A HOTELIER has claimed the council is failing to take responsibility for an alleyway he describes as the “fly-tipping centre of Aberystwyth”.

John Evans, owner of Yr Hafod Guest House on South Marine Terrace, said Ceredigion County Council claimed an alleyway near his business is “unadopted” and has therefore refused to clear fly-tipping from it.

Mr Evans said: “There is an alleyway at the back of Castle Terrace — this is confusingly one block of houses on part of South Road — which leads on to Quay Road that is the fly-tipping centre of Aberystwyth.

“When you phone Ceredigion County Council, one of the excuses they use for inaction is that the alleyway is ‘unadopted’. Castle Terrace consists of six houses, four of which are HMOs.”

And Mr Evans said only this week, he discovered an old plasma-screen television had been dumped in the alleyway.

He added: “Ceredigion County Council should be finding out who is responsible for this fly-tipping and charging them for the cost of removing their unwanted items. This TV has a serial number so it would be easy to trace who it belonged to.”

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