with Shandiz as it gives us a bad name unjustifiably.

“Maybe you can advise them to put some kind of deterrent in place to stop this.”

Shandiz restaurant sells Persian cuisine and is located next to The Mixologist on Church Road.

The Mixologists’ statement comes after former Deputy Mayor, Geoffrey Bowden stepped in on the bar’s side to point the finger of blame on public fly tipping.

Cllr Wealls, who regularly walks along the street said: “It’s an eyesore and needs to be cleaned. We’ve had many issues with public bins not being cleaned by Cityclean.”

Workers from Shandiz restaurant took the matter into their own hands and cleaned up the rubbish after denying their involvement.

They tweeted a video of the clear-up to the councillor and the CityClean service saying: “We have contacted the council in regards to this on several occasions, they have failed to rectify the issue.

“As a result we took matters into our own hands at Shandiz and cleaned the streets for them.”

Shandiz restaurant told The Argus: “We called the council three times and no one’s come to clean it up. We’ve got two bins there so why would we leave it there – it’s residential waste.”

This argument comes at a time when anger at the city’s cleaning service, Cityclean, is reaching boiling point.

In the past few week residents on Elm Grove, Spring Gardens, Clarendon Villas, Arundel Street, London Road, and Kemptown MP Lloyd Russell Moyle have been lobbying the service to collect rubbish from overflowing bins.

Some residents have said they have had to wait several weeks for their bins to be collected by the city’s cleaning service.

Earlier this year a Freedom of Information request by The Argus revealed that in 2017 there were nearly 8,000 reports of missed collections.