On October 16, Brighton and Hove City Council gardeners arrived in my road - Kingston Close, Hove.

One gardener used a chainsaw to trim the branches off a tree outside my flat and later that day I saw a pile of branches dumped on the public lawn further down my road.

I don't know if those branches were carried down the road from my end and dumped, or if those branches were sawn from the tree down the road and dumped on the spot there and then.

Anyway, I thought somebody from the council would take them away but I was wrong. I phoned the council gardeners later that week and told them about the law of fly-tipping and about how we are warned about it. The man apologised and told me he'd get somebody to remove them straight away.

Nothing was done. I gave them two more weeks and still nothing was done. I phoned them again and a lady on the phone told me that the branches would be removed by the following morning. They were not removed. They were still there when this photo was taken last week.

What makes me angry is that the council warned us with legal action that would lead to fines if we were caught flytipping and yet they are doing it themselves.

Who takes legal action on them and fines them for the same crime? When they want us to do something they don't leave us alone and they threaten us with legal action. But when we demand that they do something they don't want to know.

If I dumped a pile of branches on the street and a council official witnessed me doing it they'd be on me like a ton of bricks and I'd be paying a fine but they don't care when they do it and they refuse to remove what they have left.

I wonder if they are waiting for one of us to pay them to take them away.

Why should we? We never told them to saw them off in the first place. We shouldn't have to pay them to take them away.

  • Darren Fuge, Kingston Close, Hove