Eric Pickles: We will end 'wheelie bin blight' on pavements However, some councils have given residents as many as ten bins, bags and boxes to accommodate all of their household waste. Campaigners have said that the bins are an "eyesore." The new guidance will only apply to new-build properties, meaning that tens of thousands of streets around the country will remain cluttered. "Thanks to ill-thought out town hall policies from the last Government, badly-placed wheelie bins and the proliferation of multiple bins have created a blot on the landscape," Mr Pickles said. In streets up and down the country, ugly bin clutter has ruined the street scene and the look of people's homes and gardens. He added: "By ensuring that developers create appropriate waste storage areas when designing new homes, we can tackle the ghastly gauntlet of bin blighted streets and driveways." The DCLG said that all new houses should in future be built with either a "covert storage area" for wheelie bins or with enough space in the back garden to allow them to be stored and only taken out on designated collection days. Ministers hope the proposals will reduce the "anti-social nuisance" of odour and roadside litter and well as problems with rats and urban foxes. A Labour spokesman said: "Rather than giving obvious advice to house builders, Eric Pickles would do better to explain why he spent an eye-watering quarter of a billion pounds on a failed scheme to persuade councils to change their bin collection arrangements that resulted in just one council changing their policy." Mr Pickles earlier this year said he would scrap powers that allow councils to fine households up to £1,000 for putting rubbish out in the wrong bins. "This Government is standing up for hard-working people and getting rid of barmy bin policies which made families' lives hell," Mr Pickles added. I want to make sure families get a proper rubbish and recycling collection service for the large amount of money they have to pay in council tax. Mr Pickles has also said he wants families to be rewarded for the amount they recycle, along similar lines to a scheme operating in Windsor and Maidenhead where thousands of householders get vouchers to spend in local shops or leisure facilities in return for recycling their waste. Under the scheme, households place recycled material into special recycling bins, which are then weighed by refuse lorries using a microchip built into the bin.