To the members of Enfield Council, 16th July 2019
BIN COLLECTION PLANS
Last year this Council ran a consultation period surreptitiously
buried in the recess of the Christmas season. This proposal is for
a change to the current collection arrangements of our domestic
recycling and garden waste. The options suggested are unacceptable
to many constituents, particularly the imposition of an additional
charge to collect garden waste. This being on top of the 5%
increase to our annual Council Tax Bill this year. It can only be
described as another stealth tax. Not only are these options
one-sided, but no compromises have been offered and
submitted.
Many years ago the Council proposed and introduced wheelie bins on
the back of suggestions that it would greatly enhance and improve
the cleanliness of the Borough, and in many instances prevent the
problem of rodent and fox running, thereby upholding the accolade
of ‘beautiful and clean town’.
Your public duty is to provide a healthy and hygienic environment
and these current proposals to reverse this main objective are,
quite frankly, bizarre and would hardly endorse this policy.
Most households were previously issued with smaller sized bins and
are already easily and rapidly over-filled over a one week
collection, let alone the proposed two week collection.
The impact will be absolutely clear and obvious: our bins will
overflow and our domestic waste will most likely spill onto the
streets, be it in boxes or plastic bags and, worse still, even
loose; allowing wildlife to rummage through the refuge, creating an
even bigger, unsightly and unhygienic, mess. There will undoubtedly
be an increase in vermin in general. This surely must be seen as a
significant health and safety breach.
Do you intend, at the very least, or regardless of any outcome, to
upgrade our small bins to larger units? PLEASE RESPOND FULLY.
We are told that you are still planning to make weekly collections
of food waste. Where is the sense in that? Whilst sending your
crews around our streets to pickup this ‘group’ of
waste why is it not deemed logical and time and cost-effective to
collect the general waste simultaneously, as is the current
practice?
The Council already dismissed our most recent petition containing
almost 6,500 names AGAINST the current proposals, based upon a mere
technicality. These are genuine entries signed by your very own
residents. Further opportunity MUST be taken into account to listen
to your residents, otherwise this smacks of the Council just
looking for any loophole to impose its one-sided policy.
DO NOT IGNORE THIS.
KINDLY RESPECT YOUR POSITIONS AND BE ACCOUNTABLE AS PAID ELECTED
PUBLIC SERVANTS TO THIS BOROUGH. DEMONSTRATE THAT YOU ARE TAKING
YOUR CONSTITUENTS’ VIEWS FULLY INTO ACCOUNT AND ARE
CONSULTING WITH THEM AT ALL TIMES IN ORDER TO REACH A MUTUALLY
ACCEPTABLE RESOLUTION.
This Petition ran from 16/07/2019 to 19/09/2019 and has now finished.
3973 people signed this Petition.