Sir – This week someone has finally noticed that people are leaving unsightly bins all over the place. Now they have decided that they have to have somewhere to put them, how are they going to make the people use the facility?

I live on the Waterways estate in North Oxford, and although all the houses have access to the rear of their property, many leave the bins out all week.

What it needs, and I know it can be done, are bye-laws which make it an offence for people to leave bins out where it is possible to put them out of sight. In most cases this is possible. I have brought this up many times but nothing gets done about it

Barbara Bailes, Oxford