The bizarre reason residents are facing fines for leaving bins out

Alan Purkiss said the town’s conservation area is being ‘severely degraded’ because of the bins (Picture: SWNS)

Residents of a town on the edge of the Cotswolds could soon be fined for leaving their bins out – because they lower house prices.

The new rules could see households in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, punished if they fail to remove their wheelie bins from the street.

Tewkesbury Civic Society raised concerns about ‘bin blight’ in the town’s historic conservation area...