Local people in the south of Sheffield have been left fuming as woods and hedges around Blackstock Road have become increasingly filled with fly-tipped waste. Residents believe the problems are due to Council’s move to fortnightly bin collections and their decision to close Blackstock Road recycling centre three days a week. Despite being the busiest [...]
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£280,000 bill to replace 14,000 bins lost on “bonfire of the bins”
Opposition councillors have highlighted the 14,000 green bins destroyed needlessly by Sheffield City Council. This week the Labour-run Council announced that the “charged-for” green bin service, previously offered to just part of the city, will be rolled out across Sheffield. However, the policy was announced more than nine months after it was first suggested by [...]
9,000 homes forced to wait almost three weeks for bin collection
Almost 40,000 homes in Sheffield missed their black bin collection last week due to the Council’s failure to deal with heavy snowfall. On Monday 25th March, 63% of black bins went uncollected, despite council contractors having all weekend to ensure residential roads could be reached by bin men. Across the city 8,981 black bins went uncollected [...]
Council urged to bin policy and go back to the drawing board
Opposition councillors are urging Sheffield City Council to “go back to the drawing board” and rethink its policy on bins. The call follows a poll in The Sheffield Star that showed that 54% of local people believed the city’s new waste collection service wasn’t working. Liberal Democrat councillors believe a string of failures by the [...]
Announcement shows Government fund could have saved weekly bins
Labour-controlled Sheffield City Council have been left red-faced as the announcement of Government funds showed that money was available to save Sheffield’s weekly bin collections. Opposition Liberal Democrat councillors and Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam, urged the Council to bid into the £250 million fund when it was launched in February [...]
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Local Elections 2012
