• WHEELCHAIRS and wheelie bins rarely make comfortable bed fellows on our narrow, congested, pavements, with them on one side and trees, signposts, telephone connection boxes, and various other street furniture, on the other.

But when a wheelchair, unable to pass, is seen pulling out off the pavement into oncoming traffic to get through, the question must be asked: who is legally and financially responsible for the inevitable disaster?

Is it the council who organises the show or Veolia who run it? Well aware of the situation and apparently doing nothing about it?

Is it the owner or landlord of the house using the bins or is it the residents of the property? Maybe a court will judge that they are all “jointly and severally” responsible.

Something needs to be done. We can wait for an appalling disaster or the council can act now and prevent the preventable. It is up to them to decide.

PETER RUTHERFORD, NW6