I DO NOT believe signs are any deterrent whatsoever as the perpetrators of flytipping and not clearing up after their dog do not care.

What is needed is people to almost police both flytipping and dog mess in equal measure.

Issue on-the-spot fines and send a clear message to everyone that this kind of filthy activity will not be tolerated.

May I also remind people that dog faeces are highly infectious and can lead to blindness in children especially.

So this is something which I believe should be taken very very seriously and I do not believe that Brighton and Hove City Council are taking this issue as seriously as it should.

I was walking to my doctor’s surgery and noticed nappies full of poo right there on a pavement.

It is completely unacceptable. I have found this to be a particular problem around the Sackville Road area.

In relation to the bins I think you’ll find that the entirety of Poets Corner, Coleridge Street, Byron Street and others all of them have the bins out all day every day and this has been the case for years and years.

To be honest with you if that’s not bad enough, to have them overflowing and stinking is also completely unacceptable.

Why on earth should a person have to walk down a narrow pavement half of which is taken up by smelly bins?

The state of the pavements angers me every day as I walk my dog and that is the only thing on my mind while dodging the smelly green bins and the dog poo in an area which has one of the highest council tax brackets in the whole of the country.

Even along Westbourne Street and Pembroke Crescent where the houses are enormous and they have ample room in the garden to put their rubbish bins they also insist on leaving them outside on the pavement so we can all be gassed by their smell.

It is not acceptable and it also makes the city look disgusting.

There is no civic pride in this particular part of Hove and I for one am repulsed by the whole situation and I really do mean this. I need to know what is going to happen and I will not be placated with suggestions such as putting up signs or chalking signs on pavements as a veritable deterrent.

I am also very concerned with the number of cyclists in the city again especially in the Sackville Road and Portland Road area who cycle along pavements.

This is a daily occurrence and I have been almost been knocked over several times and my dog has been clipped by cyclists.

We have a new fresh threat in the form of electric scooters and now these are racing down the pavements and even if I attempt to admonish these people they just laugh and carry on. So how long is it going to be before someone suffers a serious injury as a result of this ridiculous and highly dangerous and illegal behaviour?

Nadia Dawson, Address supplied