Council reduces bulky waste collection charge to £5 – one of the capital’s lowest
The Council’s Mayor and Cabinet meeting last night (Wednesday 22 October), approved a reduction from a flat rate of £42 for up to four items to just £5 per item including mattresses (reduced from £14), and £25 per fridge/freezer (reduced from £60).
In addition, the Council proposes opening its Landmann Way Household Waste Recycling Centre from Wednesdays to Sundays, 8am to 3.30pm. This will provide residents with more convenient access to the site, especially over the weekend.
The proposal is to close the site on Mondays and Tuesdays, which are consistently the quietest days. Currently, the Centre is open Sunday to Friday from 8am to 3.30pm, and on Saturday from 8am to 11.30am.
In the last 12 months, the Council had almost 40,000 reports of fly-tipping through its reporting app, Love Clean Streets, as well as many letters and posts on social media.
The Council has already increased the maximum fines for fly-tipping and littering to £1,000 and £200 respectively.
The aim is for these changes to start in December.
Cllr Louise Krupski, Cabinet Member for Climate Action, Transport and Environment said:
“Reducing our bulky waste collection to just £5 per item will make it cheap, easy and convenient for our residents to dispose of unwanted household items like mattresses and fridge freezers.
“We are all in this together so let’s keep our streets clean and green, creating a safer environment for our communities by tackling fly-tipping.
“Fly-tipping blights lives, creates health and safety hazards and attracts wider anti-social behaviour to areas.
“We make no apologies for taking tough action to tackle it. Anyone caught fly-tipping faces a £1,000 fine. We all deserve the chance to live on clean, safe streets.”
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