Ipswich Borough Council will install more bins and improve its cleaning regime at Crown car park following pressure from the Ipswich Star.

Ipswich Star: Crown car park, Charles Street, Ipswich. Car park looking messy with lots rubbish scattered around.Crown car park, Charles Street, Ipswich. Car park looking messy with lots rubbish scattered around.

Earlier this week, we contacted the council after receiving a letter from a member of the public saying the car park had not been cleaned for at least five weeks. An Ipswich councillor then joined the debate about the car park saying she had twice requested for the area to be cleaned in the past four months.

The council sent an emergency clean-up team and has now vowed to add two more bins to the one that is already there and to work out a permanent, regular cleaning rota.

A borough spokesman said: “We would urge people who use the car park or walk across it to not chuck the litter on the floor and to use the bins provided.”

Inga Lockington, borough councillor for the St Margaret’s ward where the Crown car park is located, said she wrote to the service manager of Crown car park last December asking for the car park to be cleaned because it was “very dirty”.

Earlier this month, Ms Lockington said the car park had become “absolutely awful again”, and after she also received a complaint from a resident, she rewrote to the manager asking to see the car park’s cleaning rota.

“I have often been ashamed about how dirty it is,” she said. “It’s sad the way people just chuck their rubbish.

“A place like that needs to get a cleaning rota and I haven’t had an answer myself.”