Communal bin plan widened in city

The first of the new bins will be introduced in the Regency area

Communal bins are to be introduced on 500 more streets across central areas of Brighton and Hove, serving residents in 27,000 properties.

Over the coming months they will be brought into areas where residents are currently forced to leave their rubbish on the streets in black sacks.

Brighton and Hove City Council said it tried to avoid using parking spaces to make room for the bins.

It follows the success of communal bins in other parts of the Sussex city.

The first of the new bins will be introduced in the Regency area next week, while others will be phased in between now and June.

The bins are being introduced primarily in areas where there are large numbers of flats and bedsits with nowhere to store refuse, or houses with limited outside space for a wheelie bin.

There are currently 188 communal bins which have been in use in 49 streets in central Brighton since 2004.