Garden collections (pre June)

[wee quinnie]

What's the current amount of brown bags you are allowed to put out for collection? I realise change is imminent, so thought I would get a load of gardening done before the changeover. I have looked on the council website and cannot find this information.

Thanks peeps.

[Rosetta]

Never heard of any restriction before. Just lined them up at front of house on pavement.

[wee quinnie]

Initially they were unlimited, but I have a memory of the rules changing, and a limit being set.

[Rosetta]

I thought the limit was from June. Ask your neighbours if you can put them in their frontages.

[herne hilly]

if you have brown bags, i would say fill them up, they are not giving any more free ones out.

Are the bags we have to pay for going to be the same, i have a feeling they may be not as big as the paper ones

[James Barber]

If you've ordered a brown wheelie bin it will be 60 days, just been told, before they arrive and the new system is fully in place. So much of the summer will have occurred!

[IlonaM]

If we have paid a subscription James, when can we expect to receive our stickers? Is that likely to be 60 days as well?

And will brown bin collections continue past 1st June as they are whilst the system gets up and running?

[James Barber]

Hi lions,

I was told new bins and stickers in 60 days time!

Annoying doesn't quite cut it.

[IlonaM]

James Barber Wrote:

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> Hi lions,

> I was told new bins and stickers in 60 days time!

> Annoying doesn't quite cut it.

Many thanks James.

[hpsaucey]

Hi James - does the same go for the paper bag collections? When I looked online I couldn't see any more info about them (yet).

Did they tell you what residents are meant to do during these 60 days?

HP

[spider69]

James Barber Wrote:

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> Hi lions,

> I was told new bins and stickers in 60 days time!

> Annoying doesn't quite cut it.

If you have already paid for this service do you get 6o days credit when the next bill comes around? or will this payment be forgotten.

[first mate]

Pretty outrageous. I have been using bags but signed up for a brown bin and stickers. So, does this mean that I will get a supply of free brown bags and these will be collected in the usual way until such time as the bin and sticker appears?

How can the council charge and take payment for a system that is not yet up and runnng?

[muffins78]

Are the stickers not been sent out then? I was watching for them in the post. Will the council still collect or give us additional bags while we wait? Our brown bins get filled every week.

[evilmanic]

If this is accurate, file a chargeback with your credit card provider, they're failing to deliver a service you've paid for, your card issuer will refund you and they'll have to pay a fee.

Re-subscribe when it's working - I sincerely doubt they're competent enough (or allowed) to decline service.

[singalto]

The council is useless. They introduce new charges before putting the infrastructure into place. They want to charge for parking in the parks from the 1st April but, thank goodness, haven?t installed the required equipment. They get us to pay for garden waste collection but don?t have the bins or stickers we need. What a shambles!

[first mate]

I have asked James McAsh on his thread to try to give a steer.