Abandoned sweaters and jeans line the pavements as a woman urges people to stop leaving their unwanted clothes on the streets.

Susan Le Baigue, of Turner Road, Edgware, is appealing to people across Harrow to take their old, unwanted clothes into a nearby charity shop, instead of leaving them out on the roads and pavements for collection.

Bin bags of dumped clothing, children’s toys and books line the pedestrian walkway between Tiverton Road and Mollison Way, in Edgware – a problem which has been ongoing for a number of years.

She said: “We’ve had rubbish dumped along there for quite a while now, the last couple of years certainly, and it just keeps getting worse.

“The council try to keep on top of it and come about once a month to clean up, but there’s always rubbish down there.”

However the main concern of neighbours in the area is that the dumped clothing could be going to better use.

She added: “A lot of it is normal household rubbish, but there’s a huge amount of clothes that could go to new homes.

“Instead of leaving clothes on the streets, I just wish people would take them inside the charity shops or to the clothing banks – there’s one in Harrow dump.

“We’ve challenged people we have seen in the past that we have seen dumping rubbish, but we just want people make sure their charity donations actually go to charity.”

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Although there are no charity shops along the Mollison Way shopping parade, there are a number of charity shops within Burnt Oak and Edgware and seven clothing banks within a mile of the alleyway.

Mrs La Baigue added: “Charities are missing out because of this. They could be selling these clothes to raise money, or even giving them away to someone like Christian Aid so the clothes can be used by people in need.

“If people just made sure they took stuff into the shops, it’d be a lot cleaner and more people could benefit.”