During a long debate on Seagulls today and the actions Moray council can take to help, the SNP have rejected calls for the council to provide services to help support communities and householders to protect their properties from nesting birds.
During the meeting Cllr Eagle, supported by Cllr Gatt proposed that the council not only roll out new Seagull proof bins and a small education programme but they also look at increasing the street cleaning team throughout Moray and importantly look to provide a new service to help support the installation of netting and spikes on properties.
Commenting Cllr Eagle said - “Seagulls are the single biggest issue I have been contacted about, stories of heads being split open by attacks during the breeding season and people scared to leave their houses were all too common, it was clear to me we must do something.
The difficulty is that the current laws don’t allow us to do very much, given gulls are protected. But what we can do is to help local people to protect their homes by putting netting or spikes in place as well as providing hightened litter cleaning to take away the food source.
We proposed this as a reasonable action yet the SNP supported by independent members have rejected it.
When this year you can’t step into your garden, your being attacked on the school run or walk to town or you awake to screaming birds at 5am please remember it was the SNP and independents that had no desire to help."
