At a time when we are hit with a huge increase in council tax, Brighton and Hove City Council has voted to spend £200,000 on a trial of 140 giant bins in the city centre.

To add insult to injury, they are to be sited on residents' parking (£85 per annum) bays.

The giant bins will not improve the situation. Each councillor should take a look at Clarence Square.

Residents' rubbish is minor compared with the large bins stored at the back of Western Road shops and at the top of Cannon Place where some bins from Churchill Square Shopping Centre are stored with two paper recycling bins.

These are all used for badly wrapped rubbish left by all and sundry, as well as urinals by men in broad daylight.

These bins are frequently pushed around by people leaving night clubs.

It is a retrograde step to provide giant rubbish bins in a prominent position, encouraging further mess.

We were not consulted on this proposed scheme.

A change of collection day and twice-weekly collections would be better and cheaper.

Eye-level signs on the lamp posts giving the collection days and a warning not to leave rubbish on any other day would also help.

-Christine M Holmes, Brighton