Bin Envy

Comments to the local cooncil today.....Fair?

4 things:

1.A few years back the council installed big black bins for use by the stairs around about my house.
They left what was previously in place for this purpose behind. Old brick-built bin houses with wooden doors and a concrete roof. They sit there forlornly in a poor disused state. They require removing. This year preferably please.

2. I live in a terraced house. There is no recycling pick up by the council for cardboard, glass, plastic or paper at my house. Those living yards away on North Fort Street, Dudley Bank, Hawthornbank and Dudley Avenue are supplied with boxes etc for collection of this waste. Those same streets are closer to a local recycling point than mine. Why is it that they have this pick up service and I do not? What constitutes a pre-requisite for access to this service? Please give a detailed explanation on this one.

3. Access from Ferry Road to the street I live on, North Hillhousefield, down North Fort Street on the right, is restricted at the moment. This is the 3rd time in 2 years that North Fort Street has been closed down to my house. Firstly to dig up a cobbled road and insert speed humps. Secondly for I don't know what but it included digging up the road and speed humps on a cobbled road and replacing them all again. Finally to insert pipes (??) or something for newly built council run properties on North Fort Street. Same humps. Same cobbles. Can the council give me assurances that this will be the last time....at least for a couple of years, so we can get the simple access we demand and require from the city to our homes (in the city).

4. Can we please have speed humps inserted on the road North Hillhousefield itself? Again I ask what constitutes a pre-requisite for such a request? Do we require a seriously injured child in the street first before we merit the speed humps. On North Fort Street the council have inserted them, dug them up, re-inserted them, dug them up again and by Monday 26th February (when the road signs tell us the road will be open again) replaced them again. We just want them inserted the once and then they can go away and leave us alone. This suggestion would be giving that particular council department the opportunity to spend some of their much coveted budget on road humps....and, bonus, there are no cobbles on it. Everyone's a winner!

I am fully up to date with my council tax payments.

Many thanks for assistance on these matters.

Rgds


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