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Key findings:

More than one in ten, or 42, councils are considering reducing the frequency of one or more bin collections.
Thirteen councils plan to extend fortnightly residual waste collections to three-weekly.
Babergh Council, Caerphilly Council, Cheshire East Council, Dundee Council, East Dunbartonshire Council, East Hertfordshire Council, East Suffolk Council, Flintshire Council, Mid Sussex Council, North Hertfordshire Council, North Somerset Council, North Warwickshire Council, Teignbridge Council
Seven councils plan to cut their weekly residual waste collections to fortnightly.
Allerdale Council, Arun Council, Basingstoke & Deane Council, Birmingham Council, New Forest, Oadby and Wigston Council, Sandwell Council
Two councils plan to shift from three-weekly to four-weekly residual waste collections.
East Ayrshire Council, Carmarthenshire Council
Four councils plan to cut their weekly recycling waste collections to fortnightly.
Lewisham Council, New Forest, Oadby and Wigston Council, Sandwell Council
Two councils plan to extend three-weekly recycling collections to four-weekly.
North Ayrshire Council, Dundee Council
One council plans to extend fortnightly recycling waste collections to three-weekly.
North Hertfordshire Council
Ten councils are planning changes but proposed changes have not been released yet.

Ah, the Taxpayers Alliance. Are they going to campaign for more tax from those who can afford it to improve our services?

Holding breath...

I posted it because I thought others maybe interested. The info came from the Tax Payers Alliance. All I am doing is highlighting what the council are secretly planning to do. So, try not shooting the messenger.

I rarely fill my green bin in a single week. I often don't bother putting it out because it can wait a week, but I appreciate that others may have larger households who may regularly use their entire green bin. I wonder if it will be same for food waste which really needs weekly collection?

With the black bin the only problem with fortnightly collection comes when you forget which week it is and miss a collection (or the road is blocked or the bin collection just skips you without reason). Then you have a month's worth of rubbish crammed in there.

Hopefully the Taxpayers Alliance will recognise that reduced bin collection frequency is better than reduced social services or closing libraries and leisure centres.

Yep, but even when the recycling bin is practically empty the bin men in their infinite wisdom still roll it out and empty it, you couldn't make it up, unless of course they are part of a bonus scheme to collect as much recycling waste as possible? Who know's but I wouldn't put it past the council for doing so.

I am not nor have ever been a member of the Tax Payers Alliance, was just letting others know what has been reported as it relates to actions Lewisham Council are apparently planning.

Whilst the council "strive" to reduce costs and save money, I'd suggest they look at themselves and those staff within the town hall, you know, those that work in the apparent "public" sector but earn eye watering extortionate salaries. Start by capping all managerial and leadership post salaries at £50K. That will make a huge saving. If they don't like it, they can go and work somewhere else.

Want to save more money, the borough has no need for a Mayor or Young Mayor and all the hangers on, cut those posts. Cut the Mayor's limousine at the same time. The borough does not need a CEO either, another huge saving.
In fact lets have an audit of all council spending, the scrutiny alone will cut the wastage withing the Council.
The council needs to live within its means as it expects its residents to do.

Go for it! They publish all expenditure above £250
https://lewisham.gov.uk/mayorandcouncil/...g-over-250

As far as I'm aware Lewisham got rid of the mayor's limo a while ago. I've been to an event where mayors or Bromley and Croydon turned up in their chauffeur driven limos and the (previous) mayor of Lewisham found his own way there.

And I can confirm that my empty green bin was not moved this morning. Why am I not getting the special service that you get?

I love all these threads where we take something that doesn't seem unreasonable and then add on a host of unrelated grievances with the local council, police, cyclists, young people today...

It's not "taking something that doesn't seem unreasonable and then add on a host of unrelated grievances with the local council, police, cyclists, young people today".

What it is, is highlighting and scrutinising things which are wrong, not needed or quite simply a waste of the public £ realm.

The council cry we haven't got enough and take more and more and more. Do they not realise residents are also on limited incomes and there comes a time when the pot is empty. Perhaps they should consider what the rate of inflation is, before making outlandish increases in council tax.

Lewisham Council, to work within there means
Police, go do some actual real police work and catch, charge and hand over those to the justice system for trial, sentencing and spending time at HR's pleasure.
Lime cyclists, ride and park your bikes in a considerate way that does not interfere with others.
We don't need a Young Mayor, just more wasted money and beauracracy
And don't get me started on having a Mayor, we can get rid and save shed loads of £, ditto, no need for a Chief Exec Officer, make that into a voluntary role.
All leadership or management jobs within the council capped at a ceiling of £50K.
Now that'll save the council some £.